FooEvents stores each event as a WooCommerce product, every ticket as an order line, and every attendee as a separate post type with custom meta. The architectural choice is good for the rest of the WooCommerce machinery (refunds, customer records, gateways) but fragments the operational picture across the orders screen, the FooEvents Check-Ins page, and the attendee CPT.

Charts reads the attendee dataset and joins back the WooCommerce order and the event product so a single card can aggregate by event, ticket type, or check-in status. Total attendees, check-in distribution, attendees per event, and revenue over time become a dashboard inside WP Admin that door staff, finance, and customer support all open from the same plugin.

The check-in card writes from the same WooCommerceEventsStatus meta the FooEvents Check-Ins app uses, which means the numbers on the dashboard always match what staff scan at the door. Custom attendee fields from FooEvents Custom Attendee Fields promote into the dataset as dimensions, so the catering, t-shirt, and accessibility breakdowns come from existing data.

FooEvents made a sensible architectural choice when it built on WooCommerce: every ticket is an order line, every order is a real customer record, and refunds use the same machinery the rest of the store uses. The cost of that choice shows up on event day, when the operational picture is fragmented across WooCommerce orders, the FooEvents Check-Ins page, and the attendee post type. Door staff want a live check-in number; finance wants revenue per event and refund mix; support wants every ticket attached to a buyer email.

None of those rituals are unreasonable, and none of them require new data; they require the existing FooEvents and WooCommerce data to live on the same dashboard. Charts treats attendees as the primary dataset and joins back the WooCommerce order and event product so cards read across both stores in a single render. The dashboard becomes the rituals of each role, and the team spends event day talking to attendees instead of clicking between admin tabs.