Limit a user to one booking, globally

hi,

yes, when adding or updating events under section Bookings/Registration you can use ticket min/max required per booking

We already have min max rules to limit a user to one ticket per event. What we are trying to do is limit a user to only one Event.

As in if they have a current booking (no matter which event it is) they can’t book another event.

Is this possible?

I see, try Events > Settings > Bookings > General Options > Allow double bookings =No

Again that setting would apply to booking the same event twice.

We want to prevent a user from having more than one event booked.

Sorry if I’m not being clear, I didn’t think it would be this complicated.

Sorry, there’s no option to do this out-of-the-box. You could probably achieve it with custom coding that either checks a cookie recording a previous purchase or restricts bookings based on a unique ID like an email address.

Another alternative would be to restrict bookings by user accounts.

All bookings will be made by logged in users, I should have specified.

How would I go about checking to see if a user has an active booking?

maybe you can hook into em_booking_validate filter and then create a loop checking the users active bookings.

e.g.

function my_em_mods($result,$EM_Booking){
 //$result is boolean

 return $result;
}
add_filter('em_booking_validate','my_em_mods',10,2);

Hi
If you do find a solution to this, or if there is any chance of this becoming a standard feature, this is something we have a need for.

We allow our members to book 2 future events at a time, and occasionally someone will book more.

It would be great to have a limit to the number of future events that can be booked at any time by one registered user.

Thanks

I tested Angelo’s suggestion and it works perfectly

I my opinion this is THE solution.

The filter allows to apply whatever rule to allow/forbid a booking.

You can’t put all these rules in the core code … Imagine the configuration pages ??

I tested Angelo’s suggestion and it works perfectly

I my opinion this is THE solution.

The filter allows to apply whatever rule to allow/forbid a booking.

You can’t put all these rules in the core code … Imagine the configuration pages ??

Good to hear @franceimage.

How/where did you implement it?

Consider this example: user tom is being banned from booking …

You can put following code in your theme functions.php (if you are lazy) or better create a plugin with all your rules

function my_em_mods($result,$EM_Booking){
     global $current_user;
    get_currentuserinfo();

        if ($current_user->user_login == 'tom' ) {
              $EM_Booking-> errors = array_merge($EM_Booking-> errors, array ('tom cannot book'));
              $result = false ;
       }
        return $result;
}
add_filter( 'em_booking_validate', 'my_em_mods' ,10,2);

For your example, you will have to use a meta for your users that will hold the current booking info

Hello,

I am facing the same issue with my website.

I would like to limit the total number of bookings a user can make.

I’ve tried using the above codes but still can’t get it to work by any chance.

Any help appreciated.

Thanks.

you need to modify the code above e.g. $current_user->user_login == 'tom'

Yes, I’ve already tried to modify it.

1st of all, just to test… I changed the user from ‘tom’ to ‘admin’ i.e my username, but it still allows me to book tickets.

secondly, I don’t really know what modifications to make for user booking restriction.

This is really urgent, Can I add you on skype or something ?

Thanks.