EventPrime – Modern Events Calendar, Bookings and Tickets (eventprime-event-calendar-management) free WordPress plugin

EventPrime is an easy-to-use, modern WordPress Events Calendar plugin. With the EventPrime events plugin, you can publish new events on your website in a few simple clicks. Just pick a date on the Events Calendar in the WordPress Dashboard area, and start creating your event! Publish free, as well as paid events by enabling Bookings from EventPrime’s event settings.

Some of the top EventPrime features include:

• Accept payments for bookings via PayPal and Stripe.
• Option to create multi-tier pricing for events with Price Manager.
• Multi-user role-based or anonymous frontend event submissions.
• Event Types or Event Categories with attributes.
• Custom Presenters or Performers with photos and attributes.
• Bookings manager.
• Custom user checkout fields.
• Multiple event views.
• Support for virtual and online events.
• Ability to add event entrance fee.
• Fully customizable email templates.
• A variety of widgets suitable for all themes.
• Dedicated frontend user area for bookings management.
• And much more!

EventPrime also offers a wide selection of additional free and premium extensions for all your requirements.

For any issues, bugs, feature requests and general help, contact our awesome support!

Cheers, EventPrime Team

With our WordPress events plugin, you now have an event management system to create and manage an event list the way you always wanted! No more difference between the dashboard WordPress event calendar and the calendar that is visible to your visitors on the front-end. The Event Calendar on the front-end will appear exactly the way you configure it from the dashboard area. Finally, a WordPress Events Calendar plugin which works effortlessly! Event management in WordPress was never this easy, thanks to the EventPrime events plugin.

EventPrime is a WordPress Events Calendar plugin that supports free event bookings, paid event bookings, single day events, multi-day events, event performers, event sites, event gallery, event registration, event calendar widget and a lot more. Check out our Starter Guide to get up and running with this awesome event manager tool.

If you want more out of our new WordPress events plugin, do check out its Extensions. We have added Live Seating, Event Analytics, Event Sponsors, Stripe Payments, Offline Payments, Recurring Events and a lot more planned for the future!

EventPrime Backend

Events Calendar View

• Fully editable modern events calendar view.
• Create or Edit Events directly from the Events Calendar plugin.
• Click on a date on the dashboard WordPress event calendar to open the Add Event popup form.
• Set Event Start and End Dates, All Day Event, Bookings Status, Booking Price, Event Type, Event Site, and Performer(s) from the Add Event Popup.
• View events on the WordPress calendar as colored bars spanning from the start date to the end date of the event.
• The color of the event is inherited from Event Type color, making it easy to quickly identify events of different types on your main calendar and WordPress calendar widget.
• Hover cursor above an existing event on the WordPress calendar to view its details in a quick popover.
• Drag and drop events from one date block to another in the WordPress event calendar to quickly change event dates.
• Click on an exiting event in the calendar to open the Edit Event popup, allowing you to edit event details on the fly.
• Click on the Dashboard link from the Event Details Pop-up to access Event Dashboard for complete event management toolkit. You’ll find all options associated with an event in the Event Dashboard for detailed event configuration.
• Change view of the Events Calendar to Month, Week, Day, List, or Cards.
• Card view provides grid view of the events.

Event Settings

• From event settings, you can fine tune your event properties.
• Set event type for event categorization.
• Add a description to let your attendees know in detail what the event is about.
• Upload featured image for the event.
• Upload multiple images for the event gallery.
• Enable custom link for the event. Useful if the event on your event calendar links to an external event URL.
• If bookings are enabled, you can set specific booking start and end dates.
• Enable or disable displaying the event booking status on the frontend.
• Allow or disallow booking cancellations.
• Hide or show the event on the event calendar widget.
• Hide or show the event on the frontend event calendar.
• Write a custom note on the event page to display to the event page visitors and attendees.

