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Jason
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February 1, 2016 at 8:26 am
I had found a support thread from January 2015 with a solution I’m interested in:
https://eventespresso.com/topic/classes-for-a-semester/
Garth (Support Team) mentioned adding ‘payment options’ to checkout:
How can this be done?
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Jason
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February 1, 2016 at 8:28 am
Sorry…the citation didn’t work properly:
You can give people payment options, and the option they choose will apply to the entire transaction
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Tony
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February 1, 2016 at 9:37 am
Hi Jason,
Garth is referring to the Payment Methods available within the checkout.
If you go to Event Espresso -> Payment Methods you’ll find some included payment methods there. You can enabled 1 (or more) payment methods to allow the user to select how they would like to pay.
IS that what you are looking for?
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Jason
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February 1, 2016 at 10:20 am
Thank you for the quick response.
No, that was not what I was looking for. I must have misunderstood.
Basically, we have a conference with multiple classes that we want registrants to reserve seats for – for free, but pay for the conference. So, a one time registration fee + sign up for classes.
Is there a better option than to setup one paid event (registration fee) and multiple free events (classes)? The obvious problem here is that people could register/reserve-seats without paying the actual registration fee. I really want to add a registration fee or a checkout/cart surcharge as the conference fee.
Does this exist with EE4 and the Multi-Events Plugin?
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Josh
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February 1, 2016 at 11:12 am
Hi Jason,
One way you can offer free classes while requiring payment for the main conference registration is set up one event, and make the Conference ticket required. This prevents anyone from registering/reserve-seats without paying the actual registration fee.
You can make the conference ticket required by checking the box that says “This ticket is required” when you set up the tickets for the event.
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Jason
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February 3, 2016 at 6:30 am
Hi Josh…I thought that would work too, but it doesn’t. You are able to checkout without purchasing the ‘required event’. I want each class to be an event, because I want them to be able to be viewed separately.
That’s why an additional surcharge at checkout would be ideal.
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Josh
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February 3, 2016 at 9:00 am
That’s not at all what I outlined. In order to accomplish what you’re looking to do, you can set up pages for each class, then put the ticket selector for that one event on those pages. This way, the classes can be viewed separately, but you’ll still be able to require the purchase of the conference ticket.
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Jason
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February 4, 2016 at 7:25 am
Josh…thanks so much. That is so close to what I need. I did setup pages for each of the 20 classes I have + the single event for the conference with the 20 different ticket options (one per class).
There are just two other parts of this that I would like to clean up, if possible:
1. Is there a way to show just the single ticket option on the page and not all 20 ticket options? I’m using the shortcode below now, is there something that will specify only showing a single ticket option?
[ESPRESSO_TICKET_SELECTOR event_id=260]
2. I want to limit the number of seats in the classes, but only allow for a single registration. For example, I want to allow someone to add a single seat for a specific class (ticket) – 1 out of 25 – that would show a QTY dropdown to choose 1 – 25. I would really like to not have that option – just add to cart. Same for the overall registration. However, if I change ‘maximum number of tickets allowed per order’ to 1, then you can only choose one ticket and the required conference cost is bypassed, thus someone is able to register for free. People can also change the conference registration to 0 and not pay or remove it from their cart.
Are there work arounds to this?
Thanks so much for your great feedback, truly.
You can see what I have here: http://adacbgaconference.org/agenda-and-courses/
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Jason
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February 4, 2016 at 7:30 am
Whoa. Sorry, I just saw the Max quantity modifier per ticket. That seems to fix part of what I just laid out. I’ve just been looking at it too long. However, a user could still remove the registration (required ticket) from their cart at checkout.
I would also like to just show a single ticket item per page with the ticket selector.
Thanks…
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Josh
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February 4, 2016 at 7:59 am
I’ll follow up with your questions/comments below:
1. Is there a way to show just the single ticket option on the page and not all 20 ticket options? I’m using the shortcode below now, is there something that will specify only showing a single ticket option?
I would also like to just show a single ticket item per page with the ticket selector.
No, it’d be possible to do this if you didn’t require that main conference registration ticket that has a cost, and I think we both agree that you really need to require it.
2. I want to limit the number of seats in the classes, but only allow for a single registration. For example, I want to allow someone to add a single seat for a specific class (ticket) – 1 out of 25 – that would show a QTY dropdown to choose 1 – 25. I would really like to not have that option – just add to cart. Same for the overall registration. However, if I change ‘maximum number of tickets allowed per order’ to 1, then you can only choose one ticket and the required conference cost is bypassed, thus someone is able to register for free. People can also change the conference registration to 0 and not pay or remove it from their cart.
Are there work arounds to this?
What you do here is:
1) Deactivate the Multi Event Registration add-on. This step is important in order to avoid the situation where people can change the conference registration to 0 and not pay/remove it from their cart.
2) Then go to edit the event and click the gear icon for the ticket, and set its Maximum Quantity field to 1.
3) Repeat step 2 for all of the other tickets.
4) Update the event.
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Jason
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February 4, 2016 at 8:00 am
Another question:
If I go to multiple pages and add classes/tickets to my cart multiple times, then the required payment (registration) duplicates. I can obviously manage that number in my cart, but it’s problematic. What am I missing there?
Thanks…
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Josh
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February 4, 2016 at 8:04 am
Hi Jason,
Please see my above reply, one of the important things here is you’ll need to deactivate the Multi Event Registration add-on.
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Jason
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February 4, 2016 at 9:56 am
Josh…great stuff, thank you.
That all seems to work good enough. It’s not quite as clean (or maybe separate) as I was thinking, but it’s definitely not as problematic as I originally had it setup. Thank you for your quick and helpful responses.
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