Gift Tokens

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We sell a gift token that is valid in all London Theatres.

It's a physical book of tokens that are torn out and sold separately (£5, £10, £20).

I need to find a way of putting these sales through Tessitura, as we don't have a separate credit card machine. All credit card income needs to go through the box office system. I'm aware that Tessitura has its own system of credit / gift token but I need to keep this separate from that as most of the token sales are not redeemed here and if we choose in future to sell a "Greenwich Theatre" token I don't want the two to get confused.

I'm thinking that it could go through campaigns. So I'd set up a fund called "SOLT Tokens" and put all payments through that. Is that the best solution? Can I print a receipt for it that way? Is there a better way to put merchandise /  non ticketing items through the system?

Any advice welcome

Simon, Greenwich Theatre

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  • Hi Simon,

     

    We do something slightly different, and more like how we’d process a Tess gift cert.  We have a payment method of ‘Tokens’, and if a customer wanted £25 worth, the sales advisor would create an order, go straight to the money bag and insert -£25 Tokens, and then insert a +£25 with customer’s payment method.  Works great for us (but like Grae said, lots of different ways to do it!)

     

    Cheers,

    Kathleen

     

    Kathleen Smith

    Sales Manager

    Northamptonshire Arts Management Trust

    On behalf of Royal & Derngate, Northampton and The Core at Corby Cube

     

    From: Tessitura Ticketing Forum [mailto:forums-ticketing@tessituranetwork.com] On Behalf Of Graeme Ellis
    Sent: 27 June 2011 18:13
    To: Kathleen Smith
    Subject: Re: [Tessitura Ticketing Forum] Gift Tokens

     

    Hello Simon,

    The way we've set up Theatre Tokens at the Young Vic is to have them as a 'performance' with the individual token values as price types.  This isn't the only way that you could process them and it isn't necessarily the best, but it's useful for processing the tokens and printing any related credit card receipts.

    There has been some talk about various ways of processing non-performance sales on here recently which you may find helpful (http://www.tessituranetwork.com/COMMUNITY/forums/p/4724/15511.aspx#15511)

    Give me a shout if I can be of any more help.

    Grae

    Young Vic Theatre

    From: Simon Francis <bounce-simonfrancis5829@tessituranetwork.com>
    Sent: 6/27/2011 12:02:30 PM

    We sell a gift token that is valid in all London Theatres.

    It's a physical book of tokens that are torn out and sold separately (£5, £10, £20).

    I need to find a way of putting these sales through Tessitura, as we don't have a separate credit card machine. All credit card income needs to go through the box office system. I'm aware that Tessitura has its own system of credit / gift token but I need to keep this separate from that as most of the token sales are not redeemed here and if we choose in future to sell a "Greenwich Theatre" token I don't want the two to get confused.

    I'm thinking that it could go through campaigns. So I'd set up a fund called "SOLT Tokens" and put all payments through that. Is that the best solution? Can I print a receipt for it that way? Is there a better way to put merchandise /  non ticketing items through the system?

    Any advice welcome

    Simon, Greenwich Theatre



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  • Hi Simon,

     

    We do something slightly different, and more like how we’d process a Tess gift cert.  We have a payment method of ‘Tokens’, and if a customer wanted £25 worth, the sales advisor would create an order, go straight to the money bag and insert -£25 Tokens, and then insert a +£25 with customer’s payment method.  Works great for us (but like Grae said, lots of different ways to do it!)

     

    Cheers,

    Kathleen

     

    Kathleen Smith

    Sales Manager

    Northamptonshire Arts Management Trust

    On behalf of Royal & Derngate, Northampton and The Core at Corby Cube

     

    From: Tessitura Ticketing Forum [mailto:forums-ticketing@tessituranetwork.com] On Behalf Of Graeme Ellis
    Sent: 27 June 2011 18:13
    To: Kathleen Smith
    Subject: Re: [Tessitura Ticketing Forum] Gift Tokens

     

    Hello Simon,

    The way we've set up Theatre Tokens at the Young Vic is to have them as a 'performance' with the individual token values as price types.  This isn't the only way that you could process them and it isn't necessarily the best, but it's useful for processing the tokens and printing any related credit card receipts.

    There has been some talk about various ways of processing non-performance sales on here recently which you may find helpful (http://www.tessituranetwork.com/COMMUNITY/forums/p/4724/15511.aspx#15511)

    Give me a shout if I can be of any more help.

    Grae

    Young Vic Theatre

    From: Simon Francis <bounce-simonfrancis5829@tessituranetwork.com>
    Sent: 6/27/2011 12:02:30 PM

    We sell a gift token that is valid in all London Theatres.

    It's a physical book of tokens that are torn out and sold separately (£5, £10, £20).

    I need to find a way of putting these sales through Tessitura, as we don't have a separate credit card machine. All credit card income needs to go through the box office system. I'm aware that Tessitura has its own system of credit / gift token but I need to keep this separate from that as most of the token sales are not redeemed here and if we choose in future to sell a "Greenwich Theatre" token I don't want the two to get confused.

    I'm thinking that it could go through campaigns. So I'd set up a fund called "SOLT Tokens" and put all payments through that. Is that the best solution? Can I print a receipt for it that way? Is there a better way to put merchandise /  non ticketing items through the system?

    Any advice welcome

    Simon, Greenwich Theatre



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    Book your tickets now by calling 01604 624811 or visit www.royalandderngate.co.uk.

     

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