Workaround to sell listings with Community Events

[Sarah Kerr]

I know there’s no built in functionality to do this out of the box, are there any workarounds people have come up with?

Thanks,
Sarah

[Nico]

Hi there Sarah,

Thanks for reaching out to us on this! I’ll try to help you with some ideas 🙂

Can you please elaborate a bit more on this? Do you want to charge user to post or do you want to add a ‘premium level’ posting? Are you willing to do some manual work or will this be massiva and there’s no room for that?

Please let me know about it and I’ll try to point you in the right direction,
Best,
Nico

[Sarah Kerr]

I want 3 different tiers, free and then two levels of premium adds that I charge for.

I don’t know what “massiva” means, so don’t really understand your last sentence. I’m OK if my web guy has to do some coding etc, I just wonder if it’s at all possible.

Thanks,
Sarah

[Nico]

Thanks for elaborating a bit more Sarah! And yes your web guy will surely need to do some coding for this, he might also have other ideas of how to make this possible. Basically there are a couple of ways to do this!

I want 3 different tiers, free and then two levels of premium adds that I charge for.

So for the free one Community Events will do the job, and for the premium add here is what I think can work:
– In the posting form (via template override as described in themer’s guide) add the option to convert the add to premium. These two options can link the user to different WooCommerce (or other e-commerce solution) products. Once the product is bought, add the user a ‘meta field’ indicating the amount of premium ads paid. Once the user goes back to the submission form, show the option to actually make the ad a premium add if there are ‘slots’ available in the metafield. After purchase just reduce the amount of premium ads in the user meta field, and add this information as meta too to the just created event.

Rounding up, the method will be the following:
– User purchases a product (digital), this adds the corresponding amount of ‘premium slots’ to use.
– If the user has ‘slots’ available show the option to onvert the ad to premium in the posting form.
– Once the event is submitted, adjust the amount of available slots and mark the event as premium.
– Use the meta added to the event to give it a priority display in the front-end.

I don’t know what “massiva” means, so don’t really understand your last sentence.

Sorry I meant massive!

Hope that helps,
Please let me know if I can give further advice on this, once again this is just one way of doing it. Maybe yo can use WooCommerce Memberships plugin or similar add-ons to achieve the same result.
Best,
Nico

[Support Droid]

Hey there! This thread has been pretty quiet for the last three weeks, so we’re going to go ahead and close it to avoid confusion with other topics. If you’re still looking for help with this, please do open a new thread, reference this one and we’d be more than happy to continue the conversation over there.

Thanks so much!
The Events Calendar Support Team

[Author]

Posts