SeatReg vs Events Manager – Event Cancellation

Create and manage online registrations with ease. Design your own registration layout and manage bookings. SeatReg is built around a visual seat map. You design the layout in the map builder, add it to your site with a shortcode or share it as a direct link, and manage the bookings that come in. Visitors open the map, select a seat, and complete their booking. It is commonly used for events and conferences, theaters and cinemas, classes and workshops, restaurants and venues, churches, and coworking spaces — situations where people reserve a specific seat or spot. Features Map Builder: Design your registration layout in the map builder. Create, delete, resize, and move elements, and add prices, legends, seat numbers, hover text, and custom colors. Registration Overview: View your registrations and the number of open, approved, and pending bookings. Customizable Settings: Control the booking flow through the settings, and add custom fields to collect additional data from customers. Email Templates: Customize the emails sent to customers. Export: Export bookings to PDF, XLSX, or TEXT. Calendar Mode: Manage date-based bookings with calendar mode. Responsive Registration View: Share a scrollable, resizable registration view via a direct link, or embed it in your pages with a shortcode. Payment Integration: Accept payments through PayPal and Stripe. Coupons: Create coupon codes that apply a discount during checkout. Companion App: A web app for managing bookings — view them, scan QR codes, and receive notifications.

Requires Events Manager (free plugin) to be installed & activated. Unfortunately, you sometimes have to cancel a planned event. In Events Manager it can be quite cumbersome to make sure you have done everything. This add-on makes that extremely easy! Just change the Post Status to “Cancelled” and this add-on will automatically: Close the Booking Form by adjusting the Event cut-off time to the timestamp of cancellation; Change the Event Category to the new “Event Cancelled”; Change the Booking Status to the new “Event Cancelled” for selected booking statuses; Send the new “Event Cancelled” Email to notify your customers. After cancelling an event, it will still be visible in the front end, but the booking form will be closed. This prevents 404-errors for visitors and search engines. Refunding online payments remains a manual procedure. This add-on is fully integrated with the Events Manager Dashboard. These new options will work exactly the same as the built-in ones. Supports EM in Global Tables Mode If you are running Events Manager on a WordPress MultiSite with Global Tables Mode enabled, you will probably have noticed that (by default) some features are missing on the sub-blogs. Unlike what the EM Dev told me, it is possible to filter the Admin Events List per Event Category if Global Tables Mode is enabled. Since version 2.0 this add-on is (almost) fully compatible with that. The only thing still missing, is selecting Events Categories in the Quick Edit menu on sub blogs. But all other features of this add-on run smoothly. Compatibility with EM – Ongoing Events: If you cancel a main event, all sub events will be cancelled as well, but if you cancel a sub event, the rest of this Ongoing Series will remain unchanged. How to test it? Simply create a test event like any other. Publish it and add yourself as a participant. Then set the test event to “Cancelled” and watch the magic happen. Feedback I am open to your suggestions and feedback! Please also check out my other plugins, tutorials and useful snippets for Events Manager.