Membership site where moderators can add events and take payments

[Dan Price]

Hello,

I am helping a members organisation with their website.

They are using buddypress and have groups setup around regions.

They have regional events – they need regional moderators to be able to setup and administer events from the front end.

This requires them to be able to –
have an event attached to a buddypress group,
be able to save it as a draft
the ability to collect attendee data
the ability to export this data in an easy to use format
Set variable pricing – some events will have a transport / meal option so will cost more. There are also tickets available for non members to purchase at a higher price.
Communicate with event attendees – be able to email people attending the event.

Looking at your products its seems we would need community events and community tickets and events tickets plus – would they cover this usecase?

We have used Events Manager and Events + pro versions and none have fitted the bill at all – the committee are wary about spending more money until we can be absolutely sure that solution will fit the majority of our needs. Could you give us some guidance?

[Andras]

Hello Dan, thanks for reaching out!

Let me try to answer your questions.

have an event attached to a buddypress group,

For this feature you will probably need some custom development. Not sure this can be done out of the box.

be able to save it as a draft

It is possible to save events as draft. If you are using community events to submit new events, there is a setting which allows you to set all submissions to Draft, Pending Review, or Published.

the ability to collect attendee data

This is possible with Events Calendar PRO, however this is not implemented on the community events submission form. So once an event is submitted through community events, an admin or editor would need to edit the event on the backend and add the needed fields to collect the data.

If you are creating events through the backend you can add the fields straight away, but this will not give you the possibility of collecting fees separately.

the ability to export this data in an easy to use format

There is the ability to export the attendee list in CSV format or to send it via email.

Set variable pricing – some events will have a transport / meal option so will cost more. There are also tickets available for non members to purchase at a higher price.

Not quite sure what is the exact functionality you need here.

There is the possibility to set up multiple tickets for an event. For example you can set up:

• Single ticket
• Single ticket + t-shirt
• Single ticket + meal
• Single ticket + t-shirt + meal
• Reduced ticket
• etc.

There is no possibility out of the box to have “product add-ons” where you can set extra fees with the tick of a checkbox.

What you can possibly do is use the WooCommerce product page to sell the tickets, and then you can use a WooCommerce plugin to have product add-ons.

Communicate with event attendees – be able to email people attending the event.

There is no communication system built-in to our plugins. You will either need to use a separate plugin for that, or go the traditional way of using emails.

the committee are wary about spending more money until we can be absolutely sure that solution will fit the majority of our needs

I can totally understand that. Though we don’t offer trial versions of our plugins we do have a 30-day no-questions-asked money-back policy if you decide that our plugin is not the one for you.

I hope these will help, and if you have any more questions then let me know, I’d be happy to answer them for you.

Cheers,
Andras

[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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