Payment Plans with previous payment?

When setting up a Ticket Order Payment Schedule, the schedule must equal the full amount of the order total regardless what has been paid for against the order.  When the Ticket Order Billing utility is run to produce bills (either paper bills or via credit card auto billing) the utility will calculate the amount to be billed based on the payment schedule in place less any money received to date for the order.  So what you are seeing is the expected behavior but resulting bills will factor in the amount received so that there will not be the danger of overcharging your customers.

Bob

From: Tessitura Ticketing Forum [mailto:forums-ticketing@tessituranetwork.com] On Behalf Of Brian Graham
Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2013 6:57 PM
To: Robert Bell
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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When setting up a Ticket Order Payment Schedule, the schedule must equal the full amount of the order total regardless what has been paid for against the order.  When the Ticket Order Billing utility is run to produce bills (either paper bills or via credit card auto billing) the utility will calculate the amount to be billed based on the payment schedule in place less any money received to date for the order.  So what you are seeing is the expected behavior but resulting bills will factor in the amount received so that there will not be the danger of overcharging your customers.

Bob

From: Tessitura Ticketing Forum [mailto:forums-ticketing@tessituranetwork.com] On Behalf Of Brian Graham
Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2013 6:57 PM
To: Robert Bell
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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