Booking courses, taking up space, paying in advance

[Jeff]

Hi -presales question:

I teach gold- and silversmithing, and have daily classes. Each class has different students and they pay in advance for 12, 20 or 35 lessons. Each evening/ class has a max. number of students.

Can I use The Events Calendar (pro) to allow them to book and pay in advance for a number of lessons? Can this decrement the number of available places in that lesson, and can they have achoice of paying in installments?

Ideally I would also like to block out certain holiday weeks of the year and have their lessons automatically planned in around these weeks in my calendar.

Do you think your plugin can help me?

Thanks in advance,

Jeff

[Andras]

Hi Jeff,

That is an awesome trade, wow!

Thanks for reaching out to us! Let me try to help you with your questions.

can they have achoice of paying in installments

Our plugins don’t support paying in installments, sorry.

Ideally I would also like to block out certain holiday weeks of the year and have their lessons automatically planned in around these weeks in my calendar.

How do you imagine this? Could you give me more details?

Each evening/ class has a max. number of students.

With our free Event Tickets plugin you can collect registrations / RSVPs for each event. It is possible to set up that users have to log in to your site before registering. Users who registered also have the option to submit whether they are attending or not attending, and they can change this later on. Note, this is kinda like a free ticket, so you will not be able to sell tickets with this plugin.

Each class has different students and they pay in advance for 12, 20 or 35 lessons

Our Event Tickets Plus plugin will allow you to sell tickets to events. It is difficult / cumbersome however if students pay in bulk.

What I could imagine as a process is the following:

• Student buys a ‘gift card’ / coupon code for the amount of 12, 20 or 35 lessons
• Whenever they decide on a lesson / day, they purchase a ticket for that day and use their gift card / coupon to pay for it

Theoretically this would work. It would require WooCommerce and a plugin like this for the gift card part:

• https://wordpress.org/plugins/yith-woocommerce-gift-cards/

Note: I’m not sure if the free version is enough or you would need the pro version of it.

And it would require our Event Tickets Plus plugin for selling the tickets.

I hope this helps. So, our plugins might not be the best choice out of the box, but it could be achieved what you want.

Let me know if you have any further questions.

Cheers,
Andras

[Support Droid]

Hey there! This thread has been pretty quiet for the last three weeks, so we’re going to go ahead and close it to avoid confusion with other topics. If you’re still looking for help with this, please do open a new thread, reference this one and we’d be more than happy to continue the conversation over there.

Thanks so much!
The Events Calendar Support Team

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