I'm researching better ways to sell fundraising events online. Currently I have TNEW forms that we make due with but they are far from ideal. I'm using the TNEW giving forms because we want the money to end up on the contribution screen. We have events of all different sizes throughout the year. At a basic level, I need people to be able to select the number of tickets they want and for the form to know how much to charge for that. For larger events I need to be able to collect guest names, dietary restrictions, seating info, etc. My questions are:
1. Is anyone successfully using TNEW giving forms to sell events in a way that is patron friendly?
2. If you aren't using TNEW forms, what other vendors are you using?
Thanks!
This seems like a recurring question that I ask myself every year, there has to be a better way, but Tessitura really makes it difficult to sell Elevated Events. We've recently started using Donate2 and Flex2, which has been working much better for us for selling everything online. We're actually planning on using Flex2 to sell our big annual fundraising event. We'll set up some "dummy" events to sell tickets to for all of our different levels, and we can then limit the numbers of tickets available (so we don't accidentally oversell anything). We have it setup to put the money on account, our Box Office handles the actual seating for the performance, then they move the money over to an on account payment method I can access. I then apply that money towards the elevated event. It definitely involves a few extra steps, but for the way our event works it's going to be pretty slick. And it allows our Box Office to also sell these for us in person or over the phone.