How flexible is TEC and ET+ – will they accommodate a variety of classes?

[Karelle Scharff]

I’m looking for a plugin that will accommodate 3 scenarios:

1. my client teaches classes through several organizations – those classes should be displayed on a calendar and contain a link to the organizations for registration and payment. The org controls the number of students. Easy, right?

2. my client will also be teaching some multi-session classes, with fixed dates, not through an outside organization. Students will need to register and pay through her own website. Number of students will have to be limited through the software. We already use woocommerce to sell artwork. Still easy?

3. This is the one that’s critical and may be harder: she also offers studio time for people who want to work on their own projects, only on Monday mornings and Thursday evenings.

• Participants will need to be able to purchase ‘x’ number of sessions
• and then register for sessions til their “punchcard” runs out
• and be notified that they need to buy a new punchcard.
• The number of sessions can range from 1-50 (not critical).
• Once they’ve purchased a session, if they just don’t show up with inadequate warning, they get no refund; but if they do give 24 hours, then their session can be added back to their “punchcard”.
• Punchcards run out after, say, a year (not critical>.
• Additionally there is a max number of students per session.

As this is not a huge operation (yet) some of this can be managed by hand using reports generated by the software, but the reports would have to contain user-specific information to track use.

Will Events Calendar Pro, Events Tickets Plus and any combination of add-ons accomplish all three of these tasks? I’m open to different ways to accomplish this.

[Geoff]

Hello Karelle,

Thanks for getting in touch! These are great questions, so let’s tackle them one at a a time.

1. my client teaches classes through several organizations – those classes should be displayed on a calendar and contain a link to the organizations for registration and payment. The org controls the number of students. Easy, right?

Yes, easy! The Events Calendar (free) does have a Website URL field that can be used to link directly to a registration platform.

However, if you’re also using our Event Tickets (also free) and Event Tickets Plus plugins with The Events Calendar, then you can take registration for the classes directly on your site and even use custom registration fields for attendees to complete when registering.

It’s also worth noting that the plugins allow you to set the number of tickets allowed so that an event is never accidentally oversold.

2. my client will also be teaching some multi-session classes, with fixed dates, not through an outside organization. Students will need to register and pay through her own website. Number of students will have to be limited through the software. We already use woocommerce to sell artwork. Still easy?

Yes, still easy! Event Tickets Plus (mentioned above) integrates directly with WooCommerce, allowing you to create tickets for your events and sell them directly as Products in WooCommerce.

3. This is the one that’s critical and may be harder: she also offers studio time for people who want to work on their own projects, only on Monday mornings and Thursday evenings.

This is where it gets tricky and, to be honest, something that I do not believe is a good fit with our plugins–though it is an awesome idea. The plugins do not offer a nice clean way for attendees to purchase multiple events at a time nor do they include something that would allow an attendee to purchase a credit of classes that can then be redeemed for attendance. Every ticket is associated with a specific event, so the ticket that is purchased would need to be used for that event.

Sorry about the bad news on that last point, but does this at least help answer your questions? Please let me know. 🙂

Cheers!
Geoff

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