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Waiting List
This addon enables you to create a waiting form after selling out the tickets, so people can reserve one in case one of the attendees cancel their reservation. The people in the waiting list get transferred to the main list based on their reservation priority.
Key Features
Dedicated Form Builder
A dedicated form builder, able to be set on any event
Verification Feature
Automatic settings for the verification status
Dedicated Email
Emails with placeholders for verifying and confirming the reservation
Reports
You can send distinct notification email regarding the MEC report to waiting list members
Reservation Limit
Applying a limit on the reservation of the attendees
Confirmation Feature
Automatic settings for the confirmation
Selling-out
Automatic filling from the waiting list after any empty place shows up
Easy Management
You can easily manage the attendees in the waiting list, just like the bookings in MEC
Changelog
2.0.0 - 19 September 2026
- Added: Offer & Claim window — freed spots generate a time-limited offer with a tokenized claim link; unclaimed seats are recycled to the next in queue.
- Added: Queue Dashboard with KPI cards, outcome charts, top-pressure events and recent activity.
- Added: Front-end "My Waiting List" app so users can view and manage their waiting entries.
- Added: Race-free capacity allocator with database locks and accurate effective availability for MEC.
- Added: Explicit lifecycle state machine for waiting records with background backfill of legacy records.
- Added: Audit trail logging every state transition, allocation, email and admin action.
- Added: State-driven notification templates for offer allocation, offer expiry, allocation, cancellation and offer reminders.
- Added: Cron scheduler for capacity scans, offer expiry, reminders, lock cleanup and privacy retention.
- Added: Anti-spam validation layer with honeypot, IP/email rate limiting, duplicate detection and form schema validation.
- Added: Immutable submission snapshots preserving form and event context.
- Added: GDPR integration with WordPress privacy tools for personal data export and erasure.
- Improved: Modern React + Vite build pipeline with versioned assets.
- Improved: Admin waiting list panel redesigned.
- Fixed: Allocation issues when converting waiting list entries to bookings.
- Fixed: Offer expiry calculated in the wrong timezone.
- Fixed: Cancellation email not sent when an offer expired unclaimed.
- Fixed: Missing ticket icon and meta box width in the admin panel.
1.6.0 - 3 August 2026
- Fixed: Waiting List CSV export generated an Excel file with an incorrect .csv extension.
- Fixed: Missing fields and values display issue.
- Fixed: Security issues reported in the audit report.
- Fixed: Booking confirmation email was not sent after automatic Waiting List conversion for guest users.
1.5.0 - 21 December 2025
- Fixed: Verification email not sending for waiting list when Auto Verification is disabled.
- Fixed: Users not moving from the waiting list to the booking list after cancellations.
- Fixed: Auto Confirmation option not working for the waiting list.
- Fixed: Registration emails sent even when the registration option is disabled.
1.4.5 - 28 September 2025
- Fixed: Incorrect date shown when a waiting list entry is converted to a booking.
1.4.0 - 11 June 2025
- Fixed: Incorrect or missing values for custom fields in CSV/Excel export.
- Improved: Export file format updated from XLS to XLSX.
- Fixed: Multiple Waitlist boxes reacting together when clicking the Next button.
- Fixed: Waitlist bypassing login restrictions with Paid Memberships Pro integration.
- Fixed: Unwanted loading of assets despite Enable Assets Per Page being active.
- Fixed: Cancel link in notification email not triggering automatic cancellation.
1.3.3 - 24 December 2024
- Fixed: CSV/MS Excel Export
- Optimized: Loading styles and scripts
- Fixed: Some minor issues
1.3.2 - 4 April 2024
- Fixed: Display loading
- Fixed: Preparing some words for translation
- Fixed: Some minor issues
1.3.1 - 9 January 2023
- Fixed: User count in waiting list
1.3.0 - 15 August 2023
- Improved: Display waiting form
- Fixed: Waiting submission date and time
- Fixed: Send reminder
1.2.3 - 17 April 2023
- Fixed: Display total tickets
- Fixed: Display ticket price
- Fixed: Send reminder
1.2.2 - 13 February 2023
- Fixed: Some minor issues
1.2.1 - 13 November 2022
- Fixed: Some minor issues about booking
1.2.0 - 19 October 2022
- Fixed: Cancel booking
- Fixed: Issue with PHP v8.0
- Fixed: Display waiting list
1.1.9 - 9 July 2022
- Fixed: Radio button in waiting form
1.1.8 - 20 June 2022
- Compatibility: Send invoice to mailbox after converting waiting to booking (Ticket and Invoice addon)
1.1.7 - 12 June 2022
- Fixed: Increase total booking limit after sold out event.
1.1.6 - 30 May 2022
- Fixed: Waiting process in modal single page
1.1.5 - 16 May 2022
- Fixed: Send confirmation email
- Fixed: Add attendee via admin panel
- Fixed: Some minor issues
1.1.4 - 7 May 2022
- Fixed: fatal error & js error in waiting form
- Fixed: submit form
- Fixed: Some minor issues
1.1.3 - 5 April 2022
- Compatibility: Modern Events Calendar v6.5
- Fixed: Some minor issues
1.1.2 - 1 December 2021
- Fixed: Auto-update message
- Fixed: Wrong placeholder data on waiting list notification
- Fixed: Fatal error when MEC is deactivate
- Fixed: Settings tooltip
- Fixed: Some PHP warnings and notices
1.1.1 - 22 August 2021
- Updated: Translatable strings
- Fixed: License section issue
- Fixed: Booking emails after moving waiting list
1.1.0 - 22 February 2021
- Added: Accept waiting with booking rejected
- Added: Other waiting fields to exported file
- Fixed: Translatable strings
- Fixed: Some minor issues
1.0.5 - 2 January 2021
- Added: An option to disable waiting notification (email)
- Fixed: An issue on saving waitings list
- Fixed: Confirmation issue in special conditions
- Fixed: String issues
1.0.2 - 16 November 2020
- Fixed: Recurring events' waiting list
- Fixed: Language and string issues
1.0.1 - 23 September 2020
- Fixed: Language file
1.0.0 - 5 September 2020
- Initial Release.
