Help System

Ticket Types

Tick-It! Trak Pro allows you to create a limitless number of ticket types for your use. The forms for creating and managing taxes look like this:

Using the List Window displayed above, you may create a limitless number of ticket types, to suit your specific needs. Double Click on an existing ticket type to edit it, or click on the ADD button to create a new one.

You can assign a Name, a Color, a Printer Command and a Default Price for each ticket type. As you assign ticket types to attraction schedules, you can change the price, the default price just pops in as a suggestion. If you put the most commonly charged price for your tickets as the default, this will speed data entry later during the schedule building.

The color you choose for the ticket is the color that will be used to display reserved seating charts when you request a view by Ticket Type. It would be best to avoid really dark colors, since that would make the labels in seating chart display difficult to read. In the example above, we selected a light gray, for Seniors.

If you want certain ticket types to cause specific printer actions, you can put a special printer command in for each ticket type. For example, if you were using a Boca Dual Mini printer, which allows for the printing of tickets on two separate stocks, you might want your ADULT tickets to print on a different stock than all your other ticket types. You could put the command <P2> in the ADULT ticket printer command, to tell the Boca Dual Mini to select the second paper path, and put the command <P1> in the other ticket types, as shown in the example above. Usually the printer command is simply left blank.

You can specify which of the 5 virtual ticket printers you want tickets of that type to print on. For normal ticket printing to the printer specified in the Attraction Record, Select Use Printer Specified by Attraction. This is represented by the number 0 in the database. To direct tickets of a particular type to be routed to a specific printer, select that printer number, 1 through 5. Values outside this range are treated as zero. In the first example illustration above, all tickets will print normally, except for CHILD, which will always be directed to Printer 2, and the COMP and MILITARY tickets, which will be directed to Printer 3.

You can specify which ticket format you want tickets of that type to use. For normal ticket printing using the format specified in the Attraction Record, Select Use Format Specified by Attraction. This is represented by the number 0 in the database. To use a different format, select that format in the pull down list. In the first example illustration above, all tickets will print normally, except for COMP, which will always use format number 4.