WooTickets / Ajax add-to-cart

[Peter Poulides]

Thank you for your great plugin!
Wondering if there has been any progress on an AJAX add to cart button? I saw a separate thread that it had been logged as a feature request. I would love to see this feature…

[Kelly]

Hi, spotstudio. Great question!

Let me do a little digging and get back to you. Thanks!

[Peter Poulides]

Thanks for your reply, Kelly. Could you also find out if WPEC Tickets already has an AJAX add to cart button? We were planning to go with WooCommerce but now that WPEC Tickets is available – we might consider sticking with WP ecommerce.

[Kelly]

Hi, spotstudio. I’ve spoken to our devs, and they had a question for you. What exactly are you looking to do with this button? How is it different than the one that’s already in the ticket box?

I can check into WPEC Tickets. I do know that EDD Tickets offers a shortcode-based buy button that may fit your needs. 🙂

[Peter Poulides]

I’d like the user to be able to add an item to the cart and stay on the same page and have the cart total automatically update. This is how the cart works in woocommerce but with the plugin, it takes you to the cart page instead of staying on the same page and updating the cart via AJAX.

[Kelly]

Hi, sportstudio. Thanks for the explanation. I understand what you’re getting at.

EDD Tickets does have that functionality built in through the EDD “Purchase Short Code” functionality. It would deifnitely be possible to build for our other Ticket plugins, but I don’t know of any others that for sure have them baked in at present.

Does that help?

[Peter Poulides]

Thanks for your follow up! I looked into EDD and it is a little too simple for our needs. We have some very specific pricing requirements that we’ve found 3rd party plugins will accommodate for either WooCommerce and WP-ecommerce. What are the chances of this feature being added to WooTickets or WPEC in the near future? It would really make our day!!

[Kelly]

I would say that it’s pretty high up in the queue for an upcoming WooCommerce Tickets release. It’s hard to say about WPEC Tickets because it’s such a new plugin for us, so probably would appear there sometime after.

I’ll definitely prod the dev team for you! 🙂

[Peter Poulides]

Thanks. In the meantime I have found a workaround. I’m using the get_tickets_ids() method to get the ticket ID(s) (aka: woocommerce product ID) and then using the WooCommerce add to cart shortcode to generate the button. This means I’m essentially using WooCommerce’s add to cart button which has the desired AJAX functionality built-in – is there any reason why this would cause problems from a WooTickets perspective?

[Rob]

Hey there: it shouldn’t cause a problem, no…basically WooTickets is piggybacking on WooCommerce’s functionality here, so much of the code is handled on their end to begin with.

That said: if you find issues persist in your future testing, definitely open a new thread and we’ll do our best to get you sorted here. Thanks!

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