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Shaun Conway
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December 17, 2013 at 1:25 pm
Hello,
I have several questions before making purchase. I put them together in one, not sure if it would have been better to break into a few for your future prospects.
BACKGROUND:
So I am building a hyper local destination site. The idea is to make it easy for businesses and users to connect through news, deals, and of course events. I believe event espresso could be a great solution for my site. The idea is that all businesses could use my site as a hub to get the information out in front of the right people. So that is my overall goal, now the questions.
1) can users add events from the front end? I have a way for them to add basic events, but not with the ticketing. This might require an integration with gravity forms, that plugin allows users to add custom posts from front end. Event espresso would just need to have a designated slug for each item required.
2) Do tickets also appear for users somewhere on the site in users profile, if I have the wordpress integration? This way the ticket could be used on the mobile phone. I built it out for coupons, where each coupon a user claims gets added as a user list, was hoping a similar solution for tickets.
3) does the API solution allow websites to display specific events on their website? Does the API also allow them to get access to registered attendees for specific events?
4) the ticketing app: does this always show as event espresso, as it does in the test drive, or is this customizable? Are the events displayed per user? So they would only have access to the events they are associated with?
5) possible to sell a ticket that works as a 10 day pass? For example if a place sells a 10 pack pass for classes in a month. Each time the user checks in, it subtracts from the 10? The other option I see with this would be to use your discount code? Possible to sell a personal code that can only be used 10 times?
Sorry to bombard you with questions. I do appreciate the help and I have high hopes for this to be a great solution.
Thank You,
Shaun
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Garth
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December 17, 2013 at 9:14 pm
Hi Shaun,
How are you today? In general Event Espresso doesn’t work quite like you want in several of your scenarios above unless you’re willing to invest in significant customizations.
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Shaun Conway
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December 17, 2013 at 9:25 pm
Garth,
I am doing well and I hope that you are the same. I realize a lot of these scenarios were pushing the boundaries of Event Espresso. We would be willing to do some customization. These were 5 difficult solutions, but we realize that event espresso would give us a great foundation.
Could you please give a little more info on number 3 and 4?
I appreciate the help.
Thank You,
Shaun
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Dean
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December 18, 2013 at 12:58 am
Hi,
3) The API uses JSON to grab data, so you can specify a specific event if you wish to. It can also access registered users public data.
4) The ticketing app is not currently white label, so it will always show our logo. Events are not displayed per user and access is limited to admins (a code change can modify this behaviour, but we don’t recommend it).
Hope that helps!
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Shaun Conway
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December 18, 2013 at 3:06 am
Dean thank you for the response.
1 final follow up question and then I can bring it to the team.
4) ticketing: so if a user is an admin they will see every event and have access to all tickets? The roles and permissions cannot restrict say admin John to just see ticketing for events at venue A, Lisa at Venue B? Or maybe by Category?
Thanks,
Shaun
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Dean
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December 18, 2013 at 3:18 am
Hi Shaun,
That’s correct, at least by default. It could be modified, and there is some code on the forums to change the base role that can access the ticketing app, but of course that would require modifying the core code of the ticketing add on (the plugin not the app).
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Shaun Conway
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December 18, 2013 at 3:24 am
Thanks Dean. This is the code change that you do not recommend though, so we would not want to mess with it.
I appreciate you and your teams help and quick responses. I will propose it to team.
Thanks,
Shaun
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Dean
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December 18, 2013 at 3:58 am
No problem, let me know if you have any other questions.
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