Import Ticketmatic events into Sugar Calendar

Importing Ticketmatic events into Sugar 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.

Ticketmatic is a popular ticketing solution for theaters in The Netherlands and Belgium.

Sugar Calendar is designed to be simple, light-weight, and provide just the major features you need for event management. Created by the makers of BuddyPress and Easy Digital Downloads.

This tutorial will show you how to connect your WordPress website to Ticketmatic. You will then import your events into the Sugar Calendar plugin. When finished, you will have a website that provides an always-updated overview of your events, including dates, prices and ticketing.

Prerequisites

  1. Check that your WordPress website is up and running.
  2. Ask Ticketmatic for your organisations public en secrets keys by sending an email to help@ticketmatic.com with the following text:

    Dear Ticketmatic,

    Please send me the public key and secret key for <account>. I need them to show our Ticketmatic events on our WordPress website using the Jeero plugin.

  3. Make sure that you have some events with active ticket sales in Ticketmatic.

Step 1 – Install Sugar Calendar

  1. Go to PluginsAdd new in the WordPress admin.
  2. Look for ‘sugar calendar’.
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  3. Install and activate Sugar Calendar plugin.

You now have a new Calendar 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 Ticketmatic in the Ticketing solution field:

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  3. Click on Save Changes.

  4. Enter your Account Name, Public Key and Secret Key.

  5. Click on Save Changes.

  6. Check the correct Saleschannels and Pricetypes in the corresponding fields.

  7. Click on Save Changes.

  8. Click on the Sugar Calendar tab.

  9. Tick the Enable Sugar Calendar import checkbox:

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  10. Click on Save Changes.

The sync is now active. Your events will be visible in Sugar Calendar within 5 minutes:

Step 4 – Show your events on your website

  1. Display a calendar on any page with the [sc_events_calendar] shortcode.
  2. View the archive of events at yoursite.com/events.

Step 5 – Choose the right plan

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

Is your organisation hosting more events?

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

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Conclusion

In this tutorial, you learned how to connect Sugar Calendar to Ticketmatic and have all of your events automatically published on your WordPress website. Jeero handles the synchronization between the two and saves you from manually copy-pasting all of the event details after each update.

Please check out the Getting Started Guide of Sugar Calendar 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.