User add events & Pro package?

[Tino Fotiou]

Nice plugin. But if I would like to have both the Pro features and the ability for users to add their own events, I have to buy both Pro and Community Events plugins? So Pro does not include the ability for user to submit events from front-end?

Price difference of The Events Calendar vs MyEventON in this case is 100 USD (89+89=178 vs 29+49=78). Currently I don’t see what I get with that 100 USD..

[Cliff]

Hi Tino. Thanks for your interest in our plugin suite. We believe they provide good/great value for the price.

Obviously, every plugin author/company produces different products of varying quality and service. I can’t tell you how MyEventON or any other alternative compares in terms of value for your money; you’ll need to determine that.

You are correct that our PRO and Community Events add-ons are separate (i.e. PRO does not include CE or any of our other add-ons). However, if you do get both, they do work together (e.g. front-end CE form can add recurring events and utilize Additional Fields).

Glancing through http://www.myeventon.com/addons/, I see we have functionality comparable to these add-ons that would also be included in your purchase of PRO and CE for $89+$89 = $178 (all pricing here and below is for single site):

• EVENT LISTS: EXT ($35.50), Full Cal ($30.50), Event Lists & Items ($25.50), Single Events ($25.50), Daily View ($25.50), Event Search ($18.50), and CSV Event Importer ($27.50) are free in The Events Calendar core/free
  • total of $188.50
• Events Map ($35.50), Event Countdown ($25.50), Weekly View ($30.50) are included in PRO
  • total of $91.50
• RSVP Events ($49.50) are free in Event Tickets core/free (FYI: their QR Code ($16.50) functionality is part of our Event Tickets Plus for an additional $89 from us, with many other features — neither of these 2 add-ons are included in these calculations)
  • total of $49.50
• And of course their Action User ($49.50) add-on is comparable to our Community Events add-on
  • total of $49.50

$29 CodeCanyon purchase + $379 add-ons = $408 grand total (about 2.3 times more cost than our 2 paid plugins).

Best I can tell, their pricing is for lifetime updates but not lifetime support. Our pricing is per year but we typically provide substantial renewal discounts (although not guaranteed going forward); it also includes updates and stellar support (see our Scope of Support / Terms).

Regarding our pricing, you can keep an eye on our Deals, Coupons & Discounts! page. You can also subscribe to our newsletter and/or follow us on social media (both are in the footer of our website).

We do offer pre-built Bundles, which some of our customers have found to be a great way to get several of our plugins at a “bulk purchase” discount.

Please reference our Do you offer discounts for nonprofit organizations? article if you think it may apply to you.

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.

I hope this helps! Let me know if you have any follow-up questions.

P.S. you might want to be nice and let them know they have some typos on their homepage.

[Tino Fotiou]

Fair enough, you have valid points there and did your home work. Thank you for your time.

About the Community Events, and the front-end submission form. Is it possible to make it super simple, since I am building a site for a Parkinson group, and they don’t tend to be as patient with computers.

So it would only have like event’s name, date, time and the place?

[Cliff]

Sure. It’s possible via CSS or PHP customizations.

You can experience a demo of the form by clicking “Add Your Event” menu item at our demo site: http://wpshindig.com/events/

Let me know if you have any follow-up 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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