Hi All,
Looking for some creative solutions to do buy-outs for our animal encounters. For example, we want to offer a flat rate to turn one of our 6-person Beluga Encounters into private event for a proposal. For one price they could have 2-6 people and add-on champagne and strawberries.
Would you use editable prices and holds? All comps and fees? A script to take something offsale if it has a buyout price type?
What do you all do?
Hi Amanda,
We have played with 2 solutions to that kind of challenge.
1. We created Fees that would count as the cost and then had "Participant" price-types at $0 to track attendance. - This didn't work for accounting as the cost of the fee was going direct to account and we needed the cost to defer until scanned.
2. We then moved to a "Buy-Out" price-type to replace the fee, and still add the participants to fill the rest of the attendance. Currently the "Buy-Out" price-type is editable to cut down on the price-types added to the perf.
Hope that helps! If you find other solutions please let me know as we are going live soon and this will be a standard operating procedure for us.
Best,
Jon Shaffer - Monterey Bay Aquarium
Thank you, I'm leaning toward the second option but instead of filling or holding the unused spots, I may just add a script that takes the performance offsale if it has a buyout price type sold into it. I have a similar one running for our "private" tours that checks for sales in those perfs every 5min and un-checks the onsale box if there are sales on that perf.
I was just hoping to avoid having to edit prices but we have the same deferral issue with the fees. Also would be nice to put this online if they aren't too manual. Maybe I'll experiment with 5 pricing rules that edit the prices on each ticket depending on the quantity...