Including custom fields in confirmation e-mail

29th April 2016 Update: This post has been updated to reflect changes in the API introduced in 1.11.0 Event Organiser Pro allows you to add additional fields to your booking form. You can use this to collect additional information about the bookee. Sometimes you’ll want to display this information in the confirmation e-mail (or indeed …

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Sending an email after an offline booking

With most payment gateways you receive payment almost immediately – and so its pointless to send an e-mail reminding users of their booking / how to pay, if they will receive another moments later thanking them for their payment. However with the ‘offline’ gateway, it could be hours or even days before their payment is …

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Detecting when a booking changes status

You may wish to detect when a booking’s status changes, so that you can perform some action (for instance, e-mail the bookee that their booking has been cancelled). To detect when a booking changes status you can whose one of three hooks: {$old_status}_to_{$new_status} – to detect when a booking goes from one specific status to …

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Pro 1.6 released

Event Organiser Pro 1.6 has just been released. It contains a few major feature enhancements, as well as fixes for a number of minor bugs. Here’s a breakdown of this latest release: Booking Status API With 1.6 you can now create custom booking statuses to allow you to better organise or track the progress of …

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Email the Venue when a Booking is Made

Event Organiser (& Pro) use a lot of custom hooks. Hooks, if you don’t know what they are, allow a third-party plug-in or a theme to modify the behaviour of WordPress – or, in this case, Event Organiser (& Pro). As an example, in this tutorial I’ll be demonstrating how you can email the venue …

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