Eventnetic turns a WordPress site into a box office. Create an event, decide what a ticket costs and how many there are, put the booking form on a page, and take the money. Nothing else has to be installed and there is no account to open anywhere. It is a plugin for events rather than appointments:
PricingFree downloadThe WordPress.org download is free. Pro versions, add-ons or external services may cost extra.
CompatibilityRequires WordPress 6.4 and PHP 8.1.
SourceWordPress plugins · Oct 18, 2026
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About this tool.
Eventnetic turns a WordPress site into a box office. Create an event, decide what a ticket costs and how many there are, put the booking form on a page, and take the money. Nothing else has to be installed and there is no account to open anywhere.
It is a plugin for events rather than appointments: people buy a ticket for a date, not a slot with a member of staff. A cinema showing a film on five Sundays, a venue with a support act and a headliner, a workshop with eight benches and a deposit up front: that is the shape it is built around.
The plugin is free with no cap on how many events you run or how many tickets you sell, and Eventnetic takes no cut of the money . If you later add a card gateway, that company charges its own processing fee, but nothing comes to us per ticket. You can see it running before you install anything .
Why Eventnetic is different
Standalone. No WooCommerce, no page builder, no form plugin, no calendar plugin underneath it.
No per-ticket fee, ever. Not in the free plugin and not on a paid plan.
Your data, your server. Customers, bookings and money stay in your own database.
One screen, not twelve settings pages. Lists that filter and sort, a calendar, and forms that tell you what is wrong before you save.
No theme can break the booking form. It renders inside a shadow root, so the theme’s CSS cannot reach into it and it cannot reach out.
✨ Features
Events
Unlimited events, tickets, bookings and customers. Nothing is capped.
Single-day, multi-day and full-day events
Capacity per event, counted as bookings arrive, and it refuses to drop below what is already sold
Status per event, open or closed or cancelled, with the reason shown to the visitor
Events at a venue, online, or both, with a joining link and password released a set number of minutes before the start
A timezone per event, for when one of them is somewhere else
Categories with colours, venues and staff, all reusable across events
One click builds the WordPress page for an event with the booking form already on it
An admin calendar with month, week and day views: drag an event to another day, click a day to create one
schema.org Event data on the page, so search engines read the date, the venue and the price
Tickets and pricing
Several ticket types per event, in the order you want them
Each type either draws on the event’s capacity or holds a quota of its own
A sale window per ticket type: when it goes on sale and when it stops
Minimum and maximum per order
Deposits per ticket type, a percentage or a fixed amount, with the balance left owing on the order
Ask each attendee for their own name, email and phone, per ticket type
151 currencies, with symbol position, thousands and decimal separators, and 0 to 4 decimal places
A ticket type that has already sold cannot be deleted by accident
The booking form
A step at a time: date, tickets, your details, attendees, payment, confirmation. A step that means nothing for an event is not shown.
Prices are quoted by the server. Nothing the browser says about money is believed.
Tickets are held while somebody is checking out, with a countdown, and released if they wander off
Guest booking, with no WordPress account needed
Pay a deposit or pay in full, whichever you make the default
Sold out and booking-closed states that say why
Find my booking by code and email: status, amount due, ticket codes, the joining link for an online event, Add to Google Calendar and an .ics file
Customers can cancel their own booking, if you switch it on. It is off until you do.
Rate limiting, a honeypot and a minimum fill time as standard, plus optional Google reCAPTCHA v3 or Cloudflare Turnstile
Bookings and the door
A bookings list with search and filters: booking status, payment status, event, date, category, booked between two dates
Take a booking by hand from the desk, choosing what was paid and how
A door list per event: search by code, name, email or phone; filter by date, ticket type and who is already inside
Check people in by typing a code or with a keyboard-wedge barcode scanner. One code is one seat, and it is used once.
