Hi,
Next season, instead of having one big benefit event, we are choosing to have several (4-5) post-concert receptions with the artist in addition to one bigger evening (seated dinner) where all the income will be counted as benefit income. I'm starting to think about how to set this up and track in Tessitura. I first went to Elevated Events and my rationale was to set up each event separately, but I'm running into the problem of not being able to associate the same fund in each of those campaigns at the same time. I also thought about tracking the receptions in the History/Activites section but since we are taking in money I don't know if that's the right place to do it. Is it possible to set up one elevated event for all of the post-show receptions, and if so, how easy or how difficult is it to track responses to each event?
I'm curious to see if anyone else has done anything similar and would appreciate any input.
Thanks!
I actually did something very similar to this when I was holding a series of receptions over one month. My personal opinion is that Elevated Events are the best area to track payments, attendees, etc for any event. I don't like the report options for Activites because they just don't give enough info. I ended up creating one event and then just tracking which evening they were attending by entering the date in the "Notes" field within the Attendees option in the Elevated Event. This only worked for me because I had around 20 guests coming to each event so it was easy to track.