Payment Plans with previous payment?

We've got a tricky situation with our payment plans for new subscriptions, and I'm a bit perplexed.

We began our subscription campaign about a month ago selling into dummy performances. Now we've completed our season setup and have rolled over all subscribers into real subscription packages. We're working through the orders that had previously been paid by returning the dummy tickets and applying the monies (via an on account payment method) to the actual subscription order. 

Our problem comes with orders that only have a partial payment. After applying the money from the partial payment to the subscription order, we still need to set up a payment plan for the remaining amount. However, payment plans seem to want to be made for the entire amount of the the order rather than for the remaining total. When a schedule is set up for an order where the total due is less than the order total, we get an error message saying "Schedule Does Not Match Total Due."

I found this note in the documentation on Payment Schedules:

NOTE: Payments already made on the order are not considered in scheduling installment payments.

So it sounds like this is the expected behavior... but I can't see why. Regardless, has anyone faced this scenario before? Any thoughts or words of advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

-Brian

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  • Hi Brian,

     

    This error message just tells you that your total in the payment schedule needs to match the total amount in the order. The best thing to do would be to make sure that there’s line items for the payment received and line items for the payments due. Basically, your total paid in the order (so far) will be the earlier payments in the schedule and the total due will match the remaining payments due.

     

    I’ve attached images (which I hope will send correctly) for reference. Sample 1 is a simple payment plan while Sample 2 is a multiple payment plan with 2 completed payments.

     

    I hope this makes sense. Please let me know if you have any questions or need further information.

     

    Sample 1                                                                                                                    Sample 2

                               

     

    ~Karen

     

    _______________________________________________________
    Karen Diche
    Manager, Season Tickets
    Segerstrom Center for the Arts
    600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, CA 92626
    T (714) 556-2122 x 4359   F (714) 755-7477   E KDiche@SCFTA.org

     

     

     

     

    From: Tessitura Ticketing Forum [mailto:forums-ticketing@tessituranetwork.com] On Behalf Of Brian Graham
    Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2013 3:56 PM
    To: Karen Diche
    Subject: [Tessitura Ticketing Forum] Payment Plans with previous payment?

     

    We've got a tricky situation with our payment plans for new subscriptions, and I'm a bit perplexed.

    We began our subscription campaign about a month ago selling into dummy performances. Now we've completed our season setup and have rolled over all subscribers into real subscription packages. We're working through the orders that had previously been paid by returning the dummy tickets and applying the monies (via an on account payment method) to the actual subscription order. 

    Our problem comes with orders that only have a partial payment. After applying the money from the partial payment to the subscription order, we still need to set up a payment plan for the remaining amount. However, payment plans seem to want to be made for the entire amount of the the order rather than for the remaining total. When a schedule is set up for an order where the total due is less than the order total, we get an error message saying "Schedule Does Not Match Total Due."

    I found this note in the documentation on Payment Schedules:

    NOTE: Payments already made on the order are not considered in scheduling installment payments.

    So it sounds like this is the expected behavior... but I can't see why. Regardless, has anyone faced this scenario before? Any thoughts or words of advice would be greatly appreciated.

    Thanks,

    -Brian




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  • Hi Brian,

     

    This error message just tells you that your total in the payment schedule needs to match the total amount in the order. The best thing to do would be to make sure that there’s line items for the payment received and line items for the payments due. Basically, your total paid in the order (so far) will be the earlier payments in the schedule and the total due will match the remaining payments due.

     

    I’ve attached images (which I hope will send correctly) for reference. Sample 1 is a simple payment plan while Sample 2 is a multiple payment plan with 2 completed payments.

     

    I hope this makes sense. Please let me know if you have any questions or need further information.

     

    Sample 1                                                                                                                    Sample 2

                               

     

    ~Karen

     

    _______________________________________________________
    Karen Diche
    Manager, Season Tickets
    Segerstrom Center for the Arts
    600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, CA 92626
    T (714) 556-2122 x 4359   F (714) 755-7477   E KDiche@SCFTA.org

     

     

     

     

    From: Tessitura Ticketing Forum [mailto:forums-ticketing@tessituranetwork.com] On Behalf Of Brian Graham
    Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2013 3:56 PM
    To: Karen Diche
    Subject: [Tessitura Ticketing Forum] Payment Plans with previous payment?

     

    We've got a tricky situation with our payment plans for new subscriptions, and I'm a bit perplexed.

    We began our subscription campaign about a month ago selling into dummy performances. Now we've completed our season setup and have rolled over all subscribers into real subscription packages. We're working through the orders that had previously been paid by returning the dummy tickets and applying the monies (via an on account payment method) to the actual subscription order. 

    Our problem comes with orders that only have a partial payment. After applying the money from the partial payment to the subscription order, we still need to set up a payment plan for the remaining amount. However, payment plans seem to want to be made for the entire amount of the the order rather than for the remaining total. When a schedule is set up for an order where the total due is less than the order total, we get an error message saying "Schedule Does Not Match Total Due."

    I found this note in the documentation on Payment Schedules:

    NOTE: Payments already made on the order are not considered in scheduling installment payments.

    So it sounds like this is the expected behavior... but I can't see why. Regardless, has anyone faced this scenario before? Any thoughts or words of advice would be greatly appreciated.

    Thanks,

    -Brian




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