Suitability of plugins

[Belinda]

I am in the process of developing a new site for a client.

The client runs 4 conferences per year and we are currently looking some plugins to look after the registrations & payments side of things. We need participants to be able to register & pay, and then be able to go into the system and select which sessions they wish to attend across the day. Each of the conferences run over 3 days and within each day there could be 50+ sessions running across the day and different times e.g. 10:00am – 11:30am might have 6 options available, so the attendee can pick which of those 6 sessions they wish to attend at that particular time. The sessions also have a maximum capacity which we need the system to account for and close off the session once it has reached it’s maximum capacity.

Would appreciate feedback on whether your range of plugins (The Event Calendar Pro & Event Tickets Pro) would meet the needs of this client.

[Barry]

Hi there Belinda,

Thanks for considering our plugins for your project 🙂

A combination of The Events Calendar (free), Event Tickets (also free) and Event Tickets Plus would certainly provide a solid basis for what you outlined, but there are a few caveats I’d highlight:

• Selecting the sessions they wish to attend after purchase isn’t something that’s supported directly, with our plugins running “out of the box”
• You could make creative use of our custom meta fields feature to enable something similar to this but, again, that would be a workaround and possibly not a perfect fit for you
• All of our plugins are built to be customizable, so they could certainly serve as a foundation for further work and you could (especially if you have access to experienced WordPress devs) make them a cornerstone of your final solution

All in all, I think in this case – sadly – I’d have to say our solutions aren’t going to be the complete answer, but I’d also highlight that we offer a 30-day refund window if you want to take things for a spin 🙂

Do let me know if you have any further 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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