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How to make your seating plan smaller

Sometimes, it’s necessary to make a seating plan smaller. Maybe you’ve removed some seats in the theatre and don’t want to have a seating plan with a lot of blank space in it. Start by making the status of each … Continue reading

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Use service fees to encourage online purchases

Are you charging a service fee for your online patrons but not when you sell tickets in-house. This will discourage patrons from purchasing online, which is the opposite of what you want to do. Some of our clients are encouraging … Continue reading

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“Error 2059: Unhandled Structured Exception”

When trying to print a default ticket format, or a special ticket format, if you receive this error: “Error 2059: Unhandled Structured Exception” … … That means your printer codes are not being recognized by Wintix, or haven’t been set … Continue reading

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How to get a mailing list for people who have paid for season tickets via specific pay types

Go to Mailing list | Generate a mailing list | Export email This report will include a list of everyone who has purchased a season ticket and will include all payment types originally input in Wintix under File | Payment … Continue reading

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How to find HEX colors to put in HTML

You can use HTML codes in the perfinfo1 tab to add some excitement and pizzazz to your Webtix page. The instructions are here. In one part of the post, you learn how to tell Wintix what color you would like … Continue reading

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How to print multiple tickets for multiple sales

Do you want to print multiple tickets for multiple sales without having to click Print (on the Windows printer dialogue box) for each sale? Go to File | Ticket setup Uncheck Display a prompt before printing tix. When you uncheck … Continue reading

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How to include taxes and fees into ticket price so it’s not broken out in the total price

One of our Webtix users charges sales tax and a service fee but wanted to have the customer’s receipt show the total only, not breaking out the extra fees, so it would show up as, say, $37.50 or $35.40 instead … Continue reading

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How to add a logo/image to a default or special ticket format in Wintix 6

Do you have a show that requires a unique logo or image (a special ticket format) or do you need to add a logo/image to your default ticket format? PLEASE NOTE:  Your image must be around 1″ in diameter and … Continue reading

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Authorize.net Technical Updates email

UPDATE AS OF MAY 2019 This information supersedes the instructions below that were published on April 7, 2016. At that time, you were instructed to input the text outlined in red (with “secure2.authorize.net”) for credit card processing in the Initialization … Continue reading

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Beware of spear phishing emails

Spear phishing is an email that appears to be from an individual or business that you know. But it isn’t. It’s from the same criminal hackers who want your credit card and bank account numbers, passwords, and the financial information … Continue reading

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