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PatronManager Instructor-Led Training Sessions Menu

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In conjunction with our Help tab materials and our webinars, we offer select group training sessions on standard PatronManager topics to help you dive deeper into your PatronManager education. Check out the upcoming calendar and sign up for sessions you're interested in!

Before you attend any session, we require all attendees to complete your PatronManager User Certification.

Want a safe testing environment to do some hands-on learning? You can optionally create a training sandbox.

Upcoming Session Calendar

Click here to see the calendars and register for upcoming sessions

Note: Session registrations close 24 hours before the scheduled session start time.

Development/Fundraising

We'll introduce you to the best practices for finding new potential donors, managing incoming donations, and tracking and organizing your donations.

Prerequisites

Be sure to complete your PatronManager User Certification before attending, and double check you've watched our video tutorials on entering Donations and refunding Donations.

Agenda

  • Donation entry
  • Acknowledgements
  • Online Donation Form management
  • Reporting for Development
  • Campaigns (brief overview)
Marketing

We'll walk through our Marketing best practices - the features to use for success, our most highly recommended reports, and how to build lists for Emma or MailChimp.

Prerequisites

Be sure to complete your PatronManager User Certification before attending.

Agenda

  • Basics of PatronChimp Static Segments / Emma Groups
  • Reporting for email and direct mail, including CRM Snapshots
  • Discount codes, access codes, passcodes
  • Campaigns  
Reporting

We'll cover all your reporting options, the anatomy of a report, and our best practice recommendations for reporting.

Prerequisites

  1. Complete PatronManager User Certification
  2. Read through our article All About Reporting
  3. Learn about the Report Finder and how to use it

Agenda

  • Your reporting toolbelt:
    • Report Finder
    • Financial Reports
    • CRM Snapshots
  • Customizing reports
    • Report types
    • Filters and Fields
    • Anatomy of a report
    • Cross filters
  • Subscribing to a report
  • Dashboards and Charts
  • Reporting best practices
Box Office Selling & Operations

This training is focused on box office operations in PatronManager.  This will include how to sell, exchange, and refund tickets, as well how to sell subscriptions. We'll also cover qualification and why that's important, printing tickets, and searching for ticket orders.

Prerequisites

Be sure to complete your PatronManager User Certification before attending.

Agenda

  • Event inventory structure
  • Selling, refunding, and exchanging single tickets
  • Selling and fulfilling subscriptions
  • Qualifying a Ticket Order
  • Ticket printing
Box Office Administration / Box Office Management

This training includes instructions on setting up Ticketable Events in the Event Inventory, managing Price Levels and Allocations, setting up Discount Codes and Access Codes, Fee setup, and confirmation emails.

For training on selling tickets and processing refunds or exchanges, check out our Box Office Selling & Operations training session.

Prerequisites

Be sure to complete your PatronManager User Certification before attending.

We also recommend reading and watching the content laid out in the Build Events and Subscriptions Learning Path (if your organization doesn't sell subscriptions, you can skip the Subscriptions section).

Agