Creating payable events on the Community Portal

You can create payable events that are displayed on either:

• Events tab of the Community Portal
• Payments tab of the Community Portal
• Public events booking webpage.
  

To create a payable event:

1. Create the event in Events Maintenance. See Creating new events in the Development manual.
2. On the Event tab of Events Maintenance, ensure the following fields are populated:
   
   • Event Date From and To
   • Max Attendance
   • Max Tickets per Attendee if you want to limit the number of tickets an individual guest can purchase.
   
   
   See Events Maintenance - Event tab in the Development manual.
3. On the Web tab, ensure:
   
   • Show on Web Site field is selected
   • Available in Public field is selected, if you want to display the event on your organisation's public events booking website
   
   Important: You must have a staff member selected in the Staff 1 field when creating public events because attendees are added as guests of this staff member. See Events Maintenance - Organisers/Staff tab in the Development manual.
   
   • Publish Date From and Publish Date To fields are populated
   
   Note: These fields determine the period of time the event is displayed online.
   
   • Payment Option drop-down list is populated with an event payment type.
   
   See Events Maintenance - Web tab in the Development manual.
4. On the Attributes tab, add an attribute to the event for each type of ticket you want to see. For example, Adult, Student, Concession.
   
   See Events Maintenance - Attributes tab in the Development manual.
5. On the Current Attendees tab, invite the community members you want to attend the event.
   See Events Maintenance - Current Attendees tab in the Development manual.
6. Click .
   The event is displayed on the portal to the community members you have invited, for the dates you have specified.