How do I make Events (such as a course) purchaseable?

[James]

I purchased Pro as my understanding was you could just link a payment gateway into it. How on earth do I make an event something you have to pay for and then get sent confirmation with invoice ?

Many thanks

[Brook]

Howdy James,

I would love to help you with this. It looks like you might not have the right addon. Events Calendar Pro does not allow you to sell tickets to events. Rather, our ticketing addons do that.

Have you ever sold items from a website before? Just so you know you operating an ecommerce store requires a decent amount of setup and money. You need to signup with a payment gateway (monthly payment) and typically get a secure host with an SSL cert. Then you have to setup an ecommerce store such as WooCommerce. If you already have these things then checkout our ecommerce ticketing addons and find one that matches your ecommerce store.

If you do not already have an ecommerce store, checkout Eventbrite. Instead of having all of the setup and monthly fees for a store of your own, they already have a store and will sell tickets for you for a small % of each ticket. We have a tie-in for that as well that makes it easy to sell tickets: Eventbrite Tickets.

It sounds like you might want want a refund for Pro. If so, please send us an email (support @ this website) and include a refund request along with your order #. We can get your refund processed in no time.

Does that all make sense? Will that work for you? Please let me know.

Cheers!

– Brook

[James]

Hi Brook,

Thanks for this. All I want is just to be able to put an event up and people pay into a paypal account and receive an invoice and reserve places for people. I have set this up before Im sure of it using just events calendar and a paypal plugin, I could have sworn.

Im just after something real simple, don’t think woocomerce is needed or an ssl certificate as Paypal is secure.

Many thanks

Look forward to hearing from you

[Brook]

Howdy James,

You will definitely need an ecommerce store such as Woo. You might not need SSL. It depends on how you set it up. PayPal does allow simple payment gateways that redirect you to their store for payment if that is your preferred route. But it still takes a little bit of setup and a paid account with them to get it rolling. More details can be found at the Ecommerce stores such as WooCommerce on how to setup a store an get paid. Once you have one setup, installing our plugin and integrating tickets is a breeze.

Does that make sense?

• Brook

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