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melanie_me

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Will civiEvent work for this?
February 05, 2009, 10:45:52 am
I am the webmaster for an arts organization and was wondering if I could use civiEvent to sell season subscriptions to our performances.

We have a few different packages and each package has levels of pricing based on seating.  I figured I could handle that pretty easily using the price set option.

I also noticed that there was a way to create custom fields, is that correct?  Could I create custom fields for patrons to purchase additional single tickets or to add a donation to their subscription?

The application would be installed on an existing site running on PHP/MySQL.

Thanks for your help!

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Re: Will civiEvent work for this?
February 05, 2009, 05:22:55 pm
Depending on how complicated a scenario you have - price sets may do the trick for you. Of course online seat selection would be a whole different "ball of wax" - and would require non-trivial custom coding (some folks have talked about doing this - but I haven't heard of any implementations).

Quote from: melanie_me on February 05, 2009, 10:45:52 am
I also noticed that there was a way to create custom fields, is that correct?  Could I create custom fields for patrons to purchase additional single tickets or to add a donation to their subscription?

You an record registering folks preferences with custom fields, but you have to use price set fields for anything that affects the total price of the subscription (like additional single tickets). The ability to solicit a donation along with the subscription could potentially be handled (clunkily) with price sets as well (radio button w/ fixed amounts). Providing a better mechanism for this is on the medium-term roadmap.

Quote from: melanie_me on February 05, 2009, 10:45:52 am
The application would be installed on an existing site running on PHP/MySQL.

Do check the PHP and MySQL version requirements for CiviCRM against your current server:
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melanie_me

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Re: Will civiEvent work for this?
March 29, 2009, 08:56:20 am
Specific seating isn't an issue as all season subscriptions are assigned as best available for the section a patron chooses.

I've been playing around with the demo and it looks like I will need to create a different form for each Package Type (not a big deal - there are only 5 packages.) I can easily create custom data fields to capture all the info that doesn't require a fee.  I can then use price sets to allow a patron to choose their section (which determines pricing.) I'm okay with using price sets for adding a donation to their subscription (but the ability to allow patrons to enter any amount would be fantastic!)

The problem I am running into is that I would like patrons to be able to choose a quantity for the section they are choosing as opposed to having to register multiple people.  And I would like patrons to be able to add-on additional single tickets and choose the quantity.

I guess I'm needing a way to add custom fields to price sets - is that possible?

Thanks for any help I can get!

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Re: Will civiEvent work for this?
March 29, 2009, 12:24:10 pm
You can add a field for donations like you describe - just make it text/ numeric and the quantity 1 - the actual value will be $1 * the amount entered. You could also have 'no of tickets at $50' and they can enter a quantity

http://sandbox.civicrm.org/civicrm/admin/price?action=preview&sid=1&reset=1&context=field

You can also enter $0 fields which allow you to gather info like meal options without assigning a price.

The effect is much like custom fields - its' just that each one has a value
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melanie_me

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Re: Will civiEvent work for this?
March 29, 2009, 06:12:34 pm
Thanks!  Good info for handling the donation part.

The problem I'm running into is that single tickets are priced by section and there are 10 different sections in our theatre.  Is there a way for civiEvent to allow for a dropdown selection or radio button list with an enter quantity box?

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Re: Will civiEvent work for this?
March 29, 2009, 08:22:24 pm
i think you might need to do 10 text fields with each having a value if you don't want to go near the code.

BTW have you seen this built in custom search for displaying the results?

http://sandbox.civicrm.org/civicrm/contact/search/custom?csid=9&reset=1
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