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Hi, we are using CiviEvent for course registrations.

We offer different options for each course with a different cost.

We would like to list the options and their $ value and have the user select that when registering but only actually process a charge for a uniform deposit fee, regardless of the actual option value chosen.

I played with price sets and setting the option value to hidden and putting the price in the label field, this kind of works except you cant put the $ symbol as it fails validation for that field. It also gets a bit tricky with the confirmation page displaying "Event total $200" when it is really only the deposit.

Does anyone have a suggestion for this?

TIA

Yes I pondered that path also, one of my considerations is having less experienced users managing the events and it is so tidy having the course fees administered within the event management process (and not having to go out to custom data to add or change something).
My users are going to be struggling for a while to get their heads around the CRM side of things after working in spreadsheets

I have hit on a possible workaround where if I can modify the layout/order of the elements in $form.amount.html (which you have kindly pointed me to buildAmount hook in another post) I think I can just make all fees the same (the course deposit fee) and use the description to differentiate the courses so it is clear what they are choosing and paying for, however in Register.tpl, $form.amount.html is a pre composed/built element and despite you pointing me in the right direction I still cant find where to tinker with it

(your post suggesting buildAmount hook - http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,9141.msg39351.html#msg39351)

Thanks for your time.