Group discounts or total minimum tickets?

[Brian Peat]

I’d really love to use your Event Tickets Plus plugin for a ministry I manage a woocommerce site for, but in addition to different ticket types they also have group discounts and early bird. I know it can handle early bird, but I need a way to either lower the price by 10 or 15% if they add more than 5 total tickets, or to create a new product just for groups, but set it so they can’t hit add to cart until they’ve got at least 6 tickets chosen.

Is there a way to do either of these?

[Jennifer]

Hi Brian,

Thanks for checking out our plugins!

For early bird discounts, you can either create a separate early bird ticket (which can share stock with other tickets on an event) or change the price manually when you want to do so.

Unfortunately group discounts are not currently supported out-of-the-box, but since tickets are essentially WooCommerce simple products, they typically work well with WooCommerce extensions.

If you wanted to create a new ticket for groups, then you could do a customization to set a minimum number for that ticket…I would recommend taking a look at this article as a starting point.

We do offer full refunds within 30 days of purchase, so if you’d like to take Event Tickets Plus for a test run, feel free to do so! Please let me know if you have any additional questions.

Thanks,

Jennifer

[Brian Peat]

Thanks for the response!

The issue with just changing the quantity is that with different ticket types, each one has a quantity selector. What I need is to be able to set the entire product to have a minimum before they can add to cart. Meaning any combination of ticket types must at LEAST be 6. I’m pretty sure the article you linked to would affect any single ticket type, but not the entire product.

Any idea if this could be done with a custom plugin for woocommerce?

[Brian Peat]

One more thought. Could group discounts be just calculated at the cart level based on quantity across each product (we have an advanced discount plugin running already)? That might be easier to do than a custom plugin.

I may just take the plunge and purchase your plugin and do some tests on it.

thanks!

[Jennifer]

Hi Brian,

Just to clarify, each ticket type is an individual WooCommerce product. Every time you create a ticket, you are creating a new product. The code in the article will set the minimum to 1 for each ticket type on the event, but you can use the code there as a starting point for a more dynamic customization. It sounds like you would want to build on the Javascript there to check that the sum of the inputs is at least 6. You can allow tickets on an event to share capacity, so using this option, the overall capacity on the event will be reduced when any ticket that is set to share capacity is purchased.

Regarding calculating a discount at the cart, this might be possible – if you have something that’s working already for other WooCommerce products, then it may work for tickets as well.

If you do test it out and run into any issues or have any questions on how things work, please feel free to reach out to us! We do not provide support for customizations, but we are happy to answer questions and point you in the right direction if we can 🙂

Thanks,

Jennifer

[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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