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

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[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!

[Nigel]

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.

[diyanK]

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

D.

[cyrilT82]

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