ticketing

[VirtualBartek]

Hi,

Does your Events Calendar plugin handle the sales of event ‘tickets’ in a cart? There is no mention to ticketing anywhere. If you don’t mind, here is a list of feature I need and am not clear about:

cart so multiple events (classes) can be purchased at a time;
coupons that work so that a coupon works against a single event booking, not against a whole cart;
simple PayPal integration;

Features I’d like:
I’d be thrilled to find a plugin that can schedule availability and handle bookings of one-on-one tutoring sessions (booking/appointments) as well as handle events (group classes).

Kind Regards,
VB

[Geoff]

Hey VB and thanks for reaching out!

Good questions. Event Tickets Plus does indeed allow you to create tickets for your events and do so directly in the content editor for pages, posts and events.

Event Tickets Plus it integrates with an ecommerce plugin to handle the cart and checkout process. WooCommerce is probably the most popular eccomerce plugin I see used with Event Tickets Plus, but it also works with Easy Digital Downloads, Shopp and WPEC.

From there, the rest of the features you mention (multiple tickets per purchase, coupons and PayPal integration) would be features of the ecommerce plugin rather than Event Tickets Plus. For example, WooCommerce does integrate with PayPal and have extensions to create coupons.

I’d be thrilled to find a plugin that can schedule availability and handle bookings of one-on-one tutoring sessions (booking/appointments) as well as handle events (group classes).

I’m afraid that our calendaring plugin (The Events Calendar) does not support bookings/appointments at the moment. You could make each appointment its own event on the calendar and then create tickets for it in Event Tickets Plus. Or, perhaps, there is an appointments plugin out there you like and you could create tickets for them using Event Tickets Plus.

Does this help answer your questions? Please let me know. 🙂

Cheers,
Geoff

[VirtualBartek]

Hi Geoff,

Thanks for the reply. Could you clarify what you mean by:

… perhaps, there is an appointments plugin out there you like and you could create tickets for them using Event Tickets Plus.

I’m already using something for appointments but I don’t think I can transfer any kind of pricing information from Events Cal to it. I never even considered WooCommerce cause my needs seemed so basic. Turns out that what I consider basic isn’t necessarily easy to accomplish. I’m looking into Woo now. If I can accomplish what I need with Woo without breaking the bank then your plugin will be ideal along with it.

Thanks,
VB

[VirtualBartek]

Could I please ask one other question? I notice a lot of buzz about incompatibility with the Divi theme from ET, but most of the comments are pretty dated and I can’t find any definitive comments suggesting that it does work fine now. Do you know if work has been done by either ET or MT that would make it more compatible now? If there’s no clear answer, is it possible to try out the full Pro version and if it doesn’t work … I’m pretty psyched about your product now as it seems it will do what I need in an ‘elegant’ manner, but obviously I need it to work and can’t afford to just try it and potentially loose the investment. Thanks for your responses so far!

[Geoff]

Hey there!

… perhaps, there is an appointments plugin out there you like and you could create tickets for them using Event Tickets Plus.

Our Event Ticket and Event Tickets Plus plugins can work both with or without our calendar plugin, The Events Calendar, and support custom post types. If, for example, the appointments plugin you use publishes appointments as custom post types, then it’s possible that you could use Event Tickets/Event Tickets Plus to create tickets for them, independent of The Events Calendar.

I notice a lot of buzz about incompatibility with the Divi theme from ET, but most of the comments are pretty dated and I can’t find any definitive comments suggesting that it does work fine now.

That is definitely something we saw a lot in the past but little to nothing now. I know we worked on a few things on our end over the past year to help address some of those issues and I believe there have been many updates to Divi as well in that time that have helped as well.

Should you give our plugins a try, I will note that there are a couple folks on the team here that have a lot of experience working with Divi and could help troubleshoot issues, if they exist. Our plugins also come backed with a full refund within 30 days of purchase if they don’t seem to work well at all with the theme.

Does this help? I sure hope it does, but please let me know if there’s anything else you need before trying out the plugins.

Cheers!
Geoff

[VirtualBartek]

The second part certainly does help and now that I’m up and running with WooC, the first part is resolved as well. All that is left is to give a try. I appreciate the quick answers.

[Geoff]

My pleasure! Thanks so much for following up and please let us know if any other questions pop up–we’d be happy to help. 🙂

Cheers,
Geoff

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