4.5 New Feature: Discount Report Enhancements

For a variety of different reasons, patrons to your fine facility might not want to pay full price for a ticket, and you may wish to accommodate for those reasons. You can accomplish this with discounts in Altru.

The Discount report in Altru lets you take stock of all the different reasons why someone might not have paid full price and the value of the discounts that were given. In Altru 4.5, we’ve made a few enhancements to the discount report so you can better analyze your discount usage patterns.

Report Groupings

In addition to grouping the report by Discount and User, you can now group the report by Program, Membership Level, and Merchandise.



Because of the nature of the groupings, some of these items will also act as filters, and that is detailed on the report when it runs. Specifically, Order discounts are excluded when certain groupings are used:

Promo Code Details

Prior to Altru 4.5 the Discount report would display a single line item for each Promo Code discount that had been used. Since each discount could have multiple codes, it was not possible to use the report to see the more detailed usage breakdown. In Altru 4.5 the individual codes in each Discount record now appear in their own row on the report:

Some considerations

While we are really excited about these new features, a couple of things that did not make it into this round of Altru enhancements:

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• Adjustable discount reasons – these are not detailed the way promo codes are, but it has been identified as something we want to add.
  
• Membership Group-by – this report does not yet include membership promotions added in back-office transactions.
  

We want to hear how these changes will help you use this report, so let us know in the comments!