Ticket system for organisers - a case study<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Online ticket sales have become indispensable for theatres and similar event organisers. Whether it's theatre performances, concerts, dance performances or other cultural events, the ability to buy tickets online offers numerous advantages for both organisers and visitors. But which system is best suited to ticket sales?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As an event organiser, you are faced with the decision of whether to sell tickets via a specialised external ticket platform or directly via your own website. In this article, I will show you the advantages of selling tickets via your own website using the WooCommerce shop system from WordPress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A ticket system works on the basis of the Webshop module and expands it to include a customised ticket system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Do you have questions about a ticket system with WooCommerce for your events? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The challenge of ticket sales<\/p>\n\n\n\n
WordPress is the world's most widely used CMS and, with its flexibility and user-friendliness, offers an ideal platform for online ticket sales. With WooCommerce as an e-commerce solution, tickets can be sold directly via your own website, enabling seamless and professional processing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The ticket<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Event tickets place special demands on the presentation in the online shop. Thanks to WordPress, you can add customised data fields that are specific to your events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A crucial aspect of the event ticket is the event date. Events are often clearly displayed in a calendar that is sorted by date. By linking the ticket to a calendar view, a customer can book tickets directly from the event calendar. The calendar answers the question \"What's on when?\" and the visitor can purchase the ticket immediately in the shop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sales and payments are then processed via WooCommerce, which offers all common payment methods as well as the option to send or download tickets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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In addition to the WooCommerce shop system, the calendar display of events is a key factor for the success of ticket sales. There are various approaches here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In my projects, I generally check whether a ready-made solution fulfils the customer's requirements or whether individual programming makes more sense. For a current ticket project, I first tested and compared four interesting calendar plugins:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Brief introduction<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Below I present the approach of four selected calendar plugins that we have tested in more detail, and of course there are others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1 The Events Calendar<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One of the most popular plugins that generates its own custom post type for \"Events\". It offers calendar views, and with additional add-ons WooCommerce can be integrated to sell tickets. 2. modern events calendar<\/p>\n\n\n\n An established plugin that also creates its own custom post type for events. We particularly liked the list display, which clearly shows events over several months. Integration with WooCommerce is possible. 3. ticket machine<\/p>\n\n\n\n A cloud-based solution with a WordPress plugin for integration on the website. Event management, sales and payment are handled via the cloud service. 4. pie calendar<\/p>\n\n\n\n This plugin takes a different approach: it does not generate its own post type, but links to existing post types and extends them with custom fields such as date and time information. This allows daily, weekly and monthly views to be generated. Our choice<\/p>\n\n\n\n After extensive testing, we decided against one of the standard plug-ins. None of them met all the requirements of our project. We quickly reached the limits of the ready-made solutions and therefore decided in favour of a combination of WooCommerce and individually programmed calendar display of the ticket products. Below you can read how we implemented this.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n Our specifications<\/p>\n\n\n\n The client had the following requirements for a theatre operation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Costs<\/em>Annual licence fees for the main plugin and add-ons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Costs<\/em>Annual licence fees for the main plugin and add-ons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Special feature<\/em>: German supplier.
Costs<\/em>From \u20ac1 per ticket sold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Costs<\/em>Annual licence fees.<\/p>\n\n\n\nRequirements for the ticket system<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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