Checking what I'll need

[Paul]

Hi. Just checking what product & options I would need to fulfil the following..

Required –

Classes with maximum number of attendees – anywhere between max of 1 & 30 attendees
Attendees to book ‘tickets’ – but not for payment, only so we are aware of who’s coming.
Once off classes; Recurring classes; Ad-hoc repeated classes (ability to ‘copy & paste’ class from old to future date(s))

Optionally –

Ability to email attendees for any given class manually – for new pre-visit information or similar.
Ability for emails to class attendees to be sent automatically – if course cancelled or changed in some way.

Could you let me know what we’d need ?

Thank you

[Geoff]

Hi Paul,

Happy Monday and I hope you had a great weekend!

Good question. Here are the plugins I would recommend:

• The Events Calendar (free): This is our baseline plugin that makes all the others possible to use as well. 🙂
• Events Calendar PRO: This adds premium features to The Events Calendar, including the recurring events you are looking for.
• Event Tickets (free): This give you the ability to allow free registrations for events — you can also set a maximum number of registrations.

I’m afraid that none of our plugins will allow you to send email communications to attendees. However, if you add Event Tickets Plus to the mix, then that will give you an exportable list of attendees that you can use to integrate with an email marketing application, like MailChimp or Campaign Monitor.

I do also want to note one important caveat: at the moment, Event Tickets does not support the recurring events feature in Events Calendar PRO. That’s something we’re working on for a future release but, for now, any tickets created for a recurring event will be available on all the events in that series — so, in other words, a ticket sold on one instance will be sold on the other instances as well.

Does this help answer your questions? Please let me know. 🙂

Cheers!
Geoff

[Paul]

Thanks Geoff for your detailed reply. I’ll download, install & give it a go.

[Geoff]

My pleasure, thanks for following up!

I’ll also mention that we offer a full refund on all our products within 30 days of purchase. That should give you a good chance to test drive everything to make sure they work for you — and if they don’t, we’ll take them back for any reason at all.

Enjoy the plugins! Feel free to let us know if any other questions pop up and we’d be happy to help. 🙂

Cheers,
Geoff

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