Event Dashboard

Event Dashboard allows you access to the following:

• Event Settings – All the general settings related to the event.
• Price Manager – Creating and managing pricing tiers for your event.
• Event Site/ Location – Customizations related to host venue.
• Performers – Settings for defining key persons in the event like host, speakers etc.
• Organizer – Settings to setup organizers for your event.
• Social Integration – Link social pages for your event.
• Email – Setup booking confirmation email content and layout.
• Event Sponsors – Settings for adding event sponsorship. (Extension)
• Ticket Manager – Create custom tickets for your event. (Extension)
• Live Seating – Create seating plans for your event. (Extension)
• Recurring Events – Set your event to recur after specific intervals. (Extension)
• Automatic Discounts – Create automatic discount rules for your buyers. (Extension)
• MailPoet – Settings to configure MailPoet newsletters with your event. (Extension)

Event Types Manager

• Create or Edit Event Types that you can then assign to Events.
• Set specific properties for your Event Types.
• Background and text color for child events as they appear on the WordPress event calendar and WordPress calendar widget.
• Define age group for the events of this type.
• Upload an image which represents the event type or category.
• Events in the Events Calendar will appear in the color of their assigned Event Type.

Event Type

Following properties can be currently set for each event type:

• Name of the Event Type.
• Swatch or background color – also visible on the frontend calendar and WordPress calendar widget.
• Text Color – visible on the frontend calendar and WordPress calendar widget.
• Age group restrictions.
• Image or Logo.
• Special Instructions for events of this type.

Event Sites Manager

• Create or Edit Event Sites which can be associated with various events.
• Event Sites have their own set of customizable properties.
• Sort Event Sites Alphabetically or by their number of events.

Event Sites

Each Event Site has following properties you can set:

• Name of the site.
• Description of the site.
• Address of the location.
• Date established.
• Seating Type – Standing or Seats.
• Event Operator or Coordinator.
• Facebook page of the site.
• Image Gallery.
• Seating layout editor. (Extension)

Performers Manager

• Create or Edit Performers that you can then assign to Events.
• Performers have their own set of customizable properties.
• Sort Performers alphabetically or by number of events in which they appear.

Performers

Each Performer has following properties you can set:

• Type – Person or Group
• Name
• Role
• Image of the performer.
• Description of the performer.
• Display in List – if you wish to hide or show Performer from EventPrime’s fronted Performers list view.

Organizers Manager

• Create or Edit Event Organizers which can be associated with events later.
• Event Organizers have their own set of customizable properties.
• Sort Organizers alphabetically or by number of events in which they appear.

Organizers

Each Event Organizer has following properties you can set:

• Name of the organizer.
• Phone number – multiple numbers supported.
• Email of the Organizer – multiple emails supported.
• Website – multiple website addresses supported.
• Description – details about the event organizer.

Organizer details appear on the single event page on frontend.

Attendees Manager

• View a complete list of all attendees for all your events.
• Filter Attendees by their events, booking time, and booking status.
• See a table of attendee details containing their booking ID, username, email, and number of tickets per booking ID.
• Edit Attendees’ individual booking details and also add notes for an attendee which the attendee can see on his/her event booking page.
• Download booking details of attendees in PDF format.
• Send notification emails to attendees.
• Access the transaction log for an attendee’s booking.
• Add multiple notes to any booking.

Email Attendees

A built-in emailing system to quickly send emails to specific attendees or all attendees from a specific event.

• Manually specific attendees.
• Copy attendee email addresses from a specific event.
• Custom email subject.
• Custom email content.

Global Settings

Global settings allow a single place to configure plugin-wide settings for EventPrime. It is divided into multiple sections which combine options for similar features. These are the sections inside Global Settings currently:

Email Notifications

Here you can modify layout and content of different emails sent out from EventPrime. You can also turn them on or off individually.
* User registration email
* Booking pending email
* Booking confirmation email
* Booking cancellation email
* Reset password email
* Booking refund email
* Frontend user event submission email
* Frontend user event submission approval email
* Disable all admin emails
* Disable all frontend emails

Payments

• Turn on and configure Stripe payment gateway.
• Turn on and configure PayPal payment gateway.
• Turn on and configure offline payment system.
• Select your default currency.
• Select currency symbol position.

