We were wondering if other organizations have come up with a way to verify on their website whether someone is actually a student or faculty type before offering them a lower price for tickets? Or did you decide it wasn't worth the effort?
We could use the honor system or possibly ask for a student ID at the door or at will call. But we don't want to cause a lot of extra time waiting in line. Not asking for the ID could encourage fraud.
We have spoken briefly with Tessitura consulting about the possibility of building a process, maybe that would run on a nightly basis, that would grab a list of valid students from a database, and then update the constituency or ranking in Tessi based on this. It is possible to do, I just wonder if it would be worth the time and effort involved.
Any insight would be appreciated.
Phil
Hi Phil,
We have some custom programming on our website that links into the university's central authentication system. In order to gain access to certain price types, users have to link to that system and log in with their university credentials. I'm happy to find out some more details if you're interested.