With the Event Tickets Plus premium plugin configured and activated, follow these steps to create a new Event and setup Ticket Sales for that event.
- Login
to your WordPress website’s dashboard and navigate to the ‘Events’ tab from
the left-side bar menu.
Select ‘Add New Event’, from the sub-menu that will appear when you hover over the ‘Event’s tab.
Add a Title for the event.
Provide an event description.
Notice below the description field a section called “Tickets” with the options for: New ticket, New RSVP, and Purchase Rules. For this use case, we are going to proceed with a new ticket. Select the [New ticket] button.
More fields will now appear regarding the new ticket. Begin with providing a Name for the ticket.
Next, add your Description for the ticket. You also have the option to show (by default) the description on the ticket form, or to hide the ticket description from the frontend. Default is to Show it.
a. If you DON’T want to show the ticket description on the frontend ticket form, uncheck the box for “Show description on frontend ticket form”.
Type should be configured to be “Standard Ticket” and is not a changeable field for this use case.
Specify your sale dates for the ticket. The Start sale field (date and time) is when tickets are available for purchase. The End sale field (date and time) is when ticket sales are no longer available.
Next, you’ll need to set a Price for the ticket. If a ticket price is BLANK, the ticket is Free.
a. There is also an option for ‘Add Sale Price’. If this is checked, more fields will display allowing you to specify a Sale Price and specify a date range when the sale is available. This is good for an early-bird special.Capacity requirements are up next. There are various options here:
a. Share capacity with other tickets. This is where tickets share a common pool of tickets for all attendees, such as when you may have various seating tickets available at different ticket sale levels.
b. You can specify the ‘Set shared capacity’ value, and/or set a Sell up to limit of how many tickets you wish to sell.
c. Unlimited capacity. This option means the sky is the limit for how many tickets can be sold.The following sections are typically collapsed by default, so you’ll need to expand them to adjust settings. These are for: Advanced, Attendee Collection, and Attendee Information settings.
a. Advanced: The sole option that appears is for a SKU number, which is a unique identifying code for each ticket you’re selling. This setting is commonly not adjusted/used by our clients.
b. Attendee Collection: This option is to select the default way to sell tickets. Enabling Individual Attendee Collection allows purchasers of tickets to enter a name and email for each ticket.
i. No Individual Attendee Collection means there is no attendee information attached to the ticket.
ii. Allow Individual Attendee Collection means it is permitted but not required to have an individual specified for each ticket purchased.
iii. Require Individual Attendee Collection means it is required to have an individual specified for each ticket purchased.
c. Attendee Information: This is used when you need to collect more information from your ticket buyers, based on your needs. By default, there is basic information collected, but more information can be added if your event needs it.Once completed with these ticket settings, click the [Save ticket] button on the bottom of the ticket section to save.
Then, don’t forget to click the [Publish] button to make your event post public.
Navigating to your Event, you will notice your Tickets are posted within the Event. Example below:
