Exhibitions ticketing plugin?

  • edugimeno

    (@edugimeno)


    8 months ago

    Hi There!

    I need to find a plugin for wordpress that allows the user to purchase tickets for different exhibitions. Im not sure if there is a plugin that covers all the requirements.

    Our reference webpage for this is a large commercial product that our customer is using right now: clorian.com

    Requisites are:

    • Allow user to purchase tickets for different exhibitions at different locations, either on computer or cellphone
    • Show you a QR that can be downloaded and scanned on your cell phone when you purchase a ticket
    • On large exhibitions, let you split each day into different sessions to limit capacity (so on premiere day you need to choose 10:00-11:00, or 11:00-12:00 instead of picking the whole day
    • It needs to have a parallel application or website for staff members to sell tickets in person at the front desk, and allow a physical payment terminal to scan the card. This app or web must be much simpler than the end user website, basically number of tickets, select exhibition, check availiability on common database, and print the tickets
    • It needs to have the ability to return tickets, assuming it will be done by the staff, as they need to check if the user complies with the return conditions (medical visit, etc). The money needs to get back to the users card

    Is this too much for a wordpress plugin??

    Thanks in advance!

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    I could be wrong, but my gut feeling is there is no single plugin that will accomplish all that you want. You’d likely need to piece this together from various, more task specific plugins. There will likely be some custom coding as well to modify existing plugins and to fill in the gaps where no plugin exists.

    A basic rule of open source plugins (that I just made up ?? ):
    “The more specific your needs, the less likely it is you’ll find an existing solution.”

    Thread Starter edugimeno

    (@edugimeno)

    Haha nice rule, I will keep it ??

    Yes I understand, but in my case the alternative would be hiring a software development company that can build the whole program from the ground up, which will be incredibly expensive.

    Anyway if I pay for one of the available “premium” plugins, and let’s suppose they don’t offer some of the capabilities I need, can I extend them modifying the code? Because if I’n not wrong, if they are paid plugins, their code won’t be “open“, right?

    I sent an email to the company “BookinPress” and they said they do comply with some of the requisites but not all…:(

    Will see if anyone around can suggest something powerful enough to be close to what I’m after

    THANKS!

    • This reply was modified 8 months ago by edugimeno.
    Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    Whether software is open source or not depends on the licensing terms. It’s allowed to charge a fee for open source software. Or someone could apply restrictive licensing but provide the software free of charge. Open source just means you get a copy of the source code.

    If you have the source code for software, it’s possible to modify it to suit your needs. But whether you’re allowed to or not again depends on the licensing terms.

    You have the right idea though, find the closest, best fit (single or multiple plugins) and modify further for a perfect fit. How feasible it would be depends on several factors.

    Thread Starter edugimeno

    (@edugimeno)

    Understood, thanks!

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