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lupineart
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March 15, 2021 at 12:01 am
Hey guys,
I just had a quick look through forums and wondering if I missed anything.
Are there are any options for selling stand-alone products on the same EE website? Currently, we have one site for EE and another ‘shop’ site for woocommerce, which isn’t ideal, but it works.
We would love to sell products with the same cart as EE. Any suggestions on how to do this? I can’t visualize 2 different cards on the same site – wouldn’t that be a nightmare for users?
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Examples of sites that accomplish this would be amazing!
Thanks,
Derek
Last thread: https://eventespresso.com/topic/selling-items-with-ee/
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Tony
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March 17, 2021 at 2:51 pm
Hi Derek,
You ‘can’ run EE and Woo (or pretty much any other e-commerce plugin but I’ll just refer to Woo a it’s the biggest) on the same site, but the two do not ‘integrate’ with each other, meaning you can’t purchase Woo/e-commerce products within EE’s chackout, nor can you purchase EE events within Woo’s checkout.
For ‘add-on’ items within EE, we’ve seen users use separate tickets within the event, or combine a ticket, for example:
Admission = X
Admission + T-Shirt = (X + Y)
Admission + T-Shirt + Hat = (X + Y + Z)
I don’t think that will work for your use case, but its an option.
Another is to use a 3rd part add-on that lets you add values to question, so you can have a registration question to include a ‘kit’ with the registration. If the users selects that question it adds whatever value you set on the question to the transaction total.
See: https://aparnascodex.com/downloads/price-modifier-for-event-espresso-4/
It really depends on the specifics of what you need if that will work for you but in terms of selling products AND running EE on the same site, that should be fine using pretty much any e-commerce plugin. What it wont do, is integrate into each other as above.
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lupineart
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March 17, 2021 at 3:00 pm
Thanks Tony, always appreciate your responses…
I am just stuck on how that would look to the user to have 2 separate carts on the same site. I’ll have to give this more thought in how to set this up. If you have any other ideas, I appreciate hearing them 🙂
Thanks again, Derek
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Tony
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March 17, 2021 at 3:08 pm
When you say 2 carts, what are you trying to do?
Sell products WITH EE events?
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lupineart
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March 17, 2021 at 3:14 pm
1 cart is EE, because a lot of our customers want to purchase multiple classes at once.
The other cart is woocommerce because we sell art supplies and downloadable classes. The supplies can, for the most part, be attached to an EE class/event as you suggested. But sometimes supplies are purchased on their own as well as downloadable classes, which is why we use woocommerce as well.
Thanks…
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Tony
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March 18, 2021 at 8:27 am
Yeah so currently whichever way you set that up you’ll need to systems, EE for the events and Woo for the ‘products’ that people want to purchase completely separate from the events.
For the users that wish to purchase supplies with/for a specific event(s), you could also use the price modifier add-on I mentioned above to allow them to select those. However, something to note with that is it would again be separate from your Woo inventory so I’m not sure if that would work for you?
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lupineart
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March 18, 2021 at 12:32 pm
Got it… Thanks Tony.
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