JCal Pro

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Introduction

Events Calendars, Date Calendars, Calendars & Events, Events

Almost every organization's web site can benefit from an events calendar. For Joomla web sites, the obvious and most popular choice is JCal Pro.

JCal Pro offers simplicity, flexibility, a robust feature set and gorgeous templates to fit almost any color scheme. From private and community calendars, to event moderation and integration with popular extensions such as JomSocial and Community Builder, JCal Pro is sure to fit your calendar needs.

Event locations

JCal Pro has a powerful system for managing locations for your events. Each location can have a wide range of details, plus Google Maps support.

Your events look great

Your event details will look attractive to your visitors, thanks to a stylish, responsive display.

Display your Joomla events in a weekly view

In addition to the full Joomla calendar display, JCal Pro also enables you to show your events in a weekly list.

Easily manage Joomla events

You can can create and edit events from the front of your site and the admin area. JCal Pro also allows you to quickly create repeating events.

Customize the email notifications

You can edit the emails that your users or administrators get after specific events, such as registering for an event, creating an event, and more.

Accept Joomla event registrations

You can take registrations for your events. Visitors register via the front of your site, and you can manage events from the admin area.

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JCal Pro 3 for Joomla 2.5 is buggy

Roland Dietz (2).
Posted on 18 April 2012

I used JCal Pro since years for a magazine website with about 750 events each month. Older entries got deleted, so I had about 3.000 entries in the database without any problem. It had all the functions I needed and handling was very easy. I was really happy with JCal, because it's was serving an important part of the website.

Since the Update to JCal3 things changed. The script stops after the maximum execution time, 120 seconds in this case, with 1.300 events imported. The latest version is incredible slow, and that's not the only bug.

Support is gentle but not helpful in any way. After 8 weeks I decided to change and use another component.

If you could try this component without paying the fee it would be ok, but I think you should be warned before you waste your money.

Owner's reply: Hello and i'm sorry the product was not right for you.

In fact, we have recently rolled out a massive performance update. This is currently working very smoothly on http://events.joomla.org/

I hope you will give the latest version a try and see if it works for you.

Regards,

Victor Drover
Anything Digital

The best Joomla calendar I could find

john brandt (4).
Posted on 01 March 2012

I tried a couple and I've also developed sites with Drupal and WordPress. I have been very pleased with jCal Pro and have used it successfully on a couple of sites. I'm anticipate upgrading to Joomla 2.5 soon and will definitely be purchasing the upgrade.

Owner's reply: The upgrade is definitely worth it, and we've just launched a great new feature: Locations!

Great Calendar

Lucy Thomas (1).
Posted on 20 December 2011

I have been using JCal pro for a few years now and it easily does what we want it to do!

Would be great to see some registration plugins, or a bit more integration into other Joomla components though :)

Owner's reply: We are working hard on that in the Joomla 1.7 version. For Joomla 1.5, try RSVP that we sell, it integrates with JCal Pro.

good

jaegertaneka9 (1).
Posted on 25 October 2011

definitely good tool. didnt have any issues with it so far, but i really wish the design was a little better, and had more options with that

Owner's reply: Thanks for the review. We also have premium themes that really look sharp. Hope that helps: anything-digital.com/jcal-pro/premium-themes.html

A pro extension two versions behind?

Manfred Lemke (1).
Posted on 05 August 2011

I have got to know and to like JCal pro for quite some years now. Whereas I never really liked the design of the calendar, I always appreciated its functionalitiy. It is somewhat like those cars that are reliable but not necessarily nice to see.

I have been a paying subscriber for two terms, which I believed would ensure me staying up-to-date with all I needed.

Now, version 1.7 is out and I NEED to upgrade our website asap - there are now so many functionalities available we have been waiting for. But I seem to have to postpone that launch because my "commercial" extension is not up to date (whereas many of the non-commercial ones we are using indeed are)...

As the calendar is an important element of our web site, we cannot really run it without. That was, as I told before the reason for my my buying something called PRO, in order to be sure.

