Event Tickets – creating an event ticket price for RSVP

[honeyl]

I have an Agency license for Event Calendar Pro, and a few of my clients are using Event Tickets Plus to sell tickets via WooCommerce. Works great. Very happy with that setup.

But a recent client is interested in having clients reserve a seat at her seminars, then pay at the door when they arrive.

When I first researched this possibility for Event Tickets, I assumed that the RSVP system would allow you to set a different price for each event so customers would know what to expect to pay before they arrived. But the cost field seems to have been disabled in the most recent version of the plugin in favor of “Free.” Is this correct?

Looking through the template files, I’ve been able to locate where the “Free” text resides and I’ve been able to change that to a specific price. But this price shows up for all tickets , and I can’t post different prices for different events.

My client does not want to add WooCommerce or any other payment system to her site. She just wants to post different prices for different events and then have her customers be able to reserve a spot for those events.

Is this going to be possible with the free version of the Event Tickets plugin? Or does she need to upgrade to Event Tickets Plus, and if so, can the paid version work without a payment system, so that customers can reserve their spot and just pay at the door?

Thanks.

— Lee

[honeyl]

I don’t know how this got posted in Community Events. I can’t seem to move it myself, so can someone in support move it over to Event Tickets?

Thanks.

[George]

Hey Lee,

No worries about the thread being here in the Community Events forum—we’re happy to help regardless. 🙂

In regards to your issue, what you said here is exactly right and is the core of the limitations you and your client are encountering:

But the cost field seems to have been disabled in the most recent version of the plugin in favor of “Free.” Is this correct?

When Event Tickets is active, the “cost” field is removed.

But you can add the field back, which seems like a great solution here. I would, in fact, recommend removing your template modifications first, and then using this article as a guide to adding the cost field back to your events even with Event Tickets activated so that you can have the best of both worlds → https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/use-the-event-cost-field-with-tickets-installed/

Once you do these steps, you should be able to have RSVPs on events, and specify a “cost” for each Event that is not just “Free”. However, you will still not need WooCommerce or checkout processes or payment processing or any of that….

🙂

I hope this helps!
George

[honeyl]

Hi George,

Thanks, this helps a lot. But now I’m getting “Free – $30” — the string “Free -” appears before every cost.

— Lee

[honeyl]

This particular forum post suggests a method for removing this, but it gives me the White Screen of Death — with or without your earlier recommendation.

Event with both ticket and RSVP options displays as FREE – $8

— Lee

[honeyl]

Actually, I got the above linked option to work. You should roll this into the next update. This is very confusing for users. A radio button for “Free” or “Cost” would work wonders, along with an “after:” field for inputting things like “(pay at the door).”

— Lee

[George]

I’m sorry for the trouble but am glad you got things working here, Lee.

I agree about our handling of the Cost field needing some work—we’re trying to figure out the best way to handle this, stay tuned to forthcoming plugin updates!

I will close this thread for now—but if other issues or questions arise, open a new thread any time.

Sincerely,
George

[Author]

Posts