Does your plugin meet my needs??

[Craig Harris]

Hello

My client is looking for a WordPress plugin to manage the courses that he runs.

I wondered if your plugin does everything that I need??

Calendar date picker for user on front end
User can pay via PayPal (or similar pay options to Woo Commerce)
Front end has a description of the course
Possibility of booking multiple people on the course in 1 booking (book up to 4 tickets at once for colleagues)

Some courses are a 2 day course that runs over a weekend. But each day is sold as separate, giving the user the option of attending one day and not the other. Plus, there’s a discount for booking a weekend pass. I.E…

Saturday – £160
Sunday – £160
Weekend – £300 (so there’s a £20 discount when booking a weekend pass)

It would also be great if there was a way of adding discount codes. These would be manually created and sent to users prior to booking.

Lastly I need some form of “stock control”. So I need to limit the number of attendees to 20 (but this can vary from course to course). So it should only allow 20 people to book on the Saturday and 20 on the Sunday.

I’ve tried explaining as best as I can. Let me know if you need anything clarified.

Thanks
Craig

[George]

Hi Craig,

I’ll address each item in order:

Calendar date picker for user on front end

Yes – see our demo site at http://wpshindig.com/events/ for a live example. Anything other than this is not out-of-the-box and would require custom coding.

User can pay via PayPal (or similar pay options to Woo Commerce)

Yes – if you buy one of our ticketing add-ons. We have one that integrates with WooCommerce directly, so WooCommerce itself handles the PayPal integration, not events calendar or its ticketing add-ons.

Front end has a description of the course

Yes – “Events” from The Events Calendar are post types within WordPress, meaning they have a full content section where you can write quite a bit about the event. To see it live, I’ll recommend http://wpshindig.com/events/ again – that main page is the “Month” view, which features just an excerpt of the full event descriptions. Change to other event views to see the events content in other views and get a sense of how it looks.

Possibility of booking multiple people on the course in 1 booking (book up to 4 tickets at once for colleagues)

Sort of – You can buy 4 tickets at one time with our ticketing add-ons, but only one as one logged-in user with one set of personal information. In other words, Joe can buy 4 tickets at once, keep one for himself then manually hand out the other 3 for Sally, Jarvis, and Kanye. But Joe cannot buy a ticket for each of these people and enter a different name, address, credit card, etc. for each one. He can only buy them as himself. Does this answer your question?

Some courses are a 2 day course that runs over a weekend. But each day is sold as separate, giving the user the option of attending one day and not the other. Plus, there’s a discount for booking a weekend pass. I.E…
Saturday – £160
Sunday – £160
Weekend – £300 (so there’s a £20 discount when booking a weekend pass)

Yes – You’d have to manually create each ticket here – so, you’d create two separate events, one for Saturday and one for Sunday, and then sell the tickets accordingly with the structure you listed here. The “Weekend” pass is something you could set up in a number of ways.

It would also be great if there was a way of adding discount codes. These would be manually created and sent to users prior to booking.

Yes – This is handled by the eCommerce platform your choose to use. So if you buy our WooTickets add-on to sell tickets with WooCommerce, then WooCommerce itself is where you go to generate coupon codes and such.

Lastly I need some form of “stock control”. So I need to limit the number of attendees to 20 (but this can vary from course to course). So it should only allow 20 people to book on the Saturday and 20 on the Sunday.

Yes – Ticket stock is a key feature and you can set the number of tickets for sale for each level of ticket you want. If you want 20 on Saturday and 20 on Sunday, however, you’d just need to create two separate events and set the tickets for each day.

I hope all this helps!

— George

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