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Brent Ross
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May 1, 2014 at 2:47 pm
Hi there,
we’re looking at implementing Event Espresso for our site, and have a few questions regarding our requirements:
1. Cart/E-Commerce: My understanding is that Espresso uses it’s own check-out cart. We’re building a business that is not just events, but also physical products and a subscription service that will gate access to certain parts of the site for subscribers. How would you suggest we approach using Espresso with these requirements? (NOTE: We are also recent Infusionsoft customers, and we have e-commerce through them, but haven’t explored how this would work yet). We’d like to use the Infusionsoft Add-On for Espresso.
2. We’re a training company, and we need the ability to Wait List people when one of our courses is full. Is this something Espresso can manage?
3. We need the ability to make certain events (courses) private, such that only those people organizing taking the course can register. Possible?
4. We need to be able to do multi-day events where start and end times for each day are different. E.g., a course that start in an afternoon and goes into the evening, and then starts in the morning the next day and completes in the afternoon. Possible?
Thanks!
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Dean
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May 2, 2014 at 2:30 am
Hi Brent,
Thanks for your interest in Event Espresso.
We have two versions currently EE3 and EE4. EE3 has a lot of features and addons available, and EE4 is the next generation so still a work in progress, but when finalised it will be a superior product.
1. Cart/E-Commerce: My understanding is that Espresso uses it’s own check-out cart. We’re building a business that is not just events, but also physical products and a subscription service that will gate access to certain parts of the site for subscribers. How would you suggest we approach using Espresso with these requirements? (NOTE: We are also recent Infusionsoft customers, and we have e-commerce through them, but haven’t explored how this would work yet). We’d like to use the Infusionsoft Add-On for Espresso.
For physicals products you could either set them up as ticket options (e.g. Ticket $10, Ticket plus T-shirt $20, etc).
Alternatively, for EE3, there is the Price Modifier add on (beta) that allows you to set questions that modify the price.
Memberships would need to be handled by a third party plugin but EE has the WP User Integration plugin that can log events a user registers for as well as providing a different price for logged in members.
2. We’re a training company, and we need the ability to Wait List people when one of our courses is full. Is this something Espresso can manage?
In EE3 yes. EE4 does not have waitlists right now.
3. We need the ability to make certain events (courses) private, such that only those people organizing taking the course can register. Possible?
In EE3 it might be possible by using the membership plugin to block access to a specific page that has a shortcode to that specific event. it would take some fiddling and may not be perfect. EE4 uses custom post types so you could simply password protect the event.
4. We need to be able to do multi-day events where start and end times for each day are different. E.g., a course that start in an afternoon and goes into the evening, and then starts in the morning the next day and completes in the afternoon. Possible?
With EE4 this is really easy. EE3 not so much as you can create multiple times, but they are the same for each day, unless you create an event per day.
If you haven’t already I would highly recommend testing out EE4 over at demoee.org (it’s a free test server). It will give you a clearer idea of what EE4 is capable of.
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