Set Up Site To Sell Tickets to Potentially Hundreds of Different Organizers

[Ray Owens]

I’ve spent the last 48 hours reviewing plugins and different options and I’m still no closer to finding out EXACTLY what I need.

The site will be a one-stop-shop for event registrations for different organizations. The one thing they ALL have in common is NONE of them will be setting up the actual registrations. I’ll be doing that for each of them. I’ll then provide links for their attendees to visit, register, and pay.

I’ve searched through the knowledgedatabase and there appears to be different products I need.

For example, it looks as if there’s a way to get a “site fee,” but only if you use the Community Tickets function. I want to be paid for setting it all up, but I don’t want “Community Tickets.”

It appears that the only way to provide a form for registrants to fill out is by going with the Events Tickets Plus. Which is fine, but it appears that if you do so, you lose the ability to accept payments through PayPal (?)

Is there any function that will allow the event coordinators / originators (the ones putting the event on) to obtain registration information for THEIR event only? If I provide them with a wordpress login, can it be specifically for THEIR event?

I’m sure there are other questions, but for now, those are the big three: I want to be paid. I want to gather information from each registrant. I want to share that information with the event organizers automatically / not have to provide it manually.

Events Calendar seems to have a lot of promise and potential, but as of right this second, I’m overwhelmed by the sheer number of options. I don’t want to pay for something I don’t need but am MORE than willing to purchase items that will allow me to accomplish the objectives I’m after.

If someone can point me in the right direction, I would appreciate it.

[Ray Owens]

I’m definitely leaning towards the Events Tickets Plus, but I can’t determine if it contains a critical function: will it populate a data form with the number of tickets selected? For example, if an attendee wants to buy 4 tickets for an event, the data form should repeat 4 times, one for each attendee.

Is that a feature of the Events Tickets Plus?

[joekoday]

I purchased the Events Ticket Plus this afternoon. After digging some more, I found out it did exactly what I needed re: # of tix sold = # of registration entries. Additionally, the plugin does work with PayPal, so things are looking up.

But now there’s another question which has popped up: The event I want to add as a test event has many “add ons.” They want to see T-shirts and day-trips to local areas. Basically, in addition to the registration, they need a “shopping cart” for “extras.”

While I can add a shopping cart, is there another plug-in which would allow the customer to register, add all the extras, and check out *one* time?

And the questions are still outstanding from my first post on this subject:

Is there any function that will allow the event coordinators / originators (the ones putting the event on) to obtain registration information for THEIR event only? If I provide them with a wordpress login, can it be specifically for THEIR event?

Is there a way to automatically add a “site fee” to ticketing options?

Thank you in advance for any help!

[Andras]

Hello Ray,

Thanks for all the awesome questions posted and for using our plugins already!

Let me try to give you some answers to your outstanding questions.

For example, it looks as if there’s a way to get a “site fee,” but only if you use the Community Tickets function. I want to be paid for setting it all up, but I don’t want “Community Tickets.”

At the moment, with our plugins the only way to get paid by 3-rd parties is through Community Tickets and Split Payments by PayPal, however that has been deprecated. If you already have that as an earlier user, then you can still use it. (More info here: https://theeventscalendar.com/known-issues/)

If you want to receive regular payments from the organizers, you could try a plugin like WooCommerce Subscriptions.

Is there any function that will allow the event coordinators / originators (the ones putting the event on) to obtain registration information for THEIR event only? If I provide them with a wordpress login, can it be specifically for THEIR event?

This can be done with our Community Events plugin. Other than that it would require some custom solution and / or custom coding.

While I can add a shopping cart, is there another plug-in which would allow the customer to register, add all the extras, and check out *one* time?

You can use WooCommerce as your eCommerce plugin to sell tickets. And with that you can set up other products as well.

If you want to offer tickets in a way like

• single ticket
• single ticket with baseball cap
• single ticket with jersey
• single ticket with cap and jersey

then probably this article will be of use to you:

•  Selling Tickets from the WooCommerce Product Page

I hope these answer your questions. Let me know if you have more!

Cheers,
Andras

[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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