Close Ticket Availability Prior to Event Start Date

[Martin Suchta]

Hello Everyone

Is there anyway to set a date for bookings (start date) for that tickets are only available X days prior to the start date? Ie we run a hiking tour business and want to set a cut of date/time 2 days before the tours – as taking a order (ticket) sale 2 hours before the start date doesn’t make sense.

[Stephen Harris]

Hi Martin,

It’s possible to specify an end date/time for a ticket (i.e. after which the ticket will no longer appear on sale). These appear as ‘sale period’ start/end datetimes when creating a ticket..

If this is a recurring event for which you are selling tickets for individual dates that would probably be impractical to use (creating a ticket for each occurrence individually, and specify the sale period end date). For that there is a hook which would allow you to configure a ticket to be on/off sale based on some code. I can share an example if the above feature isn’t suitable.

[Martin Suchta]

Hello Stephen

I would be so grateful if you could share the code for the above functionality.

I definitely need the ability to set a X date prior to each ticket event date.

For example I have a tour which can be purchased for every day from today to the end of the year. When I setup the ticket you are right I cannot set a 2 week prior to event on each ticket ticket (ie 1 for each day – over 300 tickets) so your code solution would be brilliant.

[Stephen Harris]

Hi Martin,

The following closes all tickets for events within two week’s time (i.e. it works at the event/date level rather than individual tickets)

add_filter( 'eventorganiser_bookable_occurrences', function( $bookable, $event_id ) {
    $fortnight = new DateTime( '+14 days', eo_get_blog_timezone() );
    foreach( $bookable as $occurrence_id => $occurrence ) {
        //Bookings close 2 weeks before event starts
        if ( $fortnight > $occurrence['start'] ) {
            unset( $bookable[$occurrence_id] );
        }
    }
    return $bookable;
}, 10, 2 );

[Martin Suchta]

Hey Stephen

Thank you for the above code. So which file would I add the above code into?

Than do I code a call out to this add_filter function? If so where?

Thank you so much for your help and a awesome product!

[Stephen Harris]

Hi Martin,

This blog post details where you can put the code: https://wp-event-organiser.com/blog/tutorial/where-should-i-put-code-from-the-tutorials/ (in short, a custom plugin preferable, but you can put it in your theme’s functions.php)

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