A booking is marked as arrived once its last seat is in
CSV export of bookings and of attendees, honouring whatever you have filtered
Customer records built as bookings arrive; a customer who has bookings cannot be deleted by accident
A payments screen: record a payment, refund it, void it, and read the transaction log for any order
Emails and automation
A workflow builder rather than a fixed set of emails: pick a trigger, add actions, test each one
15 triggers, including booking created, status changed, payment received, refunded, attendee checked in, event starts, event ends, date cancelled, date reopened and customer created
Time offsets on triggers, so a reminder can go three days before the event or an hour after it ends
Filters on triggers, so a workflow only runs for the status or payment method you mean
Around 60 merge placeholders across event, booking, customer and attendee, each with a sample
One-click links in your own email to approve, reject or cancel a booking without logging in
Three workflows are set up on install: booking confirmation, payment received and booking cancelled
A queue screen showing what is planned, what ran, what failed and what can be retried
Mail through wp_mail or your own SMTP server
Payments
Pay at the door with no gateway and no account: cash, a card machine at the venue, or a bank transfer you mark as paid by hand
Your own wording for the payment instructions the customer sees
Orders with lines, totals, what is paid and what is still due
Refunds, voids, and rules enforced on the server so an order cannot be overpaid or over-refunded
Drag the payment methods into the order the customer sees them in
The same five as Gutenberg blocks, in their own block category
The same five as Elementor widgets, in their own widget category
A calendar with month, week, day and list views, rendered on the server, so it is readable by search engines and works with JavaScript off
An event catalogue with search, category filters and a “from” price
Design and the technical side
Named appearance styles with eight colour tokens and three layout tokens, eight presets to start from, and a style you can pick per shortcode
Every widget mounts in a shadow root, so no theme can break it and it cannot leak styles out
Assets load only on pages that actually have a widget on them
A REST API under eventnetic/v1 , and around 85 actions and filters for extending it
Translation ready , with RTL support
A setup wizard, a checklist, and a system information panel that checks cron, folders and PHP extensions
Uninstall removes its tables, its options and its uploads folder. Nothing is left behind.
⭐ Eventnetic Pro
The free plugin is not a trial and does not expire. Eventnetic Pro adds features rather than lifting a cap:
Seat maps : draw the room once and reuse it. Rows, tables, stands and standing areas, numbered any way you like. Seats belong to the date, so A7 sells again next week.
PDF tickets and QR codes : a printable pass per seat, attached to the confirmation email.
Card payments : Stripe , PayPal, or hand the checkout to WooCommerce.
Discount codes : percentage or fixed, scoped to certain tickets, with limits and a date range.
Taxes : percentage or fixed, scoped to a venue, a category or an event.
Invoices : gapless numbering series, editable templates, issued when the money arrives.
Waiting lists : offers only the places that actually came free, and the offer expires.
Repeating dates : one class, ten Tuesdays, each with its own capacity and door list.
Price per date : a different price, quota or sale window on the dates that need one.
Custom booking fields : thirteen field types, conditional logic and file uploads.
Zoom : meetings and webinars, a separate room per date.
SMS, WhatsApp, Telegram and webhooks : the same workflow builder, more ways to reach people.
Free and Pro, side by side .
External services
Eventnetic works without contacting anything outside your site. Two features, both switched off until you configure them, call a third party:
Google reCAPTCHA is used only if you switch bot protection on under Settings → Integrations → Bot protection and choose Google, which needs a site key and a secret key from your own Google account. Two things then happen, and both stop the moment the setting is switched back off:
A page carrying the booking form loads https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api.js into the visitor’s browser. This is how the check is made, and there is no way to run reCAPTCHA without it. Google may set cookies and will see the visitor’s IP address and the page they are on.
When the form is submitted, the token their browser produced is sent from your server to https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api/siteverify , together with your secret key and the visitor’s IP address, and Google answers whether it looks like a person. Nothing else is sent.
Cloudflare Turnstile is the same feature with Turnstile chosen instead, and the same two steps: https://challenges.cloudflare.com/turnstile/v0/api.js is loaded into the visitor’s browser, and the token is verified from your server at https://challenges.cloudflare.com/turnstile/v0/siteverify. Terms: https://www.cloudflare.com/website-terms/ / Privacy: https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/
Captcha is off when the plugin is installed. Until you turn it on and enter your own keys, no page loads anything from either service and nothing is sent to them.
Source code
The admin screens and the booking form are a React application, and the files under react/dist/ that the browser loads are compiled and minified. Both the source and the t
See it in action
Screenshots & previews.
The dashboard: what is coming up, and how the month has gone.An event, with its dates, capacity and ticket types.The bookings list, filtered and sorted.The door list, searchable by name.The booking form as a visitor sees it.Settings, on one screen with a search.
