{"id":1162772,"date":"2016-09-12T07:29:38","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T14:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/trying-to-decide-which-products-i-need\/"},"modified":"2016-09-14T09:31:56","modified_gmt":"2016-09-14T16:31:56","slug":"trying-to-decide-which-products-i-need","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/trying-to-decide-which-products-i-need\/","title":{"rendered":"Trying to decide which products I need"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there!!<\/p>\n<p>My non-profit 501(c)6 organization is a band of young advertisers who help 501(c)3&#8217;s by donating our marketing and advertising skills and time to submit pro-bono ad campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>We are revamping our website and looking to increase the functionality. I found Time.ly&#8217;s All-In-One event plugin but found it lacking in certain areas.  After reading reviews, I think that The Events Calendar is the move, but I&#8217;m not sure what all we need.  I would love to have the full bundle, as we do create seperate facebook events, we need ticketing, and right now we are just leveraging splashthat.com for rsvp and checkin, but it&#8217;s clunky and too many tools in the stack.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to allow users to submit from the backend (i can gate this based on membership type through S2members).  I&#8217;d also like different categories. We&#8217;re still trying to decide if it will be by committee (ex: gatherings, publicc service, government relations, diversity) or by the audience (community events, club meetings, programs, fundraisers, etc)<\/p>\n<p>To recap, the main features I need are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Super easy to use<\/li>\n<li>Easy event submission from front-end (logged in users only)<\/li>\n<li>Community calendar submissions that require admin approval (and option to select which admin approves)<\/li>\n<li>Easy ticketing with paypal or stripe or square (not paypal payments pro or anything that requires monthly fee)<\/li>\n<li>Widgets to showcase events across the site<\/li>\n<li>People can subscribe and\/or google calendar integration<\/li>\n<p>What do you recommend?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1162772","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Trying to decide which products I need -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/trying-to-decide-which-products-i-need\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Trying to decide which products I need -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hi there!! 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