Woocomerce Shop & Ticket

[Lady Berry]

Hi,

So I am trying to set up a scenario like this.

• I sell tickets to classes (lessons)
• I would like to be able to list each of the lessons in the shop section and then when a user goes to a lesson they can see all of the available lesson dates available

Im not sure how to go ahead with this, any advice would be great

Thanks
Ben

[Nico]

Hi Ben,

Thanks for reaching out to us on this! Interesting question here, I’ll try to help you out figuring the best way to show the tickets for the lessons.

So if lessons are just one-day lessons, you can create the following set-up:

• Each lesson is an event, name (for example): “Lesson A”.
• Each event can have several ticket types, for example: “Lesson A – Adult Ticket – 1/4/16”, “Lesson A – Child Ticket – 1/4/16”, etc.
• You can categorize all these tickets in a common “Lesson A” product category.

With this set-up, you can have the calendar showing the “lessons schedulle”, and each lesson will have their tickets in place. Also, if you go to the “Shop”, you’ll have all “Lesson A” tickets for different dates under the same category, showing the lesson date in the title. Does this makes sense to you?

Please let me know if this helps you out, if you feel this is not the best way to organize the lessons please elaborate a bit more on how the lessons are structured, if they have different ticket types, etc.

Best,
Nico

[Lady Berry]

Thanks Nico – Sorry Ive been away over the festive season, back now.

Nico – your suggestion sounds spot on, im having problems however getting my events to also display in my shop do you have any idea why?

Also just wondering – the lessons im adding are going to be duplicated throughout the year – is there an easy way of creating an event from template?

Cheers
Ben

[Lady Berry]

PS also i havent worked out how to categorise the tickets – “You can categorize all these tickets in a common “Lesson A” product category.”

Could you help me out 🙂

thanks

[Lady Berry]

Sorry I appear have worked out part of my problem:

The categorisation is done under woocommerce (where the tickets are also displayed)

AND

To get a event ticket to display – you need to change the setting on the right under woocomerce products

From:
Catalog visibility: Hidden

To:
Catalog visibility: Catalog/search

Is there a way of setting this catalog visability setting as auto “catalog/search”?

Thank you

• This reply was modified 10 years, 4 months ago by Lady Berry.

[George]

Hey @ben,

Apologies for the delayed response here – @nico has been out of office for a bit and so I wanted to follow-up here.

I’m glad to hear about some progress with the issue.

In regards to your last question about having the Catalog Visibility be set automatically, this is unfortunately only possible if you modify core plugin code directly. This is not recommended because, for one reason, you would have to manually re-edit the plugin code after each plugin update, but if you are curious about how to do this anyways, you can do it by heading into your Event Tickets Plus files to this specific file:

src/Tribe/Commerce/WooCommerce/Main.php

Look for this line of code:

update_post_meta( $ticket->ID, '_visibility', 'hidden' );

If you remove this and save the file, all tickets going forward will not be explicitly hidden.

Further tweaking may be needed but this is just a start and an idea.

I’ll go ahead and close up this issue for now since your first issue is resolved, and this second issue is in the realm of custom coding and such (which we unfortunately cannot help with) – thanks for your patience with this issue.

Best of luck with your site!

Sincerely,
George

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