Automating the Facebook Events Importer

[Robert]

Hi,

We are currently using the VOLK Facebook Calendar import plugin to automatically import posted events to our event calendar for our merchants and although it does a great job importing events, it’s very limited to the type of view options. Basically there’s only one view option – it lumps all events together with no way to view by category, day, week, month etc. You can view it working here: https://shoprva.com/upcoming-events/

So we reached out to the plugin developer asking if there were any other options for viewing and he suggested we look at your plugin since it is more robust.

So we’d like to find out a couple of things:
1. In your Facebook Import video, you showed that you have to check the boxes for all of the events that you want to import. We’re looking for a way to simply type in the merchants Facebook ID and let the plugin pull in all of their events without having to check boxes. Does this plugin allow for this option?

2. We also would like a calendar that will allow the manual entry of events on our calendar for approved merchants. Is there a way to accomplish this and keep our calendar protected so that only approved merchants have the right to post events?

3. We had to install the VOLK Facebook Calendar plugin in it’s own WordPress install setup as a sub-domain of ShopRVA.com because it caused issues with some of the other plugins and then set it up as an iframe so it looks like it’s part of the website. Will this plugin cause any conflicts with GeoTheme.com and/or will we need to set it up as a stand alone WordPress install similar to what we did with VOLK’s?

4. For just one site license to include all of the above capabilities….how much are we looking at?

Thank you,
Robert

[Cliff]

Hi Robert. Thanks for inquiring about our Facebook Events plugin and suite of calendar add-ons.

I’ll try to answer your questions succinctly:

1. Please refer to our FB Events plugin New User Primer. Clicking through the links, you’ll see “Note: The Facebook Events API only enables automatic import for Pages and Organizations. Profiles and Groups will not work with Automatic Imports, but can be manually imported.”
2. If your approved users/merchants have a user account on your WordPress installation, they could add and/or edit events via wp-admin. If you’d like, we have the Community Events plugin that enables front-end event creation and editing. There are access rules, or you can choose to allow anonymous (not signed in to a WP user account) submissions.
3. Our plugins shouldn’t have such conflicts with other well-coded plugins and themes, but we don’t guarantee compatibility with everything. You can read more at our Scope of Support Terms.
4. You can choose to purchase one or several of our add-ons. They should all work properly together but none require the others (except for Community Tickets, as stated at this link). All the add-on licenses have the same functionality. The only limitation is the number of sites we agree to provide support for.

I hope this helps give you a better idea of our offerings.

Last but not least, we have a pretty great Refund Policy so you can buy one or many of our add-ons and thoroughly test them.

Let me know if you have any follow-up questions.

[Cliff]

Thanks for letting me know my previous reply answered your question. Have a great one!

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