Hi all. Our finance department has raised a good question. Our venues sell our programmes for us and deduct the commission and seller costs. Our programmes are set up as a performance and have price types for different concerts, each price type with a different GL code to correspond to the concert the programmes are sold for. We would like to put the commission and seller costs through Tessitura as a negative value against the programme sales to do the full reconciliation in Tessitura. Do any of you currently do this, and if so any suggestions would be welcome. Thank you very much!
I’ve never done this but I would imagine you could set up a negative amount as a fee that is rule based for these type of purchases. I would imagine you could set up multiple fees that automatically are part of the transaction as needed. After I sent this I tried it and you can't do a negative fee sadly. Insert sad face.
Granted, this is just me thinking this through via email but seems possible.
Christopher Cuhel
Senior Manager of Ticketing and Patron Services | Lyric Opera of Kansas City
From: Tessitura Finance Forum [mailto:forums-finance@tessituranetwork.com] On Behalf Of Michele Keutsch Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2015 3:28 PM To: Chris Cuhel Subject: Re: [Tessitura Finance Forum] Merchandise Sales Commission query
We don't do this but a quick thought would be that you can set up payment methods for the commission and seller costs and put each portion through each payment method.
Michele
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Hey Michelle,
You could use price maps / layers to do this and split the advertised price into many segments, and have each segment point to a different GL. Works well for commission, but this would only work if your staffing cost was done on a per program sold basis though.
Beau.