Pre-sale tickets sales with min. sales support

[Allan Chua]

Hi. We would like to sell tickets to our feature film to theaters nationwide. We are using an on demand ticket booking service that enables us to book theaters in cities nationwide and sell tickets on line. Each theater requires for a minimum number of tickets to be sold (different for each theater). Once we hit the minimum number of tickets required for each theater screening, we’re able to officially book the theater and continue to sell tickets to each theater screening. If the minimum threshold isn’t met, then customers have the option of a refund or being redirected to the nearest theater screening that hit the minimum number of tickets needed.

You can see this in action at the following links (which are for our actual film):
1. https://gathr.us/screening/16419 (reserve not yet met)
2. http://gathr.us/screening/15647 (reserve met, sold out)

I also want to use your plugin with WooCommerce to upsell the following items:
1. DVD presales
2. T-Shirts
3. Digital music

Given what I’m looking for, is your plugin suitable? Or is this a customized version you can offer?

[George]

Hey Allan,

Thanks for reaching out. This is an interesting project, but in thinking about how our ticketing plugins could be applied here they unfortunately fall short on a few things you mention.

So, while our ticketing plugins work well and have good stock management features, there is no built-in support for the sort of “minimum number of purchases” thing you describe—nothing in place in our code, in other words, to trigger the reserving of a theater based on ticket sales.

Nor is it possible to include paid-for upsells with tickets based on the ticket choices at this time.

Doing either thing is indeed possible with some extensive custom code-writing, but not with our out-of-the-box plugins.

When it comes to getting things custom made, we are unfortunately not able to help with projects like you describe but have a whole page that covers options for achieving a customization here where you can learn more → http://theeventscalendar.com/customizations

I’m sorry to disappoint, but hope this information is clear and helps you proceed with your project. Let me know what you think and if you have any other questions I can try to help with! 😀

Sincerely,
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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