Gravity Forms Entries Inventory Management

Ever needed to limit the number of entries in a Gravity Form? Like, for booking a given number of places in one shot/submission or buying 3 tickets for an event, etc.

Here’s an example:

• I have a 10 places event
• Someone comes to the website and buys 3 tickets (in 1 submission)
• Another one buys 6 tickets
• And the last person buys 1 ticket (the last one)
• The form automatically closes

I wrote a small WordPress plugin that does just that:

• takes an input field, let’s call it number of places
• sums all the values from all form entries from the number of places field
• if the sum of number of places equals the total number of available places, the the form stops taking more entries.

To use this plugin you have to:

• Install the plugin from here https://wordpress.org/plugins/gravity-forms-entries-inventory-management/
• Create a new Gravity Form
• Add a new input field on the form
• Go to the Field Appearance tab and add ‘gfinventory’ (without single quotes) to the Custom Css Class field. Save the form.

• Go to Form Settings (NOT Global Gravity Form Settings) and
  • Check “Enable entry limit”
  • Set your limit for this form in “Number of Entries” field
  • Set yor message in “Entry Limit Reached Message” field
  • Save settings

As a bonus, the plugin will also check if the current input value in a form is not greater than the remaining number of places:

Enjoy.