External Integration

• Google map API key to render maps and directions on frontend.
• Turn on Facebook sharing.
• Google calendar integration for users to import events to their Google calendar.
• Google reCaptcha for spam protection.

Default Pages

Here you can set default pages for various fronted EventPrime views. These include:
* Performers Page
* Event Sites Page
* Events Page
* Bookings Page
* User Profile Page
* Event Types Page
* Submit Event Page
* Booking Details Page
* Event Organizers Page

Regular Settings

A host of general settings for you to configure your EventPrime installation.
* Hide or show past events from events directory or WordPress calendar.
* Default WordPress calendar view.
* Select available view option for site visitors.
* Define number of events on fronted card and masonry views.
* Hide frontend event filters on events directory and WordPress calendar.
* Hide past event bookings from admin area bookings page.
* Select time format.
* Select a date to display as default selected date on frontend calendar.
* Frontend calendar title format.
* Frontend calendar columns header format.
* Hide upcoming events from event, event types, event site and performer pages.
* Make attendee names mandatory on bookings page.
* Hide price for free events.
* Select format for date picker tool.
* Hide custom links from event pages for logged out users.
* Display QR code on event tickets.
* Hide event time from calendar view.

Custom CSS

Add custom CSS to EventPrime pages for tailor-made appearance for your theme. You can re-style WordPress event calendar to match your website’s looks.

Custom CSS

Frontend event submissions allow your users to submit events to EventPrime events database. You have full control over the submission process of these events.
* Define confirmation message to be displayed upon a successful submission.
* Allow public submissions.
* Message for non-logged in users if public submissions are off.
* Status of event on submission – put them in drafts for review or publish right away.
* Restrict frontend event submissions to specific user roles.
* Message for users with user roles which are not allowed to submit events.
* Select fields to display on frontend event submission form.
* Select the fields which you wish to make mandatory in the frontend event submission form.

=Attendee Booking Fields =
* Customize booking fields for attendees in the frontend booking page.
* Supports following field types – Text, Email, Telephone and Date.
* Drag and drop to change fields order.

=Button Labels=
Customize general labels and button labels for different frontend pages based on your requirements.

=Extensions Settings=
A lot of EventPrime extensions add plugin-wide settings. These settings pages will appear in a separate sections opened by clicking corresponding icons in Extensions Settings area.

SEO

Enable pretty URLs and define custom subdirectories. Following subdirectories are supported:
* Events
* Performers
* Organizers
* Event Sites
* Event Types

Performer Views

Detailed settings for single performer and multi-performer frontend pages.

Performers Directory View

• Choose between different layout styles.
• Select item rows and columns.
• Decide number of items to display on a single page.
• Show/ hide search button.
• Show/ hide ‘Load More’ button.
• Custom shortcode format to publish this view with all above properties passed as variables.

Single Performer View

• Show/ Hide related events.
• Option to select layout of related events.
• Set maximum number of related events to display.
• Set the number of columns for the related events list.
• Show/ Hide ‘Load More’ button under the related events list.
• Show/ Hide past events from the related events list.
• Custom shortcode format to publish this view with all above properties passed as variables.

Event Type Views

Detailed settings for single Event Type and multi-event-type frontend pages.

Event Types Directory View

• Choose between different layout styles.
• Select item rows and columns.
• Decide number of items to display on a single page.
• Show/ hide search button.
• Show/ hide ‘Load More’ button.
• Custom shortcode format to publish this view with all above properties passed as variables.

Single Event Type View

• Show/ Hide related events.
• Option to select layout of related events.
• Set maximum number of related events to display.
• Set the number of columns for the related events list.
• Show/ Hide ‘Load More’ button under the related events list.
• Show/ Hide past events from the related events list.
• Custom shortcode format to publish this view with all above properties passed as variables.

