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Event Manager matters only if the evidence supports a paid workflow around keeping booking availability and appointment flows working, not a list of isolated fixes. The current commercial thesis is: Booking failures directly cost appointments, staff time, and customer trust. The entry wedge is to check booking availability, notifications, payment handoff, and calendar sync before customers hit problems.

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Opportunity Summary

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Build a booking revenue assurance plugin for service businesses and booking-site builders: Booking failures directly cost appointments, staff time, and customer trust. The first wedge is to check booking availability, notifications, payment handoff, and calendar sync before customers hit problems.

The unmet need is not the individual complaint. It is the recurring business workflow: Booking failures directly cost appointments, staff time, and customer trust. Current stage: commercial plugin opportunity.

Competitors

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FT Calendar 100 installs · 2.9
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-97.8%momentum 75.9weakness 22/4pain/praise

Pain still appears around missing feature, support despite praise for easy, value.

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VS Event List 8.0K installs · 4.9
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-97.3%momentum 52.7weakness 11/31pain/praise

Pain still appears around compatibility, support despite praise for easy, quality.

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Quick Event Manager 1.0K installs · 4.9
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-97.5%momentum 49.8weakness 19/30pain/praise

Pain still appears around support, missing feature despite praise for quality, support.

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Events by Devllo 10 installs · 5.0
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-93.8%momentum 34.4weakness 0/2pain/praise

Weakness evidence: stale update history.

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Evidence

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complaint Feedback and Suggestions

Feedback and Suggestions: users show bugs, compatibility, performance pain that may indicate a product gap.

BP Event Manager · Support for private and hidden groups. mixed Cannot edit event details

Cannot edit event details: users show security, bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

CP Multi View Events Calendar · Cannot edit event details Dear support, after upgrade to Version 1.4.07 clicking “Edit details” in the calendar popup does nothing (no pop-up) and we can’t longer edit an existing calendar event. mixed Cannot add events as user

Cannot add events as user: users show security, bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

CP Multi View Events Calendar · Logged in as admin this error does not occur. mixed Registration Button and Countdown not working

Registration Button and Countdown not working: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Event Monster – Event Manager, Ticket Booking & Registration · Registration Button and Countdown not working Hi there, I installed the plugin and created a new event. mixed We also cannot add events after plugin upgrade (1.4.10)

We also cannot add events after plugin upgrade (1.4.10): users show security, bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

CP Multi View Events Calendar · We also cannot add events after plugin upgrade (1.4.10) Our problem is similar to this one but with version 1.4.10 https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-add-events-after-plugin-upgrade/ When we try to add an event from a user with the role ‘member’ a small read box in the top of the calendar indicates processing of the request, but nothing happens. mixed Still supported?

Still supported?: users show security, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

FT Calendar · Still supported? complaint Event very slow to register if at all

Event very slow to register if at all: users show bugs, performance, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Quick Event Manager · Event very slow to register if at all We are a small volunteer run judo club with not a massive amount of web design skill and no money in the pot to pay someone so a few years ago we set up our own website, weve been running the events on it since lockdown but now they are extreamly slow to register if they do at all, can someone please help me sort this ou complaint I would not recommend this plugin to anyone who values their time and sanity.

A paid EventPrime user reports weeks of unresolved bugs, broken tickets and seats, fatal errors, poor support, and a refund policy that leaves them paying for unusable software.

EventPrime – Events Calendar, Bookings and Tickets · ticket prices randomly resetting, seat chart problems, events not saving correctly, fatal PHP errors after updates complaint Ticket Template Default

Event creators and customers miss ticket emails unless admins manually select a ticket template for every submitted event.

EventPrime – Events Calendar, Bookings and Tickets · customers will not receive tickets until you edit an event complaint Plugin causes recursive infinite loop that eats all memory

EventPrime caused an infinite permalink loop that consumed memory and CPU, broke the website, and cost the user money before a fix was released.

EventPrime – Events Calendar, Bookings and Tickets · it broke my website and cost me hundreds of dollars complaint Can’t duplicate an event

Can’t duplicate an event: users show bugs, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Quick Event Manager · Can’t duplicate an event Dupicating events has worked for a long time, now suddenly it creates an error. complaint PlugIn does not work and there is no customer service

The reviewer says core event scheduling features like start time and import do not work and that support ignored repeated requests.

EventPrime – Events Calendar, Bookings and Tickets · You cannot even set the start time complaint ‘You are not allowed to confirm booking’ error

Paid event bookings completed in PayPal but failed on return to the site, causing duplicate payments and refunds while events were imminent.

EventPrime – Events Calendar, Bookings and Tickets · This results in lots of duplicate payments as people try to put the payment through again question new entries "unsuccessful" after update

new entries "unsuccessful" after update: users show bugs, compatibility, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

FT Calendar · They no longer display at all, although I’ve been using this plugin for over a year with no issue. question Critical error message showing

Critical error message showing: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Event Monster – Event Manager, Ticket Booking & Registration · Critical error message showing When you go to this page and click on any of the orange registration boxes at bottom of page you get a “fatal error” and this happens for the upcoming events and past events. mixed Cannot Update PHP Version due to Deprecated Code

Cannot Update PHP Version due to Deprecated Code: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

CP Multi View Events Calendar · Cannot Update PHP Version due to Deprecated Code A friend, a web host/developer, was helping me with some updates. mixed Way to Display full Month name and add comma?

Way to Display full Month name and add comma?: users show bugs, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Quick Event Manager · I have chosen the display setting “Show as tiled (Pinterest type)”. complaint Future events marked as ended after update to 4.3.0.0 + 24-hour format issue

An EventPrime update marked future events as ended and hid Buy Tickets buttons, directly affecting ticket sales until the user rolled back.

