How to Create an Event Booking Site Within 3 Minutes

In 2020 starting a new online business requires much fewer risks than investing thousands of dollars to establish a physical shop. Potentially business based on online can usually reach more customer, the owner can work virtually from anywhere & can make more money without large overheads.

In this article, I will discuss one important online business idea that you can create in almost 3 minutes and start selling your service/products.  Today I will discuss – how to create an online event booking site.

Step 1: Buy Domain & Hosting

To start an online business, you must have a domain & space for hosting your website. There are lots of popular website i.e. NameCheap or HostGator, where you can easily buy a domain & hosting in just a few clicks.

At the WordPress directory, there are thousands of free WordPress themes available. Download any theme that you like and customize it with your information & host your website. Once you are done doing all the above mention task, now let’s jump into the next process of creating an event booking system.

Step 2: Installing the Universal WooCommerce Plugin

Firstly, let’s discuss what is a plugin?. A plugin is a piece of software that helps you to extends the functionality of a website. WooCommerce is an open-source plugin for WordPress, installing this plugin you can easily create a shopping cart system. In fact, WooCommerce is one of the most popular plugins that can help you to create an online payment system. The steps below show the process of installing WooCommerce plugin-

1. Log into your WordPress Dashboard.
2. Go to the “Plugin” option
3. From the dropdown list click on “Add New”
4. From Search input box search for “WooCommerce”
5. Now click on the “Install Now” button.
6. Once you are done installing click on “Active Now”
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Step 3: Installing the WooCommerce Event Manager Plugin

By installing WooCommerce Event Manager Plugin we can easily create an event booking system at our WordPress website. The process of installing this plugin is the same as installing the WooCommerce Plugin that is discussed above. Click here to know more about the event booking plugin.

Step 4: Creating & Configuring an Event booking system.

Once you have done installing both WooCommerce & Event Manager Plugin, now you can easily create an events booking system from your WordPress dashboard. Here is the process of configuring & creating an event booking system ­–

1. From WordPress dashboard click on “Events”
2. From the drop-down list click on “Add New Event” to open the event page.
3. At first input section add “Events Name”
4. At 2^nd input section, adds event description
5. At the 3^rd section, you can add event venue details such as location, street, city, state, postcode country and synchronize google map.
6. To add extra service to the events, click on the “Add Extra Price” button and configure it with- extra service name, price, and quantity.
7. To add event ticket type and pricing click on the “Add New Ticket Type” button. Here you can add “Ticket Type Name”, ticket price, available quantity, and reserve quantity.
8. From “Event Date and Time Section” you can add event start date and event date.
9. From the “Event Email Text” section you can add confirmation mail text.
10. To add event FAQ, click on “Add New FAQ” and add FAQ questions & Answers
11. You can also add event day-wise details by clicking on “Add New Day”
12. To set event featured image click on “Set Event Featured Image” from the right sidebar & upload images from your computer.
13. Once you are done configuring with all necessary information click on the “Publish” button to publish the event.
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It is very simple to create an event booking system with “WooCommerce Event manager”. Now anyone can buy event tickets directly from your website. However, you can also add some more advanced functionality to your events by installing pro-add-ons such as form builder, pdf ticket manager, and QR code. These add-ons come with the Premium version of “WooCommerce Event Manager”. You can easily download the premium version from our official site.  The video below shows how to install premium add-ons.