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oftentimes people ask this question how can I create and sell event tickets with my brilliant directories website and actually with the release of the cell digital downloads add-on that we had several months ago now it's actually really easy on managing your events managing the people who buy event tickets and just having a little bit more control and view as to how much revenue your events are creating so this has always been a pretty common feature request for brilliant directories and once we released the cell digital downloads add-on that really facilitated the way to manage the entire event management process now with the cell digital downloads add-on you can repurpose the digital downloads for ticket sales tickets can obviously be sold for any kind of event whether it's in person or an online event so this is really great if you the website owner wants to sell tickets for an event that you're hosting so yeah step one creating and publishing an event post alright so let's just see we're going to continue using the dog groomer site that we've been using as the example so let's just check out that site and let's go to forward slash events and as the admin of the site David you created this event here the Westminster Kennel Club dog show right yeah so this is just your standard event post has information like when the event starts when it ends general information and then if you scroll down a little bit you'll see that we added some links to actually purchase tickets okay so this is all just in the description of the event here right exactly okay great so publish an event easy to do step two create a digital product so this is where the sell digital products add-on really comes into play what you'll want to do is you'll want to utilize the add-on to create digital products now these digital products will be the tickets that you were selling so in our example we had kind of just a general admission ticket and then an early-bird and then you can see we limited to only a hundred spots and then we also offer the standard VIP ticket so basically what we did is published three digital downloads which in this case are tickets one for each of those variations so let's take a look at those so I just logged in as the admin contributor here so I can publish blog articles events and that you just assign these to yourselves and and also digital products so let's look at the three digital products that I created in this example so here are the three ticket options let's dig deep let's actually look at the VIP early bird so let's edit this so we did a few things here first we set it to be published we gave it a name $20 VIP early bird we gave it a price and in this case we also gave it a quantity so after this quantity is reached one of the nice features features of the sell digital downloads add-on the product is no longer available what's really nice about the digital products also is after somebody purchases this product you can actually redirect them to a custom thank-you page that you create maybe there's additional information about what they just purchased or if you didn't want to do that you can send them a confirmation email you can create a custom email that they receive after purchasing this specific product or you could do both you can send them to a thank-you page and you can send them a confirmation email with the relevant information about their purchase let's take a look at one of these tickets here so let's click on the $10 general admission so this would be the page there's a purchase Now button and it is for purchasing the $10 a general admission ticket yeah so that was step 3 linking to all of those purchase pages for the tickets on that event post so let's see how we how we did that actually let's go to the admin area and let's look at all of my digital products here so I have the 3 here and I can certainly click on View Post for all 3 of these perfect so this is the URL up here for the $10 admission the $20 and the $40 so what we did is we just took these URL and let's actually go to the events host and let's edit the event that we created so this is the the event post for this so we have the time and the date and if we scroll down we have the description and we can see that we've linked these here we can edit the link and we can see we are linking to the check out page each respective check out page for each respective ticket type and we can test the link if we open it here so this is the $20 VIP earlybird link perfect so simple just link to the buy page in the description of the event and/or the ticket posts very good and then what's the last step David here just logging into that admin member account where you created those posts and you'll be able to track those ticket sales and if you want you can export that list as well perfect so let's actually look at the ticket sales and see who purchased what tickets so because the admin posted those digital products the admin can see the sales history of those digital products and it'll be in the sidebar here and only the digital products post type has this extra tab here for sales history the other ones have view and ad and digital products has the sales history so go ahead and click on that and we can see here we've had three sales one for each amount we actually bought it from ourselves over here which show the members information and their email address of who purchased which product so what the real magic is here is let's say you had 50 people buy the $10 general admission up here and this is the secret sauce you can filter by product and you can filter by general admission and it'll just show you the buyers that purchased this product in this case this type of ticket and then here you have the export results button and that'll give you like a CSV excel file with all the pertinent information of what the product is and who the buyer is so if you ever wanted to have like a checklist or something like that at the door if you're physically check people in you can definitely cross-reference their name with your list of people who purchase this specific ticket and you have some bonus points here Dave right yeah some pretty important ones so a lot of people ask well what if my members want to sell tickets because so far what we've shown is just if you the website owner is hosting an event and you want to sell tickets and collect that revenue so if you want to do it for your members you'll be acting as the middleman or the payment processor because it's your website that processes all of the ticket sales so you end up collecting all of the payments so for example if you're using stripe or PayPal that money will go into your stripe or your PayPal account so you'll then have to manually calculate the revenue to then send out to that member who's hosting the event for their ticket sales so this can get pretty messy you have to keep in mind that there may be people who will request refunds chargebacks credit card disputes things like that so there's a lot of potential discrepancies to take into account that may cause issues with keeping track of how much revenue to distribute back out to the member who's actually hosting the event probably the simplest way to do it for both you and your member is to just charge them using the paper post feature for however many events they want to publish on your website so there's a few different ways to go about it where you're actually providing them a different service for promoting their event rather than actually acting as that payment processor and selling tickets for them it's probably a lot easier for everybody involved if you just have them sell the tickets on a third party site like Ticketmaster or Eventbrite and then you just take care of some of the promotional aspects that brilliant directories already has built in well great stuff David thanks for putting this together but just to recap since I know a lot of people might want to do this create and publish an event post create digital products for each ticket level and then for the the URL of that ticket link it to the buy page in the description of the event so in the description of the event just link to the buy pages for those different ticket options and then you can certainly track and export the buyer lists for each different ticket level that you have