Organizer Views

Detailed settings for single Organizer and multi-organizer frontend pages.

Organizers Directory View

• Choose between different layout styles.
• Select item rows and columns.
• Decide number of items to display on a single page.
• Show/ hide search button.
• Show/ hide ‘Load More’ button.
• Custom shortcode format to publish this view with all above properties passed as variables.

Single Organizers View

• Show/ Hide related events.
• Option to select layout of related events.
• Set maximum number of related events to display.
• Set the number of columns for the related events list.
• Show/ Hide ‘Load More’ button under the related events list.
• Show/ Hide past events from the related events list.
• Custom shortcode format to publish this view with all above properties passed as variables.

User Capabilities

Allow granular control to EventPrime dashboard area based on user roles.

EventPrime Frontend

The Events Page including Events Calendar

On the frontend, the Events can be displayed using multiple event views. You can allow your users to toggle among these views or lock a single view.

Events Calendar View or Month View

A beautiful and convenient view which renders a large calendar flipped to current month. Events are overlaid above their respective dates, represented by background and text colors inherited from parent Event Type. This makes sure individual events stand out even during busy months.

Visitors have option to change month and year to view past or future events. They can also perform a keyword search, or filter events by Dates, Event Types and / or Event Sites.

Hovering above an event

View layout can be changed to one of the following:

• Month View
• Week View
• Day View
• List Week View
• List View
• Card View
• Masonry View
• Slider View

Admins have full control over the frontend events page layout and features. Here are the options available in the Global Settings:

• Hide past events.
• Set default view.
• Limit view options for site visitors.
• Define number of events to load for Card and Masonry view.
• Define time format.
• Set default calendar date.
• Set calendar title format.
• Set calendar column heading format.
• Hide upcoming events.
• Control month changing buttons.

While in the calendar view, events are displayed color coded with their respective Event Type settings. Hovering cursor above them displays additional event details

Directory Pages

In addition to the comprehensive Events Calendar view, the EventPrime events plugin offers complete directories for entities associated with events. The directory pages are created automatically on your site along with the installation and activation of our WordPress events plugin. These pages contain shortcodes for their respective directories. So you can use the shortcodes to add them onto any other pages you’d like. The directory pages are:

• Event Types Directory
• Event Sites Directory
• Performers Directory

We are planning to add customizable parameters to these directory shortcodes in the future. So you can setup these directory lists in more than one ways.

Submit Event

From the Submit Event frontend page, any user can submit his/her own event. The admin can then review, edit and publish that event on the Event Calendar. The Submit Event page has the following options:

• User submitting an event can submit its name, start date, end date, description, event type, venue, and performers.
• Enable bookings, set booking start and end date, and also set the booking price.
• Upon submitting the form, user will see a confirmation message that is customizable from the Global Settings.
• Upon submitting event, EventPrime will send an email to site admin that a new event has been submitted with the event’s details.

Single Entities

The EventPrime events plugin also allows you to create individual entity pages using shortcodes with ID parameter. Shortcodes are availabe for the following pages:

• Single Event
• Single Event Type
• Single Event Site & Location
• Single Performer
• Submit Event

User Account Area

The Directory and Single entity pages are for displaying Events and related entities. For a user to see his/her own activity with events, our event booking plugin offers a full-fledged User Account Area on the front-end. With this EventPrime page, users can login and manage their event booking. Users can also cancel their event booking and find directions to Event Sites where Events are booked.

Widgets

The EventPrime events plugin offers you 4 highly useful WordPress calendar widget to setup anywhere on your site. These are:

• Countdown Event Widget- This is a reverse countdown to upcoming events which you can select from the Widget settings. The upcoming events countdown displays the Days, Hours, Minutes and Seconds left till the event goes live.
• Slider Event Widget – This widget is a slideshow of the Featured Images from various Events on your site. Clicking on a Feature Image from the slideshow will lead to that Event’s individual page.
• Calendar Event Widget – A smaller view of the Events Calendar that lists upcoming events underneath it.
• Event Site Map – This widget contains Google Map with markers of all Event Sites & Locations.

