Wordpress query + Advice on Plug ins

[PCLTD]

Hi everyone,


I have a couple of questions which I am hoping the members can help with in regards to a wordpress website.

A friend of mine is creating a new company based around raffles/competitions (I dont know the ins & outs), you will no doubt have seen them where the customer is required to answer a basic question, buy a ticket and is then entered in to a draw. If their number is randomly chose they win the price.

Basically he wanted to know if once the orders start coming in on Wordpress if he can export them to excel or similar and compile a list for entrees? For example:

Customer 1 - Ticket no XX
Customer 2 - Ticket no XXX

I know from my old site you can export orders but I believe its the whole order info and not just their name and a random entree number?

Also he wanted to know if there is any plug ins recommended which would work with this style site and company? the first thing which came to my mind was a ticket countdown (100 tickets sold out of 500 for example) so people can follow the amount and also a countdown timer until the draw?

Any advice appreciated as I will pass this on to him.

 

[fisicx]

Yes you can - if the data is saved in a way that can be exported.

Not sure you will find a plugin that does what you want. Selling tickets is one thing but adding a counter may well need some sort of custom code. The whole thing is simple enough to build - essentially is a simple form with a payment module. Save to the database and add a download function.

 

[Robbie Grieshaber]

Depending on the plugin offering some kind of CSV export, yes it is entirely possible.

In terms of plugins, you could achieve this with Gravity Forms and some associated add-ons (payment gateways, unique entry ID's etc.) but it will also require some custom coding for it to do exactly what you want on the front-end.

Alternatively, you could look at something like Tickera (although technically for event registrations, it could do the above).