Features

Modern Events Calendar is the best WordPress Event Calendar plugin. Here are the features that makes MEC the most powerful and user-friendly WordPress event plugin in the market. 

FeaturesDescriptionDocumentation

Events Features
Create events









  • Add event image


  • Location Maps
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  • Single day events

  • Multiple day events

  • Create all day events

  • Add to Google Calendar feature

  • Breadcrumbs

  • Event link

  • Event label

  • Event color

  • Advanced event speaker system

  • Showing Cancellation reason

  • Showing the normal labels on all skins

  • Advanced event locations system

  • Advanced event organizer system

  • Calendar method to show available occurrences to book

  • Show event content only for those users that booked the event
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  • Insert images for locations and organizers

  • Tag events

  • Categorizing events in unlimited categories

  • Showing map top of the list and grid shortcodes
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  • Advanced Hourly Schedule (for each day)

  • Set Ticket Variations / Options separately for each event

  • You can create events that hold more than 1 day

  • Add to iCal, Outlook, etc. by downloading .ics file

  • Add custom booking form for each event
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  • A feature to change the booking button label per event
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  • A feature for events to inherit color from the category if no event color is specified

  • Create All Day Event

  • Hide Event Time

  • Hide Event End Time

  • Event local time

  • Add some organizers

  • Add some speakers to Schedule

  • Showing local time for all shortcode

  • Countdown method per event


  • Custom event fields


  • Download-able file feature
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  • Event Status for Schema

  • Cancellation reason

  • different timezone per event

  • Next / Previous Events

  • Custom Data For Single Events

  • Content only for bookers
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  • Edit Per Occurrences
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  • Change Currency Per Event

  • Sticky Sidebar

  • Showing map top of the list and grid shortcodes
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  • Advanced Hourly Schedule (for each day)

  • Set Ticket Variations / Options separately for each event

  • Add custom booking form for each event
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  • Event Timezone

  • Edit Payment System

  • Event Timezone

  • Event Countdown

  • Ability to add sponsors to events and display them on single event page
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More info
Repeating events








  • Ability to create daily events

  • Ability to create weekly events

  • Ability to create monthly events

  • Ability to create yearly events

  • Ability to repeat events on weekdays and weekends

  • Ability to repeat events on custom days

  • Ability to set custom intervals for events

  • Ability to set multiple occurrences in one day
More info
Never end events
  • Ability to create never end events
  • Ability to set a certain date for event finish
  • Ability to finish an event after certain repeats
More info
Other Features
  • Event countdown
  • Simple and Advanced Google Maps direction feature
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  • Event custom link page
  • Shortcode creator interface
  • Advanced filtering options for shortcode creator
  • Dynamic event labels
  • Ability to set Featured/Canceled label
  • Ability to set color
  • Ability to hide past events in shortcodes
  • Ability to insert custom CSS in settings
  • Ability to show only featured events
  • Smooth Month navigation
  • More than 10 different map styles for Google Maps
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  • Ability to export all events from WP backend
  • Support comment form in single event page
  • Translation Ready
  • Shortcode to display users events
More info

Display Features
Display Features








  • Font Awesome icons

  • Multiple color skins

  • Ability to select custom colors

  • List view (5 styles)

  • Grid view (7 styles)

  • General Calendar


  • Agenda view
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  • Full calendar view


  • Yearly view
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  • Monthly/Calendar view (4 styles)

  • Daily View

  • Tile View

  • Timeline

  • Booking Calendar
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  • Calendar method to show available occurrences to book
    pro–


  • Booking Shortcode
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  • RTL support

  • Custom colors for events

  • Category filter option

  • Label filter option

  • Search option

  • Location filter option

  • Weekly view


  • Timetable view
    pro–


  • Masonry view
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  • Map view
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  • Cover view (3 styles)

  • Countdown view (3 styles)


  • Available spot view
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  • Carousel view (3 styles)

  • Slider view (5 styles)

  • Show events on the Google Maps based on their location
    pro–

  • Shortcode to display users events

  • Countdown method per event

  • Show / Hide Occurrences per shortcode

  • Change event visibility and hide them in shortcodes

  • Map for the List View
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  • Map for the Grid View
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  • Show skin of the shortcode

  • Maximum date for certain skins

  • Event Cost search option


  • Set different timezone per event

  • Lock pre-filled fields
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  • Month filter option

