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Malcolm Green
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February 25, 2014 at 3:14 pm
I have a bit of a unique situation that I can’t seem to find a solution for on the forums.
We are trying to set up a Co-Op program using Event Espresso. Each of the ‘events’ will have only a few slots available. So we want students to be able to register for the events but will decide later, by draw, which students will become ‘attendees’.
I thought initially that we could do this via the pre-approval process…but when a registration takes place, it uses up an attendee spot even though the student isn’t approved.
Are we going about this the wrong way? Or are we on the right track but are missing a setting?
Further, if I want to eliminate any mention of payment, is this done strictly through CSS or are there settings I need to pay attention to?
Thanks in advance…
(wp – 3.8.1 new install of EE v3.1.36.4.P)
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Dean
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February 26, 2014 at 2:38 am
Hi Malcolm,
This is a little difficult due to the way you have things set up.
Basically if the event is marked as free, then the attendees are automatically set as complete, which reduces the capacity.
It sounds like payment isn’t necessary upfront at least, so there’s a couple of ways to achieve what you need.
1) Leave as free events, but have capacity as unlimited (9999). Then hide the capacity from the event and add in a manual max capacity message to the description so people know there are limited spots.
2) Have it as a $1 event and use one of the offline gateways. This will require more work to hide the price information but will allow the use of the system capacity as Incomplete registrations don’t count towards the capacity total.
Elimination of Payment info is done strictly through CSS.
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Malcolm Green
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February 27, 2014 at 8:09 am
Thanks Dean,
Unlimited hidden was the way to go here for sure. As an odd aside; I noticed that the cart doesn’t work when the events are free and we bypass the confirmation. I assume that is because we bypassed confirmation and thus the payment? (even though it is free)…just curious.
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Tony
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February 27, 2014 at 8:30 am
Hi Malcome,
The cart should work fine with free events skipping the confirmation page.
So to confirm you have set ‘Skip Confirmation Page during Registration Process?’ to Yes in Event Espresso -> General Settings and then the cart doesn’t work for free events?
What happens?
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Malcolm Green
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February 27, 2014 at 8:46 am
Yes, we had set the Skip Confirmation (and still do have that on). During our tests, ‘add to cart’ and ‘view cart’ worked correctly (except that the user has to enter ‘1’ as it is defaulted to ‘0’ – I think this is where we were running into problems in hindsight…if left at ‘0’ it just links back to our main selections page).
However…it does go on to reference payments again (as a shopping cart should). So we’ve just decided to leave off. Thanks for your help.
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Tony
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February 27, 2014 at 9:40 am
Ah yes, the cart does default to 0 although it should display an error to select attendees if none are selected.
Glad you found a solution that works for you 🙂
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