Trying to decide on Event manager program

[Rick Stewart]

I am not a developer or computer programmer. I run 20-30 events annually and need a way for customers to register & pay for events online. Two Questions:
(1) I need Pro in order to accept payments? Can a customer pay for my event using just Events Manager/
(2) Can I “upsell” other products while the customer is registering? Can I offer a free gift of their choice during the registration process?

[Barry]

Hi Rick,

Thanks for getting in touch and for considering our plugins 🙂

I need Pro in order to accept payments? Can a customer pay for my event using just Events Manager

You do not – however in addition to our free, core plugin you would also need a ticketing plugin to be activated.

Can I “upsell” other products while the customer is registering? Can I offer a free gift of their choice during the registration process?

Definitely, however, I’d add a caveat here – with regards to your note on not being a developer – that you may need to take advantage of other third party plugins that add this capability to WooCommerce (or to whichever ecommerce plugin you decide to use).

I hope that answers your questions, but do let me know if we can help with anything else.

[Rick Stewart]

I have no problem paying for a program that does what I need. Would the support team help me with some of my issues? Or could I pay someone to set it all up for me. I have wasted an entire day on this and it would probably take me another day to get it all setup…where an expert could do it in an hour or so. Not sure what ticketing plugin means…My ecommerce site uses Swipe and PayPal

[Barry]

Hi Rick,

The support team is here to help – but I should be clear that the level of support we can provide for things like customizations (which might include upselling/cross selling, in this case) is typically pretty limited.

Not sure what ticketing plugin means…My ecommerce site uses Swipe and PayPal

Ticketing plugins allow you to create tickets for events and sell those tickets. In our case, they require you to already be using an established ecommerce plugin such as WooCommerce, WP E-Commerce, Easy Digital Downloads or Shopp.

You can find out more here:

• theeventscalendar.com/tickets
• theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/new-user-primer-woocommerce-tickets

Last but not least, if you after reading through resources like our getting started guide (link above) you still feel the setup process would be too technical, you could certainly approach the support team for assistance.

If you simply want to pay someone to do it for you then that’s fine, too. We don’t actually provide that sort of service ourselves but there are plenty of freelance marketplaces where you can hire experienced WordPress devs who would find setup a breeze 🙂

[Support Droid]

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