How to Install Tickera Plugin

For Bridge for WooCommerce to do its job, Tickera Core must be installed and active on the same WordPress site. Bridge isn’t a standalone ticketing plugin — it’s the bridge (literally) between Tickera’s events/tickets/attendees engine and WooCommerce’s cart/checkout/payments engine. Without Tickera, Bridge has nothing to bridge to; without Bridge, WooCommerce doesn’t know what a “ticket” is.

This page walks through what Tickera handles, what WooCommerce handles, why both are needed when you’re going the WooCommerce route, and how to install Tickera and run its Setup Wizard correctly so it cooperates with WooCommerce rather than fights it.

Tickera is required for Bridge for WooCommerce to work. Bridge cannot function with WooCommerce alone — it needs Tickera, because Tickera is responsible for:

• event creation,
• ticket generation (PDF/mobile),
• attendee management, and
• check-in.

WooCommerce handles the commerce side (products, checkout, payments). Tickera handles tickets and attendees.

Installing Tickera

The installation and activation process,  managing add-ons, and entering license keys is already covered in detail in the documentation page below (including a video tutorial):

Installing and managing Tickera plugin and add-ons

Tickera Setup Wizard

Once Tickera is activated, the Setup Wizard launches automatically. The first question is the most important one:

How do you plan to use Tickera?

• WooCommerce + Tickera (requires Bridge for WooCommerce)
• Tickera standalone (internal Tickera checkout)

If you select WooCommerce + Tickera, then:

Tickera does NOT create its own checkout/cart/order pages, because they won’t be used — WooCommerce will handle checkout.

Tickera pages when using WooCommerce

When used as a standalone, Tickera normally creates several WordPress pages (Cart, Payment page, Order details)

However, when Tickera is used together with WooCommerce via Bridge for WooCommerce Tickera pages are not needed and can be safely deleted.

WooCommerce provides:

• Cart page
• Checkout page
• Customer account area
• Order processing and payment handling

Tickera only needs WooCommerce to mark the order as processing or completed — then Tickera generates the tickets.

Why Bridge for WooCommerce cannot run without Tickera

Bridge for WooCommerce is not a standalone plugin. It doesn’t generate tickets by itself.

Bridge does:

• turn WooCommerce products into ticket types,
• handle attendee data collection at checkout,
• inject ticket information into WooCommerce emails.

But Bridge does not contain the ticketing engine.

Tickera Core does:

• event creation and handling
• ticket generation
• storing attendee records
• ticket scanning / check-in

As explained in the documentation here, Bridge for WooCommerce depends on Tickera Core being installed and active so if Tickera is missing, it will not function.

Related questions

• Installing and managing the Tickera plugin and add-ons
• Installing Bridge for WooCommerce
• Configuring WooCommerce settings
• Does Tickera require WooCommerce?