Calendar based Events and e-commerce, Toolset or plugins?

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Problem:
Client wants to know whether to use Toolset-exclusively or include 3rd-party plugins to develop an e-commerce site based around events.

Solution:
Toolset provides general purpose tools, but there are times when specialist tools are better suited. For an e-commerce site you will almost certainly want to use WooCommerce or an alternative. You can create a crude events system with Toolset, but if you want to display events on a calendar, for example, you would benefit from using a dedicated events plugins such as The Events Calendar.

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Last updated by cyrilT82 6 years, 10 months ago.

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January 14, 2018 at 4:03 pm #606072

diyanK

Hi,

I'm at the prototyping phase of a website that is going to be based on Events, And Gift Cards.

Users will be ordering customizable gift cards for specific events.

What is the best practice to manage time based events in a calendar and also deal with e-commerce based buying experience of gift cards for the events?

Do you recommend using third party plugins or I should focus solely on Toolset and develop everything without extra plugins.

Thanks
D!

January 15, 2018 at 7:42 am #606154

Nigel

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Hi there

For the e-commerce component you will almost certainly want to use WooCommerce, even if you are not building a full store, because of its payment handling etc.

Depending on the intended workflow of your site, you may want to include CRED in the process which has a Commerce add-on for integrating with WooCommerce. You can read more about the implementation at https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/using-cred-commerce-to-add-payments-to-forms/ and https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/charging-payments-with-cred-to-register-users/. If you are not that familiar with CRED yet I recommend you look at the training course https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/cred-training-course/ and also look at the other courses which use CRED heavily.

For the Events part, you can create a rudimentary events system easily enough with just Toolset, making an event custom post type, adding custom fields for start-date and end-date etc. What Toolset lacks is calendar-based output. If you wanted to display events on a calendar then you would need to use a plugin such as The Events Calendar. If your needs are just displaying them on a list, for example, you may not need one.

January 15, 2018 at 10:35 am #606223

diyanK

Thanks Nigel, for the detailed answer.
This will give me a good direction for development.

December 13, 2018 at 5:19 pm #1165685

cyrilT82

I find it weird though that Toolset doesn't provide a calendar view while it does provide a gmap view