Limited number of discounts on one price in multi-price events

[Anonymous]

I need to find out the abilities and limitations of EME for combinations of discounts, multiprice events, and limited number of a particular discount.

Here’s one example:
I have an event with max 14 seats.
There are two prices – 360 individual, 310 if two or more register at once.
That I can set up no problem.

However I also want to provide a limited number of discounts on only the 360 individual price (NOT on the “two or more at once” price of 310).
For example, the first five people registering individually get a discount of 50.

Is there any way to do this? I have experimented some but cannot find a way to set it up.

If I could specify number of seats for each price that would do it, I would just make five seats at 310 individual registration, but that does not appear possible. Seems that number of seats can only be set for the event as a whole, not for the different prices.

thanks,
John S.

[Franky]

Enter as seats “5||355” for seats and “310||360” for the price.

[Anonymous]

Great, thank you! That works. I would never have understood this from the multi-seat events documentation page (14). The words there make sense after seeing this example, but a simple example in the doc page would really help. My final example if you want to use it is:
14 total seats.
360 price for regular individual registration.
310 discount price for first five individual registrations.
310 discount price per person for two or more registering together.
In the RSVP fields it looks like:

Spaces: [14||5||14]
Price: [360||310||310]

In the template:
Regular individual registration – $360 each: #_SEATS{1}
First five discount individual registration – $310 each: #_SEATS{2}
Two or more registering together discount – $310 each: #_SEATS{3}

[Anonymous]

Testing this, and there is another complication.
Registering someone in one category does not reduce total number of seats available for the whole event.
Example:
I register one person at the “First five” discount (see above example).
Then the registration form shows only 4 available for that, but still shows 14 available for the two other options.
But I have set 14 seats total in the RSVP settings. So I would expect all options to show one less seat (13 for the other two options).
Do I need to change some other RSVP settings to make this work?
Or is it not supported?

thanks,
John

[Anonymous]

To clarify further – I am not using a fixed number of seats at each price, which I now understand the “multiseat” documentation describes. So I understand why that only reduces the number of seats in one group of seats.

I have a total number of seats for the event – 14 – and three prices/options for buying one or more of those 14 seats.
In this use case, each seat purchased at any price/option needs to reduce the total number of seats available in all three of the prices/options.

Is this possible? Or not supported?
Maybe it could be done with discounts? I read the docs and experimented some, but do not understand the discount mechanism well enough to know if that would work.

thanks,
John

[Franky]

I specified my example based on your query: “If I could specify number of seats for each price that would do it, I would just make five seats at 310 individual registration, but that does not appear possible. Seems that number of seats can only be set for the event as a whole, not for the different prices.”

Multiseat/multiprice events are exactly that. But it is a seat category, meaning a booking in one price category will not decrease the total number of seats in another.

I’m guessing you need a discount of type ‘code’, where you then code your wanted result.
See http://www.e-dynamics.be/wordpress/category/documentation/17-discounts/ for a starting example. You’ll need to do some coding yourself there …

[Anonymous]

Yes, and thank you, I understand that now – had to try it first to see what multi-seats actually means.

I do not want to get into custom coding for the code-based discount.
I think maybe I can use fixed discounts per seat, if I have just one base price.
I will try that and if I am not understanding something I’ll start a separate thread.

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