EventPrime – Events Calendar, Bookings and Tickets · the “Buy Tickets” button is no longer visible on those events, which directly affects ticket sales mixed Booking Fields not displaying in Advanced Reports

Booking Fields not displaying in Advanced Reports: users show security, bugs, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

EventPrime – Events Calendar, Bookings and Tickets · We’ve implemented a number of checkout fields and need to assign a number of them as ‘booking fields’. complaint Critical Bug – Events cannot be published (always revert to Draft)

EventPrime prevented all new events from publishing on a production site until an update fixed the draft reversion bug.

EventPrime – Events Calendar, Bookings and Tickets · we are currently unable to publish any new events complaint Locations Search Not Working

A long-time My Calendar user with over 6,300 locations says location and event search are slow or nonfunctional and new locations cannot be found without database workarounds.

My Calendar – Accessible Event Manager · There are over 6300 locations. Since upgrading, no newly created location works. complaint Bookings Failing, Payments still landing in PayPal

EventPrime marked most bookings as failed even though PayPal payments went through, preventing confirmations until the vendor pointed to a fixed release.

EventPrime – Events Calendar, Bookings and Tickets · all except one of the bookings are showing as failed for the customers. However, the payments have ALL gone through complaint PRESALE QUESTION

PRESALE QUESTION: users show compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

WEBD Woo Event Bookings · Finally if I want payment, do you accept payment from woocommerce so I can use Paypal, Stripe but also Vivawalett? complaint Restoring events after Reinstalling (and Update-Fatal-Error)

After a My Calendar update caused a critical error and reinstall, custom event shortcode templates no longer rendered correctly on the frontend.

My Calendar – Accessible Event Manager · my website went down completely and showed a critical error complaint Updated plugin and events disappeared

Rolling back the event plugin deleted more than a hundred event entries because WP Rollback triggered the uninstall routine, later fixed by WP Rollback.

VS Event List · the update for some reason deleted all my events (well over a hundred of them) mixed Events not Publishing

A My Calendar update caused events to become invalid, disappear from the website, and trigger fatal error emails until a revised version fixed it.

My Calendar – Accessible Event Manager · now no one can publish events question PayPal Plus

PayPal Plus: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Event Monster – Event Manager, Ticket Booking & Registration · PayPal Plus Can this plugin accept payments by PayPal Plus? complaint Events are marked invalid and not displayed in calendar

After My Calendar 3.7.11, newly created events were marked invalid and did not appear in the calendar because of a quickly acknowledged update bug.

My Calendar – Accessible Event Manager · The most recent update broke something. complaint I’m not able to add an event anymore

A My Calendar user could no longer add events after a recent change, and the developer acknowledged a small bug that needed fixing.

My Calendar – Accessible Event Manager · I’m not able to add an event. Function worked until some days ago. neutral PHP fatal error caused by Event Monster after upgrading to PHP 8

PHP fatal error caused by Event Monster after upgrading to PHP 8: users show bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Event Monster – Event Manager, Ticket Booking & Registration · PHP fatal error caused by Event Monster after upgrading to PHP 8 Hello, After upgrading to PHP 8, my WP website is broken and the critical error: PHP Fatal error: Uncaught TypeError: Cannot access offset of type string on string in /wp-includes/l10n.php:686 Stack trace: #0 /www/mastrunderconstruction_842/public/wp-content/plugins/event-monster/class-tgm-plug praise i like plugin

i like plugin: users praise easy, value, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Sched Event Management Software · i like plugin A very good plugin saves you time and money and has an easy to understand and simple interface so I recommend this plugin. praise Easy and Intuitive

Easy and Intuitive: users praise easy, value, quality, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Sched Event Management Software · Easy and Intuitive This is by far the best plugin I have seen, the user interface is very intuitive and it is well designed. praise Support goes above & beyond

The reviewer praised support for helping resolve a site crash caused by server limits rather than the plugin itself.

EventPrime – Events Calendar, Bookings and Tickets · they went above and beyond to help me get everything sorted out complaint Plugin interfering with queries of other plugins

Plugin interfering with queries of other plugins: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Quick Event Manager · Hi @adrianlda , I’m sorry to hear that you are experiencing issues with the query results due to our plugin. complaint Registration for the event

Registration for the event: users show bugs, compatibility, performance pain that may indicate a product gap.

Quick Event Manager · 🙌 At the moment, we’re trying to make a few adjustments to the event registration process and have come across two challenges: “Not attending” option is not saved correctly We’d like to use the feature where participants can indicate in the form that they will not attend. complaint Show participants

Show participants: users show missing feature, pricing, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Quick Event Manager · Currently, Quick Event Manager only supports displaying the attendee list on the event page through the “Look who’s coming” feature, which can be enabled in Settings > Settings by ticking the attendee line option. mixed Could be excellent, but buggy

Could be excellent, but buggy: users show bugs, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

My Calendar – Accessible Event Manager · Could be excellent, but buggy The plugin is well-designed, easy to use. complaint featured image unaccessible

featured image unaccessible: users show bugs, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

BP Event Manager · featured image unaccessible Upon adding this plugin, I was no longer able to set a featured image on any pages. complaint some styling options for event list do not work

some styling options for event list do not work: users show compatibility, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Quick Event Manager · some styling options for event list do not work H Alan, sorry to bother you once more, but I try to reduce the margin between the items in the event list, and between the lines for one event. complaint How to display the Title on the single Event page?

How to display the Title on the single Event page?: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Quick Event Manager · This plugin is really great, but I can’t figure out why the title of the event is not displayed on the single event page.