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An event is what you sell: a concert, a talk, a class. In this episode we create an

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event, add its ticket types, add a performance with its date and prices, and put it

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on sale.

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In the menu, under Events, choose Events.

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The list shows every event with its venue and its status. There are none yet, so we

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start with a new one.

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Press New event.

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Give the event a name, and a description if you like. Ours is a Summer Jazz Night.

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The venue is the place it is held at, and the store is the one that sells the

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tickets. We choose Main Street. The booking fee is charged once for every ticket. We

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set two dollars.

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The refund cutoff is how many hours before a performance a ticket can still be

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returned without a manager. The most tickets per order limits one purchase. Re-entry

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says whether a ticket that has been scanned can be used again. We keep the usual

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choices.

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Press Create event.

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An event needs ticket types, such as Adult and Child. Press Add ticket type, give it

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a short code and a name, and add it.

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Add a Child type in the same way. A paid type has a price for each zone. A

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complimentary type is for free tickets, which are covered in a later episode.

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Both types are listed with their code, their name and their kind.

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Press Publish. This makes the event's product in your catalogue, with one variant

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for each paid ticket type, so the register and the online store can sell it.

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A performance is one showing of the event, on a seat map. Scroll down to

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Performances, and press Add performance.

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The seat map is chosen here. Only published seat maps of the venue are offered.

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Below it, all the times are read at the venue's own clock, in the time zone shown

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above.

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Press Starts to choose the date, and then the time. We pick a date a week from now,

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at eight o'clock in the evening.

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The end and the time the doors open follow from the start, and you can change them.

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Sales open and Sales close are optional: sales open when you publish, and close when

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the performance starts.

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Press Create performance.

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The price grid has a row for each zone of the seat map, and a column for each paid

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ticket type. Type the price of every ticket. A cell left empty means that type is

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not sold in that zone.

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Press Save prices.

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Now scroll up and press Publish. The performance goes on sale at once, and a place

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is made for every seat on the map.

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At the bottom, the seats and blocks section shows every seat live: how many are

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free, held by a sale in progress, sold, or blocked. We come back to it when we sell

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tickets.

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Go back to the event with the arrow at the top. The performance is listed with its

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date, its status, whether it is on sale, how many tickets are sold, and how many

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places are left.

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The event is on sale. In the next episode, we sell tickets for it at the register.