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We are pleased to announce that Event Espresso 4 is now fully integrated with the Stripe payment gateway. Stripe is a quick and secure way to accept credit card and debit card payments online.

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

Thousands of businesses and organizations are using Stripe today: Fortune 500 companies, rapidly-growing startups, side projects, nonprofits, and everything in between. Check out the gallery for a broad sampling.

What will my customers see? Will they need to go to a Stripe webpage?

Payment form popup

Your customers will see exactly what you want them to see—and they’ll never need to leave your Event Espresso powered website.

PCI Compliance

By using any of Stripe’s client libraries, such as Stripe.js for the web or the mobile APIs, you’re automatically compliant with the strictest PCI requirements.

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

About Stripe and Event Espresso 4

Stripe processes all transactions for you. Once your Stripe account is integrated into your site, you can accept payments immediately.

Funds are added to your bank account on a seven-day rolling basis. A two-day transfer may be possible after your first transfer. Visit Stripe’s documentation for more information.

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.

A maintenance release for Event Espresso 4 is now available. Event Espresso 4.4.10.p includes one fix. Event Espresso 4.4.9.p includes 14 fixes and 6 enhancements.

Bugfixes for Event Espresso 4.4.10

• Restore event overview filters (category, date, status)

Interested in contributing to the Event Espresso 4 project? Request access to our project on GitHub

Bugfixes for Event Espresso 4.4.9

• Fix text box/label formatting when returning to payment options
• Fix second instance of an [ESPRESSO_EVENTS] shortcode on a page order_by & sort
• Fix [ESPRESSO_EVENTS] order_by parameter no longer accepting multiple values
• Fix broken WordPress Shortlinks
• Fix not approved thank you page trying to load payment data
• Fix private events so they don’t lose the ticket selector
• Fix the phone number value not appearing when editing an attendee record after registration checkout
• Simulate core EE editor to define pagenow a bit earlier
• Don’t add thousand separators when sending totals to Mijireh
• Use better type checking for messages shortcode parser to fix the issue where “0” was interpreted as a non-truthy value and thus stripped
• If a line item has no name make one up, based on its type to fix an unnamed tax line item sent to gateways
• Fix messages issues with having a single quote in a company name
• Import from CSV: Switch order of formatting datetimes. First try to format as an excel date. If not an exact match, parse it normally
• Don’t prevent deletion of model objects if they have related extra meta. Add unit test to prove this is correct

Interested in contributing to the Event Espresso 4 project? Request access to our project on GitHub

Enhancements for Event Espresso 4.4.9

• Change labels from dollar discount/surcharge to fixed discount/surcharge
• Update max_input_vars check to 5.3.9
• Add Paypal Partnership Code
• Add timeout setting to the Authnet AIM gateway
• Make the offsite gateway strings i18n
• Change migrations so venue URL slugs match the venue title

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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.

A maintenance release for Event Espresso 4 is now available. Event Espresso 4.4.8.p includes one fix.

Bugfixes for Event Espresso 4.4.8

• Fix incorrectly calculated ticket price when using comma for decimal place and period for thousands

Interested in contributing to the Event Espresso 4 project? Request access to our project on GitHub

A maintenance release for Event Espresso 4 is now available. Event Espresso 4.4.7.p offers 5 fixes.

Bugfixes for Event Espresso 4.4.7

• Fix issue in upcoming events widget where short event titles don’t bump images down & big images can overflow
• Fix issue where expired events cannot be viewed
• Fix unlocalized strings and labels for the admin
• Fix Undefined variable + Cannot modify header information warning when updating attendee registration form in admin
• Add check for wpdb::set_sql_mode (only existed since WordPress 3.9.0)

Interested in contributing to the Event Espresso 4 project? Request access to our project on GitHub

A maintenance release for Event Espresso 4 is now available. Event Espresso 4.4.6.p offers 10 fixes and 3 enhancements.

Bugfixes for Event Espresso 4.4.6

• Fix datetimes being based on UTC rather than local time when being displayed on the front end
• Fix events with a status of  ‘Cancelled’ still allowing registrations
• Fix ESPRESSO_EVENTS shortcode where pagination stops working if used on the ‘Front Page’
• Fix issue with prices with commas
• Fix event category archives
• Fix events with no limit set on a datetime importing as sold out
• Fix error when attempting to remove a trashed registrant
• Fix ‘Notice: Undefined index: test_transactions in /event-espresso-core-reg/modules/gateways/Paypal_Pro/EE_Paypal_Pro.class.php on line 781’
• Fix “Allow Payment-retry for Pending and Deferred Payments?”
• Fix STRICT_ALL_TABLES issue for WordPress 4.1

Enhancements for Event Espresso 4.4.6

• Add a whole whack of filters to control displayed text within the ticket selector
• Merge GitHub Pull Request #46: Updated Thank You page header to be consistent (props nickrouty)
• Merge GitHub Pull Request #45: Removed line that isn’t applicable to Ticket Selector table columns (props nickrouty)

Interested in contributing to the Event Espresso 4 project? Request access to our project on GitHub

A maintenance release for Event Espresso 4 is now available. Event Espresso 4.4.5.p offers 13 fixes and 2 enhancements.

Bugfixes for Event Espresso 4.4.5

• Fix issue where multiple required tickets causes some ticket options to become sold out
• Fix datetimes being based on UTC rather than local time when being displayed on the front end
• Fix Upcoming events widget does not display events that are currently active
• Fix issue where the visibility of password protected on an event allowed registration through event listing page
• Clean up translation strings
• Fix untranslatable messaging verbiage
• Fix issue where an extra space created a duplicate language domain entry for “In order to process your registration” message in SPCO
• Fix the “Display expired events” options in the Template settings
• Fix ability to remove price modifiers
• Fix issue where events with no dates became unusable due to warning
• Fix registration ticket price for tickets that get added to a secondary datetime
• Fix Default Registration Status default setting option
• Convert state number to state name for Authorize.net receipt

Enhancements for Event Espresso 4.4.5

• Merge Pull Request: Added echo/return capabilities to template tags (ht: jonathan-dejong)
• Merge GitHub Pull Request #42: Added markup around ticket info (ht: jonathan-dejong)

Interested in contributing to the Event Espresso 4 project? Request access to our project on GitHub

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.