Ticket Hawker

Ticket Hawker is a WordPress plugin designed to enable event organizers to sell tickets directly from their WordPress sites. By providing a single Gutenberg block, the plugin allows users to add event ticket sales functionality to any post or page without relying on shortcodes, page builders, or third-party ticketing platforms. This approach gives organizers more control over their ticket sales and eliminates external service fees.

The plugin's features include the ability to configure event details such as ticket price, quantity, event dates, venue, and custom buyer fields directly within the block editor. On the frontend, the ticket form displays a live progress bar that shows remaining ticket availability, offering real-time feedback for potential buyers. Ticket Hawker integrates PayPal checkout, allowing buyers to complete their purchases through PayPal's payment flow. The plugin manages the entire transaction process, including order creation, payment capture, webhook verification, and booking confirmation, all without involving any external ticketing service.

For testing purposes, Ticket Hawker includes a pseudo gateway that simulates the complete booking flow without connecting to PayPal. This feature enables users to create real bookings with test data, ensuring that the ticketing process can be thoroughly tested before going live.

Ticket Hawker is aimed at event organizers who want to maintain control over their ticket sales and event management directly within their WordPress environment. It is delivered as a plugin for WordPress and leverages the Gutenberg editor for its core functionality.