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Rob Slowen
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April 10, 2013 at 11:18 am
Hi guys
We want to use Woocommerce to handle payments for EE events and so need to use the alternate registration URL within Event Espresso.
What do we need to do to achieve this?
I have entered a URL which will add a product to the woocommerce cart in the alternate registration page field within the event back-end.
However, this URL doesn’t appear in the front-end.
If we turn off the registration form in the back-end then the form disappears but no button or URL appears on the event to take the customer to the alternate registration page.
What we are trying to achieve is for the event to have a clear ‘book’ button on it and the URL to be the alternate registration URL we have entered.
Are there any instructions on how to do this anywhere?
Do we need to turn off payment gateways within EE?
If we leave the registration form on to be just basic details, then can we have the button produced follow the alternate registration URL instead of going down the payment route?
An aside to this is that when we turn off the registration form on an event, the price and event times also disappear.
Thanks
Rob
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Jonathan Wilson
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April 10, 2013 at 3:13 pm
Hi Rob,
I don’t think this is possible at this time. I have yet to see a successful integration of Event Espresso and WooCommerce. It would take significant customization is order to make this happen.
Feel free to reach out to any of our Event Espresso Pro partners or post your customization to the Event Espresso Jobs site to see if any one else would be able to take on the project for you within your budget and timeline.
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Rob Slowen
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April 11, 2013 at 3:33 am
Hi Jonathan
Thanks for your reply.
Please can you explain how the alternate registration form URL would work on an event listing?
Please ignore the fact that we are using Woocommerce and any integration there at this stage as there will be no integration as such (we will manually book people into EE).
The issue we are having is that we cannot see where the alternate URL should appear in the frontend event listing.
Once we can see how alternate registration should work then we can work something out.
Thanks
Rob
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Rob Slowen
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April 11, 2013 at 5:33 am
Can I just add to this again – does the alternate URL have to be a URL on a different site – we want it to be a URL actually on our site.
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Sidney Harrell
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April 11, 2013 at 9:48 am
The alternate registration url replaces the standard registration url in the register button. So when someone clicks on register from the event list or the calendar, they are taken to the alternate registration url.
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Rob Slowen
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April 11, 2013 at 10:52 am
Ok I understand. Although that doesn’t happen on our site.
We are using an EE table to list our events and the link for an event with alternate URL doesn’t change anything. The customer clicks on the link in the table and is taken to the event description as normal.
This is why I was hoping that the alternate URL could be utilised as the URL for a Register/Book button within the event description itself.
There is another developer who have done a Woocommerce integration for their event plugin – the plugin is called Wootickets.
It’s just that event espresso is such a powerful events plugin that it would be a step back to revert to a different event plugin.
Sounds like if someone can develop such a plugin then it would be popular and commercially viable …
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Josh
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April 11, 2013 at 12:57 pm
Hi Rob,
The table template that you’re using may have been developed before the alternate registration page feature was added to Event Espresso. The standard event list display template does a check for the alternate registration URL and if there is one, it uses that link instead. The table template that is set up on your site could be modified to do the same thing.
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Rob Slowen
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April 11, 2013 at 1:27 pm
Thanks Josh
That’s not a bad thing for us as we want people to click through to the events from the table.
What we are trying to achieve is a ‘Book / Register’ button on the event registration itself that when clicked follows the alternate URL entered in the back-end.
Does this sound feasible via the event templates?
We would ideally want the same book button to be replicated on the table but that’s another story . …
Joanathan stated above that this wouldn’t be possible at this time – I’m not one to take no for an answer – it’s got to be possible?!
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Josh
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April 11, 2013 at 1:33 pm
It’s possible but it would involve custom development of the registration page template so that the registration page included a link to the alternate registration page.
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Rob Slowen
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April 11, 2013 at 1:46 pm
Ok – I’m going to pass this on to my developer to look at.
Is there any documentation for him to look at for making the modification?
Or is there a specific place to look for the relevant code to add or modify?
Or indeed if you could share any ideas on what code might work then feel free to post – other than that the next post from me will likely be from my developer!
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Josh
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April 12, 2013 at 8:48 am
Hi Rob,
The registration URL is typically used in the event list. If your developer looks in event_list.php around line 385 they’ll see this:
//This can be used in place of the registration link if you are usign the external URL feature
$registration_url = $externalURL != '' ? $externalURL : espresso_reg_url($event_id);
This checks to see if there is anything filled out in the alternate registration field and if there is, use that as the registration URL, and if there isn’t, then link to the Event Espresso event.
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