  • Show Only Expired Events feature
More info

Booking Features
Booking Features










  • Create various kind of tickets
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  • Set a limit on total bookings
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  • Set a limit on user for bookings
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  • Set a limit for certain tickets
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  • Create free tickets
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  • Create unlimited tickets
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  • Add custom fields to booking form
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  • Coupons and Discount manager
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  • Total User Booking Limits
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  • Price Per Date
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  • Badge for new book
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  • add user roles as recipient in notifications
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  • WooCommerce order link in bookings paid by WooCommerce
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  • Filter for bookings
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  • Ticket limit for coupon
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  • Booking fixed fields per booking
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  • Create an account with a custom username and password
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  • Lock pre-filled fields
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  • Set booking limit per different occurrences
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  • Auto-Populate profile fields after booking
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  • Stripe Refund Option
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  • Attendee Counter
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  • Downloadable File Options
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  • Booking Form Interval
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  • Attendees in event
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  • Ticket variations per ticket
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  • Date Selection For Booking
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  • Change event parameters per occurrence
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  • Calendar method to show available occurrences to book
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  • MEC Cart
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  • Create certain fees for each event
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  • add users as recipients in notifications
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  • Payment information
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  • Booking Button in Modal Window for All Shortcodes
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  • Refund bookings paid by Stripe gateway
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  • Cancel bookings after cancelation or refund of WC order
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  • Skip the first step of booking
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  • Maximum booking option for tickets
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  • New ticket style option named Row
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  • Booking progress bar
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  • Display the total number of selected tickets in the booking module
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  • Currency to WooCommerce order
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  • Attendees count in backend booking form
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  • Set minimum sale for tickets
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  • Amount Per Date
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  • Variations Per Ticket
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  • Disable coupons feature
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  • Advanced currency options
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  • Implemented 5 payment methods
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  • Enable/disable payment methods
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  • Custom booking form for each event
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  • Auto verify free and/or paid bookings
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  • Completely disable booking feature if you don’t want to use it.pro
    pro–

  • Remove/Add attendees
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  • Edit Booking
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  • Download-able file feature
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  • Booking shortcode
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  • Sort payment gateways
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  • Import bookings from CSV
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  • Booking button on the shortcode
    pro–


  • Booking Calendar
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  • Book multiple dates in one booking
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  • Prevent user account
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  • Discount per user roles
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  • Cancellation Period
    pro–

  • Cancellation Page Time Interval
    pro–

  • User Registration Options
    pro–

  • Custom Username & Password
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  • IP restriction
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  • Lock Pre-filled Fields
    pro–

  • Last Few Tickets Flag
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  • Custom Transaction ID
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  • Who can book? Feature
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  • CSV export option for bookings
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  • MS Excel export option for bookings
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  • Ticket Variations / Options feature
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  • Booking for ongoing events
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  • Global Tax/Fee creation system
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  • Enable/Disable invoice
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  • Express Attendees Form
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  • Resend booking verification and confirmation email
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  • Prevent user account
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  • Refund bookings paid by Stripe gateway
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  • Stop selling tickets when the first occurrence of an event happened
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  • Show event content only for those users that booked the event
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  • Stop selling tickets option
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  • "Back Button" for booking form
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More info
Implemented 5 payment methods









  • Pay locally
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  • PayPal Express
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  • PayPal Credit Card
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  • PayPal Standard gateway
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  • Stripe
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  • Pay by WooCommerce
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  • Organizer payment
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  • Use WooCommerce as Booking and Payment System
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  • Bank Transfer
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More info
Send different notifications to booker/admin









  • Booking notification for booker/attendee
    pro–



  • Booking notification for admin
    pro–



  • Booking verification to attendee
    pro–



  • Booking confirmation by admin to attendee
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  • Booking cancellation by admin to attendee
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  • Booking Reminders notification
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  • Add a new event from front-end event submission


  • Email to users when event publishing


  • Booking Rejection


  • Event Sold-out
More info

Integration Features
Integration Features









  • Import events from EventOn

  • Import events from The Events Calendar

  • Import events from Events Schedule WP Plugin

  • Import events from Calendarize It

  • Import events from Event Espresso

  • Import events from Events Manager

  • Mailchimp Subscription
    pro–

  • Campaign Monitor
    pro–

  • MailerLite
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  • Constant Contact
    pro–

  • Active Campaign
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  • Learn dash
    pro–

  • PaidMembership Pro
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  • AWeber
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  • Sendfox
    pro–

  • BuddyPress
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  • Visual Composer addon

  • KingComposer addon

  • Divi addon

  • Elementor addon

  • WPML ready

  • WordPress Multisite ready

  • Cache plugins compatibility

  • SEO plugins compatibility


  • Auto synchronization with google calendar
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  • Google Recaptcha

  • Google Map
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  • MailPoet
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Developers Features
Developers Features
  • Completely developer friendly
  • Override archive and single pages in a theme
  • Override skin files in a theme
  • Filter plugin options using WordPress filtering system
  • Fire custom functions using WordPress actions API
  • Customize single events
  • Customize shortcodes
  • Available Hooks
More info

Key Features
Key Features










  • WooCommerce Payment Integration
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  • Organizer payment
    pro–



  • Stripe Payment Integration
    pro–


  • Mailchimp Integration
    pro–

  • BuddyPress Integration
    pro–

  • Archive Page Skin

  • Single and Multiple day events


  • Advanced Google Maps
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  • Import events from Google Calendar

  • Export filtered events into CSV, MS Excel, JSON and XML formats

  • Exceptional Days

  • Dynamic content shortcode

  • Google Recaptcha

  • Hourly Schedule

  • Option for category archive page to show expired events instead of upcoming events

