Import Veezi films into Modern Events Calendar

Jeero makes it very easy to import your Veezi films into Modern Events Calendar. No more copy-pasting but always up-to-date information on your website, including featured images, full descriptions, showtimes and prices.

Veezi  is a cloud-based, online cinema management solution used by hundreds of independent cinemas around the world.

Modern Events Calendar is a popular WordPress calendar plugin with a stylish and practical design.

In this guide, you will connect your WordPress website to Veezi. Next, you will sync your films with the Modern Events Calendar plugin. When completed, you will have a website for your theater with an always up-to-date overview of your films, including featured images, full descriptions, showtimes and prices.

Prerequisites

  1. Make sure you have a working WordPress website.

  2. Generate a Veezi API access token in Veezi Back Office.

Step 1 – Install Modern Events Calendar

  1. Ga in de WordPress Admin naar Plugins → Toevoegen.
  2. Zoek op ‘modern events calendar’.
  3. Installeer en activeer Modern Events Calendar plugin.

Je ziet nu een nieuw Events menu-item in de 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 Veezi in the Ticketing solution field:

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  3. Click on Save Changes.

  4. Enter you Veezi API access token:

  5. Click on Save Changes.

  6. Click on the Modern Events Calendar tab.

  7. Tick the Enable Modern Events Calendar import checkbox:

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  8. Click on Save Changes.

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

Step 4 – Show your events on your website

Clicking on the tickets link automatically leads visitors to the proper Veezi ticketing page:

Veezi ticketing page

Step 5 – Choose the right plan

The free plan for Jeero lets you sync up to 10 upcoming films at any given time. Perfect for small organisations and testing purposes.

Does your theater have more films?

Paid plans start at € 25/mo or € 240/yr. Please contact me for information about one of the paid plans.

Conclusion

In this tutorial you learned how to connect Modern Events Calendar to Veezi and automatically publish all your films on your WordPress website. Jeero takes care of the sync between the two and keeps you from manually copy-pasting all the film-details after every update.

I hope this guide was useful to you. If you need any more information, don't hesitate to contact me . I am also curious to know if there are any ticketing solutions or calendar plugins that I should add.