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March 11, 2015 at 4:28 pm

I am trying to create a two-day event with multiple date-times and different ticket options per date-time. For example on Saturday 3/21 we will have 24 different possible start times (every 20 minutes from 8am – 5pm), then in each of these date times the customer has the option to buy one of three tickets at different prices. Each date-time will have a limit of 40 tickets being sold.

I’ve been trying to figure out the best way to do this for days, is it even possible with Event Espresso? The only thing I could think of was create a ticket for each possibility, but that is 2 days multiplied by 24 slots multiplied by 3 ticket prices which is 144 tickets. Whenever I try to do that I get the following error:

The number of inputs on this page has been exceeded. You cannot add anymore items (i.e. tickets, datetimes, custom fields) on this page because of your servers PHP “max_input_vars” setting

I updated to the newest version of Event Espresso and still have the error. Is there a better way I should be doing that. I feel like this is a common way to sell tickets and there must be an easier way than entering 144 different tickets manually.

Also, I want to have the prices change (get more expensive) the closer we get to the event – going up $10/week. If I need to do that manually I guess I’ll have no choice, but if it were possible to be automatic that would really help.

I see other software can handle all of these requirements, but since I already purchased Event Espresso I would rather use this – I got the impression we could do this from the website’s “features” and “add ons” section before I bought it.

Thanks for any help.