Our Ticket Office has been using the same performance codes that were carried over from Artsoft. Artsoft would sort shows by alphabet so they would group series performance codes by letter, which is is not intuitive for the ticket office staff and patrons to understand. Chamber Series performance codes are: 24RA, 24RB, 24RC our Piano series are 24PA, 24PB, 24PC. It does not tell you the date or information about the performance to help our staff decipher what show is.
We have using the same performance code for 15 years and we are wondering if changing the structure would ruin anything? Would it affect any reports? Will it break anything? Has anyone in this group gone through this change and can share their experiences? We want to know the pros and cons of changing the structure for next season.
We're what I expect is a super-rare edge case, where our performance codes have sequences built into them that interact with our highly customized financial reporting output. I expect that is not the case for you, but as a fellow university you might have some special financial setup requirements, so I would at least check with your finance department, or whoever handles the reporting for that. Which might of course be you!