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No, as you can see I resolved it manually but the next guy might be so quick
on the draw. Seems like a minor but that should be fixed is all.Hey Barry,
A little programmer humor 🙂 Yeah, I’ll keep my day job (they said I have to give them one years notice so they can train my replacement).
Anyway, it took me a whole couple of minutes of scratching my head to figure out the link was not working and then I saw it was http:// and your release notes mentioned https:// so I guessed at the solution. To recreate this you may need the steps my site went thru, i.e., community events was installed in http://, the site was switched to https://, you changed your code breaking my incorrect link. Had you updated the custom link or handled a redirect or WP not forced a fully qualified path, I likely would have never seen an issue.
Probably a Unicorn that only I have so placing the thread in the community events forum may be helpful to some other dinosaur. Cheers. Don’t kill too many brain cells.
It’s a product we call WordPress: https://wordpress.org/
Using Custom Links: http://easywpguide.com/wordpress-manual/appearance/updating-the-menu/adding-a-custom-link-menu-item/
What is HTTPS: https://www.instantssl.com/ssl-certificate-products/https.html
Armed with all of that knowledge, is it possible for you to create a custom link as outlined in my OP in an https/ssl environment and test the issue?
Thanks,
Tom
And as I look at this further, MidwestTix operates exactly in the same manner. From their website: “At MIDWESTIX we customize the event proceed payouts according the to the nature of your event(s). For example, a long term, on-going venue might recieve a bi-weekly direct deposit. But for one-time events, proceeds will be distributed immediately after the event. We accommodate many payment options to meet your needs.” Yup, that’s their typo…lol…
So what seems to me to be an odd approach seems to be the industry standard. Having been in a business where I managed funds having a fiduciary trust in the past, I was rather hoping to avoid the inherent liability and work involved with this arrangement.
So I will investigate this further with PayPal. There is still the issue of charge back claims to consider. Perhaps a simple all sales are final statement covers that. Thanks for the kind support.
And there are no other options thru Woo Commerce? That’s a real shame as I am not willing to be on the hook for the organization and I can’t justify the cost of a customization which will be hundreds of dollars if not more? I also do not think my relatively small groups can afford to wait until after the event to be paid which is the only safe way plus they then have to trust me with all of their money. This is not a sound for a community calendar approach.
Thanks Geoff,
1. I’ve been thru both pages and I’m pretty scared by this:
“Refunds and cancelled events are significantly more difficult to handle. Refunds are deducted from the site admin’s total, with nothing taken from the community organizer’s profits.”
So an organizer could sell 100 tickets, cancel an event and I am on the hook for the refunds? How can that possibly be true?
2. There is no option to let all of the monies go direct to the organizer and I bill for my fees?
Geoff,
Thanks for the clarifications.It is looking like I will add these two modules based on demand. I have one area where I am still foggy and that is fees and payment processing. Mine is a small community calendar so I have limited resources that will use this feature and I want to at least pay for my licensing cost and maybe recoup some of the other plugin costs. So if I do split payments and charge a flat 5%, will I get 5% of the ticket price or will PayPal deduct the entire fee for the ticket transaction from my account or will they deduct their 2.9% + 30 cents from my 5%. I would post this in a public support forum but I don’t see anywhere to do this. I’m a little foggy yet on how to price this and how the money flows. Can you possilby give me a breakdown on a $25 ticket? I want 5% and the organizer wants to cover their paypal costs by adding a convenience fee.
Thanks for your patience. I just need to make sure it’s going to be palatable with my organizers. Last year, they charge $3 for a $25 ticket with another ticketing solution so a convenience fee is not out of the question.
Tom
I already have community events; that is the basis of my community calendar. So this is all good news.
1. So Paypal is integrated with Tickets Plus and Community Events which means I can skip the WooCommerce? That simplifies it for me and the cost is all the same.
2. Last time I looked split fees functionality was pretty unpredictable but I can just as well bill my friends (the charitable organizations that will sell tickets) after the event. Is that the best approach?
3. My annual budget is already about twice what I had originally planned and now I have to add Tickets Plus. Is there a discount for bundling? I will be using Events Calendar Pro, Community Events and Tickets Plus? Probably not…lol
4. Do organizers design their tickets in the front end also? This is kind of coming back to me but I am also smack dab in the middle of multiple political websites for my friends running in April and I’m a little fuzzy on all of the moving parts sometimes because there is a lot moving.I guess I need to purchase Tickets Plus. I am a little fuzzy on how the organizer is going to get the list of attendees. I see that they can get a list and/or use the automated check-in but I don’t see any details on how that is implemented.
Thanks for the concise answers. Sorry for the follow-up.
When I try to activate The Events Calendar plugin. The PRO and Community Events are already activated.
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 268435456 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 65488 bytes) in C:\xampp\htdocs\MyFergusonCalendar\wp-content\plugins\the-events-calendar\common\vendor\lucatume\di52\src\tad\DI52\Bindings\Resolver.php on line 119
Well let’s analyze this question with some more wasted rhetoric.
1. In my OP, my very first line states:
>> So I am updating the SEO data for every event prior to publishing…
From that, a reasonable person should deduce that I am talking about the Yoast optimization for an event post prior to publishing since that is what I said in my very first sentence. Now since I said that in my very first sentence, I would hope that you would understand that I am talking about the Yoast optimization options and input on an event post. Are you with me here>?
2. In my OP I elaborated:
>> Is there a way for me to capture just the snippet for Yoast and maybe the Excerpt used by your calendar in the Community plugin
3. And then I posed a question in my OP within the topic of that conversation:
>> Can I enable Yoast in the Community Event?
i.e, the community event page where a user inputs an event; it’s an add-on for the The Events Calendar.We have a failure to communicate here and I fail to grasp how I can ask my question any more succinctly. Apparently I am wasting my and your time here.
