sub-events

[albert prano]

I am wondering if your plugin is a good fit for my client’s website. My client only has 2 events per year with add-on sub-events like lectures, meals, etc. Some “must have” features (that I don’t see specified in the docs) are:

1. sub-events (or child events).
2. customers’ ability to return to purchase additional event add-ons (like a meal, lecture, etc) later after initial purchase – ie make future additions to their existing order/registration.
3. ability to cancel registration (by both customer and admin)
4. ability for an admin to manually process new order or add to existing order in wp-admin

This is an example of our existing registration (custom php) form which we are trying to mimic (somewhat) in WP with your plugin if possible:

https://www.botanicalmedicine.org/conferences/index.php

Dou you think that the pro plugin can accomplish the requirements above? Also, although I am a developer/webmaster myself, I wouldn’t mind hiring someone to do the initial setup and configuration of the event registration form (per above sample) to save myself the learning curve. So could you please advise or make a recommendation/referrral for that as well?

Thank you,
albert

[Cliff]

Hi Albert.

We definitely do not have sub-events, although it’s something we’ve discussed in the past — specifically for scenarios like conferences where there’s a single “main event” with many sub-events.

However, I didn’t find that as an existing feature request at our plugins’ UserVoice page. Please do search for it or add your feature request there. This allows others who are interested in that feature to easily voice their support. We frequently review suggestions there to find out which ones are popular, then we implement as many of them as we can. Once you post it, feel free to link to it from here in case anyone comes across this forum thread in the future.

You might want to consider using Event Categories as described at our Multiple Calendars KB article.

Our Event Tickets Plus product has an Additional Information functionality that can be used for asking questions like “meal type” per ticket. However, these aren’t able to charge different prices. It’s more for scenarios where the ticket price includes a free t-shirt and you ask their t-shirt size.

Per event, users can view which tickets they’ve registered for. And for RSVP-type tickets, they can change from “Going” to “Not Going”.

There isn’t currently a way for an admin to purchase for someone, other than completing the purchase form for them just like they could themselves. For example, if you, Albert, are on the phone with a purchaser, Sally, you could enter Sally’s name, email, and any other information and submit the form online for her. Then she’d get the email confirmation for the ticket.

Events Calendar PRO adds features like recurring events, Map View of events, and more. However, Event Tickets and Event Tickets Plus (linked above) are what you’d need for these things.

If you need some coding help, you may want to ask your developer or reference our documentation and list of known customizers.

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.

Let me know if you have any follow-up questions.

[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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