In order to enable the booking feature, you need to go to MEC Settings > Booking > Booking<\/strong>, check the “Enable booking module” option and reload the page afterward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Date Format:<\/strong> Please indicate the desired date format for the event’s date in the booking module. For more information, please refer to All Date Formats<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Maximum Dates:<\/strong> Please indicate the dates accessible from the dropdown menu for recurring events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Date Selection:<\/strong> Please indicate the type of date selection field that should be used in the booking module. You can set the date selection style from the following options: “Dropdown,”<\/strong> “Calendar,”<\/strong> “Checkboxes,”<\/strong> and “Express Calendar.” For more information, please refer to this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You have the option to display the booking form for a specific duration before the event begins. By selecting a value of 30, the booking form will become available only 30 minutes prior to the start of the event. It is important to note that one day equals 1440 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Registration<\/strong>: If you set this option to “Enabled,” MEC will create a WordPress User<\/strong> for main attendees. It’s recommended to keep it enabled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n User Role:<\/strong> You can set the role of the users that are going to be created after they’ve completed their registration process. The default role of the users is “Subscriber,“<\/strong> but you can change it to other roles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Username & Password:<\/strong> If you set it to the manual option, users can insert their desired username and password<\/strong> during registration. Otherwise, MEC uses their email and an auto-generated password to create their account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Limit:<\/strong> The total number of tickets that a user can book. It is useful if you’re providing free tickets. Leave it empty for an unlimited booking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n IP restriction:<\/strong> If you set a limit for the total tickets that users can book, MEC will use IP and email to prevent users from booking more tickets than your defined limit. You can disable the IP restriction if you don’t need it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lock Pre-filled Fields:<\/strong> When users are logged in, name and email fields will be pre-filled, but they can change them. If you enable this option, then logged-in users cannot change their pre-filled fields.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Auto verification for free bookings:<\/strong> The booking Verification Notification informs the users that they had a reservation and obliges the users to verify their orders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you enable this option, this notification will no longer be sent for free bookings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Auto verification for paid bookings:<\/strong> If you enable this option, The Booking Verification Notification will no longer be sent for paid bookings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In order to configure this notification, you need to go to MEC Settings > Notifications > Booking Verification<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You need to use the tags provided at each section’s end to manage this section.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Note:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Auto confirmation for free bookings:<\/strong> Booking Confirmation Notification ensures users that they had a successful reservation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you enable this option, this notification will no longer be sent for free bookings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Auto confirmation for paid bookings:<\/strong> If you enable this option, The Booking Confirmation Notification will no longer be sent for paid bookings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Send confirmation email in auto-confirmation mode:<\/strong> If you enable this option, a confirmation notification will be sent in any case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In order to configure this notification, you need to go to MEC Settings > Notifications > Booking Confirmation<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cancellation Period:<\/strong> You can restrict the period of canceling the bookings. Leave empty to enable cancellation at any time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For example, if you insert 5 hours before the event starts, then bookers will be able to cancel their booking before this time, and after that, they won’t be able to do that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cancellation Page:<\/strong> The user will be redirected to this page after canceling their booking. Leave it empty if you want to disable it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cancellation Page Time Interval: <\/strong>Waiting time before redirecting the user to the cancellation page. It’s in milliseconds, so 2000 is equal to 2 seconds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With this option, Start the dates in the booking module from the first upcoming date instead of the referred date<\/p>\n\n\n\n MEC’s \u200b\u200bnew feature, Family Tickets, <\/strong>allows event organizers to define and sell tickets for a family or group. Suppose you have an event and you want to provide your customers with the possibility of booking Family tickets separately, as well as the possibility of booking for individuals. In this case, this option will help you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To activate this feature in your MEC, go to MEC Settings > Booking<\/strong> > Advanced<\/strong> and activate the Family Tickets<\/strong> option.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By activating this option, a field will appear in the Tickets section of the Single Event edit page where you can specify the number of family members or Number of seats<\/strong>. Every time this ticket is booked, the number of family members will be deducted from the remaining tickets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To illustrate, imagine you have an upcoming event that can host up to 200 attendees. Your plan is to offer tickets for individual sales as well as for families of four. To accomplish this, you will need to create two ticket options: one for single admission and another for families of four.<\/p>\n\n\n\n First, we set the Total Booking Limit to 200.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Then I create a single ticket according to the previous procedure of creating tickets and set Available tickets to 200.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But now we want to create a family ticket. The only difference is that we need to fill the Number of seat fields according to the number of family members. As you can see in the screenshot below, we want to have tickets for 4-member families, so I set Available tickets to 200 and the number of seats to 4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now users can choose between single and family tickets and complete the booking process. As you can see in the screenshot below, the number of family tickets that can be booked is equal to 50. It means 200 divided by 4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Note: <\/strong>Considering that one ticket is sold by booking family tickets, the number of attendees registered in the relevant booking will be one person. It is possible to distinguish these tickets from single tickets by using the ticket name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By setting a percentage number for this option, a “Last Few Tickets<\/strong>” flag will be shown on your events when the remaining tickets are less than this percentage, and you can set the last few tickets for every event separately by checking the “Ability to change last few tickets percentage per event” option.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thank You Page:<\/strong> Users will be redirected to this page after making a successful booking. Leave it empty if you want to disable it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thank You Page Time Interval: <\/strong>Waiting time before redirecting users to the thank you page. It’s in milliseconds, so 2000 is equal to 2 seconds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And you can set a separate thank you page for every event by checking the “Ability to change thank you page per event” option.