Conference / seminar booking – which plugin will do what I want?

[Tim Elliott]

Hi
I’m looking for a plugin to allow me to do certain things and wondered which, if any, of your plugins can do this:

The website is for a single conference that happens once per year.
Attendees should be able to register to attend the conference.
During the conference there are free seminars taking place in different seminar rooms.
Multiple seminars occur at the same time and each seminar has limited seats.
They should be able to register to attend seminars, but only for themselves (i.e. they can’t buy multiple tickets).
They should not be able to register for 2 seminars that occur at the same time.
If a seminar is full they should not be able to register for it.
They should be able to log in and view / change their seminar bookings.

I’m not sure if any of your plugins actually allow this setup, but if so can you tell me which one.

Thanks

[Geoff B.]

Good evening Tim and welcome to the Events Calendar forum!

Thank you for your interest in our products.
We’ll be glad to answer your questions.

Many of your requirements would be covered by a combination of the Events Calendar, Event Tickets and Event Tickets Plus.

The main feature that is not built-in or that we do not have a snippet for is preventing purchase for seminars that happen at the same time.

However, with a bit of customization, that should be feasible. You simply want to make sure that both seminars are part of the same product category and implement one of the following ideas:

1. https://aelia.co/woocommerce-only-allow-specific-product-combinations-in-cart/
2. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45189297/prevent-add-to-cart-if-cart-contains-a-specific-category-woocommerce

The second requirement that we do not meet is “They should be able to log in and view / change their seminar bookings.”.

This one is far more trickier. From experience on a few very similar projects, I would highly recommend letting admin handle changes for the seminar bookings.

In fact, WooCommerce declined such a feature request: http://ideas.woocommerce.com/forums/133476-woocommerce/suggestions/2310400-edit-or-cancel-order

So in other words, there are no solution that I am aware of that would meet that final requirement. The good news however is that admin could totally handle this (based on customer requests).

Let me know if that helps.

Have a great day!

Geoff B.

[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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