Possible for visitors to subscribe to an e-mail reminder for event?

[everlearn]

Hi Tribe,

We have a simple one-way calendar where we post new events in our calendar so visitors can see what’s coming up soon.

Is it possible to have visitors subscribe to an event on the event page by filling in their e-mail address? I would really like visitors to be reminded via e-mail some time before the event starts. Like let’s say the day before.

If it’s not possible via Events Calendar Pro, any ideas for a good automated solution?

[Barry]

Hi – great question!

This is not currently possible out-of-the-box but it would certainly make a good feature request – and some similar ideas have been posted already (here and here for instance) that you may wish to upvote/comment upon – or you could go right ahead and post a new one if you can’t find any that really mesh with what you envision.

Beyond that I can’t think of any specific existing plugins I could recommend based on personal experience: searching the WordPress plugin directory is always a great starting point, though.

It would also of course be possible to implement this as a customization, though that’s really beyond what we can assist with here in the support forums.

Does that help?

[everlearn]

Hi Barry,

Thank you for your help. I searched the Events Calendar Pro forum for an answer to my question but didn’t come up with the ones you came up with. I will definitely vote for the one nearest to my wishes.

There are alternative ways I can think of. For instance I could use my Form plug-in (Formidable Pro) to create a very small subscription form and implement that on the single-event page. Formidable Pro works well with Mailchimp and I could then have a mailing list for each and every event in Mailchimp. But as you probably agree that is not the prettiest solution and would give our administration headaches as we have many events.

So an implementation in ECP would be very handy.

Thanks for your help and suggestions.

[Barry]

Happy to help 🙂

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