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Joel Laviolette
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April 11, 2013 at 3:54 am
Hi,
I’m interested in Event Espresso, but I need to know if it can do some specific things that I need. I run a small music school with several classes that meet weekly. Some classes meet once a week, and some meet two or more times a week. The classes have a limited capacity, and last for one month. I want students to have the ability to sign up on the website and pay either for one month, or pay a reduced rate to set up recurring payments (for the first of the month). Students need to be able to go to one page and see the full schedule, and next to the class they want will be the button to buy the specific class. Lastly, I want to have the classes set up so that for example once the classes for the month have started, those classes will no longer be visible on the page, but the following months classes will be. I use Paypal. Can Event Espresso do all this? Thank you!
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Sidney Harrell
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April 11, 2013 at 9:15 am
The way you can do this is to set up separate events for each class, for example class 1, 2, 3, and 4. Then use the registration page for class 1 as the alternate registration page for classes 2, 3, and 4. That way, if someone clicks on the register link for any of them, they are taken to the same registration page. Set them all to have the same registration end date, so they all disappear from the event list or calendar at the same time. The only thing you mentioned that we can’t do currently is the recurring payments, but you can set that up manually through your Paypal account. So you would have to do that each time someone purchases the recurring payment discount.
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Joel Laviolette
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April 11, 2013 at 12:10 pm
Thanks for the response. Can you clarify what you mean by ” but you can set that up manually through your Paypal account.”
I don’t need a walkthrough on that, but what I’m wondering is do you just mean I have to have it set up in paypal? In the past, I have just had the paypal button be set up as a subscription payment button. There was nothing to have to manually set up after the button had been made.
Am I able to have two paypal buttons next to each class-one for the single charge, and one for the ongoing payment? That would eliminate the need to do anything manually, right?
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Joel Laviolette
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April 12, 2013 at 1:53 pm
Still hoping to get an answer to this before I buy….Thanks.
Also, if I try the ‘lite’ version and want to upgrade, do I need to recreate the events, or is the upgrade seamless?
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Josh
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April 16, 2013 at 10:37 am
I don’t need a walkthrough on that, but what I’m wondering is do you just mean I have to have it set up in paypal? In the past, I have just had the paypal button be set up as a subscription payment button. There was nothing to have to manually set up after the button had been made.
Am I able to have two paypal buttons next to each class-one for the single charge, and one for the ongoing payment? That would eliminate the need to do anything manually, right?
You could set it up as you did in the past. The difference would be you’d need to manually keep track the payments because Event Espresso’s payment reporting would only work for single payments through its PayPal button.
Also, if I try the ‘lite’ version and want to upgrade, do I need to recreate the events, or is the upgrade seamless?
It’s fairly seamless. The event data all gets stored in the database in both versions, and if/when you update to the paid version it runs a database update script when you activate it.
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