Which products to buy for my needs

[Alex B]

Hello,
I am looking at The Events Calendar (Pro), woocommerce and WooTickets but I am not sure which options I need.
I would like to create events for an activities club (cycling hiking etc). we have events both paid and free (some with limited seating) for our members (can we limit non-members to purchase ONE trip before deciding to become a member?).
I believe that wootickets will allow us to enter the event once (not in Events and then reenter in Products).
For some products we need to collect TEXT from the buyer .. for example if they buy a T-Shirt, I need a text box for them to enter their name for a printing option.
We would like to add instruction pages for people who have purchased trips. Is there a way to allow only people who have paid for an event to see those pages?

Thank you,
Alex

[alex]

note that I need to work in multi-language .. English and French.
Which is the best language plug-in to use ?
Are all features available in both languages ?

[Leah]

Hi Alex,

Thanks for getting in touch and for your interest in our products.

I would like to create events for an activities club (cycling hiking etc). we have events both paid and free (some with limited seating) for our members (can we limit non-members to purchase ONE trip before deciding to become a member?).

WooTickets plus The Events Calendar core will allow you to do event registration for both paid and free events and allow you to limit events to a certain number of people. There is not a built in way to limit the events to members, but I know that other users have achieved that sort of thing with some customizing. Similarly you could potentially customize the plugin to allow non-members to only purchase the one trip, but that’s not a built in feature or something we could really help with.

I believe that wootickets will allow us to enter the event once (not in Events and then reenter in Products).

WooTickets does only require the event to be done once. The event is a custom post type and you create the tickets at the same time you create the event itself. The tickets are automatically generated as WooCommerce products so you don’t need to do that twice.

For some products we need to collect TEXT from the buyer .. for example if they buy a T-Shirt, I need a text box for them to enter their name for a printing option.

If you wanted to sell a t-shirt on the site that would be via WooCommerce and not our ticketing system. I’m not aware of a way to collect text or other info from a buyer, but you could get in touch with their support team about that or check out their many extensions. If you want to sell a t-shirt with an event and collect info, you could need to do some custom work on the plugin or request the text from the ticket email, which you are able to customize easily using html.

We would like to add instruction pages for people who have purchased trips. Is there a way to allow only people who have paid for an event to see those pages?

As I mentioned, limiting certain pages to members or paid customers is possible with customization, but not something built into our plugins. One way you could do it is to have the link to those instructions included only in the ticketing email, so only those folks who paid and got the link would know to go there.

note that I need to work in multi-language .. English and French.
Which is the best language plug-in to use ?
Are all features available in both languages ?

Getting all of the above features to work with two languages is probably going to require some careful customizing. I don’t know what the best language plugin to use it- although I do know that qtranslate does not play well with The Events Calendar. Some of our users have used WPML, but others haven’t been able to get that to work. It definitely complicates things. I can tell you that The Events Calendar, Events Calendar PRO, and WooTickets are all available in both English and French.

I hope that answers your questions. Let me know if I can elaborate or answer anything else.

Best,
Leah

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