Consignments and third party sales

Hi

We currently send allocations to third party agents such as Ticketmaster, however we do not print the tickets due to the "can't print tickets without payment" issue. We are starting to run into problems with this, such as incorrect area labelling at the agencies leading to confusion on the night, and uncertainty about unpaid tickets.

Does anyone print tickets to send to agents? If so, how do you deal with the fact that these will show as paid on sales reports? I assume people have reports that minus this value out? I am worried that the promoters who receive sales reports from us and the agencies will assume double the sales that have actually been made.

Thanks in advance for any advice

Siobhan

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    Former Member $organization in reply to Siobhan Parker (Past Member)

    Hi Siobhan

    We sometimes allocate to TM and use the same system as Caryl.

    regards

    Dawn

     

  • A bit of both I think, do you want our custom report?

     

    From: Tessitura Ticketing Forum [mailto:forums-ticketing@tessituranetwork.com] On Behalf Of Siobhan Bennetts
    Sent: 15 July 2009 11:56
    To: Halliday, Gary
    Subject: Re: [Tessitura Ticketing Forum] Consignments and third party sales

     

    Thanks Gary - is the Price Type report a custom one or do you just mean the Performance Sales Analysis, run by Price Type?

    From: Siobhan Bennetts <bounce-siobhanbennetts3867@tessituranetwork.com>
    Sent: 7/15/2009 5:04:42 AM

    Hi

    We currently send allocations to third party agents such as Ticketmaster, however we do not print the tickets due to the "can't print tickets without payment" issue. We are starting to run into problems with this, such as incorrect area labelling at the agencies leading to confusion on the night, and uncertainty about unpaid tickets.

    Does anyone print tickets to send to agents? If so, how do you deal with the fact that these will show as paid on sales reports? I assume people have reports that minus this value out? I am worried that the promoters who receive sales reports from us and the agencies will assume double the sales that have actually been made.

    Thanks in advance for any advice

    Siobhan




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  • We used to sell all agency tickets through a record for each agenct using an agency price type, payment method and Agency GL so finance knew this money was not received. We have actually now reverted to letting agencies print their own tickets so the figures in Tessitura represent real sales as we get weekly updates from the agencies - we have not had too many problems so far.