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Pre-requisite: have your Organisation setup

Aim: create your sales channel and define its the main rules

A sales channel is a physical or virtual place where the audience can buy tickets.

Creation

When creating a new one you'll need to decide ifinternal or external: majority of channels are internal and it means they are linked directly to the ticketing system whereas others are external, do not access the ticketing system and ; in some situations (e.g. when using an integrated reseller platform) you may need external ones, which work on a system of contingents. An internal sales channel may have an operator (box office staff, telephone receptionistreceptionists,etc.), or be completely self-service (internetticketshop, ticket vending machine). If the sales channel does not have an operator it is linked to a virtual operator).Here are the main .

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General

In this tab you'll need to define first a name, a code and type:

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There are several types of sales channels are available: available in S-360. It is not possible to change the type once saved.
Here below you find the main types:

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Sales Channels types
Sales Channels types

Sales channels typesPurpose
MailStandard back office
Box OfficeStandard onsite box office
Phone platformBack office sales channel dedicated to take payment by telephone (MOTO payments)
Ticket vending machineFor customer self-service vending machines installed in public spaces
Realtime interfaceFor external partners using SecuTix API to do sales
Merchandise shopBack office sales channel for merchandising product families
Internet B2CInternet B2C
Internet B2BInternet B2B (for relays only, with specific functionalities for b2b customers)
Internet AgencyInternet sales channel for external resellers.
Producer/partner spaceFor external event producers (mainly to see sales and attendance reports)

Internet Lottery

Request gathering portal with lottery module

STX file

For external reseller to reintegrate sales in SecuTix via a flat file
Internet resale platformResale platform

When creating a new sales channel

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Internal stands for sales managed by the institution

External enables sales by external resellers.

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titleItalian Certification

Reselling platform are not available for Italian clients using a Certified license of S-360


You will then need to select the organization (if you manage more than one) will be linked to this sales channel.  It is not possible to change the selection once saved.

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Last filter will allow you to define which contingents can be managed through the sales channel.
Quotas and seats linked to unauthorized contingents will result not visible and unavailable.

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Parameters

Order expiry delay: duration of the cart (in hour:minutes). After this delay, the customer's cart will be emptied. If a customer add new tickets to his cart, then the delay is reset.
A value should be configured even for back office sales channels (even very high) otherwise some orders may be in progress for years and cause technical issues.

Order maximum lifespan: maximum lifespan of a cart. This overrides the expiry delay below (see more info https://confluence.secutix.com/x/XQACAw)

Contact file access: authorise it authorizes the sales channels to look for contacts in the database (put on yes to do sales associated to contacts at box office for example)

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Sender email: email address from which transactional emails will be sent for emails sent from this sales channel (ask your SecuTix account manager if you need to change the address domain because there can be deliverability impacts if you change without notifying SecuTix)). This sender email can be overwritten via a service for each email template if required.

Mode of shipment: shipments available for this sales channel (for tickets and documents). See here.

Allow additional "target group" specific shipment modes: if you use contingents of type "target group", check this box if you want to allow specific shipment modes by target groups on this sales channel

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