Reuseable Tickets

[Bill S]

I am currently using the free version of Event Calendar and Tickets but am wondering if the PRO version has the following capabilities:

1. Although my events don’t really qualify as recurring, I require the ability to sell the same type of tickets for each event and it is quite tedious to create the tickets every time I create a new event. Will either PRO version allow me to create standard tickets for recall in other events. For example, I have various BINGO events at travelling venues and we sell Bingo Sheets and Admissions tickets for each event. It would be nice to create these two types of tickets and they just add them from a pulldown menu each time I create a new event.

2. I would like to create a front end page for employees to:
– view ticket purchasers
– check in customers using a QR or UPC code from an email verifying purchase
– Print out a paper copy of attendees (some places we go still don’t have internet access…)
Ideally shortcodes to produce these would be nice. We don’t want ticket takers to have access to the wordpress backend.

If these capabilities don’t currently exist, do you think there is the potential for development of this for a fee? thanks

bill

[Geoff B.]

Good evening Bill and welcome to the Events Calendar forum!

Thank you for your interest in our products.
We’ll be glad to answer your questions.

1. Although my events don’t really qualify as recurring, I require the ability to sell the same type of tickets for each event and it is quite tedious to create the tickets every time I create a new event. Will either PRO version allow me to create standard tickets for recall in other events. For example, I have various BINGO events at travelling venues and we sell Bingo Sheets and Admissions tickets for each event. It would be nice to create these two types of tickets and they just add them from a pulldown menu each time I create a new event.

That is a great question. We are currently working on the ability to have tickets fully support recurring events and, although your events are not technically recurring, this functionality will do exactly what you are looking for.

Unfortunately, I cannot commit to a release date at this point. But stay tuned!

In the meantime, without buying Pro, it would be worth experimenting with some custom post type duplicators such as: https://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicate-tec-event/

I believe you could probably extend this plugin to copy the ticket as well or hire one of our recommended customizers to do the customization for you.

2. I would like to create a front end page for employees to:
– view ticket purchasers
– check in customers using a QR or UPC code from an email verifying purchase
– Print out a paper copy of attendees (some places we go still don’t have internet access…)
Ideally shortcodes to produce these would be nice. We don’t want ticket takers to have access to the wordpress backend.

Many of these features can be accomplished via the combination of the 2 following plugins:

• Community Events
• Community Tickets

Although you probably would not have multiple organizers, you could have just one “Organizer” which would essentially be the employee’s account.

As an alternative or on top of that, as suggested before, you could hire one of our recommended customizers to do the customization for you.

Let me know if that helps.

Have a great day!

Geoff B.

 

[Bill S]

Thanks for such a quick reply. The Duplicate TEC did what I needed just fine. I will approach my client with this solution and then buy the PRO version to add ticket sales. I will consider some customization after that.

[Geoff B.]

Good afternoon Bill,

I’m stoked that this worked out for you!

You are welcome back on our support forums any time 🙂

For now, I am going to close this thread.

Have a great week!

Geoff B.

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