Events Manager – Calendar, Bookings, Tickets, and more! vs EventsCalendar.co Events Calendar

Events Manager is a full-featured event calendar, bookings, appointments, scheduling, and registration management plugin for WordPress ideal for everything from simple meetups to full-scale event planning. Built with flexibility, reliability and powerful features in mind. Demo Documentation Tutorials Main Features NEW Integrate easily with your favourite AI via MCP, unlock the power of AI-powered Events! NEW API Rest Integration NEW EU Compliance Tools for “Right of withdrawal” (EU ‘Widerrufsbutton’) Beautiful calendars, search pages, lists, grids and booking forms to enhance your site events. Easy event registration (single day with start/end times) Recurring and long (multi-day) event registration Build complex recurrence patterns with exclusion/blackout dates NEW Multiple timeslots within the day for events with advanced creation options Overlapping timeslots Buffer between timeslots Bookings Management (including approval/rejections, export CVS, and more!) Multiple Tickets Fully-featured graph and statistics including bar/line/pie with comparison and stacking MultiSite Event Support Cross-Network Event Sharing – show your events and booking fromss on other subsites or main site Network-wide Global Booking Management BuddyPress and BuddyBoss Support Create modular (independent) event subsites or inter-networked events Multiple custom event types (Archetypes), such as Workshops, Events, Webinars, Appointments etc. Customize your labels, slugs and CPT names Enable or disable specific features for specific event archetypes. Multiple Location Types Physical Locations Online Events (URLs) Zoom Webinars/Meetings Integration BuddyPress & BuddyBoss Support Submit Events Group Events Personal Events Activity Stream more on the way Guest/Member Event submissions Assign event locations and view events by location Event categories Easily create custom event attributes (e.g. dress code) Google Maps (see our API usage recommendations) Advanced permissions – restrict user management of events and locations. Widgets for Events, Locations and Calendars Fine grained control of how every aspect of your events are shown on your site, easily modify templates from the settings pages and template files iCal Feed (single and all events) Add to Google Calendar buttons RSS Feeds Compatible with SEO plugins Timezone Support – create events in different timezones Plenty of template tags and shortcodes for use in your posts and pages Gutenberg block editor support, with native blocks for the Events Calendar, Events List, and Locations List — usable in posts, pages, the site editor and the widget editor Actively maintained and supported Lots of documentation and tutorials NEW Gutenberg Supported And much more! AI Integration AI is here, and we’re on board! Check out what’s possible with our new and evolving AI integration possibilities: Data Privacy and GDPR Compliance We provide the tools to help you be GDPR compliant, including: export/erasure of data via the WordPress Privacy Tools, including booking, event and location data consent checkboxes on our booking, event and location forms on the frontend settings to control what can be exported/erased as well as where/when to place consent requests sample text for your site privacy policy describing what Events Manager does with personal data Premium Features We have a premium Pro add-on for Events Manager which not only demonstrates the flexibility of Events Manager, but also adds some important features including but not limited to: WooCommerce integration (sold separately) PayPal, Stripe, Authorize.net, Square, Xero and Offline Payments Custom booking forms Individual Attendee custom forms Upload fields for bookings, attendees and users Printable Invoices and Tickets Send PDF tickets/invoices by email automatically Check In/Out Move bookings to other dates/times QR Scanning Manage bookings on your phone Check In/Out users Waitlists Automation – ultimate flexibility in automation! Triggers: X time before/after events start When a booking status changes When a booking was booked x time ago Actions Send Webhook (Zapier, MS Automation and many other services) Send Email Send WhatsApp, SMS, Telegram notifications WhatsApp, SMS, Telegram integration and interactive flows Coupon Codes Custom booking email per event and gateway Faster support via private Pro forums For more information or to go pro, visit our plugin website. Additional Plugin Integrations Whilst there’s many third party integrations with our own plugin, here’s some we’ve integrated ourselves! Included in Events Manager (automatic integration) BuddyPress WP FullCalendar Thrive Automator Additional Add-Ons Zoom WPML Multilingual Sites

EventsCalendar.co is an event management tool designed to elevate your brand’s engagement and event sharing. With features like multiple customizable views, advanced timezone settings for global engagement, and support for various languages, including right-to-left scripts, EventsCalendar.co doesn’t just host your events; it brings them to life in a way that perfectly aligns with your brand’s identity. Demo Explore how EventsCalendar.co looks and works in action with our live demo: https://www.eventscalendar.co/demo Features Key Features Include: – Add one-time or recurring events with daily, weekly or monthly patterns – Automatically sync with Google Calendar, Eventbrite, Outlook, Zoom or any iCal feed – Customizable design, colors, typography, language, time format, week start, etc. – Month, Week, Agenda, and Cards views, all customizable to user preferences. – Community calendar – collect, review and approve events from your visitors. – Full Elementor support – easily add and customize using Elementor’s drag-and-drop interface. Whether you’re running a small community group, a large-scale event venue, or anything in between, the EventsCalendar.co plugin makes it easy to keep your visitors informed about upcoming events. External Services This plugin relies on several external services to provide its functionality: EventsCalendar.co Embed Service – Service: EventsCalendar.co embed script (dist.eventscalendar.co) – Purpose: Renders the interactive calendar widget on your website – Data sent: Calendar ID, embed configuration, and user interactions with the calendar – When: Every time a calendar is displayed on your site (via block, shortcode, or widget) – Privacy Policy: https://eventscalendar.co/privacy – Terms of Service: https://eventscalendar.co/terms EventsCalendar.co API Service – Service: EventsCalendar.co API (inffuse.eventscalendar.co) – Purpose: Manages calendar data, user authentication, and calendar synchronization – Data sent: User ID, site ID, access tokens, calendar configurations, and event data – When: During plugin configuration, calendar management, and data synchronization – Privacy Policy: https://eventscalendar.co/privacy – Terms of Service: https://eventscalendar.co/terms EventsCalendar.co Dashboard – Service: EventsCalendar.co dashboard (dashboard.eventscalendar.co) – Purpose: Provides the admin interface for managing calendars and account settings – Data sent: User authentication data, site information, and calendar management requests – When: When accessing the plugin’s admin pages in WordPress dashboard – Privacy Policy: https://eventscalendar.co/privacy – Terms of Service: https://eventscalendar.co/terms Google Fonts and Google Fonts API – Service: Google Fonts API (www.googleapis.com/webfonts) and Google Fonts (fonts.googleapis.com) – Purpose: Dynamically fetches the list of popular fonts and loads web fonts for the calendar’s typography in the block editor – Data sent: API requests for font listings and font requests with basic browser information – When: During block editor initialization to populate font options and when loading selected fonts – Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy – Terms of Service: https://developers.google.com/fonts/terms Note: The plugin requires an EventsCalendar.co account to function. All calendar data and configurations are managed through EventsCalendar.co services.