Feature Ideas
Hey there and welcome to our feature request forum for The Events Calendar, Event Tickets and all of the premium plugins we develop provide on TheEventsCalendar.com!
We’re always looking for new and awesome ways to improve our products. We think they’re pretty great out of the box, but we also know that there are often things that could make them even better for how folks like yourself use them in the real world. Our tools help the right people, get to the right place at the right time. How can we improve our products and make them super awesome for you and your users? That’s where we can use your help!
If there are features that our products do not currently support but you think would be a huge added value for you and lots of other people, then please share them here with us. The submission form will walk you through a few quick questions to get the ball rolling.
Before posting your idea, here are a few tips that will help make your request stand out and succeed:
- Look to see if someone else has suggested the same idea, or something very similar. Many ideas are being submitted and it’s very possible that another request already exists. In that case, add your vote to the existing request.
- Be as descriptive as possible. What does the feature do? Where would it be located? Who would use it? How does this improve the overall experience of managing an events calendar in WordPress?
- Use mockups, if possible. Pictures are worth a thousand words and having a visual often brings a greater level of clarity to an idea.
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Recurring Event Support for Tickets
Currently our WooTickets plugin does not work fully with recurring events, and users can only purchase tickets for the most upcoming event in a series. Would it be useful to you to combine the power of WooTickets with the PRO recurring events feature?
618 voteslongterm roadmap ·AdminThe Events Calendar (Product Owner, The Events Calendar by Modern Tribe) responded
We’re continuing our work on a huge revamp of recurring events that would pave the way for recurring tickets. Additionally we’re working on backend improvements to tickets to support this kind of complicated functionality. Please continue to share your use cases in comments so we can strategize the scope of this long-awaited feature.
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Allow manual entry of attendee information
I'd like to be able to go into the backend and manually add an attendee to the list.
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Email list of event attendees to admin before event
Have a field to enter in the amount of time you wish to receive an automatic email of event attendees and a field to enter who the email is sent to. This idea was suggested to me by one of our clients, it would make it easier for event organizers to view the attendee list if they are uncomfortable with using the WordPress back end.
Loving the plugin by the way, Cheers!
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Notify event organizer of ticket purchase or RSVP
Ability to notify event organizer of ticket purchase.
278 voteslongterm roadmap ·AdminThe Events Calendar (Product Owner, The Events Calendar by Modern Tribe) responded
Thank you all for your patience on this one.
This can be addressed with the following snippet pasted in the functions.php file of your theme (without the PHP tag at the top): https://gist.github.com/niconerd/16770b84adb6156aaa77948bf208bacb
We also want to thank @websource who wrote a separate nice little plugin to address this.
https://github.com/thebeard/events-calendar-pro-organizer-mail
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Reusable Ticket Defaults/Profiles (as per Venues and Organizers)
I would like to see Wootickets integrate a list of default ticket profiles, where we can fill out the commonly used fields we re-type hundreds of times. Almost all of the ticket fields could be automatically populated based on a template, with changes and variations made as needed.
For my personal needs, 99% of the hundreds of tickets I create every month could be selected from a list of 8 profiles, with information being spit out for: names, description, price, start/end sales, stock, etc.
The two fields that would require some consideration for advanced functionality would be:
variable time frames…
190 votesticketed for consideration ·AdminThe Events Calendar (Product Owner, The Events Calendar by Modern Tribe) responded
We’ll be looking into this for a future release.
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Tickets: Venue seating chart with different price grade and ability graphically to choose seats.
Add the venue seating chart with different price grade and ability graphically to choose seats (similar plane seat selection with check-in).
Provide ability for ticket admin to "grey out" some reserved seats.176 votesticketed for consideration ·AdminThe Events Calendar (Product Owner, The Events Calendar by Modern Tribe) responded
Implementing a graphical solution, where you can click on a given seat and it will reserve it, is probably not possible due to the complexity and technological limitations.
However, would the ability to upload an image of your seating map/chart work? From there you could specify a list of seating names in the backend and when a user purchases a ticket they can select from a drop down of available seats, and cross reference it with your seating chart image so they now which goes where. We realize this will not be as fancy as many people are picturing, but since it is actually possible to implement it is a compromise we would be interested in looking into if this will solve your needs.
We have a KB article about this: https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/ticketing-using-seating-chart/
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Support Woo Product Variations within Event Tickets
Its standard in woocommerce, so it should be in event ticket.
144 votesneeds more votes ·AdminThe Events Calendar (Product Owner, The Events Calendar by Modern Tribe) responded
Thank you everyone for chiming in and helping to clarify what needs WooCommerce Product Variations will fill. It is clear that there are a variety of use cases for these, and it is very valuable to know each of them. Please continue sharing your feedback.
Cheers!
- The Modern Tribe Support Team -
Ticket Bundles / Multiple Event Passes
Set up ticket bundles - for example selling a All Access Pass (all events) or a Pass for a couple of events that provides either tickets for each event and/or for limited seat events a count per pass purchased towards each single event included in the pass.
134 voteslongterm roadmap ·AdminThe Events Calendar (Product Owner, The Events Calendar by Modern Tribe) responded
This is something we are specifically hoping to do when we build recurring events support for Event Tickets. (see http://tribe.uservoice.com/forums/195723-feature-ideas/suggestions/3685663-recurring-event-support-for-tickets)
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Do not include deleted tickets or cancelled orders in participant list sold units.
