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August 27, 2013 at 6:13 am

Hi Christian,

There is currently a simple switch to turn off payments. You would need to do the following:

First off the events need to be free so set them with a price of 0.00.

Then add the following CSS to your themes style.css or a plugin such as My Custom CSS. This will hide the prices (or Free event messages in this case)

.event_prices,
.event_price { 
display: none;
}
#event_espresso_attendee_verify tbody tr:nth-child(4) { 
display:none;
}

Then its just a matter of checking the emails to make sure they have no mention of costs.

So in the General Settings email (which are site wide) remove all mentions of [event_price] etc.

If you are using the seating chart or ticketing add on things will get more complex, but the above will work fine for standard registrations.

August 27, 2013 at 6:42 am

Hi,

OK, well in that case, the best option would be to set up one of the “offline” gateways, thebest one is probably Money Order or Purchase Order, and modify the details in the Payment Settings so that it just provides a message about paying on the gate or similar.

You would need to hide some areas with CSS still

.event-display-boxes span,
#check-payment-option-form-dv .event_espresso_attention {display:none; }

The above CSS will hide the finalize your registration link though, so it may be better to modify the gateway file in that case.

August 27, 2013 at 2:17 pm

Another thing that you could try is use the attendee pre-approval feature. It will allow you to capture the registration details and show the prices as it normally would, but instead of taking the customer to a page where they select a payment option they are taken to a confirmation screen that has a “Your registration is pending approval message”.

You can enable the attendee pre-approval feature by going to Event Espresso>General Settings and setting this option to Yes: Enable attendee pre-approval feature?

Then in the event editor there will be an option on the lower right side of the screen that will allow the event to be set to use the Pre-approval feature.

The Pending approval message can be customized by editing the pending_approval.php template, then copying it over to /wp-content/uploads/espresso/templates to keep it from being overwritten on an update.