Events and selling seating.

[John Burks]

We have a client that wants to provide training courses as in-person events and sell seating to these events. I’m having a hard time going through each of your plugins to decide if it’s possible.

1. We want the events / courses to show up on a calendar
2. We want these events / course to be purchasable with limited seating
3. Are discounts available based on the amount of tickets being purchased?
4. We want a seamless payment gateway. Paypal, Stripe, Auth, etc. NOT WooCommerce
5. Can our client communicate with people who’ve purchased tickets and if so, how?

(this is my second time trying to post this… sorry if there’s a double post but I received an error the first time.)

[Cliff]

Hi, John.

Here’s some general information for you. I’ll answer your specifics at the end…

We don’t have “booking” or “courses / learning management system” functionality, but we do have “tickets” functionality, which is used in a lot of different ways.

Event Tickets Plus (ET+) is our paid add-on plugin that upgrades the functionality of our free Event Tickets plugin.

Event Tickets Plus enables you to sell tickets via one of our supported eCommerce platforms. The free plugin only enables free RSVP-type tickets.

You can view our roundup/comparison of all the eCommerce plugins ET+ supports.

Our plugin uses your eCommerce plugin of choice, but your eCommerce plugin isn’t displayed for shopping pages. Please reference our Making Tickets KB article (screenshots are from an install using WooCommerce) for an idea how to create tickets for an event.

Site visitors would purchase tickets from each event’s single page/view (e.g. example.com/events/rogers-day-at-the-zoo/) — if there is an RSVP to submit or ticket to purchase.

The order confirmation email will include a QR code that can be scanned to “check in” someone at the door at the time of the event. You can read more at Tickets: Managing your orders and attendees.

If your tickets will be free, you don’t need QR code check-in, and you don’t need to collect information other than name and email address, you likely could just use the free/core Event Tickets plugin.

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1. Use The Events Calendar free/core along with ET and, optionally, ET+
2. ET+ would be required to sell tickets
3. This would possibly be a feature of your eCommerce plugin, such as WooCommerce. However, we don’t have any specific integrations for such extensions.
4. ET+ requires using an eCommerce plugin (as mentioned above). WooCommerce is the most popular by far, but Easy Digital Downloads is the second most popular amongst our users. Here’s a snippet to bypass the cart and go straight to checkout.
5. While the Attendee List is accessible via wp-admin, there aren’t any actions you can take with the list other than exporting it to CSV. There are a variety of feature requests similar to yours at our UserVoice feature request site. Please add your votes or create new ideas there.

P.S. I don’t think this was double-posted. 🙂

Last but not least, we have a pretty great Refund Policy so you can buy one or many of our add-ons and thoroughly test them.

I hope this info helps. Please let me know if you have any follow-up questions.

[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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