Events Manager – Calendar, Bookings, Tickets, and more! vs Tickera – Sell Tickets & Manage Events

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 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 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

Tickera lets you sell tickets on WordPress, manage event registration, and run ticket sales end-to-end on your own domain. Create an event, add tickets, design beautiful PDF tickets with the built-in drag & drop Ticket Designer, deliver them with QR/Barcodes, and check in attendees at the door. You keep the revenue — no middleman fees taken by Tickera. For ticket scanning, use integrated Barcode readers. If you want mobile check-in on phones, our premium Checkinera apps for iOS/Android enable blazing-fast scanning – even offline after sync. There’s also a Checkinera web app that turns any modern browser into a fully-fledged check-in desk. ✅ Key features 🎟️ Sell event tickets on your site – you keep the revenue 🗂️ Manage events in WordPress — create, edit, duplicate, set dates/capacity, and control ticket types 🎨 Built-in drag & drop Ticket Designer with a live PDF preview, unlimited designs, and ready-made templates 🧾 PDF tickets with embedded QR/Barcode for fast entry 🧍 Event registration with buyer and attendee fields 💸 Ticket sales tools: multiple ticket types, limits, discount codes, fees, taxes 🚀 Fast check-in with barcode readers, Checkinera mobile apps (premium), or the web app 🧩 Works with most WordPress themes 🧪 Developer-friendly (actions and filters for customization) 🏷️ White-label ready 🕸️ Multisite support ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ “These guys offer a whole different level of service… give them a go!” — James Farmer, WPMU DEV ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎨 Design beautiful tickets (new in 3.6) Make tickets people actually want to keep. The built-in Ticket Designer is a drag & drop editor with a live, pixel-perfect PDF preview — what you see on screen is exactly what your attendees receive. Start from a library of ready-made templates (Wedding, Concert, Conference, Gala Dinner, Festival, Theatre and more), or build your own unlimited designs and assign them per event or per ticket type. You can also restyle your storefront with selectable front-end themes (Minimal, Bold, or Dark) for a clean, modern look on your event, cart and checkout pages — or keep your own theme’s styling. Set it under Tickera > Settings > Appearance. Manage events & event registration Create and update events in WordPress, then capture event registration details for each attendee. 🧠 How it works Choose your payment gateway. Create an event and add one or more ticket types (e.g., Standard, VIP). Share your ticket sales page and take orders. Buyers receive PDF tickets with QR/Barcodes. At the venue, check in attendees with scanners, the Checkinera apps (premium), or the web app. 🎬 Video 💳 Payments Tickera plugin comes with 2Checkout, Custom Offline Payments, and Free Orders as built-in payment gateways. Need more options? Get Tickera Premium for gateways like: – Mollie (iDeal, Credit Card, Bancontact/Mister Cash, SOFORT, Overbooking, Bitcoin, PayPal, paysafecard, AcceptEmail) – PayPal Standard • PayPal PRO • 2Checkout • Stripe • Paymill • Authorize.net • PIN Payments • Vogue Pay • iPay88 • PayGate • OptimalPayments/Netbanx • Braintree • PayUMoney • PayTabs • White Payments • PayU Latam • Komoju • plus Custom Offline Payments & Free Orders. 🛒 WooCommerce compatible Already on WooCommerce? Sell tickets as WooCommerce products while Tickera handles e-ticket delivery and check-in. Learn more about Bridge for WooCommerce (premium add-on). 🪑 Seating & 🧾 forms (premium add-ons) 🪑 Assigned seating with Seating Charts – build seat maps; let buyers pick seats at checkout. 🧾 Custom attendee fields and exports with Custom Forms. 💼 Take a cut on multisite/marketplaces with Stripe Connect. For more, see the complete catalog: All Tickera add-ons. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ “In my opinion Tickera is the best ticket management solution available today on WordPress” – Anton Kozlov ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📚 Documentation Getting started & setup: https://tickera.com/documentation-category/tickera/ Checkinera apps (iOS/Android): https://tickera.com/checkinera-app/ Checkinera web app: https://tickera.com/checkinera-web/ Bridge for WooCommerce: https://tickera.com/addons/bridge-for-woocommerce/ Seating Charts: https://tickera.com/addons/seating-charts/ Custom Forms: http://tickera.com/addons/custom-forms/ Need help? Browse full docs: https://tickera.com/documentation-category/tickera/ 🚀 Premium demo Want to try everything (including premium add-ons)? 👉 Request a demo access 🧰 Use cases Ticket sales for concerts, conferences, festivals, theatres, meetups, comedy shows Sports events (football matches, basketball, volleyball, tournaments, races) Event registration for workshops, classes, seminars, trainings, hackathons Attractions & venues (zoos, museums, galleries, exhibitions, theme/adventure parks) Tours & experiences (city tours, boat/ferry tours, winery/brewery tours, campus open days) Community & non-profit (church events, charity fundraisers, school/university events) Nightlife & hospitality (clubs, DJ nights, VIP lists, table/service packages) Seasonal & holiday events (markets, fairs, fireworks nights, Halloween/NYE) Corporate & product (launches, networking, town halls, partner events) Education & webinars (online events with attendee data collection) Theatre & cinema (screenings, premieres; seat selection via Seating Charts add-on) On-site logistics (entry lanes, staff/crew passes, vendor passes) Parking passes for events (sell/scan parking tickets to manage capacity) Multi-activity days (festival day passes, stage/area access levels) Timed entry windows (staggered arrivals, capacity control at the door) Sell tickets online and scan tickets on-site via QR/Barcode (readers, Checkinera apps, or web app) Event registration with per-attendee data (forms, exports) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ “Cannot recommend Tickera highly enough” – DJ Andy Ward ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ External services Freemius manages upgrades to the premium license and handles premium licensing. Privacy policy: https://freemius.com/privacy/ TCPDF handles the rendering process of tickets, QR codes, and barcodes. Privacy policy: https://tcpdf.org/about/ Google Map API (maps.googleapis.com) renders the ticket template’s map element. Privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-US Freegeoip.net collects customer geolocation information (e.g., City, ZIP) to pre-fill checkout payment forms. Privacy policy: https://freegeoip.live/privay-policy.html 2Checkout makes it possible to accept payments via the 2Checkout payment gateway. Privacy policy: https://www.2checkout.com/legal/privacy/ Tickera is used for pulling the list of add-ons offered in the Add-ons area of the plugin. Privacy policy: https://tickera.com/privacy/