Community Events – Collecting Payments & Custom Forms

[Charlie Nicholls]

We are currently planning the development of a site for a client that will require membership & event functionality. The client is looking to hire out a venue to businesses.

Basically we will be using the S2 Framework plugin to offer membership plans to businesses. Once businesses have registered, we are considering using The Events Calendar + Community Events functionality to provide businesses with the ability to hire the space out on a date they select and pay for it online, based on room availability. Is this possible with this plugin?

[Jennifer]

Hi Charlie,

Thanks for checking out our plugins!

Community Events lets users create events from the front end of the site, but it does not include any “validation” functionality that could be used to verify that a venue has not already been booked when a user is creating an event. However, it does allow you to select the status that events go into when they are submitted, so you could select “Draft”, which would allow you to review and approve events before they are added to your site calendar.

Another factor here though is how to charge for users submitting events. There is not currently any built-in functionality in Community Events that would allow you to do so, but you may be able to do it in conjunction with the S2 Framework plugin. I’m not familiar with it, but events are custom post types…if the plugin supports those, you may be able to use the two together.

I think the best way to figure out if this will work for you is to test it out. The Events Calendar and Community Events are not built to be reservation plugins, but using them in conjunction with your membership plugin, you might be able to get them to work the way you want them to. We offer full refunds within 30 days of purchase if you’re not satisfied with the products, so feel free to do a test run! Please let me know if you have any other questions.

Thanks,

Jennifer

[Charlie]

Hi Jenifer,

Thanks for the information. I was under the impression that community tickets plugin allowed you to capture payments for community events online?

[Jennifer]

Hi Charlie,

Community Tickets is actually an extension of Event Tickets Plus (which allows you to sell tickets on your site) that works with Community Events to allow users to add tickets to the events they create from the front end of your site. It also gives you some control over how the money from the sale of those tickets is distributed, including the ability to collect a fee on tickets sold. However, all of the payment processing is done through either WooCommerce or Easy Digital Downloads.

Community Events and Community Tickets are meant to allow users to be able to submit events to your site without having access to the backend. The payments are centered around selling tickets though, not the event creation itself, which is why I mentioned that our plugins are not really built to handle reservation or booking-type functionality. You could potentially create tickets for certain time slots and set the quantity available for each ticket to 1, which would ensure that the venue wasn’t double-booked, but this could be extremely tedious depending on how often the venue will be available.

Let me know if you have any other 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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