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Allow Customized Acknowledgement emails in Advance Sales

Being able to send email receipts in Advance Sales is great. However, we need to be able to customize a Program's acknowledgement email for Advance Sales, just like we do for Online Sales.

Our guests are receiving 2 emails (see screenshots), one the Advance Sales receipt, which I customized with the pertinent Covid visiting information and the Default Acknowledgement. Due to the nature of the Default Acknowledgement, guests are thinking we are charging them twice, keeping their card on file, or both. This is causing distrust and dissatisfaction.

We NEED to be able to customize an Advance Sales email, especially for Pre-Registered Programs, as many of us are using them for timed ticketing right now. If it is an easier option, let us turn off the default email, if they're getting an email receipt instead.

  • Laura Pickart
  • Jan 19 2021
Customer references Multiple, including members and donors
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  • Donna Yeaw commented
    24 Jul, 2023 09:00pm

    This is absolutely necessary. We welcome over 100,000 visitors per year. Many sales are Advance Sales. We have many programs that need individualized acknowledgement letters. How often does BB look at and act on these requests? Seems many are years old, yet if addressed would help your clients, which would help us elevate our customer service.

  • Wendi Ammons commented
    22 Mar, 2023 05:02pm

    Any movement on this? It's ridiculous that this isn't already functional.


  • Holly Finneran commented
    3 Oct, 2022 04:23pm

    This is insanely frustrating and makes us not want to utilize advance sales. We have different programs that need different information, the default acknowledgement does not help this problem. We might have to have our staff go back to manually sending the tickets and confirmation, but that is a waste of time, as this should already exist.

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  • Katherine Fallon commented
    16 Apr, 2021 02:35pm

    Completely agree! We use the email receipt to provide information on how to visit in person, but then if someone on staff uses Advanced Sales to reserve tickets for a virtual program, the patron is so confused as to why they got an email about how to visit onsite. I have been telling staff to use the online form to register people even if they get a phone call from a VIP, which means they have to go into Altru to get all of their contact info and then enter it manually into the webform. It's upsetting that the online custom acknowledgement isn't connected to the program no matter what the sales method it.

  • Liz Broughton commented
    22 Mar, 2021 06:45pm

    We also used Advance Sales to enter ticket sales after the fact...ie a program partner handled initial registration and then handed us the roster so we could capture participant information. I hate that we can't turn off emails for Advance Sales transactions even when selecting "No Receipt". It makes absolutely no sense that we can't adjust this functionality. and Advance Sales can't be used any more for our purposes.

  • Guest commented
    13 Mar, 2021 12:30am

    Yes, we need the ability to at least turn off the email. I have had several very anxious/upset members that received emails when they visited in person and we selected in person receipt.

  • Kiku Langford McDonald commented
    9 Mar, 2021 05:54pm

    It's really ridiculous that this features was released in the way it was. The release notes say the new feature of being able to send acknowledgement emails via Advance Sales is meant "to help you communicate important information to your patrons when they make purchases" but just sending a generic default ack email from web forms does not accomplish that goal. I could already set up the existing Advance Sales receipt to do almost the exact same thing. The important information such as ticket links, Zoom links, and other program details are still not included in EITHER of the two emails that get sent via Advance Sales.


    Why did you design the system to generate two useless emails instead of just one? Please fix this.

  • Breanne Leach commented
    8 Mar, 2021 09:12pm

    We've had to stop using Advance sales altogether (NOT ideal) as the default acknowledgement is automatic even when we click to not email a receipt. The custom acknowledgements from online sales should have always been attached to Advance sales and it's frustrating they weren't included from the start. But the automatic default acknowledgement just destroyed our ability to use Advance sales.

  • Madison Ramey commented
    26 Jan, 2021 04:54pm

    Agree so much! This is such an unfortunate update.

  • Rick Hernandez commented
    25 Jan, 2021 04:06pm

    +1 for turning off email.