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daiver
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February 23, 2016 at 8:14 am
Hi,
I’m working on having one event show multiple items/add ons.
So, let’s say I want to show lodging options and dining options in a single event. Can this be done?
I’d like users to be able to select in the same page from multiple lodging options and then, immediately after, the dining options and have them print and pay everything together, as well as print out tickets.
One ticket for entry to the event, one ticket per each dining option. If the user selected he wants dinner 2 nights, I’d like to be able to provide 2 dining tickets, each valid for one evening.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Lorenzo Orlando Caum
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February 23, 2016 at 12:23 pm
Hello,
Any additional options would need to be created as a ticket option. You could create the main ticket and set that to required through the advanced options (gear icon) in the ticket editor. Then create additional tickets for add-ons such as dining.
Note that there is a relationship between a ticket option and the information that is collected for a registrant.
For example, a ticket for the main event and the dining ticket would be considered two registrants/attendees if though it may be for a single person.
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Lorenzo
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daiver
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February 23, 2016 at 3:14 pm
Thanks, Lorenzo.
When you say “add ons”, do you mean “modifyers”?
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Tony
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February 24, 2016 at 5:05 am
By add-ons I think Lorenzo is referring to each of your additional options.
For example you could have an Admission ticket and Dinner tickets – http://take.ms/R3S33
That gets a little more complicated with multiple days for the dinner, they can select 2 but you won’t know how many were sold for each day then, so you could create another set of tickets for the dinner tickets on the second day that the user can select.
That setup allows the user to select and pay for all of the tickets in on go. Also, depending on how much control you want over each of the sales limits you can also break this down further and use separate datetimes, for example you could have 2 additional datetimes for the dinners, a ticket for dinner on the first day (assigned to the first day datetime), a ticket for dinner on the second day (assigned to that datetime) and a ticket that allows the user to purchase both days (assigned to both datetimes).
It depends on how much control you want and how many options you want to provide you attendees.
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daiver
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February 24, 2016 at 9:21 am
I think I know what you mean. It is similar to the setup I currently have.
Let me go a bit in depth of my event. This is a motorcycle event in the desert. People have several options for lodging. For the purpose of this ticket, let’s say people can camp or they can park their RV. Purchasing either ticket grants you access to the event and the lodging. So basically, if I buy an RV parking ticket I have the right to park and sleep in my RV and also attend the motorcycle rides.
The other piece is food. The event has optional dinners that people can buy. So, for this three day event, they can buy none, 1, 2, or 3 dinners.
My goal is to have people select at least one lodging option (they HAVE to select at least one) and then, optionally, select how many dinners they want. If they don’t want any, no selection needs to be made. If they want 2, they can select the dinner option and then 2 as quantity.
The last component is that if they selected 2 dinners, I need the receipt/invoice to have each dinner as a separate item so that they can print the receipt, cut the dinners out, and then hand one ticket in when ordering their dinner.
Is there a way to accomplish this?
The other component is that when I export the spreadsheet I’d like associate dinners with a ticket. Right now, as stated previously, they appear as attendees and not as a single attendee with 2 dinner tickets.
Can this be done?
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daiver
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February 24, 2016 at 9:21 am
Oh, and dinners are all the same. There are no dinner options (veg, meat, lactose, etc.) It is the same for everyone.
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Tony
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February 29, 2016 at 6:02 am
Apologies for the delay, I had to set this up an work through the various options I could think of, but the short answer is no, at least not in the way requested.
Event Espresso doesn’t officially support add-ons for an event, you can use tickets to achieve similar results but it depends on how in-depth it needs to be at to whether or not that works your event.
The biggest pain points are these 2 requirements:
The last component is that if they selected 2 dinners, I need the receipt/invoice to have each dinner as a separate item so that they can print the receipt, cut the dinners out, and then hand one ticket in when ordering their dinner.
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The other component is that when I export the spreadsheet I’d like associate dinners with a ticket. Right now, as stated previously, they appear as attendees and not as a single attendee with 2 dinner tickets.
With EE tickets those statements contradict each other, which means it isn’t possible to do with separate tickets. IE The Invoice shows your separate tickets but then the CSV shows the separate tickets for the meals or the meals are include within a single ticket but then the CSV doesn’t list individual meals.
The only way I can see to make this work is to create individual tickets with each add-on broken down, mainly the dinners. So you’d have 3 tickets:
Admission + 1 dinner
Admission + 2 dinners
Admission + 3 dinners
But you’d also need to repeat those for each additional option, so you would also need at least:
Admission + RV + 1 dinner
Admission + RV + 2 dinners
Admission + RV + 3 dinners
But this also causes problems when checking for dinners, the way I can see around that with the current setup is to manually track when a user collects a dinner (place a mark on the CSV list)
I you separated this out to have the dinners on their own ticket you would see the multiple booking within the CSV and be able to spot how many dinners each group registration purchased, however you’d then need to limit each registration to a single person.
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daiver
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February 29, 2016 at 8:52 am
Hi, thanks for your reply.
That is exactly what I ended up doing. It is a long list, but it works. It shows 36 different options when you run all the combinations.
Hopefully it can be worked on in the future.
Thanks!
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Tony
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March 1, 2016 at 3:49 am
We have a Price Modifer Add-on add-on on our road map that may come in useful for these types of requests, although there will need to be some way to include the details within the Invoice for the above.
It’s not something we are actively developing right now but will eventually so if you’d like to add your vote/comments to the thread we’ll be using that to prioritize feature developments.
I’m glad the above works for you, please justlet us know if you have any further questions 🙂
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