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Wim Brouwer
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January 16, 2014 at 2:03 pm
Is it possible to give a discount to someone who visits 5 events or 10 events? Discount in percentage or as fixed amount?
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Garth
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January 17, 2014 at 12:07 am
HI Wim,
How are you today?
Do you want to give them a discount when they’re registering for that many events or AFTER they’ve registered for that many events?
The Volume Discounts Add-on might be of some use: https://eventespresso.com/wiki/volume-discounts/
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Wim Brouwer
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January 21, 2014 at 2:59 pm
Hello Garth,
The Idea is the following. A NEW client of mine sells tickets for classical music concerts. There is a year program of 10 concerts and an extra christmas concert.
They sell loose tickets for adults € 25,= each and children € 12,50 each.
Until now they let people also order subscriptions for 5 concerts for € 110,=(adults) and € 55,=(children). There are also subscriptions of 10 concerts for € 200,=(adults) or € 100,=(children).
1. Can this be solved in Event Espresso?
2. Is it possible to select which 5 or 10 concerts one wants?
3. Is it possible to order for more than 1 person at a time (all the same programm of course)? Also a mix of 2 adults and 3 children? (No extra info of other participants required)
4. does this work with multiple events?
Thanks in advance for your answer. I can not get a clear idea how to solve this in EE. If we succeed to make this work I want to change my account from business to developer. Is there no discount at this time or within a few weeks? I am from Holland and we like discount, just like the scottish 😉
Wim Brouwer – Promosite – Netherlands
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Dean
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January 22, 2014 at 5:06 am
Hei Wim,
1) and 2) Yes and no. If the events are all available to purchase (rather than pre-order) then the Volume Discounts addon can work here. You can allow the user to select X events and when it hits the threshold hit will give a discount.
There are 2 caveats with this though. Firstly it can only provide one discount currently so either for 5 or more events OR for 10 or more events. Secondly as you may have noticed, it cannot limit the number of events added OR percentile).
3) Yes, using the Multiple Event Manager (which Volume Discounts actually requires!)
4) see above.
Currently we don’t have a bundle feature in place, though we have revamped Event Espresso a lot in the upcoming EE4 and while it will initially have some limitations it will also be more flexible so watch this space.
We ALL love discounts! But we don’t have any planned discounts in the near future. There is a standard discount on renewals, so perhaps send the sales dept. a mail as your licence is due to expire in a couple of months. They might (no promises!) be able to work something out to swap you over to developer – sales @ eventespresso.com
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Wim Brouwer
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January 23, 2014 at 7:03 am
Hello,
thank you for your answers. I am working on a solution here.
Is it possible to:
1. give a person 10% discount for minimal 5 events selected AND extra when selected 9 events the 10th event for free? Or can the system give a promo coupon to the client to book the 10th for free? Or must this be done manually?
2. Can someone order for a group of events with one click? I mean: client orders: “The Big Five” and the system selects all 5 events in that category with different dates.
Thank in advance for your reply.
Kind regards,
Wim
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Dean
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January 24, 2014 at 1:24 am
Hi,
1) No. Thats one drawback of the current Volume Discounts system, in that only one discount can be applied, i.e. a discount for 5 or more vents OR a discount for 10 or more events.
Promo codes can be used in conjunction to offer further discounts should you so desire it.
2) Yes we have shortcodes that can be used where you add the event ID’s to the shortcode and in one click it will add all the specified events to cart (Multiple Event Manager plugin required).
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Wim Brouwer
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February 5, 2014 at 2:56 pm
I have an idea, but don’t know if it will work:
Is it possible to create an event called: Discount for 5 events. This event should have a Negative price (the discount). If someone selects the shortcode for 5 events(with the multiple Event Manager) I ad the 5 events and extra the “Discount for 5 events”. Then it would also work great. Question is: does EE accept negative pricing?
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Wim Brouwer
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February 5, 2014 at 3:12 pm
I saw an event does not accept negative pricing, but it does accept a negative Surcharge. Will this lower the total amount to be paid by the attendee? This might be the solution I am looking for!
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Dean
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February 6, 2014 at 1:50 am
It could work, it certainly provides a discount (ticket price $0, surcharge -$10 for example) but it’s not ideal as it will request their name/email again (it’s a separate event for all intents and purposes).
The other issue is that that event could in theory be found by users and applied to carts with less than 5 events.
Another option but it does require coding/a developer would be to use JavaScript to detect the number of events in cart and either modify the total due or (perhaps easier) display a hidden coupon code to provide a discount.
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Zane Taylor
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February 11, 2014 at 1:02 pm
I’m interested in similar functionality. Is there any more pre-sales documentation for the Volume Discounts add-on? I don’t see it on the add-ons page, and it doesn’t appear in the add-ons bundle for any of the license tiers.
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Sidney Harrell
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February 11, 2014 at 2:59 pm
Something that might work for 5 and 10 event discounts is something I worked up as an experiment. It’s a groupon, or social-discount code generator. You would activate the regular groupon add-on, then add the groupon code generator from here. Then create a 5-event pass event and a 10-event pass event and put the pass generator shortcode in the description of each. When someone purchases a multi-event pass, the codes are then generated, attached to the events that the user has chosen, and the codes are emailed to the user.
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Sidney Harrell
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February 11, 2014 at 3:02 pm
The volume-discounts add-on is available in the pre-release channel. It’s free for site users, but the pre-release channel has to be activated in the account page.
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Wim Brouwer
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February 12, 2014 at 3:54 pm
I will try this. When I understood you correct, I must put the esspresso-pass.php in the espresso-groupon directory. Can you tell me the pass generator shortcode that I must use in the description of the event? Sorry, I don’t know this.
Thanks very much for your help to find a possible solution.
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Wim Brouwer
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February 12, 2014 at 4:28 pm
Sorry, but I am not sure if that is the right solution. In this way they might also use 5 (or a multiple of that) codes for 1 event instead of 1(or a multiple) code per event, and that is not what we want. Or am I wrong?
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Wim Brouwer
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February 12, 2014 at 4:42 pm
The solution I have found is to make an event called “subscription for 5 events” with the special price for 5 events. I added a question with checkmarks which events they want to visit. With the remark to check 5 events of the 10 offered a year.
After that an extra question for extra events they also want to visit for a special rebated price with the EE price modifier add-on. This works good.
Means though we have to use 5 times the clone function of the EE attendee mover add on. This a lot of manual work. Luckily there are not a lot of subscriptions sold.A better solution would be very welcome, though I doubt if there is any.
Can I add the checked events on the layout of the tickets? I mean is there a way to add this in the layout of the tickets? Then we can check the tickets at the entrance and they can be used as an anual entrance ticket.
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Dean
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February 13, 2014 at 2:18 am
Hi Wilm,
I’m glad you found a system that will work in the short term. I’m not sure if/when a bulk event discount will be added in but I will certainly add your +1 to the request.
“Can I add the checked events on the layout of the tickets? I mean is there a way to add this in the layout of the tickets? Then we can check the tickets at the entrance and they can be used as an anual entrance ticket.”
If you mean to add the list answers to the questions then yes that should be possible by editing the ticket template or creating a new ticket template and using the [answer_xxx] tag.
Custom ticket – https://eventespresso.com/wiki/how-to-create-a-custom-ticket/
Answers tag – https://eventespresso.com/wiki/custom-email-tags/
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