TOPIC: Registering multiple items rather than people

Does anyone have a suggestion on how to set up registration for my gingerbread house event?

Rather than selling tickets for individuals, we are selling kits at $30 per kit. There could be any number of people building the house, and we don't mind (I'll just include a text field for that data).

We want to allow a registrant to buy multiple kits (in the past people have bought 1, 2 3 or even 4 kits each). Because of space and the need to order materials, we are limiting the events to 75 kits.

How can I allow people to buy varying numbers of kits and yet still keep count of them?

• I don't want to use radio buttons with selection limits because I can't predict how many people will buy in each category.
• The only other way I can see to add them up reliably is to ask multiple kit buyers to register once for each kit, which is a bit awkward.
• Is there another way you can suggest?

Any help gratefully received. This is now quite urgent as advertising has gone out.

Thanks,
Fergus

Hello. This is a rare situation where you can't accomplish exactly what you are needing to do... not exactly. The best way for the end-user would be to use the custom fields as you said (but not with selection limits) so they can register one time and just mark how many kits they need. This way however, you will not have an accurate capacity check. The admin would just have to keep an eye the registrations and once there are 75 kits sold, manually go into DT Reg and close registrations. You could do that quickly by putting in a Close Date which matches the current date or anything earlier. While this is not super convenient, it's not hard either. It would take about 15 seconds

If you have to have the capacity check automatically, the only way in this case would be to use group registrations. Then you would have to gather info for each member (or kit). This could just be a name at a minimum, but you can of course customize this to gather whatever you need for each kit.

So, two ways to go... just depends on whichever gets closest to what you want. We will soon have additional group registration options that address this type of need. Thanks. hope this helps.

I did something similar for a program we had in September

make a free event with individual registration
add a textual field for instructions for the next two fields
add a required field "number of kits" with a fee - this will calculate the price at checkout
add a required field "number of people in your group" no fee