Hi folks,
I'm trying to solve an old theoretical problem. I want to build a "Pass" that I can use to buy 5 separate events over time.
It's essentially a casual Class attendance that you erode over multiple transactions. eg: Buy one attendance for $10 or buy 5 attendances for $30 that you can use towards any combination of days and times. Like a gift certificate but with # performances instead of $ value.
Heath Wilder,
Correct me if I am wrong about what you are describing, but that sounds like an ideal use case for a Membership. That would also be presumably with, assuming you are talking about using for events, a membership scanned ticket, which I know can be done, though we have never used them. Also, with the upcoming V16 changes to memberships, I would hope that such a thing would be easier going forward.
The easy counter argument there is to sell a "flex pass" with vouchers that are redeemed for performance tickets, which we HAVE done in the past and is not THAT problematic, though I always found them to be slightly annoying.
John
Thanks JAM2. Membership Admissions is a great idea but these things sell out so we'd need to be able to book in advance online. Vouchers are great too but also would need to book online.
You being the one who posted, I thought that might be a worry. That said, I have very much been known to forget the more obvious stuff, so I figured I would suggest it just in case.
Given that... my only other thought is definitely something custom, and probably a bit weird. Like, maybe a patron purchases a $30 pass for 5 classes, and then some form of custom table/view keeps track of how many they have purchased thus far, so that, when they log in, a dynamic ranking shifts their MOS to one that offers "free" reservations to these classes with a web table/view in the background making sure that they cannot exceed their remaining limit.
Not even sure that would work, but that is the only other thing that comes to mind. Best of luck, good sir.
JAM 2.0 (the informal version )
They are all great ideas. There have been quiet a few versions of this question in the forums over the years but I'm leaning towards the custom solution as well. Great ideas
Background is we have a piece of software that does this stuff in a siloed part of the business and i want to get rid of it and move everything into Tessitura for unified customer management.