Events Manager – Calendar, Bookings, Tickets, and more! vs Registrations for the Events Calendar – Event Registration Plugin

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

Whether you’re holding a meetup, class, workshop, tournament, or any other kind of event, you need a reliable way to handle event registration. Our plugin makes collecting and managing event registrations easy and simple. Even nontechnical users can set up the plugin and start collecting event registrations within minutes. Create a simple RSVP registration form or a more advanced event registration form with custom fields. All event registrations are stored in your WordPress database for easy event management. Customize confirmation and notification email templates to keep your attendees and event managers informed throughout the event registration process. Looking for an All-in-One Event Plugin? If you’re starting a new event website and prefer an all-in-one solution, check out Event Genius which is a partner plugin. Event Genius includes built-in event management, calendars, registrations, recurring events, and attendee management in a single plugin. Requires The Events Calendar Registrations for The Events Calendar works alongside The Events Calendar plugin. If The Events Calendar is not installed, you can install it directly from the onboarding setup wizard. Quick to Set Up and Easy to Get Started As soon as you install and activate the plugin, you can begin collecting event registrations on the single event page for all of your events. You can also customize the placement of the form on the single event page or on any other page using a shortcode or the block editor. Uses The plugin can be used for more than event registration. Here are some common ways people are using it: RSVP for meetings Class registration or simple class management Sports club registration Venue booking Webinar sign-ups Private instructor booking Virtual events Pickleball tournament registration User-Friendly Features Reduce incomplete event registrations by keeping the entire process on a single page (AJAX form submission). Keep your event page uncluttered (your registration form is hidden initially and revealed by clicking a customizable “Register” button). Follow up with attendees using customizable confirmation emails. Save registrations in the WordPress database for easy management. Allow attendees to cancel their registration using a secure link sent via email. Highly Customizable Add as many fields as you’d like to your event registration form. Choose where the registration form appears on your event page. Control how the form displays: reveal on click, pop-up modal, or always visible. Display the form anywhere on your site using shortcodes or the Gutenberg block. Customize labels, error messages, instructions, and required fields. Customize both attendee confirmation emails and organizer notification emails. Limit the number of registrations per event. Restrict registration to logged-in users if needed. Display a list of registered attendees. Set a registration deadline (date and time). Powerful Admin Tools Registrations are saved in the WordPress database, where you can manually add, edit, and delete them. Email addresses can be checked for duplicates (this prevents duplicate registrations). Get notifications when new registrations need to be reviewed. View a breakdown of registrations by event, and browse them quickly in an overview. Export your event registrations to a CSV spreadsheet. Search event registrations by name, phone, or email. Integrates with WPML (WordPress Multi-language) for multi-language events. Tools for GDPR Compliance View a breakdown of the tools with screenshots here Search for event registrations filtered by email address. Export all collected data attached to an email address whether connected to a user or not. Delete individual event registrations or permanently delete all data attached to an email address. Require attendees to agree to terms and conditions before registering. Include a link to a terms and conditions page. Benefits Save time with a simple, streamlined registration workflow. Customize the experience to match your needs. Build community by displaying registered attendees (optional). Provide a fast, user-friendly registration experience that increases sign-ups. New in 3.0 Cleaner, more modern interface Improved registration forms Revamped registration management experience 100+ improvements across the plugin Featured Reviews “Perfect plugin, excellent support! Really, two things you can never find combined. The plugin works great. Even the free version has many options, and the support is great. They answer quickly and provide answers to help you achieve what you need. Totally recommend it, and hope they keep creating great plugins!” –delfidream “I needed a plugin to allow signing up for advising sessions at a university; this worked great. Simple, easy to set up.” –adowdle “Awesome Support for Very Useful Plugin I’ve used Registrations for the Events Calendar for several years in a website for a chess camp. RoundupWP always provides timely, above-and-beyond support for any issues that arise.” – jodyfr Pro Version Need more customization and control? Check out Registrations for the Events Calendar Pro. Pro features include: Pro features include: Multiple registration forms per event. Drag and drop event registration form builder. Advanced field types: drop-down, number, checkbox, radio, date, file upload, and paragraph. Accept online payments for event registrations using PayPal (Stripe, iDEAL, and WooCommerce extensions available). Offline payment management. Flexible pricing: add multiple costs to events or vary pricing based on form field responses. Guest registrations (register multiple attendees at once). Waiting lists with automatic promotion when spots open. Multiple confirmation email templates. Registration types with multiple price levels and limits. Scheduled email messages for reminders and follow-ups. Send emails manually from the WordPress dashboard. Connect event series to a single registration (with The Events Calendar Pro). Event check-in and attendance tracking tools. Customizable event registration reports downloadable as CSV. Import event registrations in bulk using CSV. Allow attendees to edit their own registrations. Ideal for membership sites and recurring event registration workflows. Logged-in users can view a list of their registered events. Feedback or Support We would love to hear feedback and support the plugin so please visit the “Support” tab inside the plugin settings page for assistance. Setting up Registrations for the Events Calendar Install the plugin “The Events Calendar” by Modern Tribe from our welcome page (if not already installed). If you haven’t created an event, do so by going to the WordPress dashboard and navigating to Events -> Add New. A registration form will now appear on your created event or any other published event. Add a registration form for a specific event to another page on your site using the shortcode [rtec-registration-form event=743] with the “event” setting being the post ID for that event. Blocks also available. You can configure the form fields, messaging, registrations limits etc by navigating to Registrations -> Settings. You can configure the email options on the “Email” tab of the settings page. See a quick overview of your events and registrations on the “Registrations” page. Add, edit, and remove registrations manually by navigating to the “Registrations” tab and clicking “+ Manage Registrations” for an event. You can also export or view submission details here.