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WordPress Event Ticketing: No Commission, Browser Check-in

Events, ticket types, server-side oversell protection and browser-based check-in by scan, no WooCommerce required. AI writing assistant. One-time payment.

AIFORYA Event Tickets: Your WordPress Event Ticketing, Standalone and AI-Augmented

Create your events, sell and distribute your tickets, control entry on the day — all without relying on an external platform that takes a cut of every ticket. AIFORYA Event Tickets ships a 100% standalone ticketing core (ticket types, quotas, oversell protection, browser-based check-in, one-click refund), then adds a layer of AI assistants you drive with your own API key: writing your event pages, sales forecasting, complementary ticket ideas, and venue photo analysis. You keep full control of your data, your revenue and your costs thanks to the BYOK model — your key, no commission, no quota.

Technical specifications: Compatible with WordPress 6.0+, PHP 8.0+. WooCommerce optional (never required for the ticketing core). Multilingual and performance-optimised.

Sold individually for a one-time payment, unlimited AI usage via your own API key.

The Challenge: Running an Event Without Being Taxed or Locked In

Selling tickets for a webinar, a conference, a training workshop or a concert sounds simple — until you do the maths. SaaS platforms (Eventbrite, Weezevent, Billetweb) are powerful, but they charge a commission on every ticket (often 2 to 4% plus a fixed fee) and lock your attendee data on their servers. Across a season of events, that tithe adds up to hundreds of euros that fund neither your content nor your audience.

On the WordPress side, the alternatives raise other issues:

  • The WooCommerce Dependency: many ticketing extensions require WooCommerce as a prerequisite, even for a simple free event. You install, configure and maintain a whole e-commerce engine just to distribute registrations.
  • Flying Blind on the Day: attendee check-in is often done on paper or via a paid mobile app to install on every team member's phone.
  • The Writing Burden: an event page that converts takes copywriting time, and anticipating turnout too often comes down to intuition.

AIFORYA Event Tickets takes a different approach: a clean, standalone ticketing core — that works without WooCommerce and without commission — plus a layer of AI assistance that saves you time on writing and sheds light on your sales. You keep 100% of your revenue and 100% of your data.

Key Features

AIFORYA Event Tickets combines a solid ticketing foundation with a layer of AI assistants you control via your API key. Here is what the extension actually does, with no empty promises.

Events and Tickets (Standalone Core)

  • Description: Create your events (dates, venue, address, capacity, scheduled/cancelled status, online event) and attach as many ticket types as you need (name, price, quota, display order). Duplicate a full event — along with its ticket types — in one click to prepare the next edition. Free tickets are booked natively from the front end via shortcodes.
  • Concrete benefit: You set up a complete ticketing system without installing or maintaining an e-commerce engine. The core works without WooCommerce, and with no per-ticket commission whatsoever.
  • Collecting payment for paid tickets: The extension manages events, tickets and their quotas. For paid tickets, payment collection relies on your existing stack — you assign seats manually, or you link your event to WooCommerce and its gateways to take payment. Automatic ticket issuance following a WooCommerce payment is on our roadmap; it is not functional yet today. We would rather state that clearly than let it be assumed.

Browser-Based Check-in on the Day

  • Description: Each attendee receives a unique entry code. On the day, you control entry straight from the browser: scan the code via the native camera API (BarcodeDetector), with a fallback to search and manual entry of the code. The extension blocks duplicates and refuses a refunded ticket.
  • Concrete benefit: No mobile app to install on your team's phones, no dedicated hardware. Any phone or tablet with a recent browser becomes a checkpoint. On devices that don't support scanning, manual entry ensures graceful degradation.

Server-Side Oversell Protection

  • Description: Each ticket type's quota is enforced server-side: the count of remaining seats is recalculated continuously, and any booking beyond the quota is refused. No phantom seats, no double-selling.
  • Concrete benefit: You never end up with more attendees than seats. The safeguard is deterministic and reliable, not a mere display counter.

One-Click Refund (Data Preserved)

  • Description: A refund moves the attendee to refunded status, updates the count and immediately releases the seat for a new registrant. No data is destroyed: the history stays intact and auditable.
  • Concrete benefit: You handle cancellations cleanly, the seat goes back on sale automatically, and you keep full traceability of your sales.

Sales Forecasting (Deterministic, No AI)

  • Description: From your sales history, the extension computes a deterministic forecast: seven-day velocity, final projection, days remaining and risk level (fine, medium, high, nearly sold out). A daily cron keeps the forecast up to date.
  • Concrete benefit: You see a slow fill — or a nearly full room — coming, and you adjust your communication in time. The calculation is transparent and deterministic: it depends on no AI key and works right after installation.
  • Optional AI narration: If you wish, AI (via your key) turns these figures into two or three actionable sentences with a concrete recommendation. The forecast itself stays computed without AI.

AI Writing Assistant (Event Page)

  • Description: From the title, venue, date and a few notes, the AI writes a structured description of your event, a hook and a social media post. You validate, adjust, publish.
  • Concrete benefit: Writer's block disappears. In seconds you get a quality copy base, which you then refine in your own voice.
  • BYOK integration: Generation relies on your Anthropic API key (Anthropic) or another compatible provider, with no per-call surcharge imposed by AIFORYA.

