<h2 class="p1">Sell and Book Event Tickets as WooCommerce Products</h2>
Harness the power of the Events Manager — WooCommerce Add-On extension to display events and sell tickets on your site. The extension also allows your site to accept bookings for those events using our extensive booking features and functionality. Combine this with WooCommerce to streamline your payments and combine orders with additional products on your site.
Events Manager — WooCommerce Add-On makes the best of event-specific features and optimizations to be sure your events are easier to manage and professionally displayed, using calendars, maps, search filters, booking restrictions, and more. 
<h2 class="p3">Customize your ticket offerings</h2>
With Events Manager — WooCommerce Add-On, you will have complete control of the display and behavior of your events, locations, taxonomies, and bookings via extensive settings and formatting options.
With Events Manager — WooCommerce Add-On, synchronized event tickets as WooCommerce products can be added to carts and linked to order bookings. Manage subsequent bookings in EM and payments made in WooCommerce.
<h2 class="p3">Enjoy advanced functionality</h2>
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<li class="li2">Customized layouts optimized to display events, including listings, calendars, maps, and grouped events.</li>
<li class="li2">Event-specific searches using our search forms, including date ranges, geographical searches, and more.</li>
<li class="li2">Advanced booking management, including:
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<li class="li2">Event-specific booking forms</li>
<li class="li2">Booking status management</li>
<li class="li2">Booking confirmation emails (automated)</li>
<li class="li2">Capacity management</li>
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<li class="li2">Full display control</li>
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Use WooCommerce payment features to pay for bookings made with Events Manager. Make the best of an event-specific extension for creating and managing bookings with features such as booking approvals, automated, customizable booking emails, booking cut-off times, multiple ticket types, attendance monitoring, and more.
The extension is compatible with the free Events Manager plugin available on wordpress.org, updated and maintained regularly. Fully extendable by developers to add any extra event-specific functionality you require. Additional add-ons are not required to accept payments. It will work with any of our other add-ons to enhance functionality.
Make your events stand out on your site and allow visitors to purchase your products and bookings in one seamless checkout experience with the Events Manager — WooCommerce Add-On extension.
Short description: Sell and book event tickets as products with the Events Manager — WooCommerce Add-On extension.

Events Manager

Enable and manage bookings and tickets with Events Manager, pay for them with WooCommerce!

Stachethemes Seat Planner is a WooCommerce extension for selling assigned seats from interactive floor plans – built for theaters, cinemas, event spaces, and venues that want professional seat booking without enterprise stadium ticketing complexity.
Customers pick seats on a live map; WooCommerce handles cart, checkout, coupons, and orders. You manage layouts, pricing, multiple show dates, box-office sales, check-in, and reporting from one plugin.
Features:
<h3>Core booking & seat management</h3>
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<li>Drag-and-drop seat planner – design your venue with seats, screens, labels, and static objects.</li>
<li>Customers select seats in real time on an interactive map (zoom, pan, seat details).</li>
<li>Cart reservation timer holds seats while customers checkout, helping prevent double bookings.</li>
<li>Run multiple event dates on one product – one seat map, many performances.</li>
<li>Mark handicap / accessible seats so they stand out on the map for customers who need them.</li>
<li>Best Available (optional) – auto-select the best contiguous seats; filter by price when seats have different rates.</li>
<li>Auto-fill and pattern tools to place rows or sections quickly when building your layout.</li>
<li>Optional rules: stop sales before the event, prevent isolated empty seats, and restrict certain seats to on-site purchase.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Pricing, discounts & upsells</h3>
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<li>Set per-seat prices by location, section, or individual seat.</li>
<li>Seat-level discounts – percentage or fixed amount on selected seats or groups.</li>
<li>Custom fields per seat-free or paid add-ons, upgrades, meal choices, and more (with conditional display).</li>
<li>WooCommerce coupon seat limits-require a minimum or maximum number of auditorium seats in the cart before a coupon applies.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Checkout & customer experience</h3>
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<li>Works with standard WooCommerce cart and checkout-no separate ticketing checkout to learn.</li>
<li>Configurable redirect after adding seats: cart, checkout, custom URL, plus optional cart timer on the storefront.</li>
<li>PDF tickets in order emails and My Account downloads, with a unique QR code per seat (optional).</li>
<li>Auto-complete paid auditorium orders when appropriate (configurable, including mixed-cart behavior).</li>
<li>Front-end dark mode and accent color options for a branded seat-selection experience.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Manager & day-of operations</h3>
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<li>Manager dashboard-view seat availability by date, block seats, and override status without a customer order.</li>
<li>Manually create or bulk-create orders from the admin – phone sales, comps, and box office in a few clicks.</li>
<li>Edit bookings-change seat, date, discounts, and custom fields on existing orders.</li>
<li>Move bookings to another date for multi-date products (bulk action supported).</li>
<li>Filter by scan status; unscan tickets when you need to reset check-in.</li>
<li>Booking Integrity tools-scan for double bookings, ghost seats (meta out of sync), and stalled orders holding inventory.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Check-in & ticket validation</h3>
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<li>Validate tickets with the built-in web scanner (camera QR) in your WordPress dashboard.</li>
<li>Use the free Android app for door check-in (pairs with your site via integration settings).</li>
<li>Each scan records ticket status; invalid or already-scanned tickets are shown clearly at the door.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Integrations & layout tools</h3>
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<li>Import and export seat layouts via CSV in the seat planner editor.</li>
<li>Export bookings to CSV from the product or Manager (filter by date, choose columns).</li>
<li>Shortcodes-embed a “Select seat” button or live seat counts on any page.</li>
<li>Elementor widgets-Select Seat Button and Seat Count widgets for page builders.</li>
<li>Script embed (optional) – run seat selection on external sites with an allowed-origins whitelist.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Statistics, reports & analytics</h3>
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<li>Manager Statistics – summary cards for seats sold, occupancy, revenue, and orders.</li>
<li>Sales and revenue over time (by event date or order date).</li>
<li>Detailed tables by order or by date, with CSV export.</li>
<li>Velocity projection to help forecast sell-through for upcoming dates.</li>
<li>Automated email reports (optional) – scheduled occupancy and sales summaries, with CSV and optional color-coded seat-map snapshot.</li>
</ul>

Stachethemes Seat Planner

Allow customers to easily select and purchase seat-based products. Customizable seating layouts, dynamic pricing, and real-time seat availability.

Events Manager vs Stachethemes Seat Planner