  • Available Widget in all Sidebar


  • Show total attendees of a booking into the admin notification
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  • Matching Shortcode and Widget

  • Matching Shortcode and Visual Composer

  • Elementor, Visual Composer(WP Bakery), Divi Builder, King Composer page builder compatibility

  • Custom CSS

  • Advanced categorizing and filtering options

  • Event note for frontend event submission

  • Frontend Event Submission

  • iCal file download link in email

  • Google Calendar link in email

  • Custom Category Skin feature

  • Weekends, Weekdays and certain weekdays repeating

  • Show ongoing or expired events

  • Display the total amount of purchased tickets in confirmation email
    pro–

  • Popular Social Networks (share): Tumblr, Pinterest, Flipboard, GetPocket, Reddit, WhatsApp and Telegram

  • Featured Image placeholder

  • Disabling the Google fonts

  • Bulk email send to attendees
    pro–

  • Book all occurrences
    pro–

  • Different hours for custom days repeat

  • Multiple occurrences in one day

  • Notifications per event
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  • Next/Previous Module

  • Related Events Module

  • Public Download Module

  • Dark Mode

  • Local time for all shortcodes

  • Auto-Populate profile fields after booking
    pro–

  • Change event visibility and hide them in shortcodes

  • Multiple Category Search option
    pro–

  • Resend booking verification and confirmation email
    pro–

  • Countdown method per event

  • Prevent user account
    pro–

  • Refund bookings paid by Stripe gateway
    pro–

  • Early bird booking
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  • Developer Documentations

  • Advanced and custom repeating

  • Yearly, Monthly, Weekly,Daily repeating

  • Midnight Hour

  • show only one occurrence

  • Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn to speakers

  • Change sender name and sender email of WordPress emails

  • Reset Section for settings

  • Auto set cronjobs (Once Daily) synchronization

  • Badge for new event

  • Campaign Monitor
    pro–

  • MailerLite
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  • Constant Contact
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  • WordPress dashboard widgets

  • Ticket limit for coupon

  • Show Normal Label

  • Cancellation reason

  • Change event parameters per occurrence

  • ical subscription URL

  • Booking Report
    pro–


  • Stop selling tickets when the first occurrence of an event happened
    pro–

  • Show event content only for those users that booked the event
    pro–

  • Show / Hide Occurrences per shortcode

  • An ability for editor and admin users to manage events from frontend dashboard

  • Gutenberg editor to event edit page

  • Instagram for speakers


  • Send booking reminder to all attendees instead of main attendee
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  • SCA compatibility for Stripe Payment Gateways
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  • Facebook Importer

  • Import From Meetup
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  • Notifications
    pro–


  • Recurring/Repeating events

  • Next Event Module

  • Shortcode Creator

  • Timezone feature


  • Auto verification ( Email & Booking )
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  • Taxes / Fees
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  • Multiple color skins

  • Slider View

  • Cover View

  • Countdown View

  • Carousel View

  • Monthly/Calendar View

  • Weekly View

  • Daily View

  • List/Grid View


  • Timetable View
    pro–



  • Agenda View
    pro–


  • Google Maps option in list & Grid skins
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  • Masonry View
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  • QR Code Module
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  • Weather Module View
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  • Available Spot View
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  • User Profile Shortcode for end-user

  • Event Cancellation from User Profile Shortcode

  • Feed/RSS

  • Schema structure

  • Rearrange booking form
    pro–

  • Report page
    pro–

  • Auto cronjob
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  • Booking Reminder Cron
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  • event submission by guest (Not logged-in) users

  • Unlimited event repeating


  • Coupons and Discount manager
    pro–


  • Import Facebook link as event link

  • Import Facebook link as more info link

  • Showing local time for all shortcode

  • Showing Cancellation reason

  • Showing the normal labels on all skins

  • Event Status for Schema

  • Booking Calendar
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  • Book multiple dates in one booking
    pro–

  • Add Event Wizard

  • Add Shortcode Wizard

  • Settings Wizard

  • Fast Setup

  • Multiple Occurrences of Current Event

  • Auto Emails
    pro–

  • Booking Report
    pro–

  • Event locations system

  • Event organizer system

  • Multiple organizers

  • Dynamic event labels


  • Booking form builder
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  • Map View
    pro–


  • RTL support


  • Booking
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  • Advanced Tax/Fee system
    pro–



  • Multiple Tickets system
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  • Event Details/Single Event Page


  • Coupons/Discount system
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  • PayPal Integration
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  • Multisite Ready

  • WPML Ready

  • SEO ready


  • Geo-location feature for map skin
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  • shortcode to show the invoice download link in thank you page
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  • Developer friendly

  • Choose Weekends


  • Create Booking Form
    pro–


  • Europ language completed

  • Ajax live search shortcode

  • Thank you page for front-end Event Submission

  • Custom Archive Skin feature

  • Events Archive Status


  • Booking for ongoing events
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  • All Taxonomies search field for shortcodes

  • Cancellation notifications
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