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Posted: January 12, 2016 at 2:22 pm


MikeC

January 12, 2016 at 2:22 pm

Hi All,

Am really liking EE4 but trying to work out whether it’s possible to ensure that the purchaser doesn’t get classified as an attendee? Perhaps it’s a setting I haven’t found yet? I’m trying to model a situation where someone might be buying a number of tickets for their company but not attending themselves.

Any help would be gratefully received so thanks in advance,

Mike


Josh

  • Support Staff

January 13, 2016 at 7:42 am

Hi Mike,

You can keep the billing contact info separate from the attendee info by capturing the billing contact info in a separate set of fields that appear once on the registration form.
This can be done by creating a Billing Contact Info question group, then you set the group to only appear for the primary attendee.

For invoicing, you may want to make sure the payment instructions get sent to the Company Admin email address. You can set up the messages to go to that address by setting this into the Primary Attendee TO: field when you set up any of the messages related to requesting payment:
[RECIPIENT_ANSWER_*Purchaser Contact Email]


MikeC

January 16, 2016 at 10:44 am

Hi Josh,

Many thanks for your reply. I’ve had a play around with this and it still seems that the primary attendee is the purchaser (with the billing info questions) rather than there being 1 purchaser and then they enter all the attendee info for each of the tickets being bought. Am I missing something?

I’m trying to find a way to support a situation where a company admin will buying multiple tickets for people within their company.

Thanks in advance,

Mike


MikeC

January 24, 2016 at 2:27 pm

Can’t seem to get this message configuration to work. Have a question entitled:”Purchaser Email” and put the code [RECIPIENT_ANSWER_*Purchaser Email] in the TO field for the Primary Attendee, and yet it still seems to send a mail to the entered Primary Attendee and nothing to the Purchaser Email.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Mike


Josh

  • Support Staff

January 25, 2016 at 7:31 am

Hi Mike,

Which of the email types had the To field changed to [RECIPIENT_ANSWER_*Purchaser Email]?

As an aside, there should be a space like this:

[RECIPIENT_ANSWER_* Purchaser Email]


MikeC

January 25, 2016 at 10:04 am

Hi Josh,

Thanks for your reply. I was putting it in the To field for the Primary Registrant in the Registration approved message.

And thanks for pointing out the space after the *. I’ll try that.

Out of interest, does the text “RECIPIENT_ANSWER_” relate to something obvious I’m missing?

Thanks,

Mike


MikeC

January 25, 2016 at 2:46 pm

Alas, is doesn’t seem to work

http://take.ms/4MTUz

Any ideas what I might be doing wrong?

As always, any help is much appreciated 🙂

Mike


Tony

  • Support Staff

January 26, 2016 at 3:31 am

Hi Mike,

Which message are you trying to edit to send to the purchaser?

I’d have through the ‘Registration Pending Payment’ message but from the screenshot above it seems you are editing the Registration Approved message, that message is the one that is sent after payment has been made and the registration has been approved, is that expected?

I’m assuming you want the event details to be sent to the registrant (Reg Approved mesage) but the payment emails (Pending Payment, Payment Received etc) to go to the purchaser, is that correct?


MikeC

January 26, 2016 at 3:07 pm

Hi Tony,

Yes, that’s what I’m trying to achieve. So it looks like I should make the changes so that the [RECIPIENT_ANSWER_* Purchaser Email] is in the TO fields for the following messages?

“Registration Pending Payment”
“Payment Received”
“Refund Issued”
“Payment Reminder”
“Payment Declined”
“Payment Failed”
“Payment Cancelled”

But the others TO field is either [PRIMARY_REGISTRANT_EMAIL] or [RECIPIENT_EMAIL]?

As always, many thanks in advance. Am really liking how things are shaping up.

All the best,

Mike


Tony

  • Support Staff

January 27, 2016 at 5:01 am

So it looks like I should make the changes so that the [RECIPIENT_ANSWER_* Purchaser Email] is in the TO fields for the following messages?

“Registration Pending Payment”
“Payment Received”
“Refund Issued”
“Payment Reminder”
“Payment Declined”
“Payment Failed”
“Payment Cancelled”

Yes, that’s how I would set it up.

But the others TO field is either [PRIMARY_REGISTRANT_EMAIL] or [RECIPIENT_EMAIL]?

It depends on how you want it to work on this step.

The registration approved message has a Primary Registrant AND a Registrant ‘context‘. If you have both enabled then the Primary Registrant will actually receipt both (because they are both the primary registrant and a registrant) the additional context is to allow you to send additional information ONLY to the primary registrant.

Most users do not want both activated, and just use the Registrant context, using the [RECIPIENT_EMAIL] shortcode in the To field.

So set the Primary registrant TO field to nothing and save, set the Recipeit TO field to [RECIPIENT_EMAIL] and retest (after also changing the payment emails above)

Does it then work as expected?

Also there is one ‘gotcha’ with this setup, a single user that is both the purchasers AND the payee, needs to enter their email in both email fields or they won’t receive the payment related messages.


MikeC

January 30, 2016 at 11:43 am

Thanks, Tony. Just doing some testing but this is looking good so far!


MikeC

January 31, 2016 at 9:13 am

Just doing some testing and it seems to pass the primary attendee details on to the payment gateway. Any ideas how I can change this?

Thanks,
Mike


Josh

  • Support Staff

February 3, 2016 at 3:50 pm

It should pass the primary attendee details, that’s what it’s designed to do. I can check to see if there are any filters that allow for changing this. Before I check, can you let me know which payment gateway you’re using?

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