Public Ticket #4023011

Woocommerce bookings is poor

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Anthony O Connell started the conversation 1 year ago on May 22, 2025 at 12:09pm

Hi guys.

At present I have woocommerce bookings that works with MarketKing but to be honest, my vendors find it very complicated (even though I have comprehensive documentation and video tutorials on it) and I have to say even I find it quite tricky as well at times and I have spent a lot of time with it. This is costing me vendors as they find it too difficult and reflects badly on my business as a result. In order for me to keep MarketKing going forward, is there a better alternative to woocommerce bookings? If not is it possible to custom code another booking plugin that make this work better and be more user friendly?

Thanks.


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KingsPlugins replied 1 year ago on May 27, 2025 at 12:25am

Hi Anthony,

 Unfortunately, at this time we don't have a direct alternative booking plugin that we can recommend that works well with MarketKing.

While it is possible to create a custom booking solution through custom development using our developer documentation (https://marketkingplugin.com/docs/developer-documentation-functions-hooks-custom-code-plugin-integrations/), this would be quite complex and would require significant development.

 

Maybe the best option is creating some simplified documentation or video tutorials focusing only on the essential features that your vendors most commonly need?

 

Kind regards,
Stefan

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Anthony O Connell replied 1 year ago on June 2, 2025 at 6:58pm

Hi Stefan.

Thanks for getting back to me.

I have already created video tutorials and plenty of documentation to show people how to use woocommerce bookings but vendors still find it complex and lose patience and therefore I find it really difficult to keep vendors as a result and this means I need to make a decision and quickly about how to move forward.

Previously, I had created a ticket here:


https://support.kingsplugins.com/ticket/3539527/

and you had told me that FooEvents and the FooEvents Multi-Day Add-on would be compatible with woocommerce and MarketKing. Is it possible to replace woocommerce bookings with the following bundle:


https://www.fooevents.com/bundles/bookings-bundle/ 

The reason I am looking at this is:

  1. The booking plugin looks easier to use for vendors.
  2. I want to enable vendors to sell tickets and create events as I think this will engage vendors better.

My developer says this is all possible but I would like your thoughts on it.

Thank you!

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Anthony O Connell replied 1 year ago on June 9, 2025 at 2:20pm

Hi Stefan.

I have decided to stick with woocommerce bookings for now as I have other custom integrations applied to it.

However, I'm still interested in getting the Fooevents plugin bundle here:

https://www.fooevents.com/bundles/premium-bundle/

I understand from your documentation that:

FooEvents for WooCommerce

& 

FooEvents Multi-day

work with woocommerce.

But does the other plugins:

FooEvents Custom Attendee Fields

FooEvents Seating

FooEvents Calendar

& 

FooEvents PDF Tickets work with MarketKing?

Looking forward to hearing back from you.

Thanks


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KingsPlugins replied 1 year ago on June 18, 2025 at 12:56pm

Hi Anthony,

Thanks for your follow-up question. 

Currently, only FooEvents for WooCommerce and FooEvents Multi-day are fully tested and confirmed to work with MarketKing. The other addons you mentioned (Custom Attendee Fields, Seating, Calendar, and PDF Tickets) have not been specifically integrated with MarketKing yet.

Each addon would require its own special integration to work correctly with the vendor system. The main integration challenge is getting all scripts and styles to run on the vendor dashboard - for example you can see how the multi-day scripts are being loaded here:

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To do a similar integration, it would be necessary to go over each add-on's scripts and make sure they get loaded correctly on the vendor dashboard.

 

Kind regards,
Stefan

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Anthony O Connell replied 1 year ago on June 18, 2025 at 8:28pm

Hi Stefan.

My plan was to only use fooevents and its plugins only for me (admin) just with the traditional woocommerce and not for vendors at this time. Will this work fine this way?

And if I do decide to integrate this for vendors at a later time, can you give me some guidance on this and I send this onto my developer?

Thanks for your help Stefan.

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KingsPlugins replied 1 year ago on June 21, 2025 at 11:29am

Hi Anthony,

Yes, that should work! You can use FooEvents and its plugins just for admin,

If you decide to integrate it with vendors later on, we can provide technical guidance to your developer regarding the necessary integrations. They would need to focus mainly on ensuring proper script loading in the vendor dashboard and handling the vendor-specific functionality.

 

Kind regards,
Stefan

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Anthony O Connell replied 1 year ago on June 22, 2025 at 8:23pm

Thanks Stefan.

If I decide to give vendors fooevents functionality I'll be in touch about it.

Thanks for your help Stefan 🙏

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Anthony O Connell replied 1 year ago on September 29, 2025 at 3:44pm

Hi Stefan

I recently just purchased the FooEvents premium bundle as I want to be able to sell tickets to events through my site.
However, for now, I only want to be able to use this as admin and I do not want vendors to be able to sell tickets right now. The screenshot below shows that the FooEvents plugins are visible in the vendor dashboard. 
Can you help me remove these tabs via a php code.
Thank you.

Attached files:

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KingsPlugins replied 1 year ago on September 30, 2025 at 7:07pm

Hi Anthony,

Sure, I can write a snippet to remove those FooEvents tabs from the vendor dashboard.

Could you please share a vendor account (login and password) with me? That way I can access the dashboard page directly and view its code to write the snippet correctly.

Kind regards,
Stefan

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KingsPlugins replied 1 year ago on October 4, 2025 at 6:38pm

Hi Anthony,

The admin login I had previously doesn't seem to work anymore, but no problem - you can simply add this code snippet and it should do what you need:

 

add_action('marketking_dashboard_head', function(){
	?>
	<style>

		.custom_tab_fooevents, .custom_tab_fooevents_tickets, .custom_tab_fooevents_terminology, .custom_tab_custom_attendee_options, .custom_tab_fooevents_exports, .custom_tab_fooevents_printing, .custom_tab_fooevents_expiration, .custom_tab_fooevents_integration{
			display:none !important;
		}

	</style>
	<?php
});

 

Let me know how that works for you,

Kind regards,
Stefan

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