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Our organization holds many events with separate registration categories for multiples. For example, annual dinner tickets might be offered as

• $50 per individual
• $90 per couple
• $400 per table of 10

Although I would think such arrangements are common, for things like couples admission or family memberships, I've not been able to find documentation on how to accomplish this in CiviCRM.

Using the "Register Additional Participants" feature does not offer a way to attach a participant's registration to the fee paid by another, so after buying one $80 "couple" ticket, registering an additional person requires selecting one of the fee levels again. We could create a $0 "guest of" level, but there would be no mechanism to prevent 3 people from registering as a "couple." Where could we insert custom code to do validation?

Or instead of using the built-in multiple registration system, we could use a custom profile to collect names of guest participants. But then participation would not be recorded for those guests in their CiviCRM record, and inventory control would go out the window. Or is there a way to look up references?

FTR we are running CiviCRM 3.0.1 with Drupal 6.14.

I have the same requirement as choster. Using the approach you suggest, how would I know to seat all 10 people together when 1 person buys a table and provides the names of his/her guests?

Another approach I thought about is treating this as a quantity discount on the event fee. ( If I register 2 people, I get a better price per person than if I come alone. If I register 10 people, I get an even better price. )

I was thinking of extending the idea of discounts discussed at:   http://civicrm.org/node/566.    Is the table "civicrm_discount" for offering discounts? It is empty in my version 3.0.1 environment.

In many ways, event pricing requirements very closely resemble a shopping cart used for selling tickets.