EDD tickets Vs. Woo Tickets

[reddishpink]

Hi There,
I building a website that sells tickets for 4 tours. Each tour will run ever day. The tickets are digital and printed and I need a code on each for each user so the bus driver can match the code of each ticket to the customers name. Tickets will sell out after 15 are sold. And I need to turn off selling the ticket up to 30 min before the tour leaves.

What one of your tools would be best? EDD or Woo Tickets?
Thanks!

[Leah]

Hi reddishpink,

Thanks for getting in touch! WooCommerce Tickets and EDD Tickets are actually quite similar. The main difference is in the commerce engines themselves (WooCommerce and Easy Digital Downloads). You might want to look into those more to see if you particularly prefer one or the other. If you are interested in selling products besides tickets (such as t-shirts or stickers) you will want to go with WooCommerce, since EDD only handles digital merchandise.

Both WooCommerce Tickets and EDD Tickets allow you to sell a limited number of tickets and dictate when ticket sales start and stop. Each ticket has a code for identification, and you can check the tickets in using that code. Names are attached to orders, but not to the individual tickets

One thing to note is that currently our ticketing plugins do not support recurring events. So if your tour is a daily recurring event and you make a ticket for it, that same ticket will show on every instance of the recurring events. So you wouldn’t be able to sell tickets in advance for a tour in the future if they are recurring events. We’re looking at expanding our plugins to be compatible with recurring events, but currently that’s a limitation.

Does that answer your questions? I highly recommend that you check out the product pages and new user primers for each plugin so you can see screenshots and videos. Let me know if you have any further questions!

Best,

Leah

[reddishpink]

Hi Leah
Thanks! Ill go with Woocommerce tickets.

On the tickets for tours then, what Id like to set up is a tour(event) every day for 6 months. So basically it is a daily tour running 7 days a week.

Are you saying then that this is not possible? To sell tickets in advance for a event that reoccurs every day?

Thanks Again
Jeff

[reddishpink]

Ah I see: https://theeventscalendar.com/support/forums/topic/single-order-posting-on-all-recurring-events/

I think that is what you mean. Could I just create an event for each day of the month. As a separate entry? So it is not re-occurring, just a duplicate for each day? Then the events(tour date) would have a unique ID in the system?

[Leah]

Hi Jeff,

Yes, that forum thread you posted exactly pin-points the issue. And your solution exactly solves it. By making individual events instead of a recurring series, you’ll be able to sell tickets in advance. We understand that this is a pain-point for some people, so we are looking into expanding our ticketing plugins to work with recurring events. In the meantime however, a workaround like the one you described is needed. To help save time, I recommend that you download a plugin that duplicates posts. Several of them are recommended here.

Let me know if there’s anything else I can do for you 🙂

Best,

Leah

[reddishpink]

Hey Leah, already ahead of you. I have a duplicate post plugin working away. You guys are awesome I have three clients already using some of your plugins.

Thanks again.

[Leah]

That’s music to my ears, thank you!
~Leah

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