Ticketing product confusion.

[Shambhavi Sarasvati]

Hi,

We are a nonprofit organization. We are getting ready to move from Events Manager to the Events Calendar plugin. Our current plugin has the ticketing module and payment gateways already baked in and does not require any additional plugin, or that ticket buyers be taken to an external site.

I am totally confused by profusion of ticketing products described here. Would any of these allow us to have a payment / ticketing module on individual event pages on our site, and not just a link to an external site?

We also need to be able to sell tickets at different price points for single events.

I could probably figure these questions out myself if I went through the documentation of each of the ticketing products, but there are so many of them, I am hoping someone can answer these questions and save me hours of work! Thanks.

Thanks,

[Geoff]

Howdy Shambhavi and happy Friday! I hope you’re having a great day so far. 🙂

Great questions. I know there is a lot of information about how ticketing works and it can be tough to sort out, so I’m happy to help here.

Let me try to break things down on a product-by-product level:

• The Events Calendar (free): This is our core calendar plugin that allows you to publish event posts to your WordPress site in a calendar format. It’s also required for this to be installed for most of our other plugins to work.
• Event Tickets (free): This allows you to add free tickets (like RSVPs) to the events published to The Events Calendar. In other words, it adds a registration form to an event and sends the attendee an email ticket for the event they can use to check in at the door.
• Event Tickets Plus: This extends Event Tickets so that you can also create paid tickets for events and take payments for those tickets using WooCommerce. You can create as many paid tickets for an event as you would like and set different price points for each ticket.

In other words, there is no need to use any of ticketing plugins if you already have a system of your own that you can link to directly from the event post. However, if you do need a ticketing solution for you calendar, then Event Tickets and Event Tickets Plus would be a solid way to make it happen in a way that integrates directly with The Events Calendar.

Does this help untangle things a bit? Let me know. 🙂

Cheers!
Geoff

[James]

Geoff,

I’ve been using Events Calendar Pro for few web builds in the past but my clients never really needed the ticketing capability. My new client wants the calendar and ticketing capability, but wants to handle transaction through paypal. Does Event Tickets Plus integrate with PayPal?

[Shambhavi Sarasvati]

Hi Geoff,

Thanks. So to use Events Tickets/ Tickets Plus with Paypal, we will need a 3rd party service such as SHOPP to connect them? Is this correct?

If so, we wouldn’t get Woo Commerce as we don’t want to be paying monthly fees. Out of the others recommended in your New User Primer, what would you recommend?

Thanks,
Shambhavi

[Geoff]

Hi Shambhavi and I hope you had a great weekend!

You do indeed need a third-party e-commerce plugin for taking taking payments, but none of the ones the are compatible with Event Tickets Plus require a monthly fee. For example, WooCommerce is free to download and start using right out of the box:

WooCommerce

There may be some fees for using WooCommerce (or Shopp, Easy Digital Downloads and WP-Ecommerce, all of which are compatible with Event Tickets Plus), but that would be for extra functionality. The default plugin in each case should let you start selling tickets right away without a monthly cost.

@James — Yes, you can take PayPal payments with Event Tickets Plus as long as the e-commerce plugin you are using with it supports PayPal and I believe all of the e-commerce plugins compatible with Event Tickets Plus do support PayPal in one way or another.

Cheers!
Geoff

[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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