Event Volunteers

[Bruce]

I am looking at using Events Calendar Pro/Event Tickets Plus/WooCommerce as an event registration solution. Our events are staffed by volunteers and we would like to be able to have them sign-up on the website instead of keeping manual volunteer lists. The volunteers would be “members” of our organization.

My initial thought at how to solve this was to create “tickets” for the various volunteer positions needed for each event and then restrict these volunteer tickets by user role. Thus, we would have user roles for event organizer, on-site registration, etc. which would then have appropriate volunteer “tickets” be exposed for “purchase” (cost would be $0, of course) on the front-end.

Can we setup a solution such as this with WooCommerce as our e-commerce solution? Any better ideas on how to tackle this?

Thanks!

[Nico]

Hi Bruce,

Thanks for reaching out and for your interest in our products 🙂

The use case you describe seems to be a bit of an edge case for our plugins. The workaround you mentions seems doable and correct: showing a special ticket type for logged in users (volunteers). That’s not a default option but you can manage to do that with a bit of custom code. You can also give the Volunteers a special coupon they can use to checkout the tickets. The good thing about having them logged in that you can keep track of your volunteers base.

I guess the best way to see if this solutions works is to try it out. While we don’t have a trial period for our plugins, you can go ahead and buy them to test the functionality / integration with your code. If they do not meet your project needs, you can request a full refund within 30 days of purchase.

Please let me know if this answers your question,
Best,
Nico

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