Period and punch cards

The Season and punch cards screen has two parts: Card definitions — the cards you sell — and Purchased cards — the cards customers have. Only administrators and owners can reach the screen.

Card definition

Field	Works like this
Name	Shown in the purchase window, in the cart below the slot and on the receipt.
Slug	A short name that rental slots and events can give a discount to. See discount for card holders.
Time and place	The slots the card covers. Empty means all slots at the facility. Time and place.
Price	What the card costs.
Number of months	How long the card is valid: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 or 12. Other numbers do not work.
Periodic	Off: the card is valid from the day of purchase. On: the card follows fixed periods — with 6 months, January–June and July–December — and the buyer chooses this or the next period.
Max 1 per group	The card covers only one ticket per slot. Has nothing to do with groups.
Punches	Number of slots. 0 makes the card a period card, with no limit.
Can be sold	Whether the card is offered in the purchase window.

The fields are not validated. If you type something wrong in Number of months or Punches, you get no error message.

When the card is shown for sale

A card with Can be sold on is listed in the purchase window. A card with Periodic is shown for the current period until about a month before it ends, and for the next period from about one to two months before it starts. The price is the same no matter how late in the period the card is bought.

How the card is used

For every slot Velpr calculates a price for, it first looks for a card the customer has. A card covers the slot when

1. the slot matches Time and place,
2. the slot starts between the card’s From and To,
3. the card has punches left — tickets in the cart count too,
4. the card is not Paused,
5. with Max 1 per group: the card does not already cover a ticket in the same slot.

The slot then costs 0. If several cards fit, the one with the lowest number of Punches is used first, so that punch cards are used before period cards. Slots that already cost 0 do not use punches.

Each ticket uses one punch, and the punch is counted when the order is completed.

Situation	What happens
The card is in the same cart as the slots	The card does not apply to them. The customer must buy the card first.
The customer releases a slot	The punch is used. It does not come back.
The card is used up, expired or paused	The slots cost the regular price.

Discount for card holders

If you want to give card holders a discount instead of free slots, a rental slot or an event can give a discount to punch:<slug>. That gives a lower price, but still uses a punch when the order is completed.

Purchased cards

Field	Works like this
Search by name or email	Search by name or email.
Vis pauset (Show paused)	Also shows paused cards.
Show expired	Also shows cards that are no longer valid.
Used / Punches	Punches used, and the number of punches — ∞ for period cards.
Owner	The customer who has the card.
From / To	When the card is valid. Can be changed.
Time and place	The slots this particular card covers. Can be changed for one customer without changing the card definition.
Paused	Pauses the card. It covers no slots, and the customer sees it on Min side (My page).
Pause comment	The reason, which the customer can see.

There is no button to refund, delete, give back punches or hand out a card without the customer buying it.

Change From and To with care

The times in From and To are shown two hours too early in summer and one hour too early in winter. If you change one of the dates, set the time yourself: From to 00:00 and To to 23:30. Check the dates in the list afterwards. If you only change Paused or Pause comment, the dates are not affected.

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The setup step by step: the admin guide for cards. The customer’s side: the card reference.