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tom
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September 1, 2015 at 1:41 am
hello,
Looking for a solution to build a clubbing ticketing system. Not sure if event espresso will fit the purpose. Basically, there is limited tickets/seats every nite. We would like to allow people to buy tickets/reserve seats through a website.
Please let me know
Thank you!
Thomas
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Tony
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September 1, 2015 at 4:55 am
Hi Thomas,
How are you today?
Event Espresso does support ticket limits on a per ticket and per event (datetime) basis, however it depends on what it is you require.
When you say reserve seats is it admission based on purchasing a ticket and then they are seated or you want to allocate seats?
I’m assuming each daily event would be a separate ‘event’ is that correct?
If you can provide a full breakdown of your requirements we can advise from there. You can also ‘testdrive’ both EE3 and EE4 using these links:
Test Drive Event Espresso
Test Drive Event Espresso 4
Which give you access to a site with EE installed so you can create an event and see how it works.
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tom
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September 2, 2015 at 1:44 am
Thanks for your speedy response. Let me share some background. I am building a system which allows people to either book tables or buy tickets for different clubs.
Each club has limited # of tables and # of tickets for each nite. The clubs opened 7 night a week so it is kind of ongoing events every nite for each club.
People have 2 options:
1. Book tables
2. Buy tickets
There are only few tables in each club so the admission price is charged by table. This is usually a good deal if you have larger # of people that will share the table cost.
The other option is to buy ticket. Ticket is charged per person. People bought tickets earn the admission to the club but they wont get a table.
Does it make sense?
Basically, I am planning to setup an ongoing nightly event for each club. And there is 2 type of booking: table booking & ticket purchase.
Thank you!
Thomas
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Tony
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September 2, 2015 at 6:12 am
Hi Thomas,
That helps, thank you.
Event Espresso can handle those types of registrations, to be clear you can have, for example…
10 Tables = $100 each
30 Tickets = $10 each
Users can chose to purchase 1 or more tables, or 1 or more tickets (or even a selection of both if preferred)
One issue you may have is that currently EE4 does not support creating ‘recurring’ events. So each of those daily events will need to be manually created. You can duplicate a single event multiple times, but each of the duplicates will need the event title and dates adjusting to suit.
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tom
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September 4, 2015 at 1:08 am
thanks for your swift response. Can “recurring events” requirement be covered by “Multiple Dates and Times Per Event” in EE4? Can I have multiple ticket options per day for a single multi-dates event?
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Marcus
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September 4, 2015 at 2:08 am
Hi Tom,
(this is my opinion as a developer, ..I am in no way associated with EE4 but have just completed this build – https://www.insynctickets.com – ok, not yet completed, but live)
This is an interesting request with the reoccurring events, ..and not something I think is possible in the way you want it and would be easy to manage with tickets and reporting, ..but you could duplicate events for each night (assuming the club is likely not open 7 night a week and sometimes there may be different parameters).
This would not be a huge amount of admin if you add the wp plugin to clone/duplicate posts.
One thing to beware, ..the current live version of EE4 allows overselling for high demand events if available tickets are added to multiple carts at the same time, ..only happens in high demand events, but caused a big issue for me.
There is a fix but it is not yet merged to the production but you can grab the branch here: https://github.com/eventespresso/event-espresso-core/tree/BUG-8698-ticket-sellouts and read about it here https://github.com/eventespresso/event-espresso-core/issues/109
This will likely be in the next live version update but is something you should be aware of if you move fast and hope to go live soon.
Other than that I highly recommend EE4 as it is definitely the best available option on the market for WP without building a custom solution.
Feel free to let me know if you have any real world questions.
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Tony
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September 7, 2015 at 2:01 pm
Can “recurring events” requirement be covered by “Multiple Dates and Times Per Event” in EE4?
Not easily.
Unless you want to give access to all datetimes with a single ticket (which would then prevent any kind of limits from working correctly) you will need to create a single datetime and single ticket for each datetime. This will be difficult to both manage register onto so I don’t think this would be a via solution for events with multiple ‘instances’ (datetimes)
Can I have multiple ticket options per day for a single multi-dates event?
You can assign as many tickets to as many datetimes as you would like. A Datetime is an instance of the event itself, a ticket gives access to the datetimes it is assigned to. This can be a single datetime, a select few or all of them.
I would recommend creating a test event within our testdrive site to see if this suits your needs:
Test Drive Event Espresso 4
Does that help?
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