Series of events sold together

[Sacha]

Hello, is there a way to differentiate between a recurring event (same event, different date/time) and a series of events sold as a package for one price?

For example if an event series runs Monday nights from 6-8 for six weeks, I would like all of the series to show on the calendar for planning purposes, but the entire series can only be purchased for one price.

Thanks!
Sacha

[Jennifer]

Hi Sacha,

Thanks for checking out our plugins!

It sounds like you’re interested in using Events Calendar Pro (for recurring events) with Event Tickets Plus (to sell tickets). I think it’s important to first note how these two work together technically regarding recurring events. You can add a ticket to a recurring event, but it will be the exact same ticket on each event in the series. For example, if you had an event occurring on June 10th and June 17th, and someone added a ticket for each event, they would have the one ticket in their cart with a quantity of two. This is why we say that Event Tickets Plus does not support recurring events.

This seems to be the functionality you want for this case however, so good news there! For your 6-8 week series, each event would show on the calendar but would only have one ticket associated with it.

It sounds like you also want to run traditional recurring events (same event, different date/time) alongside with your series. This is doable, however if you’re selling tickets for those events, keep in mind that it will still be the same ticket on all of the events. One option would be to break the events from the series, and then you could put individual tickets on each event.

To differentiate between the two, there is a recurrence message field that you can use on recurring events to display a message for each of the events in that series (so you could say something like “Part of the 6 week series”). If you’re up to diving into the code a little bit, you could use conditional statements to check and see if the event is recurring, and then do something differently for those events.

Finally, we do offer a full refund within 30 days of purchase if you’re not satisfied with the products, so feel free to test them out!

Please let me know if you have any more questions.

Thanks,

Jennifer

[Sacha]

Hi Jennifer,

Thank you for your reply. I don’t need tickets as my events are series of classes. The same event does not recur, rather they are a series/package of classes that build on one another each week. Like a class at school. You can’t just order one date, you must buy the package. Can The Events Calendar handle this or must each week be sold separately?

[Jennifer]

Hi Sacha,

There is currently no way to group or package different events. In order to “force” users to buy multiple classes at once, they would really all need to have the same ticket, which can be achieved using recurring events (even though your classes are not actually recurring events)…the downside here though is that each class would have the same title, description, etc.

So in order to create separate classes that all build on each other as you described, I believe you would need to separate them out into individual events.

Event Tickets Plus is what you would need if you are charging for registrations – otherwise, Event Tickets will allow users to RSVP for your events (free).

I’m sorry I don’t have a better answer for you, but I hope this helps!

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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