Installing Bridge for WooCommerce

Installing Bridge for WooCommerce

What Bridge for WooCommerce actually does

Bridge for WooCommerce connects two worlds: Tickera’s event ticketing system and WooCommerce’s powerful e-commerce engine. Once you install and activate it, all your Tickera ticket types will behave like regular WooCommerce products, meaning you get to use WooCommerce’s checkout, payments, coupons, and taxes - while Tickera continues to handle ticket generation, attendee data, and check-ins.

In short, it’s the best of both systems working together.

Before you install

Before diving in, make sure you have everything ready:

• WooCommerce installed and activated (latest version is recommended).
• Tickera installed and set up on your site.
• An active license for Bridge for WooCommerce (or Bundle / Lifetime license).
• WordPress admin access (so you can upload and activate plugins).

Installation

Installing Bridge for WooCommerce is no different than installing any other WordPress plugin.

1. Download the plugin from your Tickera account.
2. In your WordPress dashboard, go to Plugins -> Add New -> Upload Plugin.
3. Upload the ZIP file, click Install Now, and once it finishes, hit Activate.
4. After activation, you will be prompted to enter your license key. However, if you are holding Bundle or Lifetime license and you have already installed Tickera and used your license key to activate it, license activation for Bridge for WooCommerce should happen automatically.

That’s all there is to it.

Switching from standalone mode? Read this first!

If you’ve already been using Tickera in standalone mode (without Bridge for WooCommerce) and decide to switch mid-sale - stop for a second.
Once you switch to bridge mode, tickets sold while running standalone will become inaccessible.

So, what should you do instead?

• Finish your ongoing event using standalone mode.
• When starting your next event, activate Bridge for WooCommerce and use it from the very beginning.

That way, all new tickets will be tied to WooCommerce products, and your old ones will remain valid and accessible in the previous setup.

Consider this your friendly warning: switching halfway through ticket sales will only cause unnecessary headaches.

What changes after activation

Once Bridge for WooCommerce is active, here’s what you’ll notice:

• The Ticket Types section in Tickera will disappear, since ticket types are now WooCommerce products.
• The Payment Gateways tab in Tickera settings will no longer be used - WooCommerce handles all payment processing.
• Discounts, taxes, coupons, and stock limits now follow WooCommerce’s logic.
• Tickera will continue to handle what it does best - ticket generation, attendee management, and check-ins.

If everything’s working correctly, you should be able to create a new ticket type as a WooCommerce product, and run through checkout as if buying any other product.

Quick test

Before rolling it out for real events, run a quick test:

1. Create a new event and a ticket type as WooCommerce product.
2. Add it to the cart, go through checkout, and complete a test order.
3. Make sure a ticket is delivered and can be checked in using Checkinera.

If all of that works smoothly, you’re good to go.

Wrapping it up

Bridge for WooCommerce is what brings WooCommerce’s checkout power and Tickera’s ticketing system under one roof. Once it’s set up, you’ll be selling event tickets through a familiar WooCommerce interface - and still managing check-ins, attendees, and ticket templates in Tickera like before.

Just remember: decide whether you’ll run standalone or bridge mode before ticket sales begin, and you’ll save yourself a world of trouble later.