Calendar Pro features

[Kaitlyn Holeman]

Hi, I have a very specific request from a client (I’m designing their website) and they’d like to find a calendar that does the following, and I’m wondering if the Events calendar free/pro can do this:

– The ability to have pre-set times available on the calendar for customers to “book” (or schedule, like an appointment)
– Once the customer books that appointment time, the event will show their name and/or some custom event name type in the event title publicly to others (rather than showing as simply booked/not available for others visiting the website)
– Allowing the customer to invite other registrants to attend that specific event link/page publicly

Basically, the client has a service that is a traveling boutique, where they allow customers to “book” a free party to be held at a home/location of their choice, and the business will bring the boutique to the customer at a specified time. But they want the customers who are “hosting” the parties to be able to invite other friends/family they know to register and attend those events. So we need to find something that allows us to create events that are set to available for booking, and then once the customer books that time, it allows them to invite others to attend the event they signed up for.

[Jennifer]

Hi Kaitlyn,

Thanks for checking out our plugins!

First, Event Tickets (free) will allow users to RSVP to events or buy tickets (via a direct integration with PayPal) for events on your site. Event Tickets Plus allows you to integrate with either WooCommerce or Easy Digital Downloads to sell tickets and adds the ability to display an attendee list on the event.

Regarding pre-set times – there are a couple of ways that you could set this up. One way would be to create an event/post for each time and then add tickets to that event (tickets can be added to events, which are a feature of our free The Events Calendar plugin, or to any other post type). Another option would be to create separate tickets for each date/party on a single post. If you went this route, all attendees for all dates would be shown on the post together (not separated by the date they registered for), so the first option might be your best bet.

There is not a built-in option for attendees to share events after they register, but you could use a third-party plugin that adds social share options to posts – this article has an overview of some of these plugins. If you wanted to add some type of share option to the ticket email or to the event page (after a user registers), you could do so via a template override.

We do offer full refunds within 30 days of purchase, so if you’d like to take Event Tickets Plus for a test run, feel free to do so! Please let me know if you have any additional questions.

Thanks,

Jennifer

[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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