• When an In-House Cards card is activated, the invoice used to track all transactions for that card is created within the account specified by the pass DCI.

• In-House Cards items may be activated at the time of sale or later (by selling an activation item).

• Separate activation allows you to assign card numbers to all season passes (memberships) so that all of the passes/memberships have the potential to be used as In-House Cards items, but are activated later once guests sign-up for the program. This prevents invoices from being generated for passes/memberships that may never be used for In-House Cards items.

• Typically, an In-House Cards product such as a gift certificate would be activated at the time of sale, but a season pass or membership card might be activated at a later date.

• Activating passes together on the same line item (one line, quantity greater than one) automatically link all passes to the same invoice (good for family or group programs). Activating passes on separate line items create a unique invoice per pass/card. Remember:

• Same line item activation = same invoice

• Different line item activation = different invoice

• You can change this default behavior and never link passes/cards to the same invoice when activated on the same line item by inserting the .INI setting below in the Sales32c.INI file within the [Preferences] section (or use the Global Salespoint .INI in SysManager > Preferences > Miscellaneous). Even with this setting in place, it is still possible for an operator to manually link passes/cards to the same invoice (see Linking invoices/transferring balances). This setting simply changes the default behavior.