You need to create Activities if you plan to sell Competitions and Events. If no activity is configured, you may not be able to see screens to configure Competitions and Events.
Activities are for internal classification purposes, they are never displayed to the customer.
For sports, activities can typically be named "sport" or "parking" if you plan to create matches to sell parking passes.
The start date and end date of the activity shall encompass the dates of the competition/event you plan to create. The sales start date shall be early enough to allow you to configure sales calendars with flexibility.
Keep in mind that date ranges can be changed at any time.
In the tab Parameters, you shall decide whether the activity will support options. Note these refers to standard options available only to Relays and managed from the Sales Complement screen, If you work with group sales options (pre-requests), you can click on NO.
Seat option allowed: if NO, the fields below will not be configurable.
Decrease quota availability: if YES, seats booked as options will decrease the quota for the selected category
Overbooking allowed: if YES, seats can be booked as options even above the quota
If yes, overbooking percentage/quota: if YES in the field above, determine the % of tolerance above the quota
Confirmation after setting option: number of days the customer has to confirm the option once created
Confirmation before performance: number of days before performance at which the option shall be confirmed
Outside season ticket allowed: if NO, matches/performances of this activity will only be sellable as season ticket.
The screen Administrative Numbers is displayed for information purposes only. The configuration of administrative numbers shall be done in the appropriate section.