Event Registration Pro
Version
1.5.20 and 1.7.2 (last update on Dec 3, 2011)
Rating
Compatibility
Votes
Favoured
54
License
GPLv2 or later
Commercial
Type
Views
164268
Date Added
14 November 2007
Editor's Note
- This extension has additional addons listed in an extension specific category.
- This extension requires registration to download.
Features:
- Front End Event Management
- Easy to use and learn
- Create both Free and Paid events
- 100% customizable CSS
- Built-In Calendar View
- Multi Language Support and Joom!Fish Integration
- 30+ Payment Gateway Options To Choose From
- Customizable Email Notifications
- Full Reporting with CSV File Exporting
- Tons of parameters allow for easy customizations
- Upcoming Events Module
- Events Category Module
- Mini Calendar Module
- Google Events Map Module
- Custom Event Registration Form Builder with 11 form field types
- Private / Public events
- Custom Event Category Menu Views and Filters
- Discount / Promo Codes
- JomSocial and Community Builder Integration
- Free Updates
- Free Support
- Front End event management
- Event Meta Data and Keywords
- Free updates
- Individual or Group Registration
- Allow registrants to upload files
- Event Archive Manager
- Repeating events capabilities
- Multiple Event Registration with a single checkout
- Unlimited Form Fields
- Each event can have its own unique registration form
- Spam proof design...No hard to read Capchta images Needed!!!
- Registration Cut-off and Start Dates and Times
- Unique payment methods per event
- Calendar filtering by category
Optional customization services are available.
PLEASE SEE OUR WEBSITE FOR OUR MASSIVE FEATURE LIST. WE SIMPLY DO NOT HAVE ROOM TO POST THEM ALL ON THIS LISTING.
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Well i bought the RegistrationPro component a week or so ago and i am disappointed with it.For $119 i would have thought i was getting a slick looking product and interface, but instead it was clunky looking and I have found it to be limited in functionality. And for things i think should be working out of the box (radio buttons, checkboxes, section breaks in forms) they wanted to charge me more money to fix them. I couldnt even create a form that worked. I believe that the information they have on their website is misleading and so you can understand the frustration of spending all this money to find that in my opinion it is far from the description.
I bought this extension and love it!
I needed it to allow people to register for classes at my training center. After doing a lot of research I thought this one would work best. Turns out that It did. I looked at DT Register as well. It also seemed pretty good, but the fact that you had to have jevents installed didn't fit my business/website model.
I also found that this extension had a better ADMIN demo than DT Register. Which fit my business better. Although I have to say, even this extension's demo was a little confusing compared to other extension demo's that I have seen. Maybe because it doesn't look like the default joomla template. Not sure.
As far as installing, it worked like a charm. It comes with the offline payment option and paypal extension.
However if you want to use AUTHORIZE.NET you have to purchase it separately for $19.00 from a separate company and it requires ioncube loader to install. Because I utilize godaddy hosting installing ioncube was a bit of a challenge, but once i figured it our the install worked perfect. Just make sure you follow the directions that come with the plugin.
Although I was a little disappointed that there wasn't a forum for questions and such, this extension's support was unmatched by any other extension that I have ever bought and I have been using Joomla for over 2 years. The response time is extremely short. One ticket was answered within 15 minutes of submitting it. Not to mention it was on a weekend.
My only negatives about this extension is that the Authorize.net plugin is a 3rd party plugin from osdcs.com. I ran into a few small snags and osdcs.com has still not responded to my ticket. It has been 2 days. I wish that Event Registration pro would produce their own Authorize.net plugin.
The other negative is that even though the manual is quite extensive on configuration, it is a little light on basic usage. Things like payment plugins. "make sure you have your paypal info filled in the plugin or it will not show up on the front end." & "Sorting events on the backend so that you do not get duplicate categories on the front end."
I have never tried it with community builder yet. that is next. I will let everyone know if any problems arise.
Overall this extension is a 9 out of 10, and is totally worth the money. I had been screwing around with some free registration systems before finding this one. None of them work right out of the box. So basically I wasted a lot of time and energy when i could have just bought this one and had it up and running in no time.
Anyway that is my 2 cents. Hope it is helpful.
I needed it to allow people to register for classes at my training center. After doing a lot of research I thought this one would work best. Turns out that It did. I looked at DT Register as well. It also seemed pretty good, but the fact that you had to have jevents installed didn't fit my business/website model.
