Hi Rosemary,
Great to hear you’re thinking of choosing our plugins 🙂
I am thinking that the EDD tickets add-on might work for conference registration and payments, but we won’t be selling “tickets,” per se, just conference spots. Will this work for us?
I don’t see why not – you can define the maximum number of spots as the ticket inventory, then use EDD Tickets to let people buy them (or to “claim” them, if you prefer to make them freely available).
Also, we have some discounts for more than one person in a school group. I do not see that pricing option in the free version of your plugin
EDD itself supports discount codes and you can apply certain conditions to these (like a minimum amount) that you might make use of here. Perhaps that would work?
Also, you mentioned being a non-profit – so it could be that you qualify for our non-profit program … since The Events Calendar and EDD itself are already available free of charge, that would potentially give you an opportunity to try our EDD Tickets plugin for free (and if you decide you need premium support you could always purchase a license at that point).
I hope that helps, but please let me know if you have any further questions.