Jantcu designed and built Riverwalk's new public website: http://riverwalknashua.com/. The site has automated workflows for creating shows and referencing artists that have previously been entered into the system, sending emails to over 1,000 subscribers with an aggregated list of upcoming events, and analytics that track the behavior of site visitors. Riverwalk is now able to sell tickets directly for upcoming musical acts in order to avoid high fees from third party ticketing services. The system also has automated workflows for tracking capacity and converting shows to “sold out” as well as time-based events for updating pricing and promoting door ticket sales.
Why Drupal was chosen
Drupal provided automated ways of performing site actions based on user events, which save Riverwalk significant admin overhead.
Technical Specifications
Drupal version:
Automatic Entity Label is used to simply the admin process for creating content
Calendar is used for an alternative display to find shows on a particular date
Commerce AutoSKU simplfies the process for creating paid events
Commerce Event Ticket is used to create a PDF with a unique bar code to validate individual ticket sales
Commerce Fees allows adding a handling fee to paid events
Commerce PayPal used PayPal as a payment provider for accepting online payments
Commerce Stock is used to ensure Riverwalk automatically stops ticket sales when they reach venue capacity
Conditional Fields simplifies webforms and allows features such as allowing both paid and free shows on the same content type
Conditional Rules necessary for advanced features within Rules actions such as checking entity types
Entity reference used to connect artists to shows which allows for a reusable format for creating things like band profiles
Entityform used to create a subscriber list that could be used with Rules and VBO to send automated emails with aggregated information about upcoming shows
Entityreference backreference necessary to access related commerce fields within Rules