But then: PRO is not a protected word, anyone can use it. Being two verions behind is, however, not pro, sorry.

Owner's reply: Thanks for your comments. We are working on a complete re-write an expect JCal 3 for Joomla 1.7 out this Fall. It will be worth the wait.

Dissapointed

Joseph Westbrook (2).
Posted on 08 July 2011

I installed JCalPro and had two issues. I was getting lots of 404 errors reported from my SEF manager and Google, also my sitemap would blow up from 27 pages to over 19,000 even though I excluded the components directory. I tried to resolve both of these problems in their support forum without any luch. The help was subpar for paying $70 as the responses we few and far between. I just removed the calendar and hope it's easy to get my money back to try to find another calendar. Hopeful

Owner's reply: Hi there. Just wanted to write a quick note and confirm that your refund was processed as requested on July 14.

I'm sorry JCal Pro didn't suit your needs. We were unable to reproduce the error you were experiencing, making a solution very difficult to find.

Thanks again for you interest in our products.

Great Component!

kyle faber (2).
Posted on 20 January 2011

I've used this component many times for various clients of ours, and it's always worked out pretty well.

- Comprehensive administration

- Nice layouts [and relatively easy to customize also]

- Good selection of modules

I will say that for those who are submitting complaints about bugs that are actually feature requests, I would not pay heed to their comments, statements, or ignorance.

The point is, you paid for something that has features at that given time. Just because something doesn't have one particular, and in some cases, very small item [such as a "Location" field - have you thought about putting the location in the description field???], that does not mean that their product is not functioning correctly, or is buggy [same difference]. That just means that you should:

1. Request the feature

2. Get support for the feature or offer to hire them to mod their component to your needs

3. Do it yourself if it's so easy to add to the component

Overall, great functioning component, and I would recommend time and again to others looking for a comprehensive, Joomla! based calendar.

Cheers

JCal Pro

Tio Lions (3).
Posted on 19 January 2011

JCal Pro has become an important part of our district's school website. After some "get to know you" time, it's been a real pleasure to work with. The aesthetic appeal fit in nicely with our site and the functionality has proven very effective. It's really easy to use and any problems I've had in configuring, anything-digital's support/forums have gotten me through it.

I highly recommend this extension as the best event management tool out there. Thanks for the great tool!

Excellent tool with good support

Mike Dyke (1).
Posted on 30 December 2010

I needed a calendar tool for a site with multiple calendars. Installation was a snap and it did what was advertised. I had a question and the support team answered in a prompt and efficient manner. I'll use JCal Pro again in any other projects that need calendar support.

No Location Field

Chris Gregg (1).
Posted on 10 December 2010

I purchased this calendar because it looked the best of all the demos I tried and fits in nicely with the layout of my site as it is CSS based. I have only one problem with this extension however it is a major issue - there is no Location field and this is an issue which has been reported on their support forums for several years and never implemented - most of the questions relating to this have been ignored on the forum (e.g. http://dev.anything-digital.com/Forum/Feature-Requests/2855-HOW-to-add-new-fields-/) and the most recent response I could find from the developers (which was way down the search results) said that there are no plans to release any updates until the next version which will be for Joomla 1.6.

Considering this is such a simple thing to fix - (seriously - how hard can it be to add a text field to a database???) it is amazing that this has never been corrected, especially as this is a commercial extension.

Until this is resolved I am unable to use this on my site and have wasted my money.

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JCal Pro

Version:: 5.0.27
Developer:: Joomlashack
Last updated:: Jun 25 2025
5 days ago
Date added:: Nov 23 2006
License:: GPLv2 or later
Type:: Paid download
Includes:: c m p
Compatibility:: J3 J4 J5 (b/c plugin)

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JCal Pro

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Event locations

Your events look great

Display your Joomla events in a weekly view

Easily manage Joomla events

Customize the email notifications

Accept Joomla event registrations

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