Right now, if you look at the number of ticket sold in the participant list, it include tickets that were sold then cancelled, or completely deleted orders. I suggest that this number only includes existing participant or that another item is created to see the number of expected attendees and active tickets sold.
106 votesThank you all for your continued feedback here. This is very much something we are interested in refining. We are going to rope in a strategist to properly account for the various workflows of as many people as we can, and try to find a slick method and improved method for reporting this info to everyone. Until then please keep voting, it helps us prioritize.
Thanks again!
- The Modern Tribe Support Team -
Autofill the Event Tickets header image
Make it possible to add the WooCommerce Product featured image from within the ticket meta-block in the event. I would be perfectly happy with either of three solutions:
1 reusing the header image
2 reusing the featured image of the event
3 selecting a separate image for just this reason.But can understand if option 1 might conflict with how the image might be used otherwise and option 2 might conflict with the fact that the ticket is stored basically separate from the event, so perhaps option 3 should be it and will save me a lot of time anyway.…
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One-page Checkout on Event pages
For a streamlined purchase process, put the checkout form directly on the Event page. (See Woocommerce One-Page Checkout by Prospress)
This would also solve the request by several people to be able to skip the Cart page to go direct to Checkout, and might also resolve the issue of quantities being changed in the Cart or at Checkout.
If there were a dynamic panel right above the checkout form that summarized the custom data fields that would also potentially resolve the issue of making changes during checkout that are then not reflected in those fields .
There are a few…
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allow the option to add attendee information to the emailed tickets and admin confirmation.
Thank you for the ability to collect Attendee Information i.e., First and Last Name of multiple tickets to the actual purchase process prior to check out. Now, how about an option to add that collected information to either the Attendee Ticket and / or the Administrator email?
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Register multiple attendees in one purchase under separate names & email
When someone clicks to 3 RSVPs attending - I want to have them add each individual attendee name. Right now RSVPs are only allowed to enter one name.
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WooCommerce > Show Attendee information on the checkout page
USER STORIES & GOALS
- I am a customer who added multiple tickets to my WooCommerce shopping cart, I would like to confirm that I filled out the data for each ticket accurately before clicking Proceed to Checkout.
- I am a customer who realized that one of the multiple tickets in my cart has inaccurate attendee meta info. I would like to edit only that ticket, or at least remove it from my cart without removing all of the others.
SOME POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS
- When 2+ tickets are added to the cart, each one will appear as a separate item in the…
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Show Attendee Details on QR Scan
Having the ability to check-in tickets via the new QR scan app is helpful, however all of our tickets have options available via Attendee Details that need to be shown. Shirt size for instance. If a summary of these details were displayed on QR scan it would stream line our check-in process.
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Attendees list in alphabetical order
It would be helpful if the attendees list in WooTickets could be sorted by alphabetical order either by first or last name.
58 votesneeds more votes ·AdminThe Events Calendar (Product Owner, The Events Calendar by Modern Tribe) responded
I can definitely see how that could be useful to an event organizer. We’d love to see more votes here to consider it as a future feature.
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Discounted ticket price for logged in users
Give members of your site the option to buy tickets at a discounted rate without the use of coupons
53 votesneeds more votes ·AdminThe Events Calendar (Product Owner, The Events Calendar by Modern Tribe) responded
Howdy!
We wanted to point out Edgar’s easy to use implementation of this feature. For WooCommerce Tickets users you can use the 3rd party WooCommerce plugin: Dynamic Pricing and Discounts ( http://m.tri.be/18gz ). This plugin allows you to configure a discount for logged in users for all WooCommerce products, including Tickets.
Thanks again for reaching out about this. Hopefully that solution will help at least some of you get the feature you wanted right now.
Cheers!
- The Modern Tribe Support Team -
Easy way to design and preview email ticket
The ticket emailed to customers is one of the major issues concerning the relationship with customers.
The ticket design must be consistent with the design of the site to give the customer, the image of a professional product.
But with the current system it is difficult to change the default design of the ticket: no preview no system to make it.So the idea would be to create the ticket in an editor ... a bit like gravity form or visual composer.50 votes -
Force minimum number of tickets purchased
Offer a reduced ticket price for buying X or more, and force the quantity of that ticket to start at X.
We sell reduced price tickets for groups of 3 or more, but the quantity on the product page always starts at 1, which allows anyone to buy only one ticket at the lower price. Currently we have to say, "Contact us for 3 or more" and process these sales manually.
Eventbrite does this beautifully, but we're trying to get away from the extra fees.
Thanks!
48 votessolution provided ·AdminThe Events Calendar (Product Owner, The Events Calendar by Modern Tribe) responded
Hello all, this is a great idea.
For our WooCommerce users, the good news is that there are a few third-party plugins that should help with this in the meantime:
1. https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce-incremental-product-quantities/
2. https://wordpress.org/plugins/minimum-purchase-for-woocommerce/ -
Scan tickets for specific event only
The app is connected to the store with an API key. However with an event for today and one for tomorrow, people with tickets for tomorrow can attend today. There should be a way of limiting the scans to a selected event
47 votes
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