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Printable tickets addon and Promotions addon

Posted: October 28, 2016 at 7:02 am


Gaviny

October 28, 2016 at 7:02 am

Hi,

This is a double question really. I’m just looking for some clarification on which would be the best option.

The website i run at the moment has a requirement to allow a ‘gift voucher’ for the value of the courses we run. I have had a look at the ticketing add-on and the promotional code add on as well but i am not sure if

A)they will work in the way that i would like
B)If so, which one would be recommended?

The scenario is we would like people to be able to come and purchase a voucher/gift card, which a friend/family member would use later to purchase a place on an event of their choice.

From watching the videos, it would seem i have to tie these tickets to an event when i set them up which would make sense. The issue is that there might not be an event at the recipients nearest venue for a month or maybe more, so if i created these tickets without an event, would they be stuck in some state of limbo? And i’m struggling to work out how i could do something like this.

another concern is that if we set up a voucher code that has 10 spaces available and a member of the website bought 1 of those spaces, would we be able to prevent them from giving that code to a group of friends who could also use the same code, but without initially paying.

I’m only just finding out about this new requirement so i will try to provide some more info if needed, if i can.

Many thanks,

PhilB


Josh

  • Support Staff

October 28, 2016 at 9:29 am

Hi PhilB,

The ticketing add-on is used for physical access to events, so that’s not the solution you’re looking for. You could use the Promotions add-on to set up 100% discount vouchers, but there’s some serious limitations to the Promotions add-on in that it doesn’t let you limit the quantity of uses per ticket (currently it allows setting a quantity of use per event). You’d need this feature request built:

https://trello.com/c/zCsClu98/112-promotions-add-ticket-scope-to-promotion

Once that’s done, you could use a e-commerce plugin to sell the actual gift vouchers.


Gaviny

October 28, 2016 at 10:07 am

Yes we thought about an online store to sell them from, then we could apply the codes to all events and they could register for the event of their choice.

Il take a look on trello now see if i can give it a bump!

We do use one of the developers listed on your website for custom work, so if it came to it we could speak to them. I believe they have worked on WooCommerce and EE integration before.

Thanks Josh

Phil


Josh

  • Support Staff

October 28, 2016 at 10:48 am

You’re welcome.

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