I also found that this extension had a better ADMIN demo than DT Register. Which fit my business better. Although I have to say, even this extension's demo was a little confusing compared to other extension demo's that I have seen. Maybe because it doesn't look like the default joomla template. Not sure.
As far as installing, it worked like a charm. It comes with the offline payment option and paypal extension.
However if you want to use AUTHORIZE.NET you have to purchase it separately for $19.00 from a separate company and it requires ioncube loader to install. Because I utilize godaddy hosting installing ioncube was a bit of a challenge, but once i figured it our the install worked perfect. Just make sure you follow the directions that come with the plugin.
Although I was a little disappointed that there wasn't a forum for questions and such, this extension's support was unmatched by any other extension that I have ever bought and I have been using Joomla for over 2 years. The response time is extremely short. One ticket was answered within 15 minutes of submitting it. Not to mention it was on a weekend.
My only negatives about this extension is that the Authorize.net plugin is a 3rd party plugin from osdcs.com. I ran into a few small snags and osdcs.com has still not responded to my ticket. It has been 2 days. I wish that Event Registration pro would produce their own Authorize.net plugin.
The other negative is that even though the manual is quite extensive on configuration, it is a little light on basic usage. Things like payment plugins. "make sure you have your paypal info filled in the plugin or it will not show up on the front end." & "Sorting events on the backend so that you do not get duplicate categories on the front end."
I have never tried it with community builder yet. that is next. I will let everyone know if any problems arise.
Overall this extension is a 9 out of 10, and is totally worth the money. I had been screwing around with some free registration systems before finding this one. None of them work right out of the box. So basically I wasted a lot of time and energy when i could have just bought this one and had it up and running in no time.
Anyway that is my 2 cents. Hope it is helpful.
This software integrated well with my Joomla 1.5 site. Most of the features advertised work. However, it is very limited in the ability to make a more robust registration form. I was limited to a simple how many people are going and then it list that many people for a registration. I have difficult time getting any other payment options to works besides PayPal. I am really sorry I purchased this software, because I went and purchased DT Register and it works so much more better than Registration Pro. Really disappointed with this program. Be absolutely sure this is what you want because there is NO REFUND once you purchase it. As far as emails are concerned he does reply quickly to emails, so if you want this software good chance he will respond.
We have reviewed just about every Joomla registration component out there because many of our clients have registration systems and Joomla sites. We have found Registration Pro to be the perfect fit for one of our client's needs. It was easy to configure, support via their support system on their website was fast and efficient. Our client found the interface easy to use and configure.
There's a bit of a learning curve for this component, but once you're over that, it all works fine. The "manual", such as it is, is not terribly thorough, but it's very important to read what they have and follow every step when you're first getting this set up.
Like all software, once you've fiddled around with it a while, you figure it out. The main thing is that it WORKS, is quite configurable, and does its job fairly elegantly. I tried a couple other components that do approximately the same thing, and this is the best of the bunch.
It's got a ways to go - some of the error capturing is not great (totally blank error messages, in some cases), and there are a handful of missing configuration options that I expect will get built into later versions. (For example, we're using this on a nonprofit website to register for low-cost seminars. I don't really want these folks to have to agree to Terms of Service - we're not in the business of covering our rear ends - but there doesn't seem to be any way to turn this off.)
But after all the heartburn we had getting something operational, I can say this was definitely worth the money.
Like all software, once you've fiddled around with it a while, you figure it out. The main thing is that it WORKS, is quite configurable, and does its job fairly elegantly. I tried a couple other components that do approximately the same thing, and this is the best of the bunch.
It's got a ways to go - some of the error capturing is not great (totally blank error messages, in some cases), and there are a handful of missing configuration options that I expect will get built into later versions. (For example, we're using this on a nonprofit website to register for low-cost seminars. I don't really want these folks to have to agree to Terms of Service - we're not in the business of covering our rear ends - but there doesn't seem to be any way to turn this off.)
But after all the heartburn we had getting something operational, I can say this was definitely worth the money.
The software is not bad. But unfortunately it isn´t good yet. So it is very difficult to write a review or to give a fair rating. I will write some details, please keep in mind, that there is no other extention that serves this kind of needs, so I am hoping that the developement continues and this Component will be the burner after the next updates.
First of all, the Features, they are great:
- Creating different Events with about all functionality that I could dream about.
- You can set up different "forms" to register, and each event can be connected to one form. But the forms can be used in different Events also. So there is no need to built up a new form for each event, but if one event "differs" to much you can simply create a new form and assign it to the event.
