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Hugo Azzolini
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August 7, 2013 at 8:00 am
Hi.
I am trying to set up EE for a Philharmonic Orchestra. Most of their events occur more than once. And their target demographic is the 55+ crowd, so ticket purchasing needs to be as simple as possible. As such, I am using the [ESPRESSO_CART_LINK] shortcode instead of the standard registration form so the user can add as many tickets to their cart as possible before filling out any forms.
I am using the Espresso Event custom post type to display the events on my ‘Events’ page: http://dppad.com/demo/orlandophil/?page_id=24
The issue that I am facing is two-fold:
1. I have a substantial amount of meta-data (being handled by the brilliant Advanced Custom Fields plugin) that is necessary for all of the needed info to be added to each post. Is it possible to clone the content for each subsequent recurring post?
If this is not, is there a simple method of displaying a single post that includes a list of all dates, times, and the [ESPRESSO_CART_LINK] for each subsequent recurring event in the series?
2. They offer a variety of subscription options, where the user would purchase a single a single ‘package’ that purchases tickets for multiple events. Is there a user-friendly way to link these events with the individual events, so that attendee counts are updated when the subscription package is purchased?
Thanks.
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Sidney Harrell
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August 7, 2013 at 1:45 pm
1. If, when you are creating the recurring events, you choose “Create a post”, then it will create a new post for each of the events in the recurrence series. It will use the templates/event_post.php file as a template, so you may be able to customize that file to use the meta-data from your Advanced Custom Fields plugin.
2. You can use a cart link shortcode to add multiple events with one click:
[ESPRESSO_CART_LINK event_id="15-16-17" direct_to_cart=1 moving_to_cart="Redirecting to cart..."]
would add events with ids 15, 16 and 17 to the cart.
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Hugo Azzolini
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August 8, 2013 at 6:35 am
Thanks for the quick reply!
Point 2 will work perfectly for ‘subscription’ packages, but since those packages are being sold at a discount, then we will have to create alternate (discounted) versions of each event and only offer access to them through the subscription packages.
Still wrestling with point 1. I’ll share if I find a workaround.
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Sidney Harrell
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August 8, 2013 at 1:28 pm
You could use the volume discounts add-on to discount the cart when over a certain number of tickets are sold at once.
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Hugo Azzolini
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August 8, 2013 at 1:32 pm
For this specific use case, I don’t think that will work: we are offering a concert series subscription package consisting of several events. We aren’t offering discounts when the user purchases a block of several tickets for a single event, but when they purchase 1 ticket to each event in the series.
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