So, I will be honest, Events Calendar Pro coupled with WooCommerce Tickets has pretty much taken care of all of our event worries on our website, except for this seemingly integral missing feature.<\/p>\n
In the business realm, at least in the circles we work in, it is very common for a business gathering\/event to have tickets to purchase to get into an event. In the legal, commercial real estate, building\/construction, property titling, and banking worlds, usually an admin\/office manager\/assistant will purchase the tickets for the actual attendee(s). A lot of times, a law firm is a perfect example, the assistant or office manager will buy the whole office tickets with the company’s credit card. This could be anywhere from 3-15, or even more, ticket purchases\/guests. The event organizer then gets all the names of the attendees from the single person that bought all the tickets, to create name badges, seating placards, attendee list, etc. The way the current plugin is setup, there is no way to mandatory collect the names of all these guests that will be coming to the event. So right now, our organization has to contact the people at these offices making mass ticket purchases for their team\/company to get the names of the exact people attending, so we can properly create name tags for them, seating name cards, and a check-in list of attendees. Or, we can hope and pray that they are kind \/ aware enough to put the names of the guests into the comments section of their purchase.<\/p>\n
It would be the bee’s knees if whenever a guest is added to the WooCommerce Tickets purchase, that a field for at the very least the guest’s name, like Guest 1 Name, Guest 2 Name, etc., would be required to fill in at some point during the ticket purchase process. Ideally Name, Email, Job Title fields would be amazing, but the guests’ name is really all that is really needed.<\/p>\n
I saw that this topic of discussion has come up in the past (Spring 2013 is the most recent I found on here), so overall this post is too see if there has been any progress or “Best-in-class” work arounds to get this functionality into either of the two premium add-ons we purchased (Events Calendar Pro and Woo Tickets).<\/p>\n