Import KinoTickets Online films to All-In-One Event Calendar

Importing KinoTickets Online films into All-In-One Event Calendar 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.

This tutorial will show you how to connect your WordPress website to KinoTickets Online. You will then import your films into the All-In-One Event Calendar plugin. When finished, you will have a website that provides an always-updated overview of your films, including full descriptions, images, start times and ticket prices.

Prerequisites

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

  2. Ask MARS EDV to setup the ‘Programm-XML-Export’ inside ProWin.

Step 1 – Install All-In-One Event Calendar

  1. Go to Plugins → Add new in the WordPress admin.
  2. Look for ‘all-in-one event calendar’.
  3. Install and activate All-In-One Event Calendar plugin.
  4. Go to Events and click on the Create a free account button. You can also use the Sign in link if you already have a Timely account.
  5. Follow the instructions and finish all steps to connect your Timely account.

You now have a new Events 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 KinoTickets Online in the Ticketing solution field:

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  3. Click on Save Changes.

  4. Enter the URL of your KinoTickets Online Programm-XML-Export file:

  5. Click on Save Changes.

  6. Click on the All-In-One Event Calendar tab.

  7. Tick the Enable All-In-One Event Calendar import checkbox:

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  8. Click on Save Changes.

The sync is now active. Your films will be visible in All-In-One Event Calendar within 5 minutes:

Step 4 – Show your events on your website

  1. Go to Events in the WordPress admin. Notice that newly imported events still have the ‘Draft’ status.
  2. Edit a draft event and click on the Publish button. Repeat this until all events are published.
  3. Go to Events → Settings.
  4. Go to the View events tab and click on the View “Calendar” link.

You are now on your new calendar page with a list of all you upcoming events:

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

Step 5 – Choose the right plan

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

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Conclusion

In this tutorial, you learned how to connect All-In-One Event Calendar to KinoTickets Online and have all of your films automatically published on your WordPress website. Jeero handles the synchronization between the two and saves you from manually copy-pasting all of the film details after each update.

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.

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