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iDEAL Mollie Payment Gateawy

We are pleased to announce that Event Espresso 4 is now fully integrated with the iDEAL Mollie payment gateway. iDEAL Mollie is a Dutch payment method specifically for Netherland bank users. With iDEAL Mollie you get a quick and secure way to accept credit card, debit card, PayPal, Bitcoin, paysafecard, AcceptEmail, SoFort Banking, Bancontact/Mister Cash, and iDEAL bank transfer payments online.

With the Event Espresso iDEAL Mollie integration, you can create exactly the payment experience you want in your Event Espresso powered website, and iDEAL Mollie handles everything from security to transfers to your bank account. You can get started immediately.

What will my customers see?

Your customers get transferred to the bank process they are familiar with.

Mollie Payment Event Espresso

Mollie Payment with Event Espresso

PCI Compliance

No sensitive data hits your servers, saving you hours of security headaches.

Event Espresso (EE) is the most advanced WordPress events calendar, registration and ticketing plugin—and it just got even better! EE 4.6 includes three significant changes, a bunch of new features, a few enhancements and fixes, and compatibility for several new add-ons that are coming soon. Developers, please take note.

Significant Changes to Payment Processing, Checkout and HTML Forms

We expect that you will not notice most of these changes unless you start looking into the core code. We have worked hard to make sure the transition from these existing systems to the new systems as seamless as possible.

• New Payment Processing System – We have improved the system that manages processing payments.  This new payment system will make it easier to add features around managing payment gateways, payment accounts, multiple payments, etc. You should not notice much of a difference right now from the 4.4 gateway system other than the user interface has been standardized. The real magic comes in the code which we will use to build new features that you have been asking for.
• New Checkout System – The checkout system has been improved to add flexibility in the order of registration steps, and add more intelligence based on the types of tickets being purchased. You may notice the front-end user interface looks even better. Again, the real gains will come over time as we add new features for event organizers and developers to customize the online event registration and ticketing checkout experience for their audience.
• New System for Displaying and Processing HTML Forms – The new Forms system is a new object-oriented dynamic form system utilizing built-in strategies for display, normalization, and validation; including over 25 input types.

New Features

We have added more than a dozen new features to our WordPress events calendar, registration and ticketing plugin. This makes this our best brew of Event Espresso ever.

• New payments system (see above)
  • Open one payment method by default so that one payment method is defaulted or pre-selected for registrants
  • Add compatibility for additional gateway integrations (see below)
  • Developers: Mock payment method add-on (get it via GitHub: event-espresso-core/tests/mocks/addons/eea-new-addon)
• User capabilities system that allows you to manage access to Event Espresso with your favorite user and role or capability plugin, e.g. Members, User Role Editor (not an official endorsement of which plugin to use), previously an add-on in EE3
• More modular Single Page Checkout which allows you to re-arrange the order of the checkout steps
• Free event registrations are now a one step checkout
• Switch to the new NoCAPTCHA reCAPTCHA
• Event page template selector to account for different page layouts (e.g. full-width, etc.)
• Customizable receipt and invoice templates that can be edited from your dashboard to make them better for your organization or country requirements, no more FTPing necessary
• Message pack template system, and easy way to create different looking message layouts and choose them for each type of message
• Support for UTF-8 invoices and receipts
• Developers: New API for registering new Custom Post types and taxonomies with Event Espresso
• Registrations CSV report for all events so you can get all your data at once

Enhancements and Fixes

While most of the work done on 4.6 is tied to improving a few systems and adding new features, we do have a few small improvements.

•  Events can be archived by tags, with a front-end tag archive listing page.
• Upcoming Events Widget now uses the WordPress defined date and time settings.

Compatibility with New Add-ons

While we refactored some major systems, we also took the opportunity to build more add-ons. We are in the final testing phase for many of these add-ons, so look for them to be available soon now that 4.6 is available.

