Eventonomy

Event management

Run a programme of events without running yourself ragged.

Listing one event is easy. Managing forty of them across a year is the part that eats a week a month: chasing organizers for dates, retyping the same venue, remembering who is on the waitlist, sending the reminder nobody sent. Eventonomy moves that work off your desk and onto the site.

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Eventonomy member dashboard showing the left navigation, stat cards, and a next event spotlight

Who does the work

Stop being the person who types in everyone else's event.

The reason event admin swallows time is rarely the events. It is that one person holds the only login, so every date change routes through them.

Organizers, without wp-admin
Members create and edit their own events from the front end. Nobody needs a WordPress login handed to them, and you are not the bottleneck on every date change.
You, only where it matters
Front-end submission means the queue is events waiting on you, not events waiting on you to type them in.
Venues and organizers once
Both live in a shared catalog and get picked from a list, so the same hall is not spelled three ways across a season.
Duplicate instead of retype
An event can be duplicated outright, which is how most of next term gets built from last term.

The series

A schedule you set once, and correct one date at a time.

Repeats generate real occurrences
Daily, weekly and monthly series produce individual occurrences, each with its own page and RSVP list. Cancel the third Tuesday without touching the other eleven, and restore it if plans change back.
Advanced rules when you need them
Yearly series and rules like "second Saturday of the month" are in Pro, for the schedules that do not fit a simple repeat.
A calendar people can subscribe to
Month and list views (week and day in Pro), plus a feed, so attendees read the schedule in the calendar app they already use.

Attendees

The room fills itself, and the last seat only goes once.

Capacity that actually holds
The last seat is claimed atomically, so two people hitting register at the same moment cannot both take it. The loser lands on the waitlist rather than in a support ticket.
Waitlists that move by themselves
On a free RSVP event, somebody drops out and the next person takes the place without you brokering it.
Email everyone on one event
Send to every registrant of a single event from the manage-attendees panel, rather than exporting to a mail tool to say the room has changed.
Export the list
Attendees out as CSV when you need them somewhere else, with bulk actions for the rest.

Without being asked

The jobs you keep forgetting, done anyway.

Reminders, zero configuration
One day before and one hour before, out of the box, with no cron plumbing to set up. Custom timing is in Pro.
Confirmations on registration
A branded HTML confirmation goes out when somebody registers, without you watching the list.
One-click unsubscribe
Recipients can stop the mail themselves, which is the difference between a reminder and a complaint.

Moving in

Bring the calendar you already have.

The reason people stay on an event plugin they have outgrown is the migration, not the plugin. So the importer is built to be reversible.

Five plugins, one click
The Events Calendar, EventON, Events Manager, WP Event Manager and Sugar Calendar, plus CSV and iCal.
Scan before it writes
The importer previews what it found first, so you see the damage before it happens rather than after.
Old links keep working
It leaves 301 redirects behind, so the event URL somebody pasted into a newsletter last year still lands.
Undo
If the result is wrong, the run can be reversed instead of unpicked by hand.

Weighing it against what you run now? The comparisons go plugin by plugin, and the plugin overview covers choosing one in the first place.

Questions

Asked before switching.

How is this different from your WordPress event plugin page?

That page is for choosing a plugin. This one is for running a programme of events once you have chosen: who can create them, what repeats, who chases attendees, and what happens without anybody remembering to do it.

Can organizers manage events without a WordPress login?

They need an account on your site, but not access to wp-admin. Creating, editing and managing events all happen through the front-end editor and member dashboard.

Can people register without creating an account at all?

Yes, and without filling in a signup form. Somebody logged out registers with a name and an email. That email either matches a member you already have or mints an account for them, so they can find the event later and manage the registration through a magic link, which does not log them into your site. If you would rather store a name and email with no account attached at all, that is a setting you switch on. If you would rather nobody registered without logging in first, that is a different setting.

What happens when two people take the last seat at once?

Only one gets it. The seat is claimed atomically at the database level rather than checked and then written, so the second person lands on the waitlist instead of creating a double booking you find out about at the door.

Will it slow down as the calendar grows?

Events, RSVPs, venues and organizers live in their own database tables rather than as posts and post meta. That is the design decision that keeps the admin usable once a season is hundreds of events rather than a dozen.

I already run everything in The Events Calendar. Is moving realistic?

There is a one-click importer for it, and for EventON, Events Manager, WP Event Manager and Sugar Calendar. It scans and previews before writing, runs in the background, leaves 301 redirects so old links keep working, and can be undone.

Do I need BuddyPress?

No. Everything here works on a plain WordPress site. If you do run BuddyPress, Pro adds an events tab to groups and member profiles.

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Registration and attendees, on film

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