One of the goals of BuyPlayTix is to be a great starting point for small theater companies, and to provide the features they need to grow.

There are a lot of features that are not used by the majority of users, so starting with release 3.5, they’re going to be hidden.

If you go to Productions->Global Settings, and click on the ‘Extensions’ tab you’ll see the following:

By checking these boxes, new features will show up in BuyPlayTix. Let’s go over them, one by one:

Enable Shopping Cart
The shopping cart lets the user add more than one ticket before checking out. This is especially useful if you have more than one show running at a time, or if you have multiple prices (for instance a customer wants to buy 1 student ticket and 2 full price tickets).

Enable Passes
There are currently two pass types - Festival and Season passes. Enable this feature if you would like to offer one of these pass types to your customers.

Box Office
Most companies will simply print out their reservation list and record their box office manually, but the Box Office software is to help you take tickets at the actual event. It lets you keep track of walkups, season passes, and reservations. It also offers some advanced reporting.

Those are all the extensions for now. Let us know what you would like to see, and how we could make BuyPlayTix simpler for you!