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July 8, 2015 at 6:36 am

Hi Craig,

Thanks for your interest in Event Espresso!

You may want take EE4 for a test drive (for free) over at http://demoee.org. This may help you figure out if EE is a good fit for your needs.

To answer your questions:

Calendar date picker for user on front end

EE4 has a calendar addon, that shows events and can be used to select them. This is sold separately to the core plugin, or is included in the EE4 Everything licence.

User can pay via PayPal (or similar pay options to Woo Commerce)

PayPal standard, PayPal Pro and Authorize AIM are included in the core plugin (as well as Invoice, Cheque payments etc). Additional gateways can be purchased separately (such as Stripe).

Front end has a description of the course

Yes.

Possibility of booking multiple people on the course in 1 booking (book up to 4 tickets at once for colleagues)

Yes you can have multiple bookings in one go. You can also limit how many can be booked in one registration.

Some courses are a 2 day course that runs over a weekend. But each day is sold as separate, giving the user the option of attending one day and not the other. Plus, there’s a discount for booking a weekend pass. I.E…
Saturday – £160
Sunday – £160
Weekend – £300 (so there’s a £20 discount when booking a weekend pass)

How this would be handled is via tickets and datetimes. You set up 2 date times (one for each date) and then 3 tickets, one for date A, one for date B and one for Both dates. These can be prices differently and can also use the same datetime capacity so that there is no overbooking.

It would also be great if there was a way of adding discount codes. These would be manually created and sent to users prior to booking.

Promo codes for EE4 is currently only available in Beta form, but we are hoping to formally release this once all known bugs have been squashed (soon I hope, though no formal date on this yet).

Lastly I need some form of “stock control”. So I need to limit the number of attendees to 20 (but this can vary from course to course). So it should only allow 20 people to book on the Saturday and 20 on the Sunday.

Yes, as touched upon earlier, each datetime and each ticket can be limited in capacity allowing for a very flexible capacity system.

Let me know if you have any other questions or need clarification on anything, and please do give EE4 a test drive!

July 9, 2015 at 5:17 am

My client has a course that runs 28-29 September & 2nd October. So there is no course on 1st October.

Yes this is possible, combining that with your previous requirements you would need 3 datetimes.

September 28th, September 29th & October 2nd.

Then also 4 tickets, one for each datetime (to allow for individual datetimes to be registered onto) and then ‘Weekend pass’ which registers onto all datetimes assigned to it.