Pricing Rules: Pre-sale and virtual memberships

Thanks this helps and it does mean we need to change our member set up and you have certainly made our next discussion on pre-sales more interesting.

Hi Leslie,

Virtual constituencies considered by pricing rules are based solely on what’s in the cart. So if a constituent has a membership at a level with a constituency defined in the cart, then the pricing rule will treat the constituent as if he has that constituency; start dates on the membership record don’t come into play at that point. If a membership is not in the cart, there is no virtual constituency functionality. So if I buy a membership today, and then I come back tomorrow to buy a ticket, that membership I bought the day before has no effect on the pricing rule. If you want constituents who have pending memberships on their accounts to receive discounts from memberships, you’ll need the constituent criteria to consider something like a list of all constituents with a membership that starts next month (and then use the Generate a List utility to update the list contents nightly).

To your second question, because pricing rules only affect pricing, not MOS or access to performances, they can’t be used to manage presales. Automatic presale access is generally managed by ranking based MOS shifts: http://www.tessituranetwork.com/Help_System_v125/Content/Tessitura_and_the_Web/Rank%20Based%20Mode%20of%20Sale%20Shifts.htm

Kevin Sheehan

Senior Technical Writer & Consultant

Tessitura Network

+1 888 643 5778 x 329

ksheehan@tessituranetwork.com

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Subject: [Tessitura Technical Forum] Pricing Rules: Pre-sale and virtual memberships

We trying to work through the steps and changes that may be needed to use the new Pricing Rules and  two questions within Development seem to take us in circles

1) Virtual memberships -- memberships start the first of the next month so a person becoming a new member would be given a constituency that begins the first of the next month (true too for upgrades when constituencies change).  

The rules says the constituency must be active  -- based on the above the virtual membership will not work since membership/constituency will not be active until the next month.

TRUE or FALSE?

2)  Pre-sales  -- rather than discounts we tend to do more pre-sale for members.   Since by definition prior to public sales -- it is possible to set a pricing rule that allows members to login and buy ahead of public sales.   

TRUE or FALSE?

Thanks for settling these debates!

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Thanks this helps and it does mean we need to change our member set up and you have certainly made our next discussion on pre-sales more interesting.

Hi Leslie,

Virtual constituencies considered by pricing rules are based solely on what’s in the cart. So if a constituent has a membership at a level with a constituency defined in the cart, then the pricing rule will treat the constituent as if he has that constituency; start dates on the membership record don’t come into play at that point. If a membership is not in the cart, there is no virtual constituency functionality. So if I buy a membership today, and then I come back tomorrow to buy a ticket, that membership I bought the day before has no effect on the pricing rule. If you want constituents who have pending memberships on their accounts to receive discounts from memberships, you’ll need the constituent criteria to consider something like a list of all constituents with a membership that starts next month (and then use the Generate a List utility to update the list contents nightly).

To your second question, because pricing rules only affect pricing, not MOS or access to performances, they can’t be used to manage presales. Automatic presale access is generally managed by ranking based MOS shifts: http://www.tessituranetwork.com/Help_System_v125/Content/Tessitura_and_the_Web/Rank%20Based%20Mode%20of%20Sale%20Shifts.htm

Kevin Sheehan

Senior Technical Writer & Consultant

Tessitura Network

+1 888 643 5778 x 329

ksheehan@tessituranetwork.com

From: Tessitura Technical Forum [mailto:forums-technical@tessituranetwork.com] On Behalf Of Leslie McKinley
Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2016 11:33 AM
To: Kevin Sheehan <ksheehan@tessituranetwork.com>
Subject: [Tessitura Technical Forum] Pricing Rules: Pre-sale and virtual memberships

We trying to work through the steps and changes that may be needed to use the new Pricing Rules and  two questions within Development seem to take us in circles

1) Virtual memberships -- memberships start the first of the next month so a person becoming a new member would be given a constituency that begins the first of the next month (true too for upgrades when constituencies change).  

The rules says the constituency must be active  -- based on the above the virtual membership will not work since membership/constituency will not be active until the next month.

TRUE or FALSE?

2)  Pre-sales  -- rather than discounts we tend to do more pre-sale for members.   Since by definition prior to public sales -- it is possible to set a pricing rule that allows members to login and buy ahead of public sales.   

TRUE or FALSE?

Thanks for settling these debates!

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