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Ben
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November 3, 2013 at 11:13 am
Hi Guys,
I’m pretty sure this a non starter, but I thought I would ask to see if someone has managed to achieve the following;
I’m trying to get recurring multiple events with each event only allowing 1 attendee, and the event needs to be a booking slot of 3 possible time slots for the attendee to choose from.
Has anyone managed to get a booking time slot system setup using EE?
Thanks.
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Tony
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November 4, 2013 at 3:43 am
Hi Ben,
Are you looking for 1 Event, with 3 available time slots each with the availability for 1 attendees.
So lets say a ‘1on1 Music Tuition Class’.
Time slots 1-2pm, 2-3pm, 3-4pm
So the event stays active if booking slot 2-3pm is taken and other attendees can book the other available time slots?
OR
1 Event (same as above) only once a time slot is taken the event closes?
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Ben
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November 4, 2013 at 4:06 am
Thanks Tony,
60min, 90min, and 120min to be exact are the options available.
However, if someone selects 60min, then the 2nd hour will be lost, and there is no way of overlapping the time slots for a secondary event with 3 time choices as the other events don’t talk to one another.
Its effectively a flight booking session, where you can select a day, a time, and the length of time you want the session 60min, 90min, and 120min. The time of sessions will be between 12:00 – 19:00 for example.
Is there of doing this? Do I have to force my client to cap possible time slots – e.g. 12-2, 2-4, 1hour break, 5-7?
If 3 people selected 1 hour slots, then 3 hours would be lost, but this would be a better productive solution.
Would it be a recurring event 12-2, with 3 ticket choices of 60min, 90min, and 120min?
Thanks.
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Tony
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November 4, 2013 at 6:55 am
In that case, I don’t think the first option will be possible with Event Espresso. Variable times is not something EE was built to accommodate and is actually fairly complex.
Your idea of blocks would likely work.
You could create one single event with both multiple times and multiple ticket types (60min, 90min, 120min) or you could separate the events and have multiple single events each with a single event time.
REM does not create seperate events for each time slot, rather a single event with multiple time slots, does that make sense?
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Ben
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November 4, 2013 at 8:05 am
Thanks Tony,
How can I associate the right price with the right selected time slot? e.g. 60min (180$), 90min(250$) and 120min(320$)
Thanks
Ben
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Ben
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November 4, 2013 at 8:48 am
Scrap that Tony,
I just need to have the 3 slots as 3 different pricing tiers, instead of adult, child, senior, it is now 60min (180$), 90min(250$) and 120min(320$). That right?
Thanks.
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Tony
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November 4, 2013 at 8:48 am
Good Question.
Whichever way you do this is going to require some admin work with the current system.
So to put it into context. Its a flight booking system yes?
Say we have 1 plane in which ‘students’ can book a ‘training session’ (60min, 90min, 120min)
So on any given day we have ‘sessions’. 12-2, 2-4, 5-7. (they may be booked for smaller times, but currently that’s what we are limited to)
EE isn’t designed for this kind of system so unfortunately, there’s a lot of admin involved in making this work.
Setup a single event with multiple time slots for each day.
I would turn on the Time slot restrictions (Event Espresso -> General Settings -> Use registration limits on time slots?)
Set each time slot with a qty of 1.
Setup a total quantity (right hand side) of in this example 3 (3 time slots)
Setup 3 ticket types (prices) for the times 60min, 90min, 120min.
Then each events time slot can have a registration for any one of those ticket types. Problem is a 60min ticket, does not open up the other 60min remaining of the time slot as you mention.
You could break the tickets into 30mins. They purchase 30min ‘flight time’, must purchase a minimum of 2 tickets but can purchase more* (state in the description). That way each time slot could be a single event, have an attendee limit of 4 (each ticket would technically be an attendee) then if someone purchases 2 tickets (60min flight time) that event will remain open for until 2 more are purchased.
*You can apply volume discounts to accommodate your pricing structure.
Its a workaround that still involves admin (you’d need to contact the attendees with either 12-1 or 1-2 times each event)
I’ll ask the team and see if someone can look in here, see if anyone else can add any ideas but ultimately this isn’t something EE was designed for.
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