{"id":1532118,"date":"2018-05-16T13:11:48","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T20:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/waitlist-workaround-in-practice\/"},"modified":"2018-05-16T13:11:48","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T20:11:48","slug":"waitlist-workaround-in-practice","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/waitlist-workaround-in-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Waitlist workaround in practice?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve dug through a bunch of posts regarding waitlist functionality. Everyone wants it (yes, I voted) but it&#8217;s not core. I&#8217;ve seen the partial suggested workaround but would like some clarification. <\/p>\n<p>But first: One thread from late last year made it sound like a waitlist existed? https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/customise-waitlist-registration-information\/ What&#8217;s that about? Does it? <\/p>\n<p>If not, can we explore the suggested workaround a bit? <\/p>\n<p>So the suggestion is to create another ticket with no RSVP cap. (In my case, we&#8217;re only dealing with RSVPs in the first place). Ok so I create an RSVP, name it something like Waitlist and&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>&#8230;I&#8217;m guessing I:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Have to manually watch for RSVP limit to be hit.<\/li>\n<li>Once I notice, I create a new ticket and name it as mentioned above?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is a lot to happen in a short amount of time. I suppose I could create another RSVP ticket and set it to start way in the future so I just have to change the start date for it to appear once I notice RSVPs have run out. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>But what happens if I have multiple RSVP types to begin with that potentially have their own respective attendee information fields? That scenario isn&#8217;t very conducive to having just one other RSVP type. So in that case, (say Adults \/ Children with differing attendee info fields, I would need multiple &#8220;Waitlist&#8221; RSVP tickets ready to go. I hope you can appreciate how cumbersome this is sounding already.<\/li>\n<li>So then what? I get a bunch of people &amp; their info under this new ticket type. How do I actually use it? Can I then assign those &#8220;waitlist RSVP&#8221; holders to another event? What does that process look like?<\/li>\n<li>If so, is any further action required on the user&#8217;s part?<\/li>\n<li>How are they notified that they&#8217;ve been (manually) added to another event?<\/li>\n<li>Can they themselves choose a future event date that works for them?<\/li>\n<li>I feel I&#8217;ve read about the ability to span a pool of tickets across multiple &#8220;sort of recurring&#8221; events. I&#8217;m not sure if that would make sense for these waitlist tickets. I guess it depends on how it&#8217;s implemented because I wouldn&#8217;t want waitlist to be an option on a future event that hasn&#8217;t reached its cap yet.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sorry for all the questions, but given the popularity of this request, it seems as though some clarification around how this proposed workaround is supposed to work might be of help to more than just me. <\/p>\n<p>TIA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1532118","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>Waitlist workaround in practice? -<\/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\/waitlist-workaround-in-practice\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Waitlist workaround in practice? -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hello, I&#8217;ve dug through a bunch of posts regarding waitlist functionality. 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