Hi Everyone,
We are experiencing and error when trying to redeem a gift certificate. It displays "Gift Certificate is in use in Batch -1 and could not be locked."
I looked in the order to see what the actual batch for the gift certificate was and saw it was 10085. I looked up the batch number and saw it was from the Web in early December. The batch was closed and posted normally, showing no signs of an error.
Looking around, the only suggestion I saw was to close and post the batch that was holding up the transaction, but since it's already closed and posted I wanted to see if anyone else had run into this error. Thanks!
Gary,
When a gift certificate is locked by batch -1, it means that it is locked by the web. What may have happened is that someone applied the gift certificate online, but then did not complete the order thus leaving it locked. When a gift certificate is left in this state, the system will consider it locked until the amount of time specified in your ORDER LOCK TIMEOUT default has passed (T_DEFAULTS, Tessitura Web). After the timeout has elapsed, the gift certificate will be considered unlocked and can be accessed again.
Gregg Stickney
Application Support Specialist
Tessitura Network
+1 888 643 5778 x 318
gstickney@tessituranetwork.com
From: Tessitura Ticketing Forum [mailto:forums-ticketing@tessituranetwork.com] On Behalf Of Kanani KnudsonSent: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 2:41 PMTo: Gregg StickneySubject: Re: [Tessitura Ticketing Forum] Gift Certificate Error Upon Redemption
I have gotten that error before, and it seems to be some sort of glitch in the system. If you close out of the order (in some cases I had to close completely out of Tessitura and restart) then go back in and try redeeming again it worked. It's really frustrating when you've got a line at the box office, but that's one simple fix I have found works.
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Thanks guys! That definitely answered my question. It was ready to process the next day (didn't try processing until the next day).