Admissions Report
The Admissions Report is used to gather admission information and view admissions sold or valid during a specific date range. You can run this report by how many admissions were sold versus how many were valid during the specified period in order to track your multi-day visits. The Admissions Report can be filtered by sold on, valid on, operator, salespoint, DCI, first day of season and last day of season. The Pass Calculations tab is used to estimate pass use (so that admissions not calculated via passes can also be included in the report).
Admissions are a way to track your visitor count. Typically, a one day ticket item would be set to SysManager > Activities > DCIs > New/Edit > General tab > Admissions = 1. A two day ticket would be set to Admissions = 2. Setting admissions on appropriate items allows you to obtain a count of how many visitors you have during any given range of time. If Admissions is 2 and Time Span is 5, then, the item is good for two admissions during the five days. The default value of this field is 0. If Admissions is left at 0, the item is not included in the Admissions Report. Typically, non-ticket items (Retail module items, Food Service module items, etc.) do not require an Admission count, so are left at 0.
When running the Admissions Report, Valid Date is selected to review admissions valid for the date range. If you sell items with multiple admissions per item but have a SysManager > Activities > DCIs > New/Edit > General tab > Time Span of only a single day, you must specify how admissions are counted from SysManager > Preferences > Passes (also applies to tickets). If Admissions (front loaded) is selected, just one admission is counted per item, regardless of how many admissions are specified from SysManager > Activities > DCIs > New/Edit > General tab > Admissions. If Time Span (% spread) is selected, the number of admissions selected from the SysManager > Activities > DCIs > New/Edit > General tab > Admissions spinner are counted for the item. The Admissions or Time Span button has no effect for admissions reporting.
Also, on the SysManager > Activities > DCIs > New/Edit > General tab, the Use Admission only for price calculation check box is useful if you have multi-day items that:
1. Do not have true admissions associated with them and
2. Use the Calculate method of pricing on the Price tab.
Example:
You may have a ski helmet rental item that allows users to rent for two days. It you are using the Calculate method of pricing, you must set Admissions to 2 in order for the pricing to calculate correctly. However, a helmet rental does not reflect a true admission (visitor count) and you may not want it to be included on the Admissions Report. If not, you can check this check box and the helmet rental item does not contribute to the Admission Report totals.