Event registration types
Event registration types are like different kinds of tickets. For example, you might create registration types which differ in the following manner:
- Different prices (single ticket, special seating etc.)
- Availability (public vs. members at different membership levels)
- Start and end date (e.g. early bird prices vs. regular prices)
Registration types are created within each event. An event is only enabled for registration if there are registration types defined within it. So when an event is created from scratch at least one registration type must be defined. Copying an event from another already existing event will copy the registration types as well.
Assuming that you have created an event from scratch and clicked on the Registration types link, you will get to a screen like this:
Click on [Add type] to add a registration type, and you will see a screen like this:
- Enabled/Disabled - controls whether this registration type is activated at all
- Name - descriptive name, for example 'Member ticket', 'VIP area ticket'
- Base price - base fee for this registration type (can be $0.00).
- Availability - who can register using this type (i.e. who is allowed to purchase these type of tickets). You can make it available to:
- Everyone - available to the general public
- Members only - restrict to certain membership levels
- Registration code required - see Event coupon codes
- Available period- you can limit the ticket price to be available from or until certain date. For example you can create one type 'Early bird' with availability until July 15 and another 'Regular price' with availability from July 15
- If unavailable - here you can specify whether this particular type should be shown to those users who don't qualify. For example you might create some special tickets available only to premium members as an extra perk and you might want to hide them from everyone (in this case they will be only shown to Premium members after they login). Another example is if you create 'Early bird' and 'Regular price' as described above, you may want to show them with special formatting so that people will be aware of the deadline and price increase.
here is an example of several registration types set up:
And here is how this setup looks to the general public: (notice that VIP seating type is hidden while Member tickets is shown but grayed out)
And this is how it looks to a logged-in Golden member :
On the registration types tab you can also specify a registration message text and payment instructions:
Registration message is displayed on the event details page:
Payment instructions are shown in the final step of the registration workflow (see Online registration process).
