Import BravoBase performances into WP Event Manager

Importing BravoBase performances into WP Event Manager is a breeze with Jeero. Instead of manually copying and pasting information, your website will always have up-to-date information, including dates, prices, and ticketing.

BravoBase delivers the most versatile, robust and affordable “CRM” exclusively for performing arts organizations.  Loved by over 200 theatre, music and dance organizations worldwide.

WP Event Manager is a lightweight, open source, scalable and full featured event management plugin for adding event listing functionality to your WordPress site.

This tutorial will show you how to connect your WordPress website to BravoBase. You will then import your performances into the WP Event Manager plugin. When finished, you will have a website that provides an always-updated overview of your performances, including full descriptions, featured images and prices.

Prerequisites

  1. Check that your WordPress website is up and running.

  2. Create an API Key using the BravoBase API → API Settings menu option in your BravoBase account. You can use the following settings:

  3. After clicking on Add User you see the screen with your API Key on it.

  4. Derive your BravoBase skin ID from the URL of your BravoBase website.

    If https://us.patronbase.com/_mytheatre/Productions is the URL of your BravoBase website, then ‘_mytheatre’ is your skin ID.

Step 1 – Install WP Event Manager

  1. Go to Plugins → Add new in the WordPress admin.
  2. Look for ‘wp event manager’.
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  3. Install and activate WP Event Manager plugin.

You now have a new Even Manager menu-item in the WordPress admin.

Step 2 – Install Jeero

  1. Go to Plugins → Add new in the WordPress admin.
  2. Look for ‘jeero’.
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  3. Install and activate the Jeero plugin.

Step 3 – Start the sync

  1. Go to Jeero in the WordPress admin.

  2. Select BravoBase in the Ticketing solution field:

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  3. Click on Save Changes.

  4. Enter your BravoBase API Key and skin ID:

  5. Click on Save Changes.

  6. Click on the WP Event Manager tab.

  7. Tick the Enable WP Event Manager import checkbox:

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  8. Click on Save Changes.

The sync is now active. Your performances will be visible in WP Event Manager within 5 minutes:

Step 4 – Show your events on your website

Create a page called “events” and inside place the [events] shortcode. This page will now list your events.

Clicking on the tickets link automatically leads visitors to the corresponding BravoBase ticketing page:

Step 5 – Choose the right plan

Jeero's free plan allows you to sync up to ten upcoming performances at any given time. Ideal for small organisations and testing purposes.

Is your organisation hosting more performances?

Paid plans begin at € 25 per month or € 240 per year and allow you to sync up to 500 upcoming performances.

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Conclusion

In this tutorial, you learned how to connect WP Event Manager to BravoBase and have all of your performances automatically published on your WordPress website. Jeero handles the synchronization between the two and saves you from manually copy-pasting all of the performance details after each update.

Please check out the Getting Started Guide of WP Event Manager to get an in-depth view of all the settings and features.

I hope you found this guide useful. If you require any additional information, please do not hesitate to contact me . I'm also curious if there are any ticketing or calendar plugins that I should include.