Fusion Ticket News - November 2010

Hello [FIRSTNAME],

Welcome to the latest edition of the Fusion Ticket newsletter. We've come a long way since PhpMyTicket and we hope Fusion Ticket has been a part of your successful event planning. If you haven't been to the Fusion Ticket site in awhile here is what we've been up to.

While Beta 6 included many new features our members requested they invariably cause problems within the rest of the program. We have addressed these and now have patches to fix most of these issues. The first patch 6.1 was released in May and the 6.2 patch in August. A further patch 6.3 has now been released for our VIP donors. Details of the new features and bug fixes are given later in this Newsletter

Fixes are always included in future, full release versions, at no charge. However, if you can not wait they are available as patches.

All patches are free to members who have made donations of $50 or more but will be made available, as an individual patch, to the general public for a donation of $12.50 or more.

Previous versions of Fusion Ticket are available for download, free of charge, from the Downloads section of the Fusion Ticket website.

Now we have almost a stable version of FT and approach the availability of a Release Candidate of the software, we are now preparing  to extend our services by offering a hosted version on our own secure Servers. This 'Software as a Service (SaaS)' will provide a fully supported hosted version of FusionTicket, together with optional Event Management, Theming, Seating Plans and Custom Development of Payment Handlers etc. to suit particular Users needs.

Adminstered by an associate Comany, Fusion Ticket Solutions, the service will have a pricing structure that ensures that, in line with the primary objective of Fusion Ticket, Amateur Societies, Charities and other non-professional Orgaisations will continue to benefit from use of the OS software with minimal hosting costs.

Further details will be announced in a Special Edition of this Newsletter shortly meanwhile if you are interested in the Service then please contact us for the latest information.

Donations
Although we try to maintain this software for as little as possible, we have working lives and other items that need doing. Your donations allow us to spend more time supporting members, developing plug-ins and additional features, instead of the bare minimum. A donation, of any amount, helps get us toward the next release and our ultimate goal.

Any member who donates over $50 per release (a feature version release), will receive Premiere status. Premiere members receive access to private sections of Fusion Ticket where mid version bug fixes, patches, and pre-release versions are available free of charge. In addition Premiere members receive enhanced priority support.

When making donations please add your Fusion Ticket login ID so credit can be given where credit is due.

• Custom Fields can be added during Event creation
• Row # and Seat # added to Receipt and Invoice PDF files
• Global Discount can be disabled after Event published
• Promotion Codes can be specified at Event level

• Export of XML files resulted in error
• Unpaid tickets were valid at Ticket taker
• Users were getting unexpectantly logged out
• Payment Accepted was displayed when Reserving Tickets
• Account Verification stopped people from purchasing
• New Patrons were not allowed in POS

• Unable to delete POS account
• Reserving Seats in POS results in unnecessary email with link to Webshop
• Ordera cannot be marked as Paid in POS
• POS icons in Overview Actions are incorrect

• Event with Sub-Events not displayed correctly in Program Tab
• email address and password verification during Registration Process prior to Checkout

• Unable to define more than 793 seats in any single Cat and Zone
• Unable to delete POS Account

If programming is not your strong suit then help other users with the software, as everyone's skills differ. Any time the programmers spend explaining something is time spent away from bug fixing or feature improvements.

You may also spend time testing for bugs, reporting them in detail, and work with the programmers, on the IRC, to correct them.

Meanwhile, making suggestions to improve usability and functionality are always welcome.

If you must remove the copyright, for any reason, please contact us to purchase the proper license.

Thank you for your help and support on behalf of Chris, Niels, Lou, Mike and all those who have contributed to the success of Fusion Ticket.

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