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February 10, 2014 at 10:32 am

Hi Shaun,

I’ll follow up with each of your questions below:

> -Am I better off just going straight to 4?

It depends on what features you need.

> -It looks like 4 has all the add ons activated is that correct?

It turns out it has none of the add-ons that ee3 has available yet. We’ll be working on porting the calendar add-on first, and others will follow that.

> – if you start with three, would you eventually just have to migrate to 4 soon?

Yes, that’s possible because ee4 has data migration scripts built in.

> -How comfortable are you with 4 in a live environment? I understand that there will be bugs and growing pains, just trying to understand the level of risk.

This is the consensus that we voice in the release announcement:

> We do expect you to be able to use EE4 as if it were a stable product, with the exception that additional bugs may be identified through more extensive testing with your specific use-case.

I’d personally use it, but before taking it live I’d test it out for my specific use case and be sure everything works on my the server environment.

February 10, 2014 at 10:47 am

Hi Shaun,

Unless there’s a typo somewhere (which is certainly possible and if so, please let us know where you see it) it should say Event Espresso 4 has 49 Features (compared to Event Espresso 3’s built in 30 features). The add-ons (like ticketing and recurring events) are separate and have their own feature sets.

As far as timeframe for add-on porting goes, we are not releasing a timeframe as of yet. If you need to use ticketing now, then Event Espresso 3 is the current viable option.

February 10, 2014 at 11:26 pm

Hi Shaun,

We don’t have a test drive site set up at this time, but we are working on it. In the meantime, I have set up a front-end example if you would like to take a look:
http://demoee.org/ee4/events/

> I am also trying to see on the wordpress user integration plugin, a user will have access to their events. Does this add a section to the user for “my events”?

Yes, this does add a section for the called “my events” in the WP admin, and we also provide a shortcode to display the my events table on a front facing page of your website.

> could we customize it, so that section would be their tickets?

Yes, you can override a function in that add-on and customize it to your needs.

February 14, 2014 at 3:27 am

Hi Shaun,

-Does the new multi day ticket for same event replace the recurring or am I missing a large part?

It is intended to replace some if not all of recurring event manager, but it depends on your needs.

For example you can create multiple multiple date/times and assign one or more tickets to each date time. So a ticket could be good for one date/time or for multiple date/times.

-will there be a front end page(or possible to create one) for check ins at events?

There is nothing planned for this. We will be updating the ticketing add on at some point (timescale unknown) to work with EE4.

-can we use stripe on EE4 yet?

Not currently.

-if we purchase ee4 now, will we have to purchase each add on as they become available?

Nothing has been decided on this yet, but it is liekly that some addons will be included in the licence types, however some addons may have to be purchased separately.

-can I add ee4 on a beta and live site?

Of course, though as with EE3 we recommend only using the licence code on the live site.

February 14, 2014 at 1:00 pm

Hi Shaun,

I’d recommend beginning with as fresh an install as you can get.

Re add-ons: It will be months, some add-ons will come sooner than others because of how many people need them or how difficult they are to build.

We’re glad you’re going to use EE, we think you’ll be happy.

February 14, 2014 at 4:00 pm

Hi Shaun,

I’ve transferred your purchase from that other account to this one. Let me know if I can do anything else for you.