Add-on Which event manger/calendar for my needs?

[smallwheels]

While not released as of yet, I am waiting on @Bob event addon.

So am I. For the time being I can (and have to) live with event manager and it's downsides. I had hoped that calendar could finally be a better solution but while it has advantages with recurring events and attendee export the rest seems as buggy as before. Not a good motivation to switch horses towards it.
Events Manager has in the meantime made a huge version jump to 2.3.5 - this latest version does include notification options for attendees (but only via notification or email, not via PM.
Better recurring events seem still to be missing as well as any option to export an attendee list. And it does only run on 2.3 plus I would have to renew my license to test it.

So curious and eager for an events solution by @Bob - from experience with his other add ons I do have the hope (if not even the assumption) that it will be way better than the competition in terms of bugs and annoyances. An I hope that it will fulfill my needs.

One issue is: It would be really helpful to have an importer to make it easy to switch over from other solutions (in my case event manager). W/o one a switch will be painful and a lot of work (and probably easiest at the end of a calendar year).

 

[Alpha1]

I'm using Calendar until the time comes that @Bob has the Event Management System ready. (which I expect will not be soon, but certainly worth the wait)
Calendar development over time has been very spotty and sometimes like trying to get blood from a stone. I might switch to @Veer 's Event Manager for the time being as that seems more extensive than Calendar and very regularly gets significant updates.

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[XenCustomize] Events Manager

Dec 19, 2023

Easily create & organize filterable events with multiple event types. Share photo, notes, locations.

• Veer
• calendar event notes event photos event planner events locations rsvp seminar venue xencustomize
• Add-ons [2.x]

 

[smallwheels]

Calendar development over time has been very spotty and sometimes like trying to get blood from a stone. I might switch to @Veer 's Event Manager for the time being as that seems more extensive than Calendar and very regularly gets significant updates.

These two are the ones I have been writing about / comparing in this thread. I bought calendar roughly a year ago but quickly ran into issues, so when very shortly after Event Manager was released I bought it and that's what I am using currently on my forum. Development and progress have been impressive, just that (as I wrote earlier) there are some elephants in the room for my needs, that are a big annoyance in practice.

Calendar got a boost with the recent updates, so I tested them but - again as written above - ran into massive issues again. So I'll stick with Event Manager, sadly being locked out from the more recent featureset an releases as long as I am stuck on XF2.2.