which events plugin to purchase

[OngKar]

I have woo commerce on our site for selling products. I want to get an events plug-in, but before doing so, need to better understand the differences between the options provided: eventbrite, woocommerce tickets, community tickets (i.e. I understand that community members can sell their tickets thru this, but can we also?), and Event Tickets Plus. Any information you can provide would be appreciated. Thank you.

[Brook]

Howdy OngKar,

I would love to help clarify this.

First up let’s tackle WooCommerce/EDD/Shopp/WPEC tickets. These four “legacy” plugins were combines into one plugin: Event Tickets Plus. You can basically ignore them, Event Tickets Plus is the new version of them. These allow you to sell tickets on your website through one of the four Ecommerce platforms. You will first need to setup and install one of those Ecommerce platforms, which will allow you to sell things on your website. The extreme majority of people choose WooCommerce. From there you can install Event Tickets Plus and sell tickets as well through your site.

Eventbrite is a bit easier to setup. You do not need to setup an ecommerce site, nor any of the associated costs. Instead you signup with the Eventbrite service. Then you add events and tickets to Eventbrite, and you can sell them from there. They take a percentage of every ticket sold. A lot more info can be found on their site. Our plugin, Eventbrite Tickets, ties into this service seamlessly and allows you to publish events from your site onto Evenbrite, and also add Eventbrite ticket. You can do all of this through WP Admin, and copies of those events along with ticket purchase links will be on your website.

Community Tickets is an addon. To use it you must already have Event Tickets Plus and Community Events setup on your site. With these three plugins it becomes possible for you site’s visitors to add tickets to events they submit to your website.

Does that help clarify things? Do you have any more questions?

Cheers!

– Brook

[Brook]

Since this topic has been inactive for a spell it is getting archived. Let us know if you need anything else!

Cheers!

– Brook

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