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can generate transaction IDs using “Random Numbers”<\/strong> or “Ordered Numbers”<\/strong> with prefixes instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Start From:<\/strong> If you select Ordered Numbers from the previous option, this field will be enabled for you. You can set the prefix of your transaction IDs using this field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Set the “Skip Step 1”<\/strong> option to “If Possible”<\/strong> if you need to skip the first step of the booking process. Otherwise, select “Disabled.”<\/strong> If users have no choice in the first step of the booking module, this step will be skipped. In other words, this step will be skipped if the event has only one date and the total user booking limit option is set to one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By default, all users can book your events. You can restrict event booking to specific roles by unselecting the “All Users”<\/strong> checkbox.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The booking module is available on the event details page, but if you like to embed the booking module for a certain event into a custom WP page or post or any shortcode-compatible widgets, all you need to do is insert Also, you can insert ticket-id=”1″<\/strong> if you like to show only one of the available tickets in the booking module. Instead of 1, you should insert the ticket ID. This parameter is optional.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Within the upload field section, you have the ability to restrict the file extension and size of any uploaded files.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This MEC feature is a payment option that allows you to ask for a portion of the total price in an initial payment and decide how to get the rest of the money later on. For example, you can receive 20 percent of the total price online and get the rest in cash or using other payment methods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In order to use this feature you need to first make sure that you have installed MEC 6.8.0 or higher versions. After that, you can enable Partial Payment from the following menu:<\/p>\n\n\n\n MEC Settings > Booking > Advanced > Accept partial payment<\/p>\n\n\n\n The following options will appear after you have enabled the feature:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The initial payment or \u201cPayable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n MEC offers two methods to dictate the initial payment. You can either:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ability to edit payable options per event:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n This feature allows you to dictate \u201cpayable\u201d in each event separately without affecting the settings in other events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After enabling this feature, from your single event edit page, you can go to MEC Settings > Booking > Advanced > Ability to edit payable options per event and access Partial Payment for each event separately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If enabled, you can set discounts for users based on their roles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After enabling and saving the settings, you should reload the page to see a new menu on the Dashboard > Webhooks.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n Apply the information from the first attendance of the users to all of their purchased tickets<\/strong>. Uncheck if you want every ticket to have its own attendee\u2019s information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Enabling this option will show the total number of attendees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If enabled, the total number of selected tickets will be displayed next to the booking button in the first step of the booking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If enabled, a progress bar will be added to the booking module indicating the current step and the next steps. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Note: It won’t get displayed if there is only 1 step.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By enabling this option, users will be able to download the invoice of their purchase after the booking process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you enable this option, booking events will be available during the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By enabling this feature, you will be able to upload a file for each event, and users will be able to download it after a successful booking process. It adds the ability to upload files to any single event. You can send this file in the notification email using the placeholder too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Enable this option if you need to hide the ticket time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can build and customize your Booking Form in the Modern Events Calendar using this option. Keep in mind that this form will be used for all attendees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can also customize your Booking Form for each event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In order to do that, you need to go to Single Event Edit Page > Booking > Booking Form<\/strong> and uncheck the “Inherit from global options”<\/strong> option.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In order to prevent fake bookings, configure and use Google reCAPTCHA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We have introduced a robust layer of input validation<\/strong> in the MEC Booking Form to ensure higher data quality and improved security. Each field in the form is now validated against a predefined set of regular expressions (regex rules)<\/strong>. These default rules prevent users from entering invalid or unsafe characters, while still allowing flexible input for real-world use cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/span>Booking Basic Tab<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/span>1- Date Options<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
<\/span>2- Date Selection<\/strong> Options<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
<\/span>3- Interval Options<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
<\/span>4- User Registration<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
<\/span>5- Limitation<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
<\/span>6- Email Verification<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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<\/span>7- Booking Confirmation<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
<\/span>8- Booking Cancellation<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
<\/span>Booking Advanced Tab<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/span>1- Date Options<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
<\/span>2- Family Tickets<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/span>3- Last Few Tickets Flag<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
<\/span>4- Thank You Page<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
<\/span>5- Transaction ID<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
<\/span>6- Simplify Booking Form<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
<\/span>7- Who can book?<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/span>8- Booking Shortcode<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
[mec-booking event-id=\"1\"]<\/code> shortcode into the page content and place the event id instead of 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/span>9- Upload Field<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
<\/span>10- Partial Payment<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n
<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/span>11- Discount Per User Roles<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
<\/span>12- Webhooks<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
<\/span>Booking Elements<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/span>Enable Express Attendees Form<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
<\/span>Attendee Counter<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/span>Display Total Tickets<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
<\/span>Display Progress Bar<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
<\/span>Enable Invoice<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
<\/span>Enable Booking for Ongoing Events<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
<\/span>Enable Downloadable File<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/span>Disable Ticket Times<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
<\/span>Booking Form<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/span>Booking Form Input Validation<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n