Dedicated bookings landingpage possible?

[Adrian Maleska]

In the moment when the booking has been placed the bookie got just a small confirmation message on the same page. This can be especially overseen, especially on our page where it’s placed partially under the fixed translucent main menue. The second problem is, that when we’ll use google adwords then it’s deficult to tell it the point when a conversion has been made. This would be much better to have a dedicated landing page for confirming the booking. Is it possible to redirect eo after booking to a certain page?

[Dario]

Yes it is possible as long as you are not using the offline payment gateway.

Firstly, create a new page on your site informing the user of successful payment & booking, etc. Make sure that this page doesn’t appear in your menu bar, sitemap, etc so users don’t navigate to it manually or though a search engine.

Once you’ve got that sorted out, see this blog post for code to add to your theme’s function file to enable the redirect.

Note that this code was written specifically for the PayPal payment gateway, but slight alterations should make it work with other gateways too (with the exception of the offline gateway which doesn’t redirect).

Hope this helps.

[Stephen Harris]

What Dario says is correct, but you can also do this for Stripe & Offline Payment Gateway (but slightly differently). The reason is that in those two gateways, the gateway is processed without taking the user away from the site, so you can essentially ‘jump in’ before the user is redirected back to the event page and redirect anywhere you want. With the PayPal gateway you tell PayPal where you want the user to end up after payment and PayPal takes them straight there.

The following will work for anyway gateway where the user remains ‘on-site’:

//This will work only for gateways where you don't leave the site.
add_action( 'eventorganiser_pre_gateway_booking_stripe', 'adrian_redirect_after_booking', 100, 4);
add_action( 'eventorganiser_pre_gateway_booking_free', 'adrian_redirect_after_booking', 100, 4);
add_action( 'eventorganiser_pre_gateway_booking_offline', 'adrian_redirect_after_booking', 100, 4);
function adrian_redirect_after_booking( $booking_id, $booking, &$errors, $form ){

    $total_price = eo_get_booking_meta( $booking_id, 'booking_amount' );
    if ( 0 == $total_price ) {
             eo_confirm_booking( $booking_id, true );
        }

     //Set redirect url and send them there
     $redirect = '';
     wp_redirect( $redirect );
     exit();
}

(A future update may well try to provide a ‘unified’ way of changing the gateway return url)

[Adrian Maleska]

Thank you very much Dario and Stephan – this works fine for me. It’s implemented and tested.

Is there a chance that the redirect URL become a part of eo options? I can imagine that I’m not the only one who needs this functionality.

[Stephen Harris]

Update: 1.9.0 Will allow you to select a page to redirect the user to after the booking has been completed.

[Veronika Nesverova]

Does the old pre_gateway-hooks still work?

I cannot get it to redirect after signup, and I would like to redirect to a specific page.

[Stephen Harris]

Yes they should still work.

Feel free to open up a new thread and post the code you are using.

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