Events with multiple price categories

If you offer events that have distinct pricing for different audience members, Corsizio provides you with the ability to offer multiple-price categories on registration forms. This feature is configured and enabled per event, not account-wide, and you can customize and label multiple price categories any way you need for your event.

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Multiple price category uses

Here are some examples of when multiple price categories may be required for an event:

  • Age-related pricing options, such as Child, Adult, and Senior
  • Status-related pricing options, such as Member and Non-Member
  • Time-related pricing options, such as Half Day, Full Day, and Full Weekend
  • Package-related pricing options, such as Single Class, 3 Class Pass, and 5 Class Pass
  • Sliding scale options, such as High Income Standard Fee, Mid Income Reduced Fee, Low Income Minimum Fee
  • Pay-what-you-want option for donations and gratuities

How to use the multiple price category feature

To enable this pricing feature for an event, follow these steps: STEP 1: From your Corsizio dashboard, go to Step 2 – Pricing & Payment of the event for which you want multiple price categories. STEP 2: By default, the event configuration shows a single price setting. Therefore, select the "+ Add another price category" to open up the full configuration options for this feature.

STEP 3: Fill in the Label and Price of your first category, and use the "+Add another price category" to add as many price categories as you need. You can re-order, disable, or remove price categories at any time.

STEP 4: If you would like to add any information about who may qualify for any given price category, provide an "Optional short description" of your price category. The "Show additional options..." will expose this field for each price category.

STEP 5: If you are offering an early-bird price, configure this feature and check the box "Enable early-bird price" for every price category that you want it to apply to. Additionally, if you offer coupons or volume discounts on the event and want them to apply on top of the early-bird discount, check the box "Discountable early-bird".

STEP 6: If you would like to give your attendees the option to provide a flexible amount as payment for the event based on what they can afford or some other criteria, check the box "Allow the entry of a variable amount as the price" for any price category that you want it to apply to. You must still enter a price for any variable price category, which will be used as the lowest acceptable amount that the registrant can enter. Note: Coupons, early-birds, or other additional discounts cannot apply to such variable price categories.

STEP 7: If you would like to allow other discounts, such as coupons or volume, to apply to any of your price categories and reduce their price accordingly, check the box "Allow discounts to apply to this price" for any price category that you want it to apply to. Recall from step 5 above that coupon discounts will not apply to the early-bird price, if you have one, unless you also check the box to make it discountable.

STEP 8: Once you have set up and configured all your price categories, decide if you want the price to show or be hidden by checking the appropriate boxes. By default, event prices are shown on your public-facing pages and not hidden.

  • If you check the box "Hide pricing from public list view", this will hide the price of this event on the event list view only on your event portal site.
  • If you check the box "Hide pricing from all public pages", this will hide the price of this event everywhere, including the event portal site, event page, and embed cards, except on the registration form for the event.

STEP 9: When you are finished configuring this step, Save & Exit, or proceed to the next step.

How other pricing features impact multiple price categories

  • Early Bird: This can be customized for each pricing category. Each price category can have its own unique early-bird price enabled or disabled.
  • Coupons: You can enable coupons for multi-price category events like any single-price category events. Enabled coupons will apply to the event price unless you indicate that a specific price category is not discountable, as described in the steps above. 
  • Volume Discounts: If a volume discount is enabled on the event, it will count all registrations for that event in the same way. This means that any discountable price category within a multiple-person registration flow will count towards the volume discount.
  • Add-ons: You can offer as many add-ons as you need for the event, and they will all show up on the registration form in the same way, regardless of what price category an attendee selects. If you need to differentiate add-ons in some way, such as what price category should correspond to what add-on, you can do this by providing a short description of each add-on when configuring it, but it is not something that the system will control or regulate.
  • Variable Price Amounts: You can enable a variable price to be allowed for any price category, but coupons, early-birds, or other additional discounts will not apply to variable price categories.
  • Taxes: You can turn taxes on or off for an event with multiple price categories. However, if you turn taxes on, you cannot have them apply to some price categories but not others on the registration form. Taxes always apply to the total amount due on every registration for the event when taxes are turned on for the event.

How multiple price categories are displayed

  • On the event page and event portal site, your customers will see the lowest price option listed (including any early-bird pricing that may be in effect), preceded by the word "from".

  • On the registration form, your customers will see all of the price options in the order that you present them (including any early-bird pricing and descriptions).

  • In the Attendees section of the event, you have the option to filter by price category to quickly and easily locate attendees from within any of your price categories.

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