GeoDirectory Events Tickets Marketplace GPL v2.1.2

GeoDirectory Events Tickets Marketplace GPL Overview

The GeoDirectory Events Tickets Marketplace extension lets you easily sell event tickets on your website.

You can sell tickets for 1 event or millions of events.

If you run a directory of events, this extension will give your event listings owners the option to create tickets for their events and sell them through your website. This will turn your directory into an Online Tickets Marketplace, just like Eventbrite or TicketMaster. You, as the site owner, will have the option to collect a commission for each ticket sold.

This extension can also be used by anyone, to sell tickets of any kind, through their own WordPress website.

• Sell Tickets Independently – Stop paying commissions to ticket marketplaces and sell your events tickets on your website.
• Create a Marketplace – Allows anyone to sell tickets on your Events Directory.
• Collect commissions on sold tickets – Decide how much of a commission you want to charge for tickets sold.
• Printable Tickets with QR Codes – Buyers download and print their tickets and the Event Owner is able to scan the QR code for ticket status.
• Redeem tickets to control access to your events – After scanning the ticket and validating it, event owners can redeem the tickets so that it can’t be used more than once.
• Insights and Analytics for tickets sold – The event owner has basic reports for its own events, while the site admin has reports for all events combined.

Requirements

The GeoDirectory Events Tickets Marketplace extension requires the following plugins:

• GeoDirectory (Free)
• Events Calendar for GeoDirectory (Free)
• GetPaid (Free)
• GetPaid Item Inventory (Free) 
• GetPaid Wallet (Free)

If it can’t find them during installation, it will auto-install them for you.

Installation

The first step if you haven’t already, is to install the Events Tickets Marketplace extension. This can be done by following our guides on how to install an extension.

Once installed, the plugin will add a new menu in the WordPress Dashboard called: Tickets with three submenus:

• Sold Tickets
• Reports
• Settings

Step 1 – Settings

Once installed and activated, you can find the Events Tickets settings at  Tickets > Settings.

The Events Tickets Marketplace extension comes with sane defaults meaning the default settings will work for the majority of users, however, there are 2 settings that can be customized .

1. Ticket Sales Commission %

This is the amount of each sale that is collected by the site admin

2. Payment Form

The Payment Form can be Check Out (default) or Wallet (Top-Up).

A. Check Out (default) – Users pay the exact amount for the selected Tickets through one of the available payment gateways.

B. Wallet (Top-Up) – Users pay in advance the amount they wish and top up their Wallet. When they select a ticket, the amount is withdrawn from the balance of their wallet.

Step 2 – Allowing Events owners to Sell Tickets

For the event listings owner to be able to sell tickets, you need to add the Sell Tickets block or shortcode to your Events detail page template.

For example, you can add the block to the GD Sidebar of your website, to show the “Sell Ticket” Button to all the Event Listings Owners.

Or you can use this shortcode  [gd_sell_tickets primary_color=”primary” secondary_color=”secondary”] wherever you see fit on the Event detail page template.

The result will be that all Event Listing Owners, will now see the “Sell Tickets” button on their event as in the image below. Regular website visitors still won’t see anything.