Single event site

[Martin]

Hi guys

I’ve been browsing this forum and I can’t see an obvious answer to a couple of questions.

I manage a site that is a single once-a-year weekend event and we only sell tickets up to three months beforehand. We do have various ticket types (adult/child/family etc) but I don’t need to display a calendar and/or multiple events. WooTickets feels like it meets my needs but I’m trying to imagine the customer journey. If WooTicket products do not display as regular WooCommerce products, where are they?

My second question is about using tickets as a fast-track entry to the event (bypassing pay-at-door customers). Ideally we need to validate tickets by barcode or similar. Does anything like this exist at all?

Apologies if I’m missing something here. Look forward to hearing from you. Thanks.

[Rob]

Hey Martin. Happy to answer these questions for you. Thanks for your interest in the products, too.

For your first question: the way WooTickets works, tickets don’t appear in the shop by default. They’re only going to appear within actual event entries out of the box; so if you weren’t utilizing the calendar component, it might not be a good fit since the events angle is a huge component of how WooTickets operates.

There aren’t QR codes or anything like that at this time, though we’ve had enough demand for it that we’ll likely be incorporating that down the road. At this point we do have a unique checkin code that comes with each ticket, though, as a way of verifying a user’s ticket against the broader attendee list.

That help? Let me know if not, and I can elaborate on this for you.

[Martin]

Hey Rob, thanks for the reply.

Could I unhide the products in WooCommerce and then just use regular WooCommerce shortcodes on my own pages to add tickets to the cart? Would that still work? As long as PDF emails, the reporting of ticket sales and attendees still works using that method I’m cool. Thanks!

[Robert]

Hello,
Maybe you have a timeline for barcode integration? I would love to buy this plugin and use it, but barcodes are essential for me as I have lots of people coming and I use my phone to let them in fast by scanning barcodes… Currently I use third party solutions, but their charges are unbearable.

[Rob]

Thanks for the follow-ups here, folks. Glad to be of service best I can.

Martin: yes, that should work. I just tested WooTIckets with a few of the WooCommerce shortcodes and, so long as you are familiar with using WooCommerce and don’t mind using a variety of shortcodes, that should work for you fine. Keep in mind this isn’t quite the core intent of how the plugin was built, so you may have to jump through a couple extra hoops to get it working as expected, but the functionality is there. (For example: catalog visibility for tickets is hidden by default, so you’d need to turn that on…etc). All of the ticket-centric functions should work with that. But if you buy and find it doesn’t meet your needs, we of course won’t deny you a refund.

Robert: it’s definitely on the radar, but admittedly we don’t have a specific timetable for it. I can say with certainty that it will not be included in the initial 2.0 release that we’re pushing with The Events Calendar 3.0 in a month or so. But it may well be included in a subsequent build, ie 2.1 or 2.0.1 shortly thereafter, since there has been a good amount of demand for it. Hope that helps and sorry I couldn’t offer you more at this time.

Let me know whether you guys need anything else here. Thanks again for your interest.

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