Sell Tickets to a sequence of events

[Justin]

Hi, I currently have Events Calendar Free and WooTickets. My client has seminars, which take place over the course of a couple of months (meeting once a week). WooTickets doesn’t allow for recurring events, so I was wondering if Events Calendar Pro + WooTickets would allow me to sell tickets to a seminar. 1) Would it allow me to put on there that the seminar meets on Mondays between Feb. 4 – March 4 (for example), without it appearing every day on the calendar? 2) Would it also allow me to restrict selling tickets to the event once the first seminar started? If there’s a four week seminar, I don’t want it to create it as though there were four different seminars that people had to buy tickets for.

[Barry]

Hey Justin: so I’ll try to take this point by point.

1) Would it allow me to put on there that the seminar meets on Mondays between Feb. 4 – March 4 (for example), without it appearing every day on the calendar?

You could have it appear only on applicable Mondays by using a custom recurrence pattern, it need not appear on every single day between Feb 4 and Mar 4. Is that what you meant?

2) Would it also allow me to restrict selling tickets to the event once the first seminar started? If there’s a four week seminar, I don’t want it to create it as though there were four different seminars that people had to buy tickets for.

WooTickets does not support recurring events so you would anyway be limited to selling tickets for the event “as a whole” – which sounds like it meets your needs perfectly here – and you can also restrict the date range in which tickets may be sold.

The only complication here is that if you do create a recurring event then by default those other instances will display on the calendar and they will all have the same ticket form, which might be confusing for your customers.

For that reason, it may simply be better to avoid the use of recurring events in this scenario.

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