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I am not able to figure out where to go in civiEvent to input how much cash was collected at an event. Is there a place to do this? I don't have individual information on each person who paid in cash, just a total amount collected.

thanks!

I am not aware of any place to do this. Events are intended to "accept" money from participants individually. Perhaps you could add a site administrator as a "participant" and then list this as "his" payment.

Or perhaps create a dummy Contact called "Collected Payments" and then record the sum fee under his participation record. Then you could use that record for every event.

I would think Hershel has the right idea here. If it was me I would create a new individual contact record and call it something like "Door Ticket Sales" or something else.  Then for each event simply register them for X number of tickets/seats and then make a payment record at the same time (nice check box to record payment while registering) with cash as the tender and maybe a General Ledger receipt number so you can cross reference the transaction during reconciliation.

Does that sound like a good solution for you?