questions on event ticket plus features.

[Kathy Allen]

Can you confirm that event ticket plus will be able to accomplish the below requirements please. Also, do I need to download event ticket first and then order ‘plus’ ?
Feature Requirements:
1. Selling Bus tours with limited # of seats per tour.
2. Each tour will have multiple pick up locations for passengers to board.
3. One person needs to be able to purchase multiple tickets and we need to collect a name and pickup location for each ticket. 

For example: 
Betty Smith buys 2 tickets.
 We need the following information:
Passenger 1 Name
, Passenger 1 Pickup Location
, Passenger 2 Name, 
Passenger 2 Location
 etc.
4. Need to print reports for each tour that will sort by passenger pickup location primarily and then alphabetically by passenger name secondarily. Reports need to include: Passenger Name, Pickup Location, Phone Number, Special Notes, Ticket Number .
OK here is where it gets a little tricky:
5. Some bus tours will also include overnight accommodations which will vary the per ticket price based on how many people are sharing 1 room (up to 4) . For example: If 3 people are sharing the room, then the per ticket price would be $75 each and if there are 4 people sharing the room, the per ticket price would be $50.
I hope all of this is possible. We are currently using the booking module and it is not able to handle the complexity.

[Geoff]

Hi Kathy,

Thanks for getting in touch! Sounds like you’re working on a pretty awesome project and I really hope our plugins will help.

First off, yes, Event Tickets is required for Event Tickets Plus. Event Ticket Plus extends the free version to add more features. 🙂

I’ll try to answer each question one-by-one:

1. Selling Bus tours with limited # of seats per tour.

Yes, you can absolutely set a maximum number of tickets per “event” in Event Tickets Plus. That will prevent you from overselling.

2. Each tour will have multiple pick up locations for passengers to board.

Event Tickets Plus does not include location management. However, it does have a feature that allows you to make custom registration fields that customers complete when purchasing their tickets and you could use that to ask riders which location they would like to board.

3. One person needs to be able to purchase multiple tickets and we need to collect a name and pickup location for each ticket.

Yes, this is absolutely supported in Event Tickets Plus. A person can purchase multiple tickets and will be prompted to complete registration fields for each ticket individually.

4. Need to print reports for each tour that will sort by passenger pickup location primarily and then alphabetically by passenger name secondarily. Reports need to include: Passenger Name, Pickup Location, Phone Number, Special Notes, Ticket Number .

There are attendee reports in Event Tickets Plus. Those reports can also be exported in CSV format, which would then allow you to sort the list any way you would like. The reports include all of the custom fields that you create for the tickets.

5. Some bus tours will also include overnight accommodations which will vary the per ticket price based on how many people are sharing 1 room (up to 4) .

This is definitely a tricky thing and I’m not sure that Event Tickets Plus will do exactly what you are looking for here. That said, you can create as many tickets as you would like per event and you can set your tickets at different price points. So, for example, one ticket for a single passenger at $75 and another ticket for 3 passengers at $150.

However, that would require you to be a little creative with how you take tickets to board since a ticket priced for 3 passengers would only generate a single ticket. You can use the custom fields to collect the names of each passenger from there, but there still would only be one sold ticket on record. Like I said, this is where Event Tickets Plus might not be the best fit for you.

Does this help answer your question? Please let me know. 🙂

Cheers!
Geoff

[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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