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Hey Maria. Thanks for the note. We actually were working on a dedicated Conference Manager add-on that served this very purpose a few months back. We put that on hold to focus on the 3.0 release of The Events Calendar, which was more necessary in the short-term. With any luck we will resume that Conference Manager product at some point over the coming months, though. We’ve had a lot of requests for it so I’d honestly be surprised if we didn’t.
Sorry I couldn’t offer you more in the short-term. If you have other questions here, or if I can do anything else, please let me know.
Hey mindgroup. We’re hoping to at least have some written assistance on how to customize for incorporating extra/more randomized recurrence patterns to release with 3.0, but that is really the element we’re most stuck on. It’s more likely that once we figure out how to do it – rather than provide tutorials – we’ll just bundle that with the plugin and ship it for everyone from there.
Sorry I couldn’t offer you more in the short term. I want to have this out there sooner rather than later, since I agree it could add huge value for the plugin. I’ll keep you guys posted either way.
Hey Gary. Thanks for the note here. It’s a good question; we hadn’t considered keeping an active list of example sites, but it’s a good call and I actually just had Barry – who runs the WooTickets forum – put up a sticky post where we can collect those for folks in your situation to review. That’s not been populated with much yet, but as a point of reference it is here: https://tri.be/support/forums/topic/made-something-youre-proud-of/.
At this point, the best I can offer up is our broader Showcase: https://tri.be/events-calendar-showcase/. Not all of these sites are running WooTickets – but there are at least a couple on the list that have integrated it as their ticketing component, last I checked. And if you keep an eye on that list at the forum link I provided above, it should be filling up relatively quickly.
Sorry I couldn’t offer more, Gary. If you have other questions please don’t hesitate to let me know.
Thanks for the follow-ups here, folks. Glad to be of service best I can.
Martin: yes, that should work. I just tested WooTIckets with a few of the WooCommerce shortcodes and, so long as you are familiar with using WooCommerce and don’t mind using a variety of shortcodes, that should work for you fine. Keep in mind this isn’t quite the core intent of how the plugin was built, so you may have to jump through a couple extra hoops to get it working as expected, but the functionality is there. (For example: catalog visibility for tickets is hidden by default, so you’d need to turn that on…etc). All of the ticket-centric functions should work with that. But if you buy and find it doesn’t meet your needs, we of course won’t deny you a refund.
Robert: it’s definitely on the radar, but admittedly we don’t have a specific timetable for it. I can say with certainty that it will not be included in the initial 2.0 release that we’re pushing with The Events Calendar 3.0 in a month or so. But it may well be included in a subsequent build, ie 2.1 or 2.0.1 shortly thereafter, since there has been a good amount of demand for it. Hope that helps and sorry I couldn’t offer you more at this time.
Let me know whether you guys need anything else here. Thanks again for your interest.
That sounds great! If you have other questions or concerns once you’ve given it a go, Regina, please don’t hesitate to let me know. Will try my best to get you sorted. Thanks again for your interest and have a great week.
Glad to be of service, Nathan. If you find yourself with other questions down the road please don’t hesitate to let me know.
My pleasure! Glad to be of service, Leandra…and thanks so much for your words of support. We really appreciate it. Let me know if we can do anything else in the future and we’ll definitely make it so.
Hey Regina. Thanks for the note here. I just actually taked to Barry, the support specialist who was running that thread, and he confirmed that the problem that user was having was actually an issue related to her overall install. (Even this we’re not 100% positive on, since as you can see the user never actually replied).
The problem in her case was that basically her WP events page – or what she initially thought was the WP events page – was actually being served by Magento, so that was a non-starter. My suspicion is things were just bizarrely configured, I can’t really say though if there is a valid problem with FishPig across the board. We haven’t had other reports of that beyond what this user noted…but it’s very possible she’s the only one who ever tried to integrate.
As a general rule of thumb: if the free The Events Calendar works with FishPig, PRO should also.
That help? If not, let me know and I can elaborate. Thanks again for your interest!
Totally happy to help here, Steven. Thanks for the heads up. I’m actually going to have my colleagues who run the PRO forums reply here, and I’ve moved this thread over there accordingly. They’re far more dev-minded than I am and should have no problem pointing you in the right direction.
Stay tuned and thanks for your patience so far.
Hey Louis. Are you looking for a frontend demo, or a tour of the backend experience? While we do have a demo of WooTickets frontend on our http://wpshindig.com site, we don’t have any real method of providing backend previews beyond the New User Primer videos that are available here on tri.be (which I see you’ve watched).
Regarding your specific requests, though….I’ll say right off the bat that there is no seat assigning component here. So while you could sell “seats” in the form of tickets, there is no way to assign each ticket to a specific seat barring any customizations you make on your end.
Otherwise:
* Details of venue show in the individual event entry, and on the ticket.
* Users have the option to select whichever ticket they want. You could either set up different events as different courses, or use tickets as your courses. Probably the former would be most effective though.
* Attendees (via the purchaser) are tracked, via an auto-generated attendee list.
* Surveying attendees would probably require some extra customization on your end. You will definitely have the email addresses for everyone who buys, but there isn’t a method to send a survey or automated email to them after the event ends.I hope that helps in your question. The WooTickets docs page is indeed broken; we’re rewriting it (it’s somewhat outdated) for the 2.0 release we’re launching over the next month or so. But if you have other questions you can drop them here and I’d be happy to help you out in as timely a fashion as possible.
Hey folks. Thanks for the notes here….happy to help you out best I can here.
Leandra: you can definitely run Community Events on The (free) Events Calendar, without a need for PRO at all. Just keep in mind none of the PRO functionality like recurring events, etc will carry over to the frontend submission form.
Scott: I’m pretty sure I understand your question but let me know if my answer doesn’t reflect that, and I’ll adjust my reply accordingly. But as it stands: if you wanted to use Eventbrite and Events Calendar PRO, you would need to purchase those two licenses independently. But Eventbrite Tickets will run alongside the free The Events Calendar, so if you don’t want the PRO functionality – keeping in mind that recurrence DOES NOT work with Eventbrite, due to a limitation in their API – you could just buy Eventbrite and run it on the free version.
Hope that helps. If it doesn’t, let me know!
Hi James. We are definitely considering all requests (I can’t reply privately to your message, though, as it’s not tied to an actual account). A “buy now” option, to integrate with these add-ons, is a good call and has come up a lot. Know that it is on our radar!
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.
