Events Manager – Calendar, Bookings, Tickets, and more! vs TicketSource Ticket Shop

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

TicketSource enables you to sell tickets and turn your WordPress site in to an online event ticketing sales tool. The TicketSource Ticket Shop plugin enables you to embed your TicketSource ticket booking pages directly in to your WordPress website, so that customers can buy tickets directly from you. Whether you sell 10 or 10,000 tickets, revolutionise the way you manage and sell tickets for your events with our easy to use, self service box office system. Sign up for an account with us and we’ll provide you with immediate access to your personalised dashboard where you can manage every aspect of your event online 24/7. Using our interactive event designer, you could have your event available to sell in minutes. Our flexible service enables you to sell general admission tickets from a quota or individually numbered seats from an onscreen seating plan. Sign up for a TicketSource account to sell tickets online TicketSource Features Up and running in minutes Set up venue seating plans or general admission quota Add multiple events and tickets allocations Options for accepting donations and sundry item sales Customise images and colours to match your brand Multiple user accounts with varying access permissions Set up discount promotional codes to boost advance booking Use MailChimp integration to promote your forthcoming events Monitor how customers are finding you with our reports Own and export your customer data Customers can pay online with all major payment cards We handle card payments or you can integrate your own Stripe account Single inventory integrates online and in-house sales No booking fee for in-house sales Ticket delivery via eticket, mobile ticket (SMS and Passbook) and postal ticket Notification of bookings via email Print out a door list to manually check-in attendees Turn your iOS or Android device into a ticket scanner Wireless scanner kit for multi-entry point venues Range of sales report and analysis options Breakdown of income in reports for easy accounting Testimonials from event organisers using TicketSource to sell tickets online “Having used TicketSource since 2008, many of our audience members have commented on their professional yet personal approach. It is reassuring to know that ticketing for the Festival, both before and during its month-long run is in safe hands with TicketSource.” * Amy Brooks, Communications Officer at Everyman Theatre * “The team at TicketSource are always on hand to help when needed and the standard of customer service is outstanding. I would recommend working with TicketSource to any event organiser, and look forward to working with them on our future projects.” * Jason Venables, Event Planning Consultant * “TicketSource has made the booking experience easier, quicker and more professional for our customers – and it has certainly given us a flexibility we never had before. We would recommend the service to anyone running an event. We wish we had done so sooner!” * Ross Friday, Event Organiser * Support Visit https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/help for assistance. Email support [at] ticketsource.co.uk to get in touch with the support team. /* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. Copyright 2005-2020 TicketSource. */