ticket verification at the event

[David Hoe]

Hi Guys

Really interested in buying your plugin for a new project I’ve just landed. Just to verify, when someone buys a ticket to an event. They can download and print it off and then show it at the event. Their unique QR code will match the purchase cade and the person can gain entry.

Basically I just want to make sure the e-tickets can’t be easily reproduced

Kind regards
Dave.

[Cliff]

Hi, David.

Congrats on landing this project, and thanks for your interest in our plugin suite!

Event Tickets Plus (ET+) is our paid add-on plugin that upgrades the functionality of our free Event Tickets (ET) plugin.

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. http://wpshindig.com/event/events-tickets-demo/) — if there is an RSVP to submit or ticket to purchase.

The order confirmation email will include a QR code that can be scanned to “check in” someone at the door at the time of the event. It could be displayed on their mobile device or they could print it like any other email. You can read more at Tickets: Managing your orders and attendees. The QR code is simply a URL that requires wp-admin credentials so it’s “protected” by wp-login 🙂

If your tickets will be free, you don’t need QR code check-in, and you don’t need to collect additional information other than name and email address, you likely could just use the free/core Event Tickets plugin.

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.

[David Hoe]

Hi Cliff

Thanks for the speedy reply. This is looking good.

A good majority of the people attending the event will be 65+ and not as tech savvy. could there be an option to include a checkbox, something like “Mail My Tickets” My clients would see this on the order and dispatch the tickets by traditional post.

I know this is crazy, as I pointed out, the users that aren’t tech savvy, wouldn’t purchase tickets on the site anyway.

Thanks for your patience and time
Dave

[Cliff]

I’m glad to hear that.

There are some related ideas at https://tribe.uservoice.com/ that you might want to add your vote(s) to, but it’s not something that you should expect to be available directly from us by the time your project is due.

You can always integrate your own solution (e.g. action hook to https://lob.com/ API)

Please let me know if you have any follow-up questions on this topic.

[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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