- The "Tickets" are great: Each Event can have different pricing-options, like "executive seating" and "normal seating", or to have "including lunch" or "excluding lunch". The registrant can choose the options while signing in.
- The categorys of events are nice. You can set up differnet categorys and they will be sorted togehter. Nice!
- Non-Users (guests) can sign in for an event. Or not, as you choose. Nice!
- Each event has it´s own confirmation-page. In the confirmation-page you can use the variables from the site before. Nice!
- Same with the eMails, you can sent confirmation-eMails to the registrants, you can freely built up a new one for each event. Nice!
- The module beside it, showing the "newest Events", nice.
There are many more features. I hope you see, my hope is on that component to get the basic stuff done also, because in that part it leaks in the moment. The limits are obvious:
- There is NO way to manage the registrants in the backend. You can´t change the name, the eMail, you can´t add a registrant manually in the backend, you can´t even correct a typo without directly changing it in the database.
- You only get a single Mail with "Firstname, Lastname registered to the Event XX" when somebody registeres. There is not other information in the Admin-eMail. When you go to the backend you can watch the list with all registrants but only the built-in fields (Firstname, Lastname, eMail), you cannot see other fields like "street adress" or "age" or whatever. The onliest way to get this informaition is ... the next point.
- Only the complete-registrants-list shows all data of a registrant. There you can´t change it, it is a simple html-popup with all registrants and theire data inside.
This leads into an absurd registration-process, if you for example like to write an Invoice. Each time a registrant signs in, you get the admin-eMail. Then you print out the complete participants-list (any other list hasn´t all needet data) and take the data from the one new registrant. You can imagine, when you are having an event with 100 participants, that sucks!
- The online-payment (paypal) is nice, but there is no way to let the user choose his way of payment. When you set paypal on, users ONLY can pay with paypal. When you set offline-payment, only offline-payment is possible. The one you choose in the backend will be the one and onliest, for all users, for all events.
- By not being able to insert a participant manualy there is no real way for me to start with that component. Í have some events where participants already registered, so where to switch to registration PRO? Import directly into the mysql-database? Uh ... I don´t feel save in doing that!
- The ticketing is a little weired. You remember the options "including lunch" or "Executive seating"? The weired thing is, that this are all AND-Options. So a user can choose all options togehter.
That would make sense, when this only would be "add-ons", but they aren´t. There is no "Basic-price" for the event, the price is only (!) saved in the tickets.
An Example:
When I put in "Normal Seating" for 100 Dollars and "Executive Seating" for 150 Dollars, then the user can check bouth of the options, the system charges 250 Dollars. But for what? He doesn´t need two seats of different categorys with just one name of the participant.
On the other hand let´s put in "LUnch" and "Dinner" als options. Lunch for 30 Dollars, Dinner for 25 Dollars. Now the user is still forced to choose at least one option and the event has no "basic price". So it doesn´t seem logical for me.
The solution would be simple: Just change the checkboxes to the OR-Option. If the user can Choose:
- Normal seating without Dinner for 100 Dollars
- Executive seating without Dinner for 150 Dollars
- Normal seating with Dinner for 125 Dollars
- Executive seating with Dinner for 175 Dollars
... this would make sense, when the registrant can choose ONLY ONE OPTION! Simple change, but IMHO very necessery!
- The module shows the "newest Events". Well ... for a new user who wants to see the events it makes more sense to have the Events sortet by "upcomming Events".
- The Events-Overwiew shows the maximum occupancy, but it doesn´t show how many free places are left. This is a really, really bad point. It makes much more sense for me to show the information like "Free places: 17 of 80". In fact, in this component it only says "maximum occupancy: 100". No information, if it is "nearly sold out" or "all free" at the moment. Uh ... it doesn´t make sense to me, because it would be so unbelivable easy to change that!
Hopfefully you see, the Component has the potential to get something really great, but there is definitely work needet at the base. Let me simply bring out a little wishlist:
- Changing the ticketing-option to "OR"-Options, so that a registrant can only choose one of the options.
- Putting the complete registration-data into the admin-mail, so whe have one mail for each single participant with all needet data in it.
- The module-option to show "upcomming events" instead of "new events".
- Showing "free places left" instead of "maximum occupancy" in the overview.
- Having some kind of "registrants-management" in the backend.
The first three points of the wishlist are easy and quick. The fourth I guess is a big one. For my opinion that points are definitely needet, in the moment I cannot really use the component in a productive system. However, I hope that the developement continues and will get more and more stable. I also think ... a little to weak for the price. Well, I don´t care too much about the price, but I would like a little more logic in a commercial license.