• Printable tickets (now available)
• Ticket scanning, via barcode/qr code scanners (now available)
• WP User Integration (coming soon)
• Stripe payment gateway integrations (now available)
• SagePay payment gateway integration (coming soon)
• iDeal/Mollie payment gateway integration (coming soon)

For Developers

Many of the changes in 4.6 deserve your attention. For example, if you have built a custom payment gateway for Event Espresso 4.4 (or less) then you will need to evaluate whether it will be compatible with the new processing system. We have many resources for developers that can help:

• Mock payment method add-on (get it via GitHub: event-espresso-core/tests/mocks/addons/eea-new-addon)
• Event Espresso 4 Core Code Documentation – auto-generated documentation using the phpDocumentor tool from inline phpdoc blocs found in the code for Event Espresso 4.
• Event Espresso 4 Developer Portal – resources for developers (EE team and third-party) contributing to Event Espresso  OR who are building things on the Event Espresso platform.
• Event Espresso 4 Developer Core Documentation
• Event Espresso 4 Developer Documentation archive
• Request access to the Event Espresso Core (4.0+) GitHub repository

The last thing I want to say is that it has been just under a year that we first released Event Espresso 4. In that year, we’ve released six major versions (averaging a major release every two months, which is on-par or better than the industry average). Obviously, our development rate has greatly improved, but we are changing our processes to get you new features even faster! More on that another time. 🙂

Thank you for using Event Espresso. Let us know what you think or if you have any questions.

Today we would like to introduce you to Event Smart, a very special project that is more than five years in the making.

Event Smart makes online event registration and ticketing easy and more affordable, so you can focus on event management, rather than technology.

Without ever installing any software, Event Smart lets you: accept registrations and sell tickets online, collect payments and get paid directly, automate marketing, start a blog, or build an entire event website. You don’t have to worry about database backups, updates, or plugin and server security.

Event Smart is much more affordable than services like Eventbrite. Even if you are selling tickets, you can use Event Smart for free. You only pay for the advanced features you want.

Request an invitation to Event Smart today.

Event Espresso Users Benefit from Event Smart

We are not abandoning Event Espresso in favor of Event Smart. In fact, the features, technology, and processes we build for Event Smart are improving Event Espresso in exciting ways. For example, in the next major release, Event Espresso 4.6, you’ll see:

• Better support for WordPress Multisite
• Event Espresso specific child themes
• New support for managing Roles & Capabilities
• More Add-ons
• Stripe payment integration
• Faster development and quicker releases

Continuing our Mission and Vision

Event Smart supports our mission and vision to:

• Give you the event registration, ticketing and management tools that maximize the success of your events.
• Become the world’s leading event registration and ticketing provider.

Each year, Event Espresso powers more than 250,000 events which in turn sell more than one hundred million tickets. That is a lot of events, and Event Smart will make it even easier to create awesome live experiences without being a Webmaster.

Congratulations and Thank You

Thank you for helping to make Event Smart possible, and for trusting us to make wise decisions with the software that finances the events that are a crucial part of your business.

Thank you to the WordPress communities who have been our advisors and advocates.

I personally want to thank and congratulate the Event Espresso team for their years of hard work, dedication, focus and friendship. We are making a difference in the lives of millions of people, one event at a time.

Request an invitation to Event Smart today.

You can also follow the Event Smart blog for updates.

We invite you to participate with other Event Espresso users to sponsor the Multiple Event Registration add-on for Event Espresso 4. The Multiple Event Registration add-on allows your audience to register for multiple events, even with multiple attendees for each event, during the same checkout process. Pretty cool!

The Multiple Event Registration (MER) add-on currently exists for Event Espresso 3 but is not compatible with Event Espresso 4.

Sponsors help us (EE) prioritize development that may not otherwise be accomplished within the same timeframe. For example, new payment gateway sponsorships are moved to the front of the development queue.

Please fill out the Sponsor a Feature form if you would like to know more or would consider helping to sponsor the EE4 Multiple Event Registration add-on.

We have had reports that some Event Espresso users do not receive our email messages. Google has introduced Tabs into Gmail that may have misfiled Event Espresso emails into the “Promotions” tab they created. You should take action now to place this Event Espresso email into your Primary tab in Gmail (video).

