I'm curious what other organizations are doing when it comes to processing payments for a lunch/dinner to an event.
When we process our Gala Tickets/Auction items I process that in a Development batch, that makes complete sense.
What I'm trying to figure out is what to do, for example: payments for the lunch at our Annual Meeting. It is not a donation so I have a hard time wanting to process that in Development batch - it should not be on the Contributions tab.
Are other people processing the payment in a Ticketing batch and tracking who is going through History/Activities? If so, what did you need to do to set that up? What types of reports do you use to track?
Thanks for any thoughts ahead of time!
Why don't you want it on the contributions tab? We process all of our elevated events on the contributions tab - it is easy enough to see that it isn't a "donation" by the fund being "Annual Meeting Admission" (vs. Annual Meeting Giving, say) and the Campaign being "Annual Meeting Luncheon". Then you can use the Elevated Events module for all your seating, reporting, etc. without going through extra steps. Sorry if I am misunderstanding your question...