Booking Activities vs Fast Events

Booking Activities is a complete booking tool designed for activities. It is very easy to use: Drag and drop your activities onto your schedule. Copy / Paste a shortcode to display a booking form. Or integrate it with WooCommerce products. Pick an event on this calendar and book it. Try this reservation tool live on the demo website, or generate a temporary site to test the backend! Video made with v1.1.1. Booking Activities is constantly evolving. Main features ★ = Unique feature only Booking Activities has. Editor ★ WYSIWYG: Visually build your plannings ★ Drag and drop events directly on the calendar ★ Group your events to easily sell bundles, subscriptions, seminars, or events spreading on several days Create repeated events (with desired frequency and exceptions dates) Unlimited calendars, activities, events and bookings. Permission management system: your managers manage only their own calendars and reservations. E.g.: You can set up Booking Activities for a marketplace (Booking Activities can only be managed from the backend). Booking forms Fully customizable forms in a WYSIWYG editor Shortcodes to display reservation forms or simple calendars ★ Display events from multiple schedules and activities at once ★ One-click booking: just pick the desired event(s) on the calendar and click on “Book”! Custom action when you submit the form or when you click an event: make a reservation, ★ add a product to cart, redirect to a URL Pick multiple events and book them all at once / ★ add them all to cart at once ★ Seamless login / registration: embedded in the form and processed with the reservation. You can also book without account, or display a login form only with a shortcode. 100% responsive: looks great on mobiles, tablets and computers. ★ Set any custom fields and any booking metadata thanks to Advanced Forms add-on Online payments with WooCommerce Calendars are automatically integrated to WooCommerce product pages ★ Attach multiple calendars and activities to one WC product ★ Cart expiration system: bookings in the shopping cart are temporary Auto-validation when payment is completed ★ WooCommerce order status and its bookings status are smartly bound ★ Automatic refunds by WC coupon or via the gateway (if allowed) Manage reservations Find all your bookings at a glance on a calendar and in a list. Use dynamic filters, sorting, and custom columns Booking actions: validate, cancel, reschedule, ★ refund… ★ Display your customer’s bookings calendar and their booking list with a shortcode ★ Your customers can cancel or reschedule their bookings and ask a refund by themselves Export your bookings as CSV and iCal feeds and sync them on spreadsheet and calendar apps (e.g.: Google Sheet, Google Calendar) Availability options Set the booking period: customers can’t book too early or too late Make your events private or bookable by multiple users ★ Set the min and max bookings allowed per user per event Offer some activities to certain user roles only Notifications Automatic emails are sent to both administrator and customer when a booking is made, when its state changes, and when it is rescheduled Fully customize and configure all your email notifications In multilangual sites, emails are sent to your customers in their own language Send activity-specific notifications and reminders via email, SMS and ★ Push thanks to Notification Pack add-on Translation ready Multilingual support with WPML and ★ qTranslate-XT (free plugin) ★ Auto-detect and switch languages, date/time format, first day of the week… Customize most frontend messages directly in the settings Fully translated in English and French. You can also help us translating Booking Activities in your language. The best inside API for developers (PHP actions and filters, JS actions). Use the beautiful and handy FullCalendar Support WP Multisite Support WP privacy tools for exporting and erasing your customers personal data See the whole features list here. Extend these features with add-ons: Resource Availability: Manage your resource availability and assignment Advanced Forms: Add any (paid) custom fields to your booking forms Display Pack: Customize your calendars or set alternative display (datepicker) Prices and Credits: Set per event prices, decreasing prices, price categories (adults, children, etc.), pay with credits Notification Pack: Send activity-specific notifications and booking reminders by email, SMS and Push Order for Customers: You can book / place an order in the name of your customers Waiting List: Join the waiting list for sold-out events (automatic notification / booking) See the whole add-ons list here This plugin is great for… You? To know if Booking Activities is made for you, you just need to understand how it works: You place events on a calendar Customers pick them and book them If this fits your business then give it a try! This booking system has been specially designed to fulfill the needs of most activity providers: For tourism, sport and leisure (nautical, aerial, land, mountain, foot or wheels, outdoor or indoor…) For courses, trainings, exhibitions (education, music, drawing, seminar…) For cultural activities (museum, theatre / cinema, booking events…) For you too, but you are not in this list? Tell us 🙂 We are listening You are the developers. You have always been. Booking Activities has been designed and developed in collaboration with activity providers. Now it is getting better thanks to you. Then feel free to tell us if you miss a feature, if you find a bug or anything to make your booking system better! Documentation Report a bug / Request a feature Contact us at [email protected] (French and English) Requirements WordPress: 3.6 or later PHP: 5.6 or later MySQL: 5.7.22 or later (or MariaDB 10.5.4 or later) WooCommerce: 3.x or later Booking Activities can be used without WooCommerce

