Age based discounts

[bolt]

I need to create a ticket system for a sporting event. There are a lot of events and tickets are offered at a discount to participants under 14. Can I add a discount for this?

[George]

Hey @bolt!

There are two main ways to go about doing this.

The first method is, when creating Tickets on an event, just create two types of tickets. Name one “Adult” or “Normal” or something like that, and have its price be the full price ticket. Then create a second ticket called “Child” or something similar, of course, and make its price whatever discounted price you see fit.

Alternatively, you can use your eCommerce system’s “coupon” functionality to just create a coupon code like youth_discount or something – you seem to be using WooCommerce, so here is WooCommerce’s documentation on its coupon system for more information: https://docs.woothemes.com/document/coupon-management/

This secondary method would allow you to just create one ticket for your events, but then let people get a 20% discount, for example, if they enter that code at checkout.

I hope either option helps – let me know what you think! 🙂

— George

[bolt]

It does seem that the best way is to create a children and an adult ticket. Since its for an multitier sports event it would have been nice when the ticket buyer entered the name of the particupants he could check an “under 14” checkmark.

By the way – the ticket buyer can enter the name of ticket holders to personalize them if he buy tickets for his friends/family?

[George]

Glad to have helped a bit, @bolt – your feedback is appreciated and note that customizations are possible with the plugin to make something like what you described (with the checkmark etc.). If you’re comfortable with code, embark on customizations yourself, but if you’re not, you can hire someone if these features are really important for your site → http://m.tri.be/18k1

When it comes to your next question about entering additional custom ticket information, this is unfortunately also not possible at this without literally customizing the code. We have a plugin coming soon that will make this easier, and although its features might just be rolled into our existing tickets plugins, if you’re interested in Beta testing this plugin when it’s available you can sign up to be notified of the Beta here → https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/signup-for-beta-access/

Check the box for the “Tickets Meta” beta-test and we’ll let you know when we have some code ready to play around with 🙂

Cheers!
George

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