Selling tickets to the same event on different dates.

[David Fernando]

Hello there,

I want to publish an event that takes place on several occasions, Obviously, I do not want to recreate the event for each occasion. So can I create an event and then sell tickets to this event by individual date?

Let’s say I have an event called “An Evening of Music” and it takes place every Wednesday at 7.30pm, tickets are £20 each. This happens every Weds for 10 weeks. I would like to create the event and then allow customers to choose which particular Weds they want to attend and be able to buy a ticket for just that particular Weds.

Or do I have to create 10 different events, one for each Weds?

Thanks

[Geoff B.]

Good evening David and welcome to the Events Calendar forum!

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

Obviously, I do not want to recreate the event for each occasion.

The good news is that you don’t really have to.

You can use any plugin that can duplicate custom post types for that purpose. There is even one out there meant specifically for the Events Calendar: https://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicate-tec-event/

can I create an event and then sell tickets to this event by individual date?

Yes you can.

However, that might look a tad odd in a calendar and create confusion with your customers (based on our experience).

So I guess the preferred solution will depend if you do want to use the calendar to help visualizing this or if you are mostly interested in using Event Tickets Plus “standalone” (not in events, but in pages or posts).

Another avenue is using the Events Calendar Pro which offers a recurring events feature: https://theeventscalendar.com/product/wordpress-events-calendar-pro/

The only downside to that approach is that at the moment of writing, ALL events from the recurring series will show ALL tickets (for the other Wednesdays in your example).

You could mitigate this by using an “end sale date” on your tickets that matches each of those tickets actual “end date”. When using an “end sale date”, the ticket will no longer be visible on the front-end for purchase once that date is met.

So to summarize, it sounds like your best bets are:

1. Create one event and duplicate it using a plugin. Once that is done, create tickets for each of these events
2. Use the recurring events feature and create a bunch of tickets for the different dates (making sure you are using sale end dates)

Let me know if that helps.

Have a great day!

Geoff B.

 

 

[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

[Author]

Posts