Sell online "tickets" to web event with a form?
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Hello
I am trying to find a way to host a paid webnar using a third party website. There is only one service that I can find at the moment and they are pricey. Is there a way I can sell an on-line "ticket" to a real time web event? Could this be done with a form?
This is a long shot but I thought I would ask if anyone had any ideas.
Thanks for your time!
Mike
I am trying to find a way to host a paid webnar using a third party website. There is only one service that I can find at the moment and they are pricey. Is there a way I can sell an on-line "ticket" to a real time web event? Could this be done with a form?
This is a long shot but I thought I would ask if anyone had any ideas.
Thanks for your time!
Mike
hope this answers your question :)
Thank you very much Fernandos for your reply!
I am looking a the sites you mentioned. The problem I am having is figuring out how to tie it all into a live web event. If a customer buys a "ticket" how can I make it tie into a webpage or link? The ony idea that I have come up with would be to have some type of form accept a payment that creates some type of login to a assigned page on the concrete5 site.
Any ideas?
I am looking a the sites you mentioned. The problem I am having is figuring out how to tie it all into a live web event. If a customer buys a "ticket" how can I make it tie into a webpage or link? The ony idea that I have come up with would be to have some type of form accept a payment that creates some type of login to a assigned page on the concrete5 site.
Any ideas?
It's easy, actually. With the ecommerce module, you can set it so that when a members buys an item they become part of a specific group. Make your webinar available to that group only. Therefore, your customers first have to register on the site (so you have to turn on registration), buy a ticket and then show up at the specified time (or, you can make the video available at anytime but only on a page that is restricted to that group). You can even make the group expire after the webinar automatically. It's pretty well set up for what you describe.
Yes you are specifically asking to solve something programatically.
I didn't know that you wanted that, but if you want people to assign to a group after a buy or redirect to a page then you would need something like the eComm addon.
It's also possible to do that without eComm, but you would need to create a PayPal-Form which returns a specific value after a successfull transaction back to your site's controller, which then "fires" <-> "Event::Fire()" an event to assign that user to a group or do whatever you like to do.
Here is a tutorial by Tony showing howto track events
http://concrete5packages.com/toolbox/stats/track-custom-events/...
This howto shows howto use events models and controllers
http://www.concrete5.org/documentation/how-tos/developers/shopping_...
This shows howto use events with ecommerce
http://www.concrete5.org/community/forums/customizing_c5/events-in-...
I didn't know that you wanted that, but if you want people to assign to a group after a buy or redirect to a page then you would need something like the eComm addon.
It's also possible to do that without eComm, but you would need to create a PayPal-Form which returns a specific value after a successfull transaction back to your site's controller, which then "fires" <-> "Event::Fire()" an event to assign that user to a group or do whatever you like to do.
Here is a tutorial by Tony showing howto track events
http://concrete5packages.com/toolbox/stats/track-custom-events/...
This howto shows howto use events models and controllers
http://www.concrete5.org/documentation/how-tos/developers/shopping_...
This shows howto use events with ecommerce
http://www.concrete5.org/community/forums/customizing_c5/events-in-...
I still think my first answer was the right answer, maybe you take a second look at it.. really it even offers an api, there is no better way for selling tickets than using a full-blown system and integrating into your site. Eventbrite has an Api and the other page too.
Buying the eComm addon is like installing an online shop and trying to make it sell tickets.. yeah totally possible, but it's making naturally seen more sense to use an event service like those I submitted.
A quick searchhttp://duckduckgo.com orhttp://google.com will possibly make you find other ticket-services that you can easily integrate..
hehe it would be a goodwin :P hehehe
ps: I like to play around with eastwest samples and cubase5, I've only light version of ableton.. maybe you know some good ressources that show the good sides of ableton live? I'm going to buy a new master-keyboard soon.
Buying the eComm addon is like installing an online shop and trying to make it sell tickets.. yeah totally possible, but it's making naturally seen more sense to use an event service like those I submitted.
A quick searchhttp://duckduckgo.com orhttp://google.com will possibly make you find other ticket-services that you can easily integrate..
hehe it would be a goodwin :P hehehe
ps: I like to play around with eastwest samples and cubase5, I've only light version of ableton.. maybe you know some good ressources that show the good sides of ableton live? I'm going to buy a new master-keyboard soon.
2. Easy: PayPal can generate a "buy now" link for you :)
3. Hard:http://goo.gl/eKfMb (selfmade custom paypal form)