Does Event Tickets Plus fit our needs?

[playmakerne]

Hi there,
We have already purchased The Events Calendar Pro and the Filter Bar, to manage all activities teachers from all the schools in our city can book for their primary school students, when they want to attend activities outside the school area (visit museums, local firms, sportsclubs etc.) Until now we planned to create the events in The Events Calendar, and from there we would link to our existing enrolment system.

We are considering to replace the old system with Event Tickets Plus, as we would like to have everything integrated in one site, instead of two. However, we are in doubt whether Event Tickets Plus fits our needs. Therefore we have the following Pre-sales questions:

1. Is it possible to show the price, without making the customers pay at the site (They need to be billed through our internal school system, as there are strict rules for this)

2. Is it possible to customize the registrations field easily, everytime we create an event? We often need specific info for an event, but it varies widely which information we need to have.

3. Is it possible to get a notification email, every time someone registers to attend an event (or alternatively once a day)?

4. Is it possible to see an overview, that shows detailed sales reports for ALL events?

I look forward to hearing from you.

Kind Regards
Christine

[Cliff]

Hi, Christine.

Event Tickets Plus, our paid add-on plugin that upgrades the functionality of our free Event Tickets plugin, enables you to sell tickets via one of our supported eCommerce platforms. The free plugin only enables free RSVP-type tickets.

You can view our roundup/comparison of all the eCommerce plugins ET+ supports.

Our plugin uses your eCommerce plugin of choice, but your eCommerce plugin isn’t displayed for shopping pages. Please reference our Making Tickets KB article (screenshots are from an install using WooCommerce) for an idea how to create tickets for an event.

Site visitors would purchase tickets from each event’s single page/view (e.g. example.com/events/rogers-day-at-the-zoo/) — if there is an RSVP to submit or ticket to purchase.

The order confirmation email will include a QR code that can be scanned to “check in” someone at the door at the time of the event. You can read more at Tickets: Managing your orders and attendees.

Without ET or ET+, you can already display a price without selling any tickets. So you could display $20 on the event and then sell the tickets off-site on your own other site.

However, ET+ does have Attendee Meta functionality that can collect additional information, like T-Shirt Size, per ticket sold. And you could customize the code to send the site admin an email every time a ticket purchase email gets sent to the customer.

To be clear, though, you would either use ET/ET+ or your off-site ticket sales billing system — unless you just have “free” tickets online that state an amount is due at the door or however else you’d word that.

To answer your last question, there is an Attendees Report available per event, but not one for all events. Feel free to add that suggestion at our plugins’ UserVoice page. This allows others who are interested in that feature to easily voice their support. We frequently review suggestions there to find out which ones are popular, then we implement as many of them as we can. Once you post it, feel free to link to it from here in case anyone comes across this forum thread in the future.

Last but not least, we have a pretty great Refund Policy so you can buy one or many of our add-ons and thoroughly test them.

Let me know if you have any follow-up questions.

[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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