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Henry Finkelstein
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March 20, 2013 at 5:57 pm
Hello. I’m using WP version 3.5.1 and EE version 3.1.30.7P. I want to know if I can set it up to allow customers to buy a “pack” of 5 or 10 tickets that they can then choose to use at a later time.
For example: Today I buy the 5 pack, pay for the pack, and leave the website. Tomorrow I go on the website and register for an event and “apply” my first pre-purchased ticket. Since I’ve already paid, I do not need to pay anything on this visit. A week from now I go on the site again and register for another event and now I’ve used 2/5. Again, I do not need to pay here because I’m working through my pre-purchased bundle. And so on until I’ve used up all 5 classes.
Is this possible?
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Garth
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March 20, 2013 at 9:39 pm
Hi Henry,
We don’t have a pre-purchase or “credit” system in Event Espresso at this time. We do hope to build this in a future version. If you really need this feature we might consider adding it in a later version if you can help with the cost, otherwise we’ll add it to our list of feature requests.
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Henry Finkelstein
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March 20, 2013 at 9:41 pm
What did you have in mind in terms of helping with cost?
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Garth
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March 20, 2013 at 9:45 pm
Here is more info on the Sponsored Development program: https://eventespresso.com/about/philosophy/#sponsored-development
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Henry Finkelstein
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March 20, 2013 at 9:54 pm
How long do you think it’ll take to develop? And since this is a function you can market as an additional add-on, and one that closes the gap between you and mind body, how much are you willing to discount your hourly rate?
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Garth
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March 20, 2013 at 10:06 pm
According to that policy we discount our rate 50%. I don’t have an estimate for how long it would take right now. What is your deadline?
Event Espresso would probably prefer that we build this on Event Espresso 4 (formerly 3.2) which will be more accommodating for this type of feature.
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Henry Finkelstein
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March 20, 2013 at 10:23 pm
That seems reasonable, depending on how long it takes to build.
When will EE 4 go live? One of my clients is yoga studio and I just transitioned them from mind body (which has the functionality) so they want it as soon as possible.
As a stop-gap measure, couldn’t we sell 1 “event” that is the bundle and then send them 5 or 10 unique one-time promotion codes that are 100% off? Definitely more manual that I’d like, but it would work, right?
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Josh
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March 21, 2013 at 12:07 pm
Hi Henry,
Event Espresso 4 is nearing beta, but it’s going to be in beta for quite awhile because there are many features and add-ons that need to be ported over.
The social coupon/voucher add-on would get you most of the way there. It lets you enter in one time use coupon codes that discount events at 100% off.
https://eventespresso.com/wiki/social-coupons-add-on/
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Henry Finkelstein
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March 21, 2013 at 12:26 pm
Awesome, thanks. This’ll do in the interim and when you get EE4 up and running let me know and we can circle back on the sponsored dev
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