Sell community events?

[Gil Poulsen]

Is there a way to sell community events to the public such that we can get paid if a visitor decides to post an event to our calendar? There does not seem to be an add-on for this but I was just curious if there were some way to do this.

[Jennifer]

Hi Gil,

Thanks for reaching out!

Community Tickets will let you charge a fee for tickets sold on community events, but Community Events does not currently include an out-of-the-box way to charge users for event submissions (although we are working on adding this in the future).

You can require users to be logged in to submit events, so one thing you could do is use a third-party plugin like WooCommerce Memberships to charge users for the ability to login and submit events. You might also look at a plugin like this one, which you might be able to integrate with Community Events to get what you’re looking for. This would require some testing to make sure that you can get it working exactly the way that you need.

We do offer full refunds within 30 days of purchase, so if you’d like to take Community Events for a test run, feel free to do so! Please let me know if you have any additional questions.

Thanks,

Jennifer

[Gil Poulsen]

Thank you, Jennifer. That is very useful into and I can see how the Membership plugin could be leveraged for this purpose, although I am sure it would be a more straightforward option were you folks to integrate it directly. I appreciate the prompt reply and thanks again.

[Jennifer]

No problem! I agree that the “pay to post” option would be more ideal, and you are definitely not the first person to ask about this. I wish I had an ETA I could give you on this feature, but I would recommend signing up for our newsletter, which will help you stay up to date on news like this.

Let me know if there is anything else that I can help with.

Thanks,

Jennifer

[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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