Complementary Ticket Ideas by AI

  • Description: Based on your event and its existing tickets, the AI suggests high-margin complementary options (VIP ticket, after-party, goodies, parking…), each with a selling angle.
  • Concrete benefit: You increase average basket value by spotting relevant upsells you might not have considered.
  • BYOK integration: Suggestions are generated via your API key, contextualised on your actual event.

VenueVision — AI Venue Photo Analysis

  • Description: Send a photo of your room or space, and the vision AI offers a reading: capacity estimate (a range), layout suggestions and safety watch points (public-venue type). A clear disclaimer states it is decision support, never a regulatory opinion.
  • Concrete benefit: You get a first bearing on capacity and layout before you even visit or finalise a venue — a differentiator no mainstream WordPress ticketing plugin offers.
  • BYOK integration: Image analysis goes through your API key (compatible vision model), with no intermediary.

Attendees, CSV Export and Emails

  • Description: Find all your registrants in a centralised view. Export the full list in CSV format (BOM-UTF-8, Excel-compatible) with every useful column. On the communication side, the extension sends a confirmation email on booking, scheduled reminders (opt-in cron, within the ~24 h window before the event, with an anti-duplicate lock) and mass sends to attendees with customisable variables ({name}, {code}).
  • Concrete benefit: You keep full control of your audience, you smooth check-in with clear lists, and you communicate effectively — without relying on a third-party emailing service for the essentials.

Public Front End with Availability Badges

  • Description: Display your events via the [aiforya_event_list] and [aiforya_event_details] shortcodes. The front end shows availability in real time with clear badges: "N seats left", "Almost full", "Sold out".
  • Concrete benefit: You create honest urgency (the counters reflect real stock) and your visitors instantly see whether seats remain.

Dashboard, Transparent AI Costs and Encrypted Personal API Key

  • Description: The dashboard aggregates your key indicators: upcoming events, tickets sold, revenue, attendance rate and AI cost of the month per function, straight from your logging. Connect your key from three providers (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google), with a per-provider test button. Keys are encrypted at rest and masked on display.
  • Concrete benefit: You steer your events with figures, not impressions. And where SaaS platforms hide their margin, AIFORYA shows you to the cent what each AI function actually costs you — because that cost comes from your own provider billing.

Concrete Use Cases

For the Trainer / Organiser

Léa runs training workshops, some of them free to attract new clients. She creates her event, enables free tickets bookable directly on her site, and lets the AI writing assistant produce the page and a social post in seconds. On the day, she controls entry with her phone via browser scanning — with no app to install. For her paid workshops, she assigns seats from WooCommerce, already in place on her site. Zero commission taken, 100% of her registrants in her own database.

For the Digital Agency

An agency handles events for around fifteen clients (a 25-site licence). The deterministic sales forecast and the dashboard have become its reporting tools: each week, it spots the events whose fill rate is stalling and triggers a follow-up. VenueVision helps it quickly gauge the capacity of a venue proposed by a client from a single photo. A tangible, proactive deliverable, with no dependency on a platform that takes a cut — a solid retention argument.

For the WordPress Freelancer

Julie manages sites for clients who want to sell tickets without installing a whole e-commerce engine or handing a commission to a platform. AIFORYA Event Tickets gives her exactly the missing piece: standalone, clean, commission-free ticketing, with a modern browser-based check-in. For collecting payment on paid tickets, she relies on the stack already in place at the client's (manual assignment or WooCommerce link). Since the model is BYOK, each client pays directly for their own AI calls — a few euros a month — with no commission or quota.

Clear and Predictable Pricing

AIFORYA Event Tickets is sold on its own, for a one-time payment: no subscription, no automatic renewal, nothing to cancel. You choose between three licences — 1 site, 5 sites or 25 sites — and your purchase includes 12 months of updates. The price of each licence is shown in the purchase box on this page. And if the extension does not suit you, you have a 14-day money-back guarantee: a full refund, simply by writing to support@aiforya.fr. After those 12 months, the extension keeps working, including its AI features with your own key: only the updates stop.

Important note on the BYOK model: Your purchase covers the software licence and 12 months of updates. Your AI calls (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google) are billed separately and directly by the provider you choose, via your own API key. For standard usage (managing a few events per month), this cost is generally between €2 and €8 per month. AIFORYA applies NO margin on your AI consumption, nor any commission on your ticket sales. The dashboard shows you this cost to the cent, per function.

Frequently Asked Questions

General AIFORYA Questions

  1. How do I create my Anthropic (or OpenAI, Google) API key? The process takes less than 5 minutes. Create an account on the provider's platform, add a payment method, then generate a key in the "API Keys" section. Detailed step-by-step guides are available in the AIFORYA documentation.

  2. Is there a subscription to cancel? No. The extension is bought once, with no subscription and no automatic renewal: there is nothing to cancel. Your purchase includes 12 months of updates, and you have a 14-day money-back guarantee — a full refund, simply by writing to support@aiforya.fr.

