How to set up Registration for Events

[Mike Seyfer]

Hi there,

I’ve just purchased The Events Calendar PRO and the Filter Bar to go along with it. I am trying to set up events, but don’t see the registration anywhere. How do I set up the registration? I don’t need to sell ‘tickets’ or anything, but need a place for people to sign up and get an email confirmation as well as admin confirmation for attendees. There is a limited capacity setting I need to set up as well. Can someone tell me how to set this up please?

Thank You, I appreciate the help,
Mark

[Geoff]

Hey Mark — welcome to the forums and thanks so much for using the plugins! I really hope you enjoy them. 🙂

Good question. Events Calendar PRO actually does not have registration capabilities. However, our other free plugin, Event Tickets, does and it integrates directly into The Events Calendar:

Event Tickets and Registration

Once Event Tickets is installed and activated, that will allow you to take sign-ups for events and limit the capacity of each event. If you are interested in having custom registration fields on top of that, then we do have Event Tickets Plus as an add-on that can provide that as well.

Does this help answer your question? Please let me know. 🙂

Cheers!
Geoff

[Mike Seyfer]

Ok, so is this implying that I need to purchase yet another extension in order to set up the confirmation emails for attendees as well as the admin confirmation emails?

Also, can I limit the number of tickets a user is able to purchase?
And, can I have the name, email, and RSVP displayed without having to select the number of attendees?

Thanks,
Mark

[Mike Seyfer]

One more question, how can I edit the CSS on the main calendar page? There are some display issues with the theme I have and just need to add a little CSS.

Let me know,

Thank You,
Mark

[Geoff]

Hi Bill, thanks for following up!

Quite the contrary — Event Tickets is a completely free plugin that will send attendees an email confirmation upon RSVP’ing for an event.

If you need something more flexible than that–such as custom registration fields–then you would certainly need to look into Event Tickets Plus, which is a paid extension. But, I would recommend starting out with Event Tickets and see if that covers all your needs before spending on anything else. For example, Event Tickets will allow you to limit the number of tickets per event and you can certainly hide the quantity field with some CSS without the need for the premium extension.

how can I edit the CSS on the main calendar page?

You can either add styles directly to your theme’s style.css file or follow the steps outlined in our Themer’s Guide to override the calendar’s styles with your own CSS file.

Does this help clarify things a bit more? Please let me know. 🙂

Cheers!
Geoff

[Mike Seyfer]

Yes this helps, thanks for that.

I still have a couple questions though.

I want the ‘First and Last Name’ and ‘Email’ fields to be displayed without having to select the number of attendees. How do I make all my fields display like this without having to select a number from that dropdown? (see screenshots)

And then, I need to create 2 custom emails, one for the verification for the customer saying ‘Thank You for signing up’ and another for the event administrator saying, for example, ‘John Smith has just signed up for your insert name of class on insert date here.’ How and where can I set these up? I see they’re part of the demo on the site but don’t see them on the back end anywhere.

Let me know when you can please.

Thank You,
Mark

[Geoff]

Hey Mark, happy Friday!

I want the ‘First and Last Name’ and ‘Email’ fields to be displayed without having to select the number of attendees.

You should be able to hide the quantity field selector with CSS. Something like this:

#tribe-events-content .quantity {
display: none;
}

And then, I need to create 2 custom emails, one for the verification for the customer saying ‘Thank You for signing up’ and another for the event administrator saying, for example, ‘John Smith has just signed up for your insert name of class on insert date here.’

There are two email templates, one for attendees and another for non-attendees, both located at:

• /wp-content/plugins/event-tickets/src/views/tickets/email.php
• .wp-content/plugins/event-tickets/src/views/tickets/email-non-attendance.php

From there, you can follow the steps outlined in the Themer’s Guide to override those files in your theme directory and customize both emails to suit your needs.

Does this help? Please let me know — and, if you have additional questions, it would be awesome if you could start a new thread since we’re starting to veer away from Events Calendar PRO and into Event Tickets Plus. 🙂

Thanks so much!
Geoff

[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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