Hi There,<\/p>\n
I am from a non-profit\/charity organisation based in Australia that offers free meditation classes.
\nWe are in the process of changing from Joomla to WordPress.<\/p>\n
Background: We run our events from
\n1.\tRetreat Centres (where people stay for the whole weekend)
\n2.\tMeditation centres which are dedicated meditation places (and users stay for 1 hour)
\n3.\tClass locations which are volunteer homes (where users stay for 1 hour)<\/p>\n
We are looking for a booking app to do the following:<\/p>\n
We have 26 (volunteer) meditation locations and can run up to over 1000 events per month so we need the ability to firstly:<\/p>\n
1.\ta) Segregate our events so that they arrive on a parent page that has the 7 states of Australia (hopefully in a grid format \u2013 so it all displays on one page). <\/p>\n
b) The user then selects the state of Australia that\u2019s relevant to them) and from here it goes to all the locations in that state (some states have up to 11 locations) \u2013 we prefer to keep the locations in grid format again \u2013 so it all displays on one page.<\/p>\n
c) The user then selects the location they want and from here they get a running list of the events at THAT location based on DATE FORMAT.<\/p>\n
For instance:
\nHave a landing page where people first get the 7 states. <\/p>\n
THEN they click on the state they are looking in and then then get the main locations in that state ie
\n– in NSW we have 8 locations
\n– in VIC we have 7 location
\n– in QLD we have 11 locations , etc, etc, etc. <\/p>\n
So ideally on this page they should get 11 different locations for QLD, 8 location for NSW, 7 locations for VIC etc, etc, etc.<\/p>\n
THEN when they click on one of those locations and THEY GET ONLY THE LIST OF EVENTS that are local to THAT location.<\/p>\n
2.\tWe need the ability to have our different locations running events (ie same meditation course) simultaneously from totally different locations (at the same time – even if we have to do this via creating 26 custom booking forms for the same course – but allocated to different locations). <\/p>\n
For instance: our Introduction to Meditation Course could run on a Monday night from Sydney, Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Queensland, all at the same time 7pm Monday night (but from totally different locations in Australia)<\/p>\n
3.\tAbility to customise our booking forms (legally our retreat centres need to collect totally different information for their retreat bookings compared to our class locations or our formal meditation centres). <\/p>\n
Sometimes even a meditation event\/class itself may have different legal requirements (such as children’s meditation classes) so we need to be able to factor this in via customised booking forms for different events.<\/p>\n
4.\tAbility to create Single events (to use at our Meditation Centres or Class Locations) PLUS Retreat Events \u2013 which span over a weekend timeslot.<\/p>\n
5.\tAbility to create recurring events that are date driven (ie our free introductory meditation course has a duration of 1 hour per week for 4 weeks every Monday night). <\/p>\n
However we need to be able to close off booking for the latter 3 events and only accept the actual meditation booking for the first event session (because our meditation classes are sequential and each subsequent event builds on the previous events course content). <\/p>\n
6.\tAbility to Send customized reminder emails (ie our retreat centres have different legal requirements to our normal meditation centres or class locations and we need to advise our attendees with different messages) <\/p>\n
7.\tAbility to ability to add people to a waiting list on all events (custom). Especially our retreats have month long waiting lists for popular events.
\n8.\tAll our events are technically free as we are non-profit charity so we don’t need tickets and we do need to be able to run things for free (not paid).<\/p>\n
9.\tAbility to limit the amount of people attending an event. <\/p>\n
10.\tWe would like to have multiple event registration – however this does not work for our meditation retreat centres (due to the legals). Is it possible for us to have it on some things but not on other things? <\/p>\n
11.\tAre we able to create different user capabilities in our backend? All locations need the ability to login and create their own events. <\/p>\n
Our best case scenario in relation to user capabilities would be to have them restricted to their own locations so that when they login in the backend – they only see the stuff (events) that is applicable to their own locations.<\/p>\n
12.\tDoes your app have the ability to create private events not visible to the general public (even if this is done simply by a link)? Sometimes we hire out our retreat centres to other groups and so the general public ARE NOT INVITED to those events. So we need the ability to separate out our private events.<\/p>\n
13.\tWe are looking for the ability to be able to install a hook that will allow us to integrate our events with Interspire email marketing software (we have a developer who is able to help us with this). <\/p>\n
Look forward to hearing back
\nGaylea<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1505010","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n