NEW V2.9 After the price refactoring and breakdown implemented in the previous releases for different product families, it's now time to extend this feature to the fixed price season tickets, including championship season tickets. The goal of the refactoring is to store all kinds of prices (no matter the product family, inside an advantage or not, etc.) to a price grid in a standard way so that all product families can benefit from the new features like the price breakdown.
Solution
The Bishorn V2 release will provide price breakdown for fixed price season tickets, including championships. Here are the main characteristics of this feature:
- The breakdown will be available for fixed price season tickets:
- Bought alone
- Bought by means of an advantage. As in the current situation, the advantage doesn't change the price of the season ticket. The advantage is mainly intended to provide a privileged sales period to a subset of your customers.
- External price components (which amount comes in addition to the catalog price) are also available
Set-up (see details in next section)
The set-up of the catalog price itself undergoes only minor changes, As in the current solution, the prices of a fixed price season ticket cannot be reused for another season ticket. This approach allows to keep a very simple way of setting-up prices. Indeed, prices can directly be set-up when creating the fixed price season ticket without having to assign explicitly a price grid to it.
Difference between calculated price and fixed price season tickets
The price of a calculated price season ticket is computed by adding the prices of the single events it contains. The season ticket itself doesn't have a price breakdown but some or all of the events contained in the season ticket may have one, including for the season ticket holder tariffs.
The price of a fixed price or championship season ticket is defined at season ticket level and doesn't depend directly on the price of the contained performances or matches. The price breakdown is (only) stored at season ticket level.
Advantage on ifxed price season tickets modifying the price
Currently, advantages on season tickets don't modify their price. However, thanks to the technical refactoring performed, a further development would allow to create advantages on fixed price and championship season tickets modifying their price. Such a development is foreseen but hasn't been planned yet. Note that this feature won't concern calculated price season tickets.
Getting started
Setting up the prices of a fixed price or championship season ticket
The prices are set-up exactly in the same way as before.
The price grid displays one column for each seat category for which a quota has been defined.
Mass change of prices
Let us assume that an open pass has been added to some packages and advantages. You want to modify the price of the open pass and propagate this price change to the packages and advantages using that open pass.
If you haven't defined specific prices for this open pass inside the package or advantage, the price change on the open pass is taken into account automatically
If you have defined specific prices for this open pass inside the package or advantage, you may change the price of the open pass and propagate this change to the package and/or advantage in one click by using the new button BULK EDIT PRICE FOR PRODUCT.
When you select an open pass (for example VIP Admission) and click on this button, SecuTix will display (and select by default) all the packages and advantages using that open pass. You may decide to propagate the change to a part of these packages and advantages (for example only the packages).
You may now change the prices displayed (that haven't been modified in the packages). You may also enter a price into the blue cells. A blue cell means that the prices inside the packages have been modified. The entered price will apply to the open pass and to the selected packages and/or advantages.
Setting up the price breakdown
The price breakdown uses the price components defined in the season. Please refer to Define flexible price breakdowns for the definition of the price components.
You can enter a price breakdown for each open pass price, no matter if the open pass is sold alone or inside a package or advantage. You benefit from total freedom in the sense that the definition of a price breakdown is always optional and fully independent from one price grid to another. For example, you could define a breakdown for the stand alone open pass but not for the open pass inside a package.
The set-up process is exactly the same as for the other product families. You can find more detailed information on Define flexible price breakdowns.
Reporting
The sold amounts of the price components defined above (that may need to be shared among the different stakeholders) are provided by the reporting domain "Summary of fees". An example is given below:
Documents
You can display the price components on order related documents as well as on the file summary. You will find more details here.
Data migration
You can immediately start working with this new feature and create price breakdowns for open passes. Indeed, all pricing data have been migrated to the new pricing model. The reports will only take into account the defined price breakdowns for the reservations and sales created after the definition of the price breakdown (no retroactive effect).
