Need for Events Ticket Plus

[Mark]

I am trying to build a website for a small community theater. I have the Genesis Theme, Digital Pro and I have Easy Digital Downloads. I want to sell tickets online. I’m confused about the need for Event Tickets Plus. Doesn’t EDD provide for selling goods online? If that is the case, why do I also need Event Tickets Plus?

Thanks in advance,

Mark

[Geoff]

Hi Mark and thanks for getting in touch!

Event Tickets Plus is the bridge between Event Tickets and EDD. In other words, Event Tickets allows you to create free tickets and Event Tickets Plus allows you to create paid tickets directly in the page/post/event editor which then registers them as products in EDD that can be added to the cart for sale. Event Tickets Plus also includes additional reports for keeping track of attendees and sales.

So, yes, EDD does support the sale of digital products. However, it does not allow you to create your products directly in the WordPress editor, nor will it display the tickets on the page/post/event for you.

Does this help answer your question? Please let me know!

Cheers,
Geoff

[Mark]

Hi Geoff,
Thanks for getting back to me. That helps, but I am still unclear on a few things.

From what you said, can I infer that you CAN use EDD to create tickets, if you do in the EDD, as opposed to using the WordPress posts and pages? I thought that Event Tickets USED to include the ability to sell paid tickets? Is that correct?

I am trying to give a face lift to our site ( http://www.ActingEnsemble.com ) for a small community based theater. Currently it uses some free theme called tempera and the plugin called “Stageshow” to create a production and sell tickets for a particular date. It works OK, but the pages don’t look very interesting. Is there something Event Tickets Plus would add to this? Or does it simply have the ability to do the same things?

Also, does Event Tickets Plus work better with WooCommerce and with Easy Digital Downloads? Is one easier to setup to work with Event Tickets Plus?

Thanks Geoff

Mark

[Geoff]

Hi Mark,

Thanks for following up!

Let me try to directly reply to each of your questions.

From what you said, can I infer that you CAN use EDD to create tickets, if you do in the EDD, as opposed to using the WordPress posts and pages?

You certainly can! It just will not be integrated with Event Tickets, meaning the ability to create tickets in the post editor and being able to associate ticket sales with a specific page or post.

I thought that Event Tickets USED to include the ability to sell paid tickets? Is that correct?

I’m afraid not. Event Tickets has always allowed you to create free tickets (aka RSVPs) for pages/posts/events, but never paid tickets.

Currently it uses some free theme called tempera and the plugin called “Stageshow” to create a production and sell tickets for a particular date. It works OK, but the pages don’t look very interesting. Is there something Event Tickets Plus would add to this? Or does it simply have the ability to do the same things?

Event Tickets Plus integrates with our <u>The Events Calendar</u> plugin so that you can create paid tickets for event posts that are on a calendar. Those event posts have a nice layout — well, at least, we think so. 🙂

On their own, however, Event Tickets and Event Tickets Plus do not create pages on your site, rather they add a ticket form to the page/post/event that tickets are on that allows the customer to add the ticket product to the EDD cart in order to be purchased.

Also, does Event Tickets Plus work better with WooCommerce and with Easy Digital Downloads? Is one easier to setup to work with Event Tickets Plus?

It really depends on your e-commerce needs. Setup for Event Tickets Plus is the same, regardless of the e-commerce plugin you use, so it’s more a matter of your comfort level configuring WooCommerce over EDD.

I hope this helps!

Geoff

[Mark]

Thanks Geoff. That answers my questions.

Mark

[Geoff]

Awesome! Happy to be of service and I hope you have a great weekend. 🙂

Cheers,
Geoff

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