We regularly send emails to to keep you informed about:

• Updates to the Event Espresso software
• Updates to your support forum conversations
• Updates to your support email conversations
• Updates to your sales email conversations
• Your EventEspresso.com account and support license
• Maintenance to the EventEspresso.com website
• Industry news and events

It is for your benefit to place this Event Espresso’s email into your Primary tab in Gmail (video). You want to be aware of what is happening at Event Espresso and how we can help you be successful.

Our Responsibility

It is our responsibility to keep you informed of updates and changes to the products and service you use to run your events. We always want to earn and maintain your trust, so we only send you these messages with your permission.

We attempt to keep our word by using several methods and technology, including:

• Email messages
• Push notifications (OSX)
• RSS feeds
• Social media (Twitter, Facebook)
• status.eventespresso.com

If you have ideas about how we can better communicate with each other, please contact us or leave a comment below.

Your Responsibility

Please ensure that you do not inadvertently dismiss our messages to keep you informed, and that Google doesn’t interfere with our relationship. That’s it! 🙂

If you have additional feedback about how we can do better to keep you informed please contact us or leave a comment below.

A maintenance release for Event Espresso 4 is now available. Event Espresso 4.4.4.p offers 13 fixes and 3 enhancements.

Bugfixes for Event Espresso 4.4.4

• EE_Error exception when adding [ESPRESSO_EVENTS] to a LearnDash course
• PayPal IPN validation, when there’s a single quote in a ticket’s name
• Event Facebook URL and Event Twitter URL Message Shortcodes don’t Reference Event Information
• Remove “or” keywords from instance of check in EE_Admin.core.php
• Stray html tag in the pricing area of Event Espresso
• Custom payment methods not loading unless original is deleted
• Fix transaction report calculation for Total Revenue per Day
• Approved Registration status not working for payment gateways
• Sold Out Ticket that is Required allows other Tickets to be Purchased
• EE Error notice when micro updating EE4.5.0.beta
• Payment Overview has wrong dates January 1 1970

Enhancements for Event Espresso 4.4.4

• Raise minimum PHP version requirement to at least PHP 5.3.9
• Move Heartbeat API dependent admin scripts to their own file
• Add $old_STS_ID and $new_STS_ID to hooks in EE_Registration::set_status()

Updating to Event Espresso 4.4.4

One-click updates are available via the WordPress Plugins page within the WP dashboard to members who have activated their support license key. The support license key can be found on your Event Espresso account page and it is activated through the General Settings page for Event Espresso within your WordPress admin (WP dashboard).

Be sure to backup your WordPress site. Then login to your WordPress admin and click on Plugins in the WordPress admin menus. Locate Event Espresso within the list of plugins and click on Update Now.

You can also manually update your Event Espresso software. Here is information on how to manually update Event Espresso via SFTP or FTP.

What Changes were made in Event Espresso 4.4.3?

You can view the change log for Event Espresso 4.4.3.

Thanks for being a member of Event Espresso!

As we mentioned earlier this week, EventEspresso.com was the target of a DDOS attack. We want to reaffirm your data was never compromised nor vulnerable. Our user data has and been and will continue to be secure, and we continue to take action to keep it protected.

Today we have added measures to prevent additional DDOS attacks in the future and implemented rate-limiting on the api endpoints for our plugin update engine. While doing this, we also noticed an inefficient query that compounded the server problems and we fixed that too.

To make a long story short, automatic updates have been re-enabled. You should begin receiving update notifications for the Event Espresso suite of plugins as updates become available. Hint: Event Espresso 4.4.4 was released earlier today so watch for that update notification.

However, there is the possibility that we may still have to fine tune some of the measures we’ve put in place. If any of the following happen to you:

• You have multiple Event Espresso plugins installed and get update notifications for some that have updates but not others.
• You are browsing our site, interacting with forums and get a cannot connect message seemingly randomly at intervals.

Please contact us with as much detail you can provide as possible and we’ll look into things and see if there’s a problem with some preventative measures we put in place on our server.

Again, thanks for the patience during this experience! If you have any questions or comments, please contact us or comment below.

In an effort to further improve the speed and reliability of the EventEspresso.com website services (e.g. validating support license keys and serving plugin updates), we’ll be taking EventEspresso.com offline for about two hours this evening to perform some database optimization maintenance.