I contacted the coder also and the reactions where the following:
- Real Bugs where solved in 24 hours! Great! Well ... I did mention the "refund-policy", so there was a need for him to react on the real bugs. ;-)
- Most other things where answered with "We will work on that". No deadline, no more comments on that. Now I am courious what is going to happen in the next weeks.
I will keep you informed about any updates in the software. And I will delete any critical point in this review as soon as it is solved. Possibly this motivates the coder to check on some of them. ;-)
In the meanwhile I saw another Component named DT Register. From the first view it seems to me like not that complex, not that many features, but more stable in the basic-needs, half of the price (35$). I would prefear to have a good woring Registration-PRO, but I will also have a look at DT-Register and let´s see how it continues.
Best wishes, Julian!
First of all, the Features, they are great:
- Creating different Events with about all functionality that I could dream about.
- You can set up different "forms" to register, and each event can be connected to one form. But the forms can be used in different Events also. So there is no need to built up a new form for each event, but if one event "differs" to much you can simply create a new form and assign it to the event.
- The "Tickets" are great: Each Event can have different pricing-options, like "executive seating" and "normal seating", or to have "including lunch" or "excluding lunch". The registrant can choose the options while signing in.
- The categorys of events are nice. You can set up differnet categorys and they will be sorted togehter. Nice!
- Non-Users (guests) can sign in for an event. Or not, as you choose. Nice!
- Each event has it´s own confirmation-page. In the confirmation-page you can use the variables from the site before. Nice!
- Same with the eMails, you can sent confirmation-eMails to the registrants, you can freely built up a new one for each event. Nice!
- The module beside it, showing the "newest Events", nice.
There are many more features. I hope you see, my hope is on that component to get the basic stuff done also, because in that part it leaks in the moment. The limits are obvious:
- There is NO way to manage the registrants in the backend. You can´t change the name, the eMail, you can´t add a registrant manually in the backend, you can´t even correct a typo without directly changing it in the database.
- You only get a single Mail with "Firstname, Lastname registered to the Event XX" when somebody registeres. There is not other information in the Admin-eMail. When you go to the backend you can watch the list with all registrants but only the built-in fields (Firstname, Lastname, eMail), you cannot see other fields like "street adress" or "age" or whatever. The onliest way to get this informaition is ... the next point.
- Only the complete-registrants-list shows all data of a registrant. There you can´t change it, it is a simple html-popup with all registrants and theire data inside.
This leads into an absurd registration-process, if you for example like to write an Invoice. Each time a registrant signs in, you get the admin-eMail. Then you print out the complete participants-list (any other list hasn´t all needet data) and take the data from the one new registrant. You can imagine, when you are having an event with 100 participants, that sucks!
- The online-payment (paypal) is nice, but there is no way to let the user choose his way of payment. When you set paypal on, users ONLY can pay with paypal. When you set offline-payment, only offline-payment is possible. The one you choose in the backend will be the one and onliest, for all users, for all events.
- By not being able to insert a participant manualy there is no real way for me to start with that component. Í have some events where participants already registered, so where to switch to registration PRO? Import directly into the mysql-database? Uh ... I don´t feel save in doing that!
- The ticketing is a little weired. You remember the options "including lunch" or "Executive seating"? The weired thing is, that this are all AND-Options. So a user can choose all options togehter.
That would make sense, when this only would be "add-ons", but they aren´t. There is no "Basic-price" for the event, the price is only (!) saved in the tickets.
An Example:
When I put in "Normal Seating" for 100 Dollars and "Executive Seating" for 150 Dollars, then the user can check bouth of the options, the system charges 250 Dollars. But for what? He doesn´t need two seats of different categorys with just one name of the participant.
On the other hand let´s put in "LUnch" and "Dinner" als options. Lunch for 30 Dollars, Dinner for 25 Dollars. Now the user is still forced to choose at least one option and the event has no "basic price". So it doesn´t seem logical for me.
The solution would be simple: Just change the checkboxes to the OR-Option. If the user can Choose:
- Normal seating without Dinner for 100 Dollars
- Executive seating without Dinner for 150 Dollars
- Normal seating with Dinner for 125 Dollars
- Executive seating with Dinner for 175 Dollars
... this would make sense, when the registrant can choose ONLY ONE OPTION! Simple change, but IMHO very necessery!
