Wootickets – event list buy button, no pdf ticket plus other pre-sales questions

[Rob]

Hi there
We are currently running woocommerce on our site selling services and are using another events plugin for our events.

However, we want to bring everything under Woocommerce to simplify the user and admin experience – Wootickets plus ECP looks like it could do the trick – I do however have a shopping list of pre-sales questions that may also help others.

We don’t actually want to sell physical or pdf tickets for our events, we just want an integration with Woocommerce to book onto the events so that woocommerce handles the payments and automatically updates the event attendees.

We don’t need the calendar functionality, just a list of events – but we do want to be able to customise the event descriptions to look cool (for example reduce the size and location of the google map as it’s huge as standard!)

I’m not a developer so forgive me if the answers to the questions below are obvious …

1) On the Event List page we want to display a ‘Buy Now’ button for users to purchase the event – is this possible?

2) We don’t require the calendar functionality at all, we just require the event list or a table of events – is this possible?

3) We are using an elegant themes (Trim) theme – this is a responsive theme, will the events list and event description be responsive and compatible with our theme (given we don’t need the calendar)?

4) Can we change the size and position of the google map for the event location?

5) Can we customise event descriptions? Can we use styling shortcodes from our theme to match other pages on our site?

6) Can we add an additional ‘Book’ button into the top part of the event – which would then be linked to Wootickets? So that users don’t have to scroll to the bottom of the event to buy tickets etc.

5) As the event creates a product with a unique ID in Woocommerce, can we use woocommerce shortcodes to create additional ‘Buy Now’ buttons elsewhere on our site or externally to shortcut the purchasing process? This works for other woocommerce products – was hoping it could work for Wootickets aswell.

That’s probably all for now – thanks in advance!

Rob

[Rob]

Hey Rob. Thanks for the note here, and for your interest on this end. Happy to help you out and answer these questions best I can. I’ll say right off the bat that you’d probably need to hack at the plugin or adjust WooCommerce settings to turn off the email follow-ups, as the tickets are autogenerated by default and kick out immediately when the purchase is completed. Also worth noting that, even though you don’t need the calendar itself, there isn’t really any way to hide that beyond strategically hiding the calendar link.

Assuming those aren’t dealbreakers, read on:

1. This would be doable if you were willing to do a template override to modify that template itself. That’d be a relatively straightforward process. However no button for the “buy” option appears in the list by default.
2. You could just make the “list” view the default and disable the frontend toggle button….that would give them the list view and no option to change to calendar (though if they knew the proper URL structure, ie /events/month, they could still get there).
3. The list should definitely be far more responsive than the calendar view. That said, we don’t have as much code to integrate with it in 2.x as we will in the upcoming 3.0. So while it should work decently enough in the current build, it’ll look much better in 3.0.
4. You can change this, yup.
5. You can absolutely style and customize the event descriptions. Since they’re just a custom post type, pretty much anything that works in a regular post should handle itself similarly in an event entry.
6. The book button here, like the one in #1, should be doable but not as an out of the box feature. A template override of the single entry sounds like it could get you there.
7. Since our tickets are just WooCommerce products (the plugin merely hooks into WooCommerce to leverage it), you should definitely have the same behaviors for WooTickets as you would for any other WooCommerce product on this end (except that they don’t appear in the ‘store’ by default).

I believe that covers everything. But if I missed something, or if you have clarification questions, definitely let me know and I’ll follow-up as needed. Thanks again for your interest!

[Rob]

Hi Rob
Thanks for the reply
It looks like it should work for us in that case.

I’ll purchase both Events Calendar Pro and Wootickets add-on.

If for some reason it can’t be customised how we require (which I doubt after the above) then will we be able to request a refund?

We are currently using an events plugin (events espressso) and will revert to that if we can’t get things looking/working as we’d like.

If we need to revert I don’t want to have spent money on 2 unusable plugins.

Marked this as private so you don’t have to commit to refunds in public!!

Thanks
Rob

[Rob]

Hey Rob! Thanks for the follow-up. Glad to hear that helped. Yes, if you find that the PRO release or WooTickets do not allow you the level of customization you’d hoped, I can refund you for them. All I ask is that you try to work through the issue with our support team here on the forums before taking that step…9 times out of 10, they are able to help get people there we want to be.

Hope that helps! Let me know if I can shed any more light on this for you, and thanks again for the interest.

[1vertica]

Hi Rob
I’ve purchased Wootickets with the free Events Calendar Plugin and testing – just struggling with 2 of my points above.

Here goes …
We want to use the Cost field from the Wootickets section to include on the event list page for each event AND in the top section of the event listing for each event – however we cannot find the hook for that to add to the template? Please can you help with this?

We also want to create a ‘Buy Now’ style button on the event list page AND in the top section of the event listing that adds the wooticket product to the cart but don’t know where this code would be.

Hope that makes sense? This is all code that must be contained within the Wootickets plugin to be able to have the add to cart button generated at the bottom of the listing as happens on your demo page … http://wpshindig.com/event/the-events-calendar-wootickets-wordpress-demo/

Thanks
Rob

[Rob]

Hey Rob. Thanks for the purchase! This is a great pair of questions, but I’m going to ask my colleague Barry – who has been “owning” WooTickets from a support perspective so far and is much better versed in it than I – to take point on this. I’m also moving it over to the WooTickets forum so he sees it and can respond in a timely fashion.

[Barry]

Hi Rob,

I think the bulk of your remaining issues are described in this thread which you are also taking part in – so what I’ll do is close this one and we can keep the discussion going there 🙂

Barry

[Support Droid]

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If you still need assistance please simply open a new topic (linking to this one if necessary)
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