Any event type Use Fast Events for any kind of event (sport events, festivals, congresses, concerts, seminars, your local party, …) From selling a single‑ticket type with one entrance scan to managing events with multiple ticket types, several entrances, and multiple scans. If you wish, you can take advantage of volume pricing by ticket type or use the many discount voucher options. Ideal for sporting events that have multiple scan checkpoints along the route and a final check to confirm every checkpoint has been scanned. Take a look at the examples to get an idea. Ticket personalisation A unique ticket personalisation module that lets you personalise tickets, share them, display order information, and generate invoices if required. Define order-level or ticket-level input fields and assign them to specific ticket types. Embed the ticket personalisation module on a page using a WordPress shortcode. Real-time scanning No need for expensive scanning equipment. Use our free Android and IOS app to scan the tickets in real-time at the entrance. There’s no limit to the number of scanning applications that can run simultaneously. Staged scans, temporarily leave and re-enter(e.g. to smoke) and exit scans are possible, and error messages can be tailored to your own event. PDF e-tickets Define your own e-tickets in your favourite word processor (Word, LibreOffice, …). Then upload the PDF-file to WordPress through the plugin’s admin interface and specify where Fast Events should place the QR‑code block. Use the default layout or specify a custom layout that includes personalisation fields or order information. Tracking Use the FE Tracking App especially for sporting events to allow participants to signal checkpoints on the route in the App and upload the time at which they pass them to the event organiser’s server. Realtime tracking and display additional points of interest and descriptions on the map, as defined by the event organiser. Examples include First-aid stations along the route, catering facilities along the route, checkpoints along the route, … Payouts next day There are no fees per ticket. The only cost is the transaction fee for each order. It doesn’t matter how many tickets are in the order; the payment provider (Stripe, PayPal, or Mollie) only charges the transaction fee once. You can find here more information. Admin App Would you like to view events and orders on your mobile / tablet / desktop? Use the FE Admin App. Resend, refund, delete, re-create tickets, or even create orders. Quickly help users configure the FE Scanner App. Or view statistics on tickets sold and tickets scanned Basically, you maintain the entire plugin from your mobile, tablet, or browser. The system has a comprehensive permissions system where users can have restrictions on functionality and events that can be modified. Seating plans Create your own seating plans for events that require them. Fill seats in the order you define. Saas mode Host multiple organisations on your platform, each with their own events. They can operate as sub‑merchants using your ticketing system. Add (sub)accounts in the FE Admin app, assign selected events to those users, and, where necessary, restrict their functionality. Use flexible application fees that are automatically transferred to you. Only Stripe and Mollie are supported at the moment. REST API Fast Events offers a public REST API. This allows Fast Events data to be created, read, updated, and deleted using requests in JSON format and using WordPress REST API application passwords to grant access. But you could also create your own scanning app by using the scan endpoint. Fine‑grained access control is available for individual endpoints via the Accounts tool in the FE Admin app. Webhooks Fast Events offers Webhooks to sent notifications to a URL of your choice. You can configure it per event and choose which types of notifications are allowed to be sent. Webhooks make it easy for third-party applications to integrate with Fast Events. Actions & filters Do you want to extend the functionality of Fast Events? We have a number of filters and actions that allow you to do just that. Have a look at our examples. Features Event types (single, single selection from many, multiple selection, and Passe-partout) Design your own PDF e-tickets and invoices Responsive admin interface and a separate Admin App for IOS and Android Volume pricing per ticket type and flexible discount codes Multiple scan levels: entry, ‘backstage’, reset, temporarily-leave/re-enter (e.g. to smoke) and exit Mobile tracking app for sports events Design email confirmations Native API is included for many professional email providers (Mailgun, Sendgrid, Brevo, Amazon, …) Define input fields for personalised e-tickets Define e-ticket types Sell to closed user groups Saas mode Flexible realtime e-ticket scanning with the freeScan App at multiple levels Optional reCAPTCHA protection Export orders and tickets for offline data analysis Integrated with Stripe, PayPal, or Mollie as payment provider, providing a variety of payment methods Seating plans Public REST API, Webhooks and actions & filters for custom extensions Flexible authorization system for limiting functionality for certain users Blazingly fast Multisite ready And much more Have a look at the documentation.