I need to set a system up to take bookings/payments for a weekly event and I am debating about which route to take. I should probably use an event package to set up the weekly events, set the number of spaces and price and press go, but another simple way of doing it would be to use an ecom package and make each date a product with x amount of 'stock'/spaces available. I am comfortable using either route. Where it becomes a bit more tricky is I will want to be able to set up recurring payments for the events, something that event & ecom can't really handle, so, do I look at a membership system as well or just manually handle them? Any thoughts appreciated. I haven't chosen the web platform and I am pretty open to anything!
You can do this using WordPress and many commercial event and subscription plugins available ex: https://woocommerce.com/products/woocommerce-subscriptions/
As above WooCommerce subscriptions plus a payment provider that offers recurring payments/tokenisation.