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5 Essential Steps to Promote Your Event on Social Media
Organizing an event is just the beginning; getting people excited and eager to attend is where the magic happens. Social media is your best friend to promote your event by creating buzz and anticipation. Here’s a step-by-step guide to help you build hype for your next event on social media. 1. Start Early with Teasers…
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Choosing the Right Extensions for Your WooCommerce Events
Discover how to boost your WooCommerce events with the right extensions. Learn about the FooEvents for WooCommerce plugin and FooEvents extensions can streamline event management, ticket sales, and attendee check-ins for all your events.
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4 Easy Ways to Manage Attendee Check-ins
Attendee check-ins made easy with FooEvents. Discover four methods to streamline your event check-in process, from mobile apps to POS integration.
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Split Payments Now Available in FooEvents POS
Imagine you’re selling tickets at and event and a group approaches and wants to buy tickets together, but everyone wants to pay their share using different methods. In the past, this would require creating multiple orders in FooEvents POS. Now, with the new split payments feature you can add multiple payments to a single order.
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Create a better Attendee Experience: 4 Things Most Conferences Get Wrong
Next month, I will be attending WordCamp Europe 2024 in Turin, Italy. It will be my first time visiting Italy and I can’t wait to see the sights, catch up with old WordPress friends and meet more people from this wonderful WordPress and WooCommerce community. While WCEU is an exceptionally well-run event, it got me…
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Introducing the FooEvents Event Listing Block
It’s been a busy few weeks for us here at FooEvents HQ, and we think you will love what we have been up to! This week we launched our very first WordPress block, called the FooEvents Event Listing Block. This exciting new addition is included in the main FooEvents for WooCommerce (v1.19.9) plugin and makes…
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12 automated event emails that will boost attendee engagement
We’re thrilled to announce that you can now send automated event emails and SMS messages based on custom triggers for an event or booking using the AutomateWoo extension. Effective communication is key to the success of any event or booking system. Automated emails and SMS messages enhance the attendee experience by providing timely reminders, important…
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Release notes – 23 January 2024
It’s 2024 and we’ve hit the ground running. We have released various maintenance updates to the FooEvents extensions as well as an integration with AutomateWoo and 9 new plugin translations. FooEvents for WooCommerce Version 1.19.0 – Changelog ADDED: Support for AutomateWoo. ADDED: New translations added for 9 languages. FIXED: HPOS resend ticket bug. FIXED: Order…
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Create an Elementor Event Calendar using FooEvents (2024)
In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to add an event calendar Elementor using FooEvents in 2024. The calendars will display multiple events that are displayed in various tabs using different display modes. Step 1: Install Elementor and FooEvents Calendar plugins First you will need to make sure that you have the Elementor plugin installed. It…
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Important Zoom API update
As you may know, FooEvents integrates with Zoom making it possible to sell access to Zoom meetings and webinars. FooEvents does this by connecting securely to your Zoom account via Zoom’s app API. Previously, FooEvents integrated with Zoom using their JWT app, however, on June 1, 2023 Zoom will be deprecating (discontinuing) the JWT app type in…
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Release notes – 17 April 2023
This week we released updates to the FooEvents plugins that addressed various minor issues and updates to the FooEvents Stationery Builder and Zoom Integration. FooEvents Stationery Builder We added support for BOCA printer sizes to the FooEvents Stationery Builder as well as a fourth column to the stationery builder layout. You can now choose from…
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How to import event tickets with FooEvents
Earlier this year, we added a ticket import tool to the FooEvents for WooCommerce plugin. This feature is particularly useful if you need to transfer a large number of tickets from an existing system or spreadsheet when planning an event. With the FooEvents ticket importer, you can import tickets in bulk using a CSV (comma-separated…
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How to use shortcodes to embed event calendars on your WordPress site
In WordPress, a shortcode is a small piece of code that allows you to add dynamic content to your pages, posts, and widgets. Shortcodes are represented by square brackets [ ] and are used to embed various types of content such as images, audio, video, forms, and more. If you’re using FooEvents to manage your…
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How to ensure your event runs smoothly using these FooEvents tools
So you’ve used FooEvents to sell tickets and the start of your event is quickly approaching. With the start line in sight, you will need to make sure that you are ready to provide your attendees with a smooth and seamless experience on the day of the event. In this post, we’ll guide you through…
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How to build a WordPress conference website in under 30 minutes
Building websites has never been easier. WordPress is supported by thousands of powerful tools that are easy to use and make it possible to build professional websites in record time. To help illustrate this, I challenged myself to build a sophisticated WordPress conference website in under 30 minutes. The Brief The 30-Minute Challenge Given the…
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What’s new with Foo? – October 2022
This week we released a ton of features that have been on many customer’s wish lists for some time. All these features are based on customer feedback and make using FooEvents simpler and even more flexible! Booking Management If you use the FooEvents Bookings extension, then the new Bookings Management screen is sure to be a…
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Celebrating 7 years of FooEvents
We’re celebrating our 7th birthday today! Time flies when you are having fun and the past 7 years seem to have passed in the blink of an eye. When we first launched FooEvents, we never imagined that a WooCommerce events plugin would evolve into helping thousands of businesses around the world sell millions of tickets…
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Engage with your customers and attendees using WooCommerce Follow-ups
MPORTANT: As of 31 May 2023, WooCommerce has retired the WooCommerce Follow-Ups extension and recommends customers rather use their AutomateWoo extension. WooCommerce Follow-ups is no longer available for purchase on WooCommerce.com. WooCommerce will continue to support its WooCommerce Follow-ups extension until May 2024, however, it appears no further plugin updates will be released by WooCommerce. We have implemented a similar integration with AutomateWoo which we recommend as…
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Ending the year on a high – 3 million attendee check-ins!
We hope that your year has been successful and that you are ready to clear the mind before 2022! For us, 2021 has been a phenomenal year with much to be thankful for. FooEvents has experienced growth in almost all areas and what better way to end off the year than by celebrating the massive…
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Take a look under the hood (video)
In this walkthrough video, we will take you on a guided tour of the FooEvents settings and event setup. You will see how FooEvents can be used to create conferences, multi-day events, bookable services as well as events with seating selection. We also take a brief look at ticket management and the FooEvents reporting tools.
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We’ve Reached 2 Million Attendee Check-ins!
Last year we celebrated reaching 1 million attendee check-ins logged in the FooEvents Check-ins apps. It was a huge milestone for us at the time which took almost 4 years to achieve. Less than a year later, the check-ins have doubled, bringing the total to 2 million check-ins! To say we are elated is an…
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