Managing a busy venue and calendar of events

[Alan]

Hi there,
I manage a busy music venue with tons of events. We used to use Google Calendar to manage them, but with TEC Pro, there is so much more power.

My question is … what is the primary way people do this. I’m thinkning 2 options:

1. Continue using Google Calendar
* Continue to manage events in Google Calendar, because it’s easy to create events, set times, set descriptions
* Edit advanced things such as categories, ticket price, link to artist YouTube, Facebook, website in the WordPress Dashboard

The questions I have with this approach is that if the event gets rescheduled … assuming I set the TEC Import Settings to “newest” or “override”, will the properties be maintained when it’s rescheduled?

2. Ditch Google Calendar, edit everything in TEC

This seems workable, but it’s not as easy to simply edit events as it would be in google calendar.

How are most people doing this?

[George]

Thanks for reaching out, Alan!

It’s hard to generalize about how “most people” do this with our plugins — one of the great things about our plugins, and WordPress plugins in general, is that they are self-hosted, and so there’s no external data tracking which is a boon for folks who want privacy. 🙂 That does mean, however, that we simply don’t have a lot of concrete data about how folks use our plugins in the ways you describe here.

Certainly having one body of events to manage is easier than having two bodies of events to manage, and so this may be the main appeal of option #2 that you list there: using The Events Calendar for everything.

But option #1 is totally viable, too, though. And there are indeed ways to set up Event Aggregator’s Update Authority settings so that event properties can be maintained even in the face of the source event being rescheduled; it’s more accurate to say that a new event will be imported altogether, which does unfortunately mean that there could be duplicate events, but will ensure that no data is lost. You can read more about these import settings and how to best manage imported events by checking out these two articles:
• https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/event-aggregator-import-settings/
• https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/managing-imported-events/

I hope this information helps you in your decision-making here—please let me know if it does, and if there’s anything else I can try to help with!

— George

[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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