I am looking for a simple (and secure) way to accept payment for event registration.
I am managing a WordPress website for a organization that hosts events throughout the year. A handful of these events include online registration, which is currently completely outsourced to a third-party site.
I would like to allow registration payment to be submitted through our site. We currently incorporate contact forms using Gravity Forms, and I would be interested in a payment solution that could be integrated with this. Unfortunately, the PayPal Pro Add-On for this is still beta. For our current needs, most ecommerce solutions seem to include a lot of unnecessary features.
Also, the organization uses Quickbooks, so solutions that can integrate with Intuit Merchant Account for Web Stores would also be useful to consider.
I am familiar with HTML/PHP/CSS/Javascript and WordPress (Our site uses my own custom WP theme), but I am not a programming expert and this would be my first time incorporating ecommerce. Any suggestion/resources or thoughts on security would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you!
We us Event Espresso for our event management.
It allows for multiple events as well as multiple payment gateways, even a ticket addon so users can print custom tickets to your events. Seems like it would be perfect for what you need.
http://eventespresso.com/
I would suggest WP Event Ticketing. It’s not phenomenal, but it works pretty well for selling tickets to events.
WordPress is not great at e-commerce, so your best bet is to go with the most used solution which is wp e-commerce. This may have far too many options for you but it is flexible and so will allow you to get events working for it.