- The module shows the "newest Events". Well ... for a new user who wants to see the events it makes more sense to have the Events sortet by "upcomming Events".
- The Events-Overwiew shows the maximum occupancy, but it doesn´t show how many free places are left. This is a really, really bad point. It makes much more sense for me to show the information like "Free places: 17 of 80". In fact, in this component it only says "maximum occupancy: 100". No information, if it is "nearly sold out" or "all free" at the moment. Uh ... it doesn´t make sense to me, because it would be so unbelivable easy to change that!
Hopfefully you see, the Component has the potential to get something really great, but there is definitely work needet at the base. Let me simply bring out a little wishlist:
- Changing the ticketing-option to "OR"-Options, so that a registrant can only choose one of the options.
- Putting the complete registration-data into the admin-mail, so whe have one mail for each single participant with all needet data in it.
- The module-option to show "upcomming events" instead of "new events".
- Showing "free places left" instead of "maximum occupancy" in the overview.
- Having some kind of "registrants-management" in the backend.
The first three points of the wishlist are easy and quick. The fourth I guess is a big one. For my opinion that points are definitely needet, in the moment I cannot really use the component in a productive system. However, I hope that the developement continues and will get more and more stable. I also think ... a little to weak for the price. Well, I don´t care too much about the price, but I would like a little more logic in a commercial license.
I contacted the coder also and the reactions where the following:
- Real Bugs where solved in 24 hours! Great! Well ... I did mention the "refund-policy", so there was a need for him to react on the real bugs. ;-)
- Most other things where answered with "We will work on that". No deadline, no more comments on that. Now I am courious what is going to happen in the next weeks.
I will keep you informed about any updates in the software. And I will delete any critical point in this review as soon as it is solved. Possibly this motivates the coder to check on some of them. ;-)
In the meanwhile I saw another Component named DT Register. From the first view it seems to me like not that complex, not that many features, but more stable in the basic-needs, half of the price (35$). I would prefear to have a good woring Registration-PRO, but I will also have a look at DT-Register and let´s see how it continues.
Best wishes, Julian!
I really wanted this to work having paid $119 USD (£60+) for it.
1. Contrary to what the Ad says, the CB field mapping is there but as far as I can see it does nothing!
2. They offer 'Event Management' but there's no way to access any information that's been entered in the custom fields at registration!! so if someone requests something special, you'll never know about it!
3. It says 'reporting capability' but there's only one report. Unfortunately, you can't get a simple list of ALL who booked as it shows no detail for those booked as a group.
4. The support is abysmal! I've sent email and submitted tickets. I'm just not getting the answers.
It's a shame because on comparison, this is pretty bug free stuff. I got it talking to Paypal sandbox and live in no time.
Guess I'll have to hack in and MAKE it do what I want!
1. Contrary to what the Ad says, the CB field mapping is there but as far as I can see it does nothing!
2. They offer 'Event Management' but there's no way to access any information that's been entered in the custom fields at registration!! so if someone requests something special, you'll never know about it!
3. It says 'reporting capability' but there's only one report. Unfortunately, you can't get a simple list of ALL who booked as it shows no detail for those booked as a group.
4. The support is abysmal! I've sent email and submitted tickets. I'm just not getting the answers.
It's a shame because on comparison, this is pretty bug free stuff. I got it talking to Paypal sandbox and live in no time.
Guess I'll have to hack in and MAKE it do what I want!
Owner's reply
Community Builder field population integration is now working since version 2.5
I liked this component because it had all the features I had been waiting for in a Registration component, however I am disappointed that the Community Builder integration does not work as advertised. I have contacted the developers about this but still no response. I believe that if I have to pay for a component (over $100) it needs to work as advertised. The part about integrating with CB needs to be taken off the site until it actually exists otherwise that is known as "false advertising".
Owner's reply
Community Builder field population integration is now working since version 2.5
I used this component in the first version and I was impressed, but this version wipes the floor with it.
It melds well with templates, integrates seamlessly with paypal and has worked amazing well for a really difficult implementation that we were working on.
The guys at the showroom are really helpful and supportive - and have bent over backwards on this and other products to help and build in required features.
I've tried other event driven things, but this is just great for our requirements.
It melds well with templates, integrates seamlessly with paypal and has worked amazing well for a really difficult implementation that we were working on.
The guys at the showroom are really helpful and supportive - and have bent over backwards on this and other products to help and build in required features.
I've tried other event driven things, but this is just great for our requirements.
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