3 more widgets can be added to our WordPress Events Calendar plugin using the “Event List Widgets” extensions.

EventPrime Free Extensions

Event Analytics Free

Analyze event performance and bookings through essential data organized into tables and charts.

Download Event Analytics for EventPrime – Modern Events Calendar

Events Import Export Free

Import events from other plugins for easy migration to EventPrime WordPress calendar. You can also export EventPrime events for backup and other purposes.

Download Events Import Export Extension for EventPrime – Modern Events Calendar

EventPrime MailPoet Integration Free

Sign-up event attendees for MailPoet newsletter lists and ramp up customer engagement with event updates and other stuff.

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EventPrime WooCommerce Integration Free

Add merchandise and other products as mandatory/ optional items for attendees while they checkout for event bookings.

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Invoices Free

Create customized invoicing template with your own branding, and attach automatically to booking confirmation emails.

Download EventPrime Invoices Extension for EventPrime – Modern Events Calendar

EventPrime Zoom Integration Free

Allow users to book Zoom meetings from EventPrime booking system. Zoom meeting details are shared with attendees once their booking is confirmed.

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EventPrime Zapier Integration Free

Connect with over 3000 apps by building custom templates using EventPrime triggers.

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EventPrime Premium Extensions

Live Seating

Every modern events calendar plugin needs a powerful live seating system, and we have built the most advanced one for our WordPress calendar plugin. EventPrime Live Seating extension supports custom layouts, seat numbers, frontend seat selection views, full booking checkout support and deep integration with our other extensions.

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Event Sponsors

Add sponsors to your events and WordPress calendar, and prominently display their branding/ logos on event pages. You can upload logos through event manager WordPress dashboard. Multiple sponsors are supported for every event.

Download Event Sponsors

Offline Payments

Looking to collect payments from attendees using check, wire-transfer or cash? Offline Payments extension for our WordPress event calendar plugin will allow you to configure it in simple and easy steps. You can manually change the status of the booking after receiving the payment.

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Stripe Payments

Use popular Stripe payment system with your WordPress event calendar and receive payments in your Stripe account. Accept credit cards directly on your website and confirm bookings instantly.

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Recurring Events

Add recurring events to your WordPress event calendar! Our powerful recurrence creation tool allows you to fine tune how regularly the events repeat. Once created, you can make edits to all events simultaneously or individual instances. Users can be allowed to book for separate instances or a single booking for all event recurrences.

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Coupon Codes

This extension allows you to create custom coupons which can be used during event booking checkout. These discounts can be flat amount or a percentage of the booking amount. You can set limits on overall usage, per-user usage, end date and more!

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Attendees List

Display list of attendees for an event on the event page. You can also use widget area of your theme to add widgets with attendees lists.

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Guest Bookings

Allows visitors to book events without logging in on your website. You can optionally allow automatic account creation upon successful bookings. Users will receive all booking details on their email address.

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Event Wishlist

Allow your users to save events in their personal wishlists. Wishlisted events will be visible to users from user account area. Wishlist can be used by the users to quick-book their favorite events.

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Event List Widgets

Spruce up your website by showcasing different events in widget areas of your theme.

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Event Comments

Allow users to post comments under events. Comments can be reviewed and moderate by the admin.

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Admin Attendee Bookings

Allows admins to create custom bookings from dashboard and add attendees manually.

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Automatic Discounts

Offer discounts to your users based on preset conditions. Discounts are automatically applied during checkout if those conditions are met. You can show promotional message to eligible user on frontend.

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Google Import Export

Import events from your Google Calendar to EventPrime WordPress Calendar. Or export from your WordPress calendar to Google Calendar, if that’s what you prefer! You can choose events while importing or exporting.

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Twilio Text Notifications

Send notifications to your users when they complete a booking along with booking details. You can also set admin notifications to receive alerts on new bookings. Frontend event submission notifications are also supported.

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