Like we always advise Event Espresso users, we will backup the database just as a precaution. The EventEspresso.com website database will remain secure and your account information will continue to be protected during this scheduled maintenance.

If you have any questions or concerns, please comment below or contact us.

Event Espresso 4 Decaf (lite/free) has been officially released as the most flexible, powerful and easy-to-use WordPress events plugin. After three years of development, and more awesome enhancements already in the works, every event manager and WordPress developer should rely on Event Espresso 4.

Event Espresso 4 Decaf provides core event registration management features for WordPress:

• Host unlimited events (single datetimes per event)
• Create an unlimited number of types of tickets
• Sell unlimited tickets for each event or all events
• Restrict ticket sales to the availability of different ticket types
• Restrict the ticket sales to the availability of the date and time (datetime) of the event, regardless of how many tickets or which ticket combinations are sold.
• Collect payments via PayPal Standard, Invoice, Bank Draft, and Check. Additional payment methods are available in Event Espresso 4 Regular (premium)
• Collect personal and address information for each registrant
• Send automatic Registration Approved, Registration Not Approved, Registration Pending Payment, and Payment Received email confirmations.
• And more!

The Event Espresso 4 Decaf core is a great place to start for the new event organizer.

Two Ways to Download

A BIG Thank You

Seth Shoultes, co-founder, offers his thanks to the Event Espresso users and staff who made this possible:

Users of Event Espresso 3, from all over the world, deserve a GREAT BIG THANK YOU! You have played a major role in steering the features we developed for EE4 over time. It’s our turn to repay you for all of your patience and guidance over the last 5+ years.

I truly hope you enjoy EE4 and all of the work we have put into this version of the plugin since we started development almost three years ago now. I am sure you will find EE4 much more flexible and intuitive than any other event registration and management system on WordPress.

Get the Caffeine – Upgrade to Regular (Premium)

Save more time and money, and get more power with Event Espresso 4 Regular (premium), which has exclusive features such as:

• Authorize.net AIM, PayPal Pro, and Mijireh payment gateway integrations
• Compatibility with Event Espresso 4 add-ons
• Unlimited events (multiple datetimes per event too)
• Event check-in tracking
• Customizable email messages
• Custom registration forms (custom questions)
• Tax management
• Default ticket management
• Price modifiers (discounts and surcharges)
• Venue manager
• and more event registration features for WordPress!

To Upgrade:

• Purchase an Event Espresso 4 Support License
• Add your support license key to the General Settings page of Event Espresso 4
• Follow the prompts to upgrade to Event Espresso Regular

We hope you like Event Espresso 4 decaf, please leave us a comment below and tell us what you think.

This major release for Event Espresso 4 brings a couple new features but many enhancements and fixes. We’ve added the ability to customize the ticket selector (via filter), a button for attendees to resend their payment or registration emails from the thank you page, raised the PHP version requirement to 5.3+ for 4.4+, allow date and time localization (i18n), and more.

New Features

• Customize the Ticket Selector via a filter
• Added a link/button for attendees to resend the registration or payment emails from the Thank You page

Notable Enhancements

• Raising the php requirements to 5.3+
  Customers can always download and install EE 4.3.2, from the pre-release channel within your account, which is compatible with PHP 5.2 until they can find a better web host.
• Add filters to change date and time localization (i18n)
• Adding theme conditionals and template tags
• Add Bank Draft (EFT) to payment options listed in refunds screen
• Create “template_tags.php” File For Holding ALL Template Tags
• Send the Event Name with shopping cart info to PayPal Standard
• Move all publicly editable templates, assets, etc into a “Public” folder within the plugin root

Notable Fixes

• ESPRESSO_EVENTS shortcodes params getting overwritten
• Usage of do_shortcode() with EE shortcodes in templates
• Maintenance Mode for visitors appearing as a blank page
• Ticket editor ticket limit (max_input_vars)
• Invoice showing registration details for extra registration groups in reverse order
• Month property not working in event shortcodes

Updating to Event Espresso 4.4.0.p