{"id":1245989,"date":"2017-02-26T03:21:26","date_gmt":"2017-02-26T11:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/event-ticket-types-when-to-use-independent\/"},"modified":"2017-02-28T08:48:44","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T16:48:44","slug":"event-ticket-types-when-to-use-independent","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/event-ticket-types-when-to-use-independent\/","title":{"rendered":"Event Ticket Types &#8211; when to use &quot;Independent&quot; ??"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I understand when to select &#8220;use global stock&#8221; &#8211; this is probably the simplest setting which simply reduces the global stock by 1 for each ticket sold until there&#8217;s nothing left if global stock.<\/p>\n<p>But why would you use global stock and select that option? Wouldn&#8217;t you just create a ticket without selecting &#8220;enable global stock&#8221; and set the ticket quantity to 50?<\/p>\n<p>I understand when to select &#8220;use global stock but cap sales&#8221; &#8211; when you might have 100 seats in total but need to cap sales of a particular ticket to 50.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s REALLY where &#8220;enable global stock&#8221; is required&#8230; but only if you have more than one ticket type, right?<\/p>\n<p>But under what circumstances would someone select &#8220;enable global stock&#8221; and then add a ticket of &#8220;independent&#8221; which ignores the global stock level? Let&#8217;s say you have 2 ticket types and a global stock of 100.<\/p>\n<p>children tickets &#8211; use global stock and limit to 75<br \/>\nadult tickets &#8211; use global stock and limit to 25<\/p>\n<p>And then if you wanted another ticket type using &#8220;independent&#8221; (for whatever reason):<br \/>\nVIP tickets &#8211; independent with 30 available<\/p>\n<p>Then why would you just set global stock to 130 and have three tickets like this:<br \/>\nchildren tickets &#8211; use global stock and limit to 75<br \/>\nadult tickets &#8211; use global stock and limit to 25<br \/>\nVIP tickets &#8211; use global stock and limit to 30<\/p>\n<p>??<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1245989","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Event Ticket Types - when to use &quot;Independent&quot; ?? -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/event-ticket-types-when-to-use-independent\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Event Ticket Types - when to use &quot;Independent&quot; ?? -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I understand when to select &#8220;use global stock&#8221; &#8211; this is probably the simplest setting which simply reduces the global stock by 1 for each ticket sold until there&#8217;s nothing left if global stock. 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