How to list a 4-week course?

[strongeagle]

Hello, I’ve loaded Events Calendar Pro and Woo Tickets to my client’s site, and would like to set her up with courses which run over 4 weeks. The course will be at the same time on 4 consecutive Tuesdays, and the price is ￡225 for the whole thing.

I’d like these all to populate the calendar, but it’s not possible to join the classes ad hoc; you have to pay for the whole course and can come for the 4 weeks. Ticket sales need to close just prior to the first class, and tickets should not be “buy-able” from other than the first class listing.

I’ve tried using recurring event, but that then shows as 4 events costing 225 each!

So, what do I do? I’m guessing that I make the last three classes with no price and no tickets, with a link back to the first event, but that seems a sloppy workaround and I’m hoping there is something better.

BTW, there is a holding page up that will block your access. If you go to stephaniedaviesarai.com/bypass you’ll get past that!

Many thanks, Valerie

[George]

Hey Valerie,

Thanks for reaching out to us and for the heads-up about that /bypass URL on your site 🙂

In your situation, a recurring event should work as long as you split the first event off the rest of the series. Now, if this sounds like the solution you suggested, it’s not quite the same thing – and, while admittedly not as perfect as we might hope for (we’re working hard some nice recurring event improvements!), it’s definitely a bit “cleaner” than your suggested solution or manually creating each event or something like that.

Basically, all you’d have to do is set up the recurring event for the 4 weeks – however, do not worry about adding the tickets yet. Just create the event series as if there was no ticketing functionality needed for any of it…

Then, once the series is published, go to that first event where people will buy the ticket to gain access to the whole series. On this event, when viewing it on the front-end of your site, notice the “Edit Event” tab in your Toolbar?

Hover over that, and a dropdown will appear. Click “Break from Series” in that dropdown. Here’s a screenshot of this for reference! → https://cloudup.com/cgvhINC1y9H

This will break that first event off the series, while leaving the rest of the series related to each other and part of the course without you having to manually link them or anything.

And it will allow you to then add the Tickets to that first, broken-off event, without the tickets appearing on any of the future events.

I hope this helps – your suggestion was pretty close, but this should be a bit more efficient and save some time.

Let me know if this helps! (Or if you have any other questions, concerns, etc.)

Thanks,
George

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