Import Ticketmatic events to The Events Calendar

Importing Ticketmatic events into The Events 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 Ticketmatic. You will then import your events into the The Events 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 The Events Calendar

  1. Go to Plugins → Add new in the WordPress admin.
  2. Look for ‘the events calendar’.
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  3. Install and activate The Events Calendar plugin.

You now have a new Events menu-item in the WordPress admin:

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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 The Events Calendar tab.

  9. Tick the Enable The Events Calendar import checkbox:

    DashboardPostsMediaPagesCommentsAppearancePluginsJeero Edit import GeneralGeneral The Events CalendarThe Events Calendar Enable import Enable The Events Calendar import Save Changes
  10. Click on Save Changes.

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

Step 4 – Show your events on your website

The Events Calendar automatically adds a page to your website with an overview of all your events. The exact URL of this page can be found like this:

  1. Go to Events → Settings in the WordPress admin.
  2. Stay on the General tab and scroll down to the Events URL slug field.
  3. In the instruction below the field you can find the URL:
  4. Click on the link.

You now see a beautiful overview with events, including a datepicker, keyword search and different view options:

The list view of the default events page

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.

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Paid plans begin at € 30 per month or € 300 per year and allow you to sync up to 1.000 upcoming events.

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Conclusion

In this tutorial, you learned how to connect The Events 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 The Events 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.

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