Event Tickets + Events Calendar PRO or not?

[TanumStrand]

Hi,
I am new to Events Calender Pro, and also a little uncertain in which forum to post this. But I try here.
We will soon launch the Events Calendar Pro on our site, but new needs have surfaced…

Our visitors need to be able to “book a spot or register” for many of our events. Preferrably also buy tickets. Have checked out the Events Ticket, but read that it doesn’t go well together with recurring events. Why?
– We have many recurring events, so I guess then that this isn’t an option any way. Is there any other plug-ins that give us the possibility for our visitors to register for events? (or buy tickets online for a certain event)? How can we optimize the Calendar to also include services like this?

[Geoff B.]

Good evening and welcome back!

Thank you for reaching out to us.
I would love to help you with this topic.

Our visitors need to be able to “book a spot or register” for many of our events. Preferrably also buy tickets.

The register only functionality is provided by Event Tickets (free): https://theeventscalendar.com/product/wordpress-event-tickets/

As a side note, this plugin is likely to get simple Paypal functionality in the near future..

In the meantime, only Event Tickets Plus will get you full transactional functionality (coupled with WooCommerce).

it doesn’t go well together with recurring events. Why?

The reason for this is highly technical.
In fact we rebuilt our Recurring events engine completely in order to be in a better position to support this.

Unfortunately, I cannot commit to a release date at this point. But stay tuned!

In the meantime, what happens is that ALL the recurring events will be sharing ONE set of tickets.

In other words, it will “work”, but each event is not getting its own set of tickets.
They will be sharing one pool of tickets.

Depending on your needs, that might work for you (e.g.: a class that lasts several events but where you only pay the ticket once).

Aside from that. the current workaround is to:

1. Create the recurring event series
2. Break all events from the series (turning them in single events)
3. Add the tickets to each event

The obvious downside is that these events are no longer truly recurring.

Is there any other plug-ins that give us the possibility for our visitors to register for events? (or buy tickets online for a certain event)?

Unfortunately not at this time I am afraid.

I wish I had a better answer for you, but for now it’s the best one I have unfortunately.

Best regards,

Geoff B.

 

[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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