Multi-Day Event

[Keagan]

Hi there! First up, thanks for a great family of products – I’ve used your plugins before, with great results. I’m hoping this time round will be no different.

I’m currently building an events website for a client. The event they need me to configure if fairly complex, and working out the best way forward has me scratching my head. I’m hoping you can help out!

FYI, the site I’m building currently includes The Events Calendar, Event Tickets, Event Tickets Plus, and WooCommerce.

Key points about the event:

• The event runs for four days, with a different workshop on each day
• Customers can choose to attend any or all of the four workshops
• There’s a limit of 20 attendees total per workshop
• The tickets come in 1, 2, 3 or 4 day bundles, with increasing discounts for the bigger bundles. (A 1-day ticket is $97; a 2-day ticket is $177; a 3-day ticket is $257; a 4-day ticket is $327)

I was fine for the first three points. I’ve set up an event spanning four days. I’ve then set up four ticket types for the event (imaginatively named “Day 1”, “Day 2”, “Day 3”, and “Day 4”), each with a stock of 20.

I’m just not sure how to set up the bundle discounts while still remaining able to impose a per-day attendee limit. I considered setting up four tickets (“1-Day”, “2-Day”, “3-Day”, and “4-Day”), then converting them to variable WooCommerce Products, with 1, 2, 3, and 4 variations respectively, with each day as an option for each variation – but of course that wouldn’t let me limit the attendees per day. I’d only be able to limit how many of each bundle was sold.

I’ve also considered using one of the product bundling extensions available for WooCommerce – eg. Composite Products (https://woocommerce.com/products/composite-products/) or Mix and Match (https://woocommerce.com/products/woocommerce-mix-and-match-products/), both of which seem like they might approach the kind of functionality I’m after. I’m jost not sure how well they’d integrate with Event Calendar/Tickets.

The third potential solution I’m considering is the third-party “WooCommerce Dynamic Pricing & Discounts” tool (https://codecanyon.net/item/woocommerce-dynamic-pricing-discounts/7119279); I thought I might be able to add the tickets for each day to a group, then apply three “Discount if X products from group” rule using that tool.

I’m on a fairly tight turnaround time, and the client is reluctant to spend too much more on paid WordPress plugins or extensions. So, I can’t spend too long mucking around with different options. I can look at purchasing the WooCommerce extensions, and requesting a refund if they don’t pan out, but that’s time lost if they don’t – and CodeCanyon’s refund policy isn’t nearly as generous, so trying that solution is even more of a gamble!

So I’m hoping you can help me out of this pickle. Is there an option in Event Tickets that I could potentially use to solve this, that I’ve somehow missed? Is there one of the options above you could recommend over the others (or something completely different that I haven’t considered)?

Thanks in advance for your help!

[Andras]

Hello Keagan,

Thanks for using our plugins and welcome to the forums!

Wow, that is quite a site and system. I might be able to give you a bit of help.

Take a look at this free plugin: WooCommerce Extended Coupon Features

With this you could set up 3 different coupons: for 2 tickets, 3 tickets, and 4 tickets separately setting up the min and max quantity of matching products. Also the plugin will allow you to auto-enable the discount when the rules / restrictions are met.

Hopefully this will help you. Let me know.

Cheers,
Andras

 

[Keagan]

Hi András,

Thanks for your response! You’re right, this site and its events aren’t the simplest in the world, so I greatly appreciate your advice.

The plugin you’ve recommended looks like it should do the trick nicely; I’m not sure how I managed to miss it myself, I was searching far and wide for solutions! I’ll get it installed and configured, and test whether it meets the client’s needs.

I’ll leave this open for the moment, just on the off chance I need some followup advice, but hopefully you’ve sorted me out with this recommendation. Thanks again!

[Andras]

You’re welcome Keagan!

I hope the plugin will serve your needs!

The topic will be left open, please note however that after 3-4 weeks of inactivity it will be automatically closed. Though I believe if you don’t write in 3-4 weeks, then everything is working fine. 🙂

In case the topic gets closed, then feel free to open a new one. Our support team will be happy to help you out.

Good luck with your project!

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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