  3. How does the BYOK (Bring Your Own Key) model work? You insert your own API key into the extension settings. AI calls are then made directly from your WordPress server to the provider, with your key. This guarantees full cost transparency and better privacy: your data never passes through AIFORYA's servers.

  4. What are the real AI costs? They are very low and depend on your volume. The extension only calls AI on one-off actions (page writing, forecast narration, ticket ideas, venue analysis). For most users, the monthly bill from the provider is between €2 and €8. And above all, you see it to the cent in the dashboard.

  5. Is my data stored by AIFORYA? No. All your data (events, attendees, statistics) stays on your WordPress server. AI calls are opt-in, and only the data needed for the requested function is sent to the AI provider via your key. No AIFORYA collection layer sits in between.

  6. Is the extension compatible with Elementor / Divi / Breakdance? Yes. The public display relies on shortcodes and page templates you can override in your child theme. The extension follows WordPress standards and stays independent of your page builder or theme.

  7. Is there a trial period? No. Free extensions are available on the "Free extensions" page, with no credit card required, and this extension comes with a 14-day money-back guarantee: a full refund on simple request to support@aiforya.fr.

  8. What happens if Anthropic or OpenAI changes its prices? That's an advantage of the BYOK model. If prices drop — which is common — you benefit immediately. If a provider becomes too expensive, you switch to another compatible one by simply changing your API key.

  9. Can I use the extension on multiple sites? Yes: the extension is available with a 1-site, 5-site or 25-site licence.

  10. How can I contact AIFORYA? By writing to support@aiforya.fr — including to request a refund within the 14-day guarantee period.

Questions Specific to AIFORYA Event Tickets

  1. How are ticket payments handled? AIFORYA Event Tickets manages events, tickets and their quotas. Free tickets are booked natively on your site. For paid tickets, payment collection relies on your existing stack: you assign seats manually, or you link your event to WooCommerce and its gateways (Stripe, PayPal…) to take payment. Automatic ticket issuance after a WooCommerce payment is on our roadmap; it is not functional yet today. We prefer to promise less and deliver for real.

  2. Do I need WooCommerce to use the extension? No. The ticketing core (events, ticket types, quotas, oversell protection, check-in, refund, forecast, CSV export, emails) is 100% standalone and works without WooCommerce. WooCommerce stays optional, only if you want to rely on its payment gateways to collect on paid tickets.

  3. How does check-in work on the day of the event? Each attendee receives a unique entry code. On the day, you control entry from any recent browser: scan the code via the camera (BarcodeDetector API), with a fallback to manual entry. Duplicates are blocked and a refunded ticket is refused. No mobile app to install.

  4. Are the AI functions really operational? Yes — and we only present what is. Fully wired today: the writing assistant (description, hook, social post), the complementary ticket ideas, the venue photo analysis (VenueVision) and the AI narration of the forecast. The sales forecast itself is deterministic: it depends on no AI key. We prefer to promise less and deliver for real.

  5. How does the AI analyse my event data (GDPR compliance)? The process is designed for privacy. Only the data needed for the requested function (for example the title and notes of an event for writing, a venue photo for VenueVision) is sent to the AI provider via your key. Calls are opt-in, data stays on your server, and purging is done on uninstall according to your setting.

The AIFORYA Commitments

Customer Sovereignty The BYOK model is a guarantee. You control your data, your costs and your dependencies. Zero commission on your ticket sales, zero captive attendee data: your revenue and your audience belong entirely to you.

Radical Transparency No hidden margins, no opaque credit systems, no per-ticket commission. The dashboard pushes this transparency to the cent: real AI cost per function. We announce what the product does today — not what it might do one day. Automatic ticket issuance after a WooCommerce payment is on our roadmap, and we say so clearly.

Service Continuity AIFORYA is built to last: it undertakes, should it permanently cease its activity, to publish the source code of its plugins under a free licence (MIT), so that you can keep using your extensions — a commitment written into its Terms of Sale (Article 11).

GDPR Compliance by Architecture Privacy is not a promise, it is built into the product's architecture. Opt-in AI calls, only the necessary data transmitted, no AIFORYA collection layer, data purge on uninstall: GDPR compliance is a prerequisite, not a checkbox.

Uncompromising Quality Software is a living product. AIFORYA is committed to providing regular updates for security, compatibility with the latest WordPress versions, and continuous feature enrichment — including the progressive activation of the native payment flow and new AI capabilities.

Launch Your Ticketing on Solid Ground

Stop choosing between a SaaS platform that taxes you and locks you in, and an extension that forces a whole e-commerce engine on you. AIFORYA Event Tickets brings together a standalone ticketing core, commission-free and without mandatory WooCommerce, a modern browser-based check-in, a deterministic sales forecast and AI assistants you drive in BYOK. All of it, with 100% of your revenue and your data in your hands.

It is bought once, with no subscription, and comes with a 14-day money-back guarantee; free extensions are also available, with no credit card required. Installation takes less than 5 minutes.