Pre Sales Questions – considering moving from Time.ly to pro version

[Laurel]

1)We currently have two calendars on our site, one for VA and one for CA, with other calendars coming soon. Can we have separate calendars? Will users submissions go to the right calendar?

2) Can we charge for event submissions? Ie: $x for Featured listings, $y for standard post, $z for additional photos or video, etc. Is this customize-able?

3) Event hosts can register – but can users set up category preferences too. See a customized calendar to their preferences?

4) Email integration – we would like to be able to email users weekly based on their category preference a list of the hot, upcoming events.
User 1 – art, kids, festivals
User 2 – Music, nightlife and Sports.
Is there a way to pull from the calendar and set up these ( because with timely the events are on their server, so we can’t pull feeds to set up the customization) . One of the MailChimp experts I am working with suggested switching to you, because you are set up differently and I could do this?

[Nico]

Hi Laurel,

Thanks for reaching out and for your interest in our products 🙂

I’ll help you decide if Events Calendar PRO is the right choice for your project:

1)We currently have two calendars on our site, one for VA and one for CA, with other calendars coming soon. Can we have separate calendars? Will users submissions go to the right calendar?

While you’ll just have one calendar in your site, you can create different event categories and link your users to them. So you can have different URLs for each: http://sitename.com/events/category/va/ & http://sitename.com/events/category/ca/. When users submit the an event via Community Events they’ll be able to choose which category to show the event in.

2) Can we charge for event submissions? Ie: $x for Featured listings, $y for standard post, $z for additional photos or video, etc. Is this customize-able?

Right now this is not possible in our plugin. We do have an add-on called Community Tickets, which allows site owners to collect a fee of all tickets sold for community submitted events.

3) Event hosts can register – but can users set up category preferences too. See a customized calendar to their preferences?

No this is not possible by default. I guess it might be possible with some custom code.

4) Email integration – we would like to be able to email users weekly based on their category preference a list of the hot, upcoming events.

There’s a free third-party add-on called Event Calendar Newsletter which allows to send newsletters including event info. As stated in the previous answers users cannot choose a preferred category, so that part won’t be covered. All information is stored in your site database so you can make custom queries to get the results you need, or use events ical or rss feeds for newsletters.

Please let me know if there’s anything else I can help you with,
Best,
Nico

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