Determining Discounts when Exchanging

We are new Tessitura users and have encountered a situation I'm hoping someone might know an easy fix for. When selling tickets at a discount- whether as a part of a package or a single ticket- we have used a Discounted price type and then applied a myriad of discounts through Price Details. This causes all discounted tickets- regardless of which discount ended up getting applied- to simply show up as "Discount."

This has worked fine in terms of selling the tickets, but because of the way we have opted to process exchanges, we are having difficulty determining *what* discount a particular ticket was sold at. In order to keep a clean, streamlined ticket history for our constituents, we are processing exchanges by creating a new order and then adding the original seats in one line item, returning them, and then selling the new tickets in the same order on the next line item.

But because we are creating new orders for the exchanges, we are having trouble locating anything that tells us what type of discount was applied to the original tickets. The only way I have found a reference point is by first loading the original order, clicking on Price Details, and seeing what discount was applied. But our fear is that CSRs may inadvertently end up processing the exchanges in those original orders if we add that step.

If anyone knows of an easier way to identify a percentage based discount that was applied in Price Details, I would appreciate the guidance! Thanks.

 

Kristy Kannapell

Actors Theatre of Louisville Box Office

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  • Hi Kristy,

     

    I am using discounts in price details this year to start using the new price tables more effectively. A low-tech way of managing this would be to use order notes and put the discount used (20% off discount, 15% discount, etc). If you do control + O you would come to the order search screen where you can see all orders for that patron. The awesome thing about that screen is order notes show. I know it’s not super fancy but it certainly is a way to make it work.

     

     

    Christopher Cuhel

    Senior Manager of Ticketing and Patron Services | Lyric Opera of Kansas City

    Phone: 816-802-6071

    1725 Holmes Street | Kansas City, MO 64108

     

    For tickets call (816) 471-7344 or visit www.kcopera.org!

     

     

     

    From: Tessitura Ticketing Forum [mailto:forums-ticketing@tessituranetwork.com] On Behalf Of Kristy Kannapell
    Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2014 4:32 PM
    To: Chris Cuhel
    Subject: RE: [Tessitura Ticketing Forum] Determining Discounts when Exchanging

     

    Thank you for the fast feedback!

    I believe the hope was that we wouldn't end up with an unmanageable multitude of Price Types like we did in our last ticketing system. We were hoping that simply telling the system that the ticket was at a discount, and then using Discount reasons and applied discounts to manipulate them. So your Price Type might be, say, Adult Discount 20% rather than just Adult Discount?

    But if there truly isn't an easier way to reference what type of discount was used, we may have to investigate doing Discount Price Types differently in future seasons. I know this year we will have a lot of trial and error as we find what works and what doesn't.

    Thanks again for the help!

    From: Nicole Keating <bounce-nicolekeating9176@tessituranetwork.com>
    Sent: 8/5/2014 4:01:30 PM

    I highly recommend you create additional Price Types that all are categorized under a “Discount” Price Type Group or Price Type Category if you’d like. We only exchange tickets into the exact same Price Type.

     

    Is there some particular reason you haven’t created more Price Types?

     

    Good luck!

    Nicole

     

     

    From: Tessitura Ticketing Forum [mailto:forums-ticketing@tessituranetwork.com] On Behalf Of Kristy Kannapell
    Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2014 4:53 PM
    To: Nicole Keating
    Subject: [Tessitura Ticketing Forum] Determining Discounts when Exchanging

     

    We are new Tessitura users and have encountered a situation I'm hoping someone might know an easy fix for. When selling tickets at a discount- whether as a part of a package or a single ticket- we have used a Discounted price type and then applied a myriad of discounts through Price Details. This causes all discounted tickets- regardless of which discount ended up getting applied- to simply show up as "Discount."

    This has worked fine in terms of selling the tickets, but because of the way we have opted to process exchanges, we are having difficulty determining *what* discount a particular ticket was sold at. In order to keep a clean, streamlined ticket history for our constituents, we are processing exchanges by creating a new order and then adding the original seats in one line item, returning them, and then selling the new tickets in the same order on the next line item.

    But because we are creating new orders for the exchanges, we are having trouble locating anything that tells us what type of discount was applied to the original tickets. The only way I have found a reference point is by first loading the original order, clicking on Price Details, and seeing what discount was applied. But our fear is that CSRs may inadvertently end up processing the exchanges in those original orders if we add that step.

    If anyone knows of an easier way to identify a percentage based discount that was applied in Price Details, I would appreciate the guidance! Thanks.

     

    Kristy Kannapell

    Actors Theatre of Louisville Box Office




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  • Thank you for the suggestion, Christopher! I think this might be the route we take for the rest of this year. I really appreciate the help!

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