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Getting started.
01Upload the plugin through Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin , or install it from the WordPress plugin directory and activate it.
02A short setup asks for the business name, the currency and how you want to be paid, and offers to create the pages the booking form needs.
03Create an event under Eventnetic → Events , give it at least one ticket type, and publish the page the setup made. If you would rather place it yourself, put [eventnetic_booking event=”12″] on any page, where 12 is the event id.
04Add [eventnetic_calendar] to a page if you want a calendar of everything that is coming, and [eventnetic_events] for a catalogue people can search.
Both are also available as blocks and as Elementor widgets.
The documentation is written as short pages you can read in a minute. The ones to start with:
05Your first event, start to finish
06The pages your site needs
07How a booking happens
08Payment methods
09The shortcode reference
10What workflows are
11When something does not work
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Frequently asked questions.
What kinds of events is it for?
Cinemas and film clubs, music venues, theatres, comedy nights, conferences, workshops and classes, guided tours, museums and exhibitions, festivals, meetups, retreats, tastings, markets and fairs, charity dinners, and anything sold as timed entry. Eight of them run as live demos you can book on : a cinema, a theatre, a conference, a music venue, a museum with timed entry, a walking tour, a yoga studio and a craft workshop.
What does it work with?
WordPress 6.4 and up, PHP 8.1 and up. The block editor and Elementor are supported out of the box, and the shortcodes work in any theme or builder that can render one. Optional, and only when you configure them: Google reCAPTCHA v3, Cloudflare Turnstile, and your own SMTP server. On Pro: Stripe, PayPal, WooCommerce, Zoom and Twilio. See integrations .
Does Eventnetic need WooCommerce, a page builder or a form plugin?
No. It is standalone. Everything above happens in Eventnetic itself, with no other plugin installed. WooCommerce is supported on Pro for people who already run a shop and want the checkout to go through it, but it is a choice, not a requirement.
Can I take payment without a payment gateway?
Yes, and most people start that way. “Pay at the door” is switched on during setup and needs no account: cash, a card machine at the venue, or a bank transfer you mark as paid by hand. See payment methods .
Are there per-ticket fees?
None from us, on any plan. If you add Stripe or PayPal later, they charge their own processing fee on each transaction, the same as they would anywhere else. Nothing is taken by Eventnetic. Work out what a per-ticket fee would cost you against a flat yearly licence.
What are the limits of the free version?
There is no limit on events, tickets, bookings or customers. The free plugin holds an event on a single date and takes payment at the door; seat maps, PDF tickets, card gateways, repeating dates and the rest are on Pro. The free and Pro page lists both sides in full.
Does it work with my theme?
Yes. The booking form renders inside a shadow root, so the theme’s CSS cannot reach into it and it cannot reach out. It looks the same on every theme, and you set its colours in Eventnetic rather than fighting the theme for them.
Can I check people in at the door?
Yes, in the free plugin. The door list is searchable by name, code, email or phone, and you check somebody in by typing their code or scanning it with a keyboard-wedge barcode scanner. One code is one seat and it is accepted once. Pro adds the printable PDF ticket with a QR code for the scanner to read.
Does it do assigned seating?
On Pro. You draw the room once, with rows, tables, stands and standing areas, and reuse it for every event held there. Seats belong to the date rather than the event, so the same seat can be sold again next week. See seat maps .
Can I sell a class or a season that repeats?
On Pro. A repeating event keeps one page and one set of ticket types, while each date carries its own capacity, its own bookings and its own door list. See repeating dates and courses and passes .
Can I run online events?
The free plugin handles online and hybrid events: you paste the joining link and password, and they are released to ticket holders a set number of minutes before the start. Pro connects Zoom and creates the meeting or webinar for each date itself.
Do customers need a WordPress account?
No. Guest booking is on by default. Afterwards they find their booking with the code and the email address they used, on the page carrying [eventnetic_my_bookings] .
Is it translation ready?
Yes. Both the PHP and the admin application ship .pot files and load a text domain, and right-to-left languages are supported.
Does it send my data anywhere?
Not by itself. The plugin sends no analytics, no telemetry and no licence checks, and it does not call home. Two optional features contact a third party once you configure them; they are described under External services below.
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