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Devaraj
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January 11, 2016 at 4:55 am
In EE3 it was so easy to add a flat discount with expiry in each of our events.
I just purchased the Promo Discount Plugin and it seems like i still have to create a unique discount in the plugin then apply it to the event. We do a LOT of events so this adds to our already busy workload.
Also, we use an “Early Bird Discount” on all our events, yet nowhere will the customer see that the price is an EBD until the end of the transaction.
There’s got to be an easier way, as was the case in EE3.
I was hoping to creat a master discount that I could simply apply every time i created an event instead of creating a discount for every one.
I was hoping upgrading to EE4 and the several plugins would make our jobs easier, alas it seems not.
Am I missing something?
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Garth
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January 11, 2016 at 11:10 am
Hi Osholeela,
You can create a promotion code(s) that apply to all events without having to go and re-apply them:
Does that help?
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Devaraj
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January 11, 2016 at 11:17 am
Thanks….
Here’s a more detailed example of what we need…. 7 days before each event starting date, the early discount expires and the full price begins.
EE3 made this very easy.
I created an event with dual pricing (the first one ends, then the second begins) but it really ads clutter to the page and is confusing to the end user from feedback I received.
A global discount wouldn’t work because of the date restrictions. Also I don’t want to have to email people with a promo code as that ads more work to our admin staff.
Suggestions?
Thanks!
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Lorenzo Orlando Caum
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January 11, 2016 at 11:39 am
Hi Osholeela,
It is possible to hide tickets with certain statuses in the ticket editor. For example, an upcoming ticket option that is not yet available for purchase will have a status of “pending” so you could use some CSS like this to hide it from the event listing page and the single event page:
/* Hide ticket options with a status of upcoming */
.espresso_events .ticket-pending {display:none;}
The CSS above could be added to your child theme’s stylesheet or through a free plugin like My Custom CSS or Reaktiv CSS Builder.
This link has some more examples for other statuses available:
https://gist.github.com/lorenzocaum/7c1d3dce3c9efe486361
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Lorenzo
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Devaraj
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January 11, 2016 at 11:57 am
Thanks Lorenzo,
It still means creating double prices… no joy from the admin team on this option. (I sold them on EE based on saying it would reduce their workload.. ouch).
Back to the drawing board…
Thanks…
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Lorenzo Orlando Caum
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January 11, 2016 at 1:37 pm
Hi, you could use the duplicate option to speed up creating that extra ticket. You would just need to update the date available, pricing, and name of the duplicated option.
Although it seems like a few more steps, this is more flexible because the early bird option in Event Espresso 3 would apply to all ticket options that were created per event.
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Lorenzo
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Devaraj
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January 12, 2016 at 4:56 am
Hmm.. in our EE3 the early discount applied to all prices for that specific event, same discount, same expiry, again, which worked perfectly for us.
Bottom line, EE4 seems like a lot of tweaking for such a simple task.
Ok, will meditate on it for a while… thanks….
P.S. My EE4 Upcoming events widget shows the expired events, even though all the dates have been checked, (closing, registration etc), the events are flagged “expired”.
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Devaraj
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January 12, 2016 at 5:24 am
Another way to do it could be:
Create a custom discount for each event which includes all the data, price, expiry etc then create a shortcode to be placed in the event page or an option to choose the particular promo discount when the event is created.
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Lorenzo Orlando Caum
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January 12, 2016 at 8:35 am
Thanks for the feedback and while the prior behavior may have worked well for you, we also received feedback that members wanted to be able to apply early-bird pricing to select tickets rather than all created for an event.
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Lorenzo
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