Automated Reservation Lists

Hi @garthkoyle ,

A colleague of mine reached out to you about the add-on we had built to automatically send reservation lists after registration closes to user-specified emails, and you mentioned incorporating it into EE4 (which is exciting!). We're happy to help out anyway we can as having it supported by EE4 makes our lives a lot easier and it's probably a great feature other users would enjoy.

Below, I've included a description of how it works, details, and anything else I can think of that's helpful. I'm not a developer but I was the go-between when this was created.

It works well and is 100% complete. I've also included a few ideas of how you might be able to make it better if you want to. Also, @Pebblo has worked a lot with this on helping us out over the years, so he probably has some good knowledge to help.

How It Works
Every hour, a cron job runs to check for events that have recently closed registration. For all events it finds, it sends a copy of the reservation list to every email listed in the Venue Manager under contacts.

It sends:

• The attendee's first and last name (alphabetized and font case cleaned up)
• The total number of tickets reserved
• The attendee's email address
• The attendee's phone number (custom wordpress field)
• A block for the person to sign in case they are doing a ticket pick up
• The name of the event and when the event is occuring
• A disclaimer at the bottom we wrote with content about the list

(Including a sample picture below)

I've attached the cron below. I have added in a few placeholders that are identifying from our site.
Reservation List Code.txt

Ways It Could Be Improved

• Being able to set the time that the list sends (instead of it just looking for ones that are closed)
• Being able to select what is or is not included in the list (email and phone are critical for mobile ticketing these days but not everywhere)
• Being included in the messaging log that EE4 has so you know they've sent
• Being able to turn them on or off for lists (and maybe an option to "send by default")

Please let me know if there is anything else you need from us. This is super exciting and I hope it's something that helps EE open up to an even wider range of business!

[tn3rb]

Is ALL of the code in the attached file or is there more?

All of the code is in the attached file. It runs through a cron on our server (but probably would be better through WPcron). That’s all the code, though.

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[tn3rb]

ok thnx

1 more question, you wrote:

it sends a copy of the reservation list to every email listed in the Venue Manager under contacts.

can you plz elaborate on what you mean by "every email listed in the Venue Manager under contacts"?
is the "contacts" section in the Venue Manager something specific to a client site?
because EE does not have anything that resembles that.

Sure! It's under - Event Espresso -> Venues -> Contact (under custom fields)....and then it sends to all the emails on that list.