Using Tickets & Events Calendar Pro to sell 2 Day Courses/WorkShops

[Rick]

Hello! I have the following requirements for an event ticketing/management system and am looking for a WordPress based extension/plugin.

I am creating a site for a company that sells training. They have seven different courses, each will be offered once per quarter.

They want to sell registration to their courses online and it appears that we could use a combination of Tickets using for example Woocommerce as the ecommerce engine and Events Calendar Pro to display the courses on the WordPress site. Is this a correct assumption??

Since we are selling training workshops we want to get away from using nomenclature such as “tickets” and I am wondering how customizable field names are in the ticket and calendar system??

Since we are offering 7 different workshops can we create workshop 1 as an example, and schedule the same workshop over 4 quaters in a year or do we need to create 4 workshop 1 items??

Do you have any live site examples of training companies using Tickets and Events Calendar Pro you could share?

And… overall do you think the system is a good fit for what I have described??

Thanks so much and happy holidays!

[Geoff]

Hi there, Rick! Thanks for getting in touch and checking out the plugins–we appreciate it. 🙂

Good questions. Let’s try to tackle them one at a time…

They want to sell registration to their courses online and it appears that we could use a combination of Tickets using for example Woocommerce as the ecommerce engine and Events Calendar Pro to display the courses on the WordPress site. Is this a correct assumption??

Yes, that is basically correct. In short, you will be using four different plugins to get what you’re describing:

• The Events Calendar. This is our free plugin that provides the core calendar functionality.
• The Events Calendar PRO. This is an add-on that adds advanced features to the core plugin, such as recurring events.
• WooTickets. This is the add-on that will provide the ticket functionality that bridges The Events Calendar and WooCommerce.
• WooCommerce. This is the ecommerce platform that handles all products and transactions.

So, you create events (courses) in The Events Calendar, can create recurring events with PRO and add tickets to individual events via WooTickets. The tickets are added as Products in WooCommerce, which then handles the checkout process.

Since we are selling training workshops we want to get away from using nomenclature such as “tickets” and I am wondering how customizable field names are in the ticket and calendar system??

Yes, there are ways to rename “Events” to “Courses” and “Tickets” to something else, but it will  take a little custom development on your end. For example, here is a tutorial on changing “Events” to another term.

Since we are offering 7 different workshops can we create workshop 1 as an example, and schedule the same workshop over 4 quaters in a year or do we need to create 4 workshop 1 items??

Yes, you could certainly do this with a custom recurrence pattern with the PRO add-on. At the same time, I think you may be able to avoid purchasing PRO and simply enter each workshop post individually if that’s all you would be using PRO for anyway. 🙂

Do you have any live site examples of training companies using Tickets and Events Calendar Pro you could share?

Unfortunately, I don’t know of any training company examples off the top of my head. However, we do offer a full refund on purchases within 30-days, so that would give you some time to give the plugins a spin to see how they work on the front and back end.

And… overall do you think the system is a good fit for what I have described??

It sounds like a good fit to me but, again, test driving it for yourself will give you the best feel for whether or not it is the best solution for you.

Does this help answer your questions? Please let me know and thanks again for checking us out!

Cheers,
Geoff

 

[Geoff]

Thanks for following up and confirming the answer, Rick! I’m glad this helps and I hope the plugins are a fit for your project.

I’ll go ahead and close this thread, but please feel free to get back in touch if any other questions pop up–we’d be happy to help. 🙂

Cheers!
Geoff

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