We are looking to refine how we track tickets that are underwritten by foundations, corporations, etc for students to attend public performances (non-student matinees) and I wondered how others are handling this situation.
We are currently using a generic comp code. Since we are unable to distinguish staff comps from these underwritten comps, we are considering creating a new Education comp code that will have a $0 value. I think that fixes the tracking issue, but we are left with the concern that these "comp" tickets will affect the overall average ticket price for productions which affects what we pay in royalties, report in sales, etc.
What are you guys doing? Is anyone doing any kind of transfer from contributed to ticketed income?
Thanks,
Keri
We used to track these expenses as a cost. We did not want to pay for the tickets directly using the contribution, because we wanted the contribution to show in the Contributions module.
I believe the Metropolitan Opera worked out something in this area when Agnes Varis sponsored a rush ticket program.
Met, any comment?
Lucie
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Lucie Spieler
IT Development and Training Manager FLORIDA GRAND opera
Thanks, Lucie.
When you say you tracked them as a cost, can you tell me if this was something you did in Tess, or just on the Finance end of reporting?
Thanks again!
-Keri