Events booking : registrant price and categories

Hello !

I've got a "problem" with event booking and I do not know if a solution exist...
I plan to use events booking for a touristic train and we've good several needs but i do not know how to configure event booking correctly to have them :
- first we've got multiple prices (adults, children, reduced, free...) and I'd like to create different registrant categories fitting with different prices so that when someone registers for a trip on our train this person could have the possibility to directly book for 2 adults and a child for example, so that the the number of free places decreases instantly of 3 seats and the total final price corresponds exactly to 2 adults and a child. Is that possible ?
- then we would like event booking to generate an automatic pdf table with the list and information of all the registrants for one specific event, and we would like event booking to send this table in an automatically generated email to a given mail adress at one specific moment of the day ? Is it possible with event booking ?
We're trying to do that since a few days now but we do not find how to do it and we do not know if events booking can do this, we hope yes !! We've just got event booking so we're not yet perfect at it.

If you can help us or at least tell us if it is or not possible we would appreciate !

Waiting for your answers, advices...

Thanks !

1) I think I would use a GROUP registration for this, and set up a custom fee field (dropdown or radio button) that is shown to each group member to handle the ticket type. Set your base ticket cost to the cost of a Adult fare, and then reduce the cost for each discounted fare types using negative values in the fee setup.
[EDIT: See eventbookingdoc.joomservices.com/basic-s...ds/custom-fee-fields for documentation on Custom Fee Fields. ]

2) From my experience as a user, EB is not set up to do this. You could hire a coder to do this for you. I think the best way would be to write a routine that accesses the mySQL database directly, pulls the proper information, formats it into a table, and sends it as an email attachment. EventBooking DOES have an EXPORT TO CSV option, that will allow you to manually export registration data that you can then manually process, but nothing automatic at time of writing.

Hi James,

Thanks a lot for your answer !
In fact, I've already tried the solution you gave me concerning group registration, and this could work, the only problem for the moment concerning this solution is that when doing that the person that registers for a trip on our train has to give information about all the members of the group/family. Sometimes we've got groups with more tha 100 members and just imagine how awful this would be to collect the information needed for 100 members ! I tried then to put the "Collect Members Information in Group Registration" on "No" but then the group registration did no longer work, and that's my problem with this solution that could work for us I thing.
Concerning the automatic pdf file and email this would have been great but if it is not possible I will have to try a way out to do something quite similar because I absolutly need a list a registrant ready to print at a specific moment of the day. I will try to find someone that could help us with the solution you gave me (the coder + routine to access th mySQL)
Thanks a lot James !!!
Regards

@Tuan -- depending on how the number of registrants is calculated, would it be easy or hard to implement a "number of registrants" field in and individual booking? It could be a matter of a few lines of code in front end and back end (or it could be a nasty recode of may lines...).
I've had need for this myself, and have read other forum posts needing the same functionality.

Hi,

It's me again ! I've got one more question / problem...indeed I tried to activate the shopping cart but it does not seem to work correctly (see the image joined to this message to see what it looks like) and if this shopping cart would work I could maybe manage to do something that would be good for us (ie people putting 3 trips in the shopping cart and then detailled the number of adults and children in the Event Custom Field) But for the moment the shopping cart does not work for me since the "visual aspect" of this cart looks like an error message (even some letters of words do not appear correctly I'd like it to just look like the way it appears when I try to modify quantities see picture 2) and then it just take 1 trip and it is impossible to modify the number (it refuses to take the modification).
Can you help me on that too...?

Regards from France

@James Use this plugin, I wrote it in the past but don't include it in the default download package. Just make the fields start with number_ (for example, number_adults, number_children) and it should work OK

@Tristan: Look at the answers I replied in your topic on Pre-sales questions forum + use the plugin I uploaded above. It should be the solution for your problem/requirement

Tuan

Thanks, Tuan!

@Tuan -- Would you consider adding an "additional plugins" section to the EB product page? It would be nice to know what additional plugins there are and be able to access them.