Sporting Event Ticket Sales

[Arlee Carson]

I’m using the Avada theme, which came with WooCommerce & the free version of The Event Calendar plugin. I’m getting ready to design a website for a semipro basketball team but I’m looking for your learned advice as to whether I should use the Event Ticket Plus plugin or the Eventbrite Tickets Plugin. I am thinking that my client should also get the The Event Calendar Plus plugin for the extra features it enables, but I am not familiar enough with the two ticket sales plugins to know which would be the better fit for sporting event ticket sales.

Could you or anyone offer some experienced advice?

Thank you

[Cliff]

Hi Arlee. Thanks for your question about whether you should pick Event Tickets Plus, our paid add-on plugin that upgrades the functionality of our free Event Tickets plugin, or Eventbrite Tickets. These 2 product sales page links include a link to each “New User Primer”. I suggest you read through those to get a deeper understanding of how to setup and use the plugins.

Obviously, there are pros and cons to each. If you pick Eventbrite, you’ll be relying on their API uptime and picking the features they offer. If you pick ET+, the entire transaction will happen on your own site (for better or worse) via one of the eCommerce plugins we support.

Event Tickets Plus enables you to sell tickets via one of our supported eCommerce platforms. The free plugin only enables free RSVP-type tickets.

You can view our roundup/comparison of all the eCommerce plugins ET+ supports.

Our plugin uses your eCommerce plugin of choice, but your eCommerce plugin isn’t displayed for shopping pages. Please reference our Making Tickets KB article (screenshots are from an install using WooCommerce) for an idea how to create tickets for an event.

Site visitors would purchase tickets from each event’s single page/view (e.g. example.com/events/rogers-day-at-the-zoo/) — if there is an RSVP to submit or ticket to purchase.

Technically, you could use both on your site (although probably not for a single event).

Last but not least, we have a pretty great Refund Policy so you can buy one or many of our add-ons and thoroughly test them.

I hope this info helps. Please let me know if you have any follow-up questions.

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