We are about to start processing our Corporate Partnerships fully through Tessitura, we already process individual memberships through the system but have shyed away from Corporates for a few reasons. At the moment all we are processing for Corporates is their ticket usage through ticketing and event attendance through activities.
Our Partners pay a sum of money for a year long membership which entitles them to various benefits including events, a set number of tickets and access to an allocation of tickets for their staff to purchase.
Some Partners pay as a lump sum and some pledge and pay in installments, I know that this can be tracked in Tessitura but the way that we account for the money in our budgets is a bit different. We allocate a monthly income to development from the Partnership regardless of when it is banked ie, a partner joins in January and pays the full membership of £5,000 as a lump sum, the development budget is credited with £416.67 each month of the membership which means that the income for Development budgets falls in separate financial years. Does anyone else follow the same accounting practice and have any suggestions of how to deal with this.
A separate issue we have is how to track the tickets being used by the staff of Corporate Partners so that we can easily report back to our partners. At the moment we are processing them all under the main record for the Partner and tracking the person using them in order notes. This is not fool proof! I would be really grateful for any information on how other people are dealing with this - is it possible to process tickets under the staff records, associate those records with the main corporate records and report on all tickets purchased by associated records? If so is this standard report that I am missing?
Thank you for any help you can give me
Katherine :-)