Joe or whoever can do this,

After setting up a web page for my wife's Pet Grooming business using Mojo I am now moving to the upcoming Dog Training part of her business. I have been playing with Event Calendar Pro on the demo site today and have been thinking of how it may be able to implemented for some of my other clients. I have one question, one or two needed changes and three "it would be nice to have" requests.

Question: Can you use Paypal upon checkout?

Needed Change 1: It would seem that most if not all of my clients would benefit from training registration or course registration setup rather than then event type currently used. With the Event Repeats, classes, courses, seminars or training are often held on Monday for 8 weeks or Tuesday for 6 weeks, etc. I would need this type of event reoccurrence to be handled by Event Calendar Pro.

Needed Change 2: "Pay by Check (Cheque in Canada) option in the checkout. Customer pays by Cheque at first class or mails it in...

Like to have 1: Like to be able to color code some classes as well. "Event Category" drop down list maybe with corresponding colors.

Like to have 2: Like to be able to change terms such as "purchase tickets" to "register for class".

Like to have 3: Like to be able to specify more fields for Customer Information when registering for a class or event.

If any of this is considered to benefit your current package and you would like to add it then great. If this is a major change and you would like to discuss project/payment information please contact me. I would be looking at the Server or Enterprise version of the software.

Thanks
Rob

Joe,

That's fantastic news. Are updates included with Event Calendar?

As for # 3... Let's take my wife's grooming business, when we get into training and (hopefully) boarding we will need to get information regarding the animal, not just the person paying. Animal's name, gender, spay/neutered, Name of Vet.
For the Alcohol and Drug rehab centre they do courses for trainers that require information such as their certification ID from the Ontario Board. Also to confirm that they have taken prerequsite courses and where they have taken them.

Maybe even an integration with Form Wizard Pro. Have a flag/checkbox on the event setup that puts a custom form in before the payment information screen. Administrators could collect the information they need and possible store it in with the registration information.

I just thought of one more thing. Does the calendar inform the visitors if the events are sold out? That could be and Administrator option as well. The administrator could check a box off if they want to let the users know when the event is sold out. Little red "sold out" flag on the event listing!?!?

Rob

Is there a yearly upgrade fee for Event Calendar and Forms Pro?

Do you have an estimated completion date for the next event calendar release?

I understand your point in integration between the two products and your solutions look like viable alternatives.

Thanks
Rob

Running into a couple of issues.

1. When specifying "Registration Allowed Dates" the calendar appears behind the footer.

2. I set up a six week training course with a "when" date of 2/2/2009 to 2/2/2009 from 7:00p.m. to 8p.m. Then I specified weekly repeats until 3/9/2009 figuring that the last class would be on the 9th. of March. Then I set the registration allowed dates to Jan 1 to Feb 1, 2009.

• The system changed my weekly repeats to 3/8/2009 cutting off the last class. When I changed the repeats to finish on March 16th (one week later) the last class on the 9th was included. Not a big deal but definitely needs some documentation.
• After clicking on each week's listing in the calendar I noticed that the March events had not begun registration yet and in fact their Begin Registration Date had been set to Jan 22nd and the next week's date was different as well. I'm assuming that the system is setting each week up as different events (courses) and if I was to start register it would let me register the maximum number of total seats per week instead of per course. This is one event that lasts 6 weeks (or 6 Mondays) no 6 separate events.

I was going to test further but my crappy country satellite internet connection keeps dropping on me and I'm already 4 hours late getting to a customer's place today.

Thanks
Rob

When ordering tickets and filling in the Customer Information why do I have to click the “Update” button before I can click “I Promise to Pay Later”.

When customizing the “Get Ticket Text” to “Register for this Course” the modifications show up in List View but not when viewing the individual event. Viewing the event details still displayed “Register for this Event”.

When the user views the Event Details page (as I call it) the event title looks to be comprised of Event Description – From Date – To Date. Again speaking from the whole school / night school sort of setup I’m going for it would be nice to be able to change this a little. Since many of the courses are one day a week something have a from date and to date of “1/19/2009 – 1/19/2009” is a little redundant. Maybe the admin could customize this to suite the nature of the event. “Level 1 Training – Starts Jan. 16 – Every Monday for 6 weeks”.
 

Customer information is required to obtain a ticket no matter what the payment method is used, seems like it should not be different with a promise to pay later. I "think" on subsequent orders it will pre-fill it based on the last order. When you view a list of orders for a given event customer information is shown there and you should be able to print this off and have a list of expected attendees so I would not want this to be left blank. Its not really a safe assumption that the user has their real identity in the user profile.

I just thought that once the fields are filled out that the "pay later" and "continue" buttons should unlock themselves.

Ok, I'm not sure we'll be enabling any of the check out options at first.  When you do enable that do you get all the customer information back (phone number, email address) for the Order List?

OK. I think we're nearing the end.

1. "Get directions from" on the map for the event - I type in an address and hit "enter" on my keyboard and it activates the "Site Search" button at the top of the page. Not sure what that will do if the search button is not there but it would be nice if "enter" on that text box activated the "Get Directions From" button.
2. Register for event - customer information - is it possible to default the Country and State/Province to the choice of the administrator?
3. Is the tax handled on the Mojo side or the Payment side ie. Paypal?
4. I had 4 spots available for "Level 1 Training" on the demo site but the event was listed as sold out after 2 sales. One registered for two spots and one for one spot.
5. AdminOrderList.aspx I believe would be beneficial in Grid View. Also, having the email address and phone number included with this info could be very beneficial for these types of events ie. instructors/admins. They could copy and paste to excel or access.
6. Map Settings for the Event. Have you enabled the "Show Local Search". I've got enabled on my test "level 1 training" on the demo site. The search button and text box show up in a slightly obtrusive spot across the map and when you search for something the results are very messy. Don't think I'll be using it anyway but I thought I'd mention it.

Kudos for replacing the full event description with the "List View Excerpt" on the Registration Page.

One wish... cause I know you have nothing better to do... is it possible or practical to put a little "sold out" call out on the event listings.