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Integral Zen, Inc
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December 6, 2018 at 8:49 pm
We are offering a retreat and we want to have an early bird full payment option, an early bird deposit option, an early bird balance owing option, a regular full payment option, a regular deposit option and a regular balance owing option. we would like all these payable online, because we have an international clientele. I checked your support section and looked at Lorenzo’s workaround:https://gist.github.com/lorenzocaum/c49bda15961f9f7d19ab. I don’t want to create two or three events for one retreat as I think that would be confusing for people. I think Lorenzo’s second option might work, but his explanation is not totally clear. Can you suggest a way I can do this? It is very important to our group to have this functionality. Thanks!
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Tony
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December 7, 2018 at 8:41 am
Hi Roberta,
Just to note, EE doesn’t officially support deposit payments currently and the above workaround Lorenzo created was a method to allow for those in certain use cases, however, both of those methods require the user registers onto the event twice (once for deposit, another for the remainder) which can cause problems if you only have a single datetime in a single event.
After the above workarounds were created the Attendee Mover Add-on was released which allows you to ‘move’ registrations onto different tickets (be that in the same event or another) which may work better for you, although it does require you manually move the registration from the ‘deposit’ ticket onto the ‘full payment’ ticket (the payment from the deposit will apply to the new total).
So before going into this, may I ask if your events have high numbers of registrations were moving single registrations each time (there is no automated or batch moving) would become a problem for you?
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Integral Zen, Inc
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December 7, 2018 at 1:02 pm
Hi Tony, Thank you for your response.
The Attendee Mover Add-on seems like it will make this work for us. We probably wouldn’t have more than 20 registrants making a deposit so manually moving them is not a problem. We can move them as they pay the balance owing.
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Tony
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December 10, 2018 at 7:27 am
Ok, so the way I would set this up is using 4 tickets:
Early Bird Deposit
Early Bird Full Price
Regular Deposit
Regular Full Price
Your early bird tickets set the sell from dates from now (or a date in the past) and the sell until the date you want to switch over to ‘regular;. Then your regular ‘sell from’ dates match that date. Like this – http://take.ms/YGyHEQ
My early bird tickets end on Feb 1st at 1am and thats when my regular ticket then goes on sale.
That will look something like this on the front end – http://take.ms/wlycax
You can hide those ‘upcoming’ tickets with a little CSS:
.tkt-slctr-tbl .ticket-pending {
display: none;
}
Add that to Appearance -> Customize -> Additional CSS and you’ll then just see the early bird tickets.
So now, when a user registers onto the deposit ticket and pays they’ll show as sold here – http://take.ms/J3yhL
You’ll need to move them onto the full price ticket using the attendee mover add-on. To do that view the registrations for the event (Event Espresso -> Events -> {hover over the event} -> Registrations).
Find the registration for the deposit – http://take.ms/0tktL
(Note you can see the ticket name and the amount paid in that list)
Click on the icon.
Select the same event they are currently on within step 1 (type the event name and the Event ID will also show so you can confirm it’s the correct event if you have multiple with the same name) – http://take.ms/osNGh
On step 2 select the correct ticket (in this case early bird full) – http://take.ms/LhoYU
(The ticket with the tick is there current ticket)
On step 3 you get to confirm your changes – http://take.ms/yV3Ylc
Note the trigger notifications setting, if theat is set to yes, when you click next the user receives an email that their original registration has been cancelled and another stating their new registration is pending payment, with a link to pay the remaining balance.
Is that what you are looking for?
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