You have all your events and venues plus dates, times and prices are set – now you need to promote shows and sell tickets.
Eventotron’s built in Super Simple Box Office lets you do this in a very quick and easy way. You just need to install the Eventotron SSBO plugin on your wordpress website. Here’s how:
Request the plugin from Eventotron
Go to your wordpress dashboard. Click Plugins and Add New. Upload the Eventotron plugin. Click Activate.
You will now see Eventotron in your dashboard menu. You will also see 5 new post types: Merch, SKUs, Venues, Events and Performances
Click on Eventotron – you will be in the Settings tab.
Getting Started
Load the standard Event, Performance and Venue templates and import useful icons to your media library. Click the Load Templates (unless you are building your own templates in which case leave as the default)
Ensure your permalinks are set to Post Name, for example: https://your.website/sample-post/ (you can check this and edit in WordPress Settings – Permalinks)
The plugin creates customer-facing search pages for Events, Performances and Venues at the following locations:
Events https://your.website/events
Performances https://your.website/performances
Venues https://your.website/venues
Merchandise https://your.website/merch/
You should consider adding menu items to your main nav for one or more of the above pages.
Import a season or festival
Open a new window in your browser and log into Eventotron. Go to your festival/season dashboard and click on Setup – API Keys
Put a name (eg: website) and then hit Generate new key
Copy the key, and return to your wordpress dashboard
Paste the API key into the Eventotron API key field in Eventotron Plugin Settings and click Validate
You will now see your festival or season as a tab.