Do WooCommerce Tickets need to be a virtual products?

[aovivo]

Hi there, i wonder if the tickets need to be virtual – or can i use them as a standard product? if they do have to be virtual – is there a specific reason why (besides delivery)?
thanks in advance
P.-

[Brook]

Howdy aovivo,

That is an interesting question. I do believe that the only reason tickets are virtual is to skipp the WooCommerce shipping process. I just added a ticket, then unchecked the virtual box from the Products > Edit Product screen. I was able to purchase it no problem. You could do the same for your tickets. Obviously that adds a couple steps for each ticket though. If you are keen to you could write a modification. This would be possibly by hooking into wordpress’ update_post_meta, and swapping ‘_virtual’ from ‘yes’ to ‘no’. Not super complicated, but that would certainly require a sound knowledge of PHP and WP APIs.

Does that all make sense? Any other questions? I am happy to help. Cheers!

– Brook

[aovivo]

thanks NBrook for looking into this.
the main reason i am thinking to move it to regular product is becaus in the country i am doing business (germany) the virtual product was now set equal to digital products – which then has other legal restrictions (digital music download f.e.) as you can imagine.
the extra steps disabling/removing shipping costs is no extra work at all – and thanks for pointing out the post_meta possibility – but the main question has been properly answered and pointed me into the right direction. thanks for that…

[Brook]

You are very welcome aovivio!

– Brook

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