• I am new to to woocommerce and hope this is possible just not sure how. I am desiging a new website for a local theatre company that sells tickets to its shows online. The current structure using woo works like this:

    Show: Much Ado About Nothing
    Product: Much Ado Friday September 9th @7:30pm
    Variables General Admission, Students/Seniors/Military.

    This particular performance runs 3 weekends so will have 9 products in total. One for each day. This is the only way I have found to be able to manage stock on a nightly basis. I could set an inventory(From a Product Level) of 175 that would apply to both variables. The thing that I dislike about this is is I fear the products page might become a little confusing for everyone. When you click on the show a page with 9 different dates and times appear all with the same show(product) image.

    I originally had created it like this:

    Show: Much Ado About Nothing
    Product: Much Ado About Nothing Sept 9-25
    Variables: September 9 General Admission, Sept 9 Student/Senior/Military, Sept 10 General Admission, and so on.

    So when you clicked on the show to purchase a ticket it took you to a simpler looking page with one drop down menu of all the show date and times. The issue with this is I could not manage inventory on a nightly basis. I couldn’t manage the stock from a product Level because I cannot control how many a person could buy for a particular night. And if I tried to manage stock from a variable level I had to split my nightly stock amount(175) between the two possible ticket prices (General, Student/Senior/Military). But then one could “sell out” even thought technically it was not sold out.

    Is there a way to set up this product where I can have it displayed all in one single drop down menu but be able to control the stock on a nightly basis? Or is there a way to even have multiple drop down menus(One for each night) but all displayed on the same page?

    Here is a link to what I know works but isn’t ideal: https://cctshows.com/thoroughly-modern-millie-tickets/

    (You clicked the show you want tickets for and it takes you here, then you click the date you want tickets for and it takes you here: https://cctshows.com/product/thoroughly-modern-millie-september-9th-730pm/ Where you then select the price.)

    Here is a link to what I would like, but currently doesn’t work correctly: https://cctshows.com/product/the-complete-works-of-william-shakespeare-abridged/

    (You clicked the show you want tickets for and it takes you to the page where you select the date and price. One less step, one less chance for confusion and incorrect orders being placed.)

    Is there a way to have my cake and eat it too? Thanks for any help and guidance in this!

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  • Caleb Burks

    (@icaleb)

    Automattic Happiness Engineer

    Couple of options I can think of.

    1) Use variations for the dates only, and addon fields that control the price for Students/Seniors/Military/General.

    With this, you’ll have one product like you first tried with a variation for each night. Then you can keep the stock at the variation level. Next you can use a plugin like Product Addons to add in extra fields too control the price.

    2) Use a bundled product with two products in it.

    One is a variable product w/ dates where you keep stock, the second product being a variable product where they choose Students/Seniors/Military/General.

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