Pre-sales questions

[Insan]

Hi,

I promote business events and venues and I’m interested in the events calendar. I’m fairly certain that Personal Calendar Pro version is most suitable for our website.

I realise that I may need some of the add-ons – I need your help with the following to determine what I need in terms of add-ons:

(1) Can events be shown on the home page?
(2) I want to be able to charge event organisers for promoting their events and tickets.
(3) I want to have ‘classified event listings’ which are completely free-of-charge.
(4) Event organisers to be able to add their events via the front-end.
(5) Where an event organiser doesn’t wish to use the ticketing service, I want to be able to direct the delegates to an alternative third-party page, i.e., the event organiser provides a URL and the delegate is directed to this when clicking the ‘buy ticket’ button. I know this does mean the delegate has to fill in their details again!
(6) Does the plugin include a database where details of event organiser and venues are stored and selected by drop-downs when creating events?
(7) Does the plugin include multi-language support?
(8) Do the plugins come with any demo data?

Can you help me to decide what I need?

Thanks

Insan

[George]

Hey Insan!

Thanks for your interest in our plugins 🙂 I’m happy to address your questions and will do so as follows:

(1) Can events be shown on the home page?

YES via widgets or custom code; however, if you mean the full-on events calendar views, then unfortunately these cannot be rendered on the home page of a website at this time. They have to reside at the /events/ URL, or some other slug which you can customize like /calendar/, /agenda/ etc.

(2) I want to be able to charge event organisers for promoting their events and tickets.

This is something that our plugins do not handle, but it’s still totally possible. For example, if you have advertising space on your site that you want to use for this, you can use that and charge money for highlighting events there or anything like that. But The Events Calendar itself does not handle all of that, and the collection of payments or anything. Neither do any of our add-ons.

(3) I want to have ‘classified event listings’ which are completely free-of-charge.

If you mean that people on the internet will be able to post events for free, then you can use The Events Calendar with our “Community Events” add-on. (The Events Calendar Pro add-on would not be required). You can just let people make accounts on your site for free and let them submit events for free; or you can even let anyone on the internet post events anonymously without even having an account on your site.

(4) Event organisers to be able to add their events via the front-end.

See my answer for (3) above – you can use Community Events for this, as long as the organizers are people who have accounts on your site.

(5) Where an event organiser doesn’t wish to use the ticketing service, I want to be able to direct the delegates to an alternative third-party page, i.e., the event organiser provides a URL and the delegate is directed to this when clicking the ‘buy ticket’ button. I know this does mean the delegate has to fill in their details again!

This is not something that our plugins would handle out-of-the-box – it would require some custom coding which we are unfortunately not able to help with. 🙁

(6) Does the plugin include a database where details of event organiser and venues are stored and selected by drop-downs when creating events?

Yes

(7) Does the plugin include multi-language support?

Not by itself, no, as it’s just a WordPress plugin. But it is a fully translatable WordPress plugin and meets all translation standards for WordPress software.

(8) Do the plugins come with any demo data?

No

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I hope this information helps!

Cheers,
George

[Insan]

Thanks for all your help.

I assume I will need WooCommerce but will I need the Community tickets plug-in?

Regards

Insan

[George]

Hey Insan,

If you want to charge money for anything and collect payments at all on your site, then yes you will need WooCommerce or something similar.

As for Community Tickets, please note that this different than Community Events.

Community Events enables all the functionality we’ve discussed above. If you then also want to add additional features whereby the people who submit events can charge money for them, then yes you can buy Community Tickets and use that too, in addition to Community Events.

I hope this information helps!

George

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