Booking multiple events/venues

[Alana]

Hi there,

I’m considering purchasing Events Calendar Pro, but have a pretty specific use in mind and need to be sure it will work. We have an Open Home event coming up which needs a booking system. We have 15 homes opening for tours, across 4 time slots on 2 separate days (8 time slots in total). Not all homes are open for all time slots, and each time slot has capacity for 12 attendees. My question is, is there any way with Events Calendar Pro that attendees could book for multiple tours without needing to book multiple times? Obviously we could set out each home and time slot as an individual ticket type but that would create a huge long list of tickets and be incredibly confusing for anyone trying to book. Custom questions might also be another option, but could that be linked up to ensure we weren’t booking more than each tour could handle? Any thoughts/suggestions/help appreciated.

Best wishes,
Alana

[Geoff]

Hi Alana! Thanks for dropping by and I’m stoked to hear that you’re giving The Events Calendar a good look. 🙂

Excellent question. The bad news right off the bat is that The Events Calendar does not have any appointment-booking capabilities out of the box. For example, it would be really neat idea to have events within events (sort of like an event with hourly agenda slots) but I’m afraid that’s not the case.

The idea you pitched of listing each open home as a separate event is likely the best bet. You are correct though: that could get very crowded visually with as many as 15 open homes on a given day.

Sorry for the bad news here–it might be worth taking a moment to test drive the free version of the plugin to see if there might be another way to accomplish this that we’re not considering here in this thread.

Thanks!
Geoff

[Alana]

Much appreciate the answer though it’s sad that the events calendar doesn’t seem to support what we’re looking for. As you suggest, I’ll have a play with the free version and double check there isn’t something I’m overlooking. Perhaps one day we’ll have the budget (we’re a tiny not for profit) to just pay for someone to code what we need!

Cheers,
Alana

[Geoff]

My pleasure and thanks again for reaching out! Please feel free to hit us up if any other questions pop up as you test drive the plugin and we’d be happy to help. 🙂

Geoff

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