Chain Products/Classes for Discounts

[Alison]

We have an interesting scenario I am hoping there is a solution to. We have 4 classes in a series. People can sign up for one class for $15 or all 4 for $55. These classes recur each Sunday for 4 weeks. So we can add tickets for each date within the recurring event and they can pick and choose which dates they want. We COULD add a 5th ticket for all dates for the discounted rate but then we would lose the tracking of inventory on the classes. Ideally we would like to chain the classes for a discount in WooCommerce. So if they select all 4 the discounted rate would apply. This plugin would work for that: https://woocommerce.com/products/chained-products/ however we only can add a NEW ticket/product in the events and not the other way around – bring established WooComemrce products into the event. What do you suggest the best way to approach this? Thanks

[Josh]

Hey Allison,

Thanks for reaching out to us!

To clarify one thing to start here, we don’t currently provide full support for tickets on the recurring events feature. When creating tickets for recurring events, there will be a single pool of tickets that apply to all events within the series. Each event in the series wouldn’t have its own set of tickets and associated inventory.

But, to help in addressing this current question, there are a couple of directions you could pursue.

You can connect a previously created product as a ticket to an event. This connection is made by adding a piece of custom meta to the WooCommerce product that attaches it to the event. To do this, you can add a meta_key of “_tribe_wooticket_for_event” for the product and assign the ID of the event as the meta_value. Here is a screenshot of the meta on a ticket in my local install https://cloudup.com/cy6Y62qvvfb.

Let me know if that works for the plugin approach that you’re wanting to use. If not, we can dig into some of the other options you could pursue here.

Thanks!

 

[Alison]

Thank you. And how would I add the custom meta to the WooCommerce product? Through the functions file as addressed here? http://www.remicorson.com/mastering-woocommerce-products-custom-fields/

[Josh]

Hey Allison,

You can use the “add_post_meta()” function to add the meta or you could also add it directly to the database if you’re comfortable working with a tool such as phpMyAdmin with your hosting provider.

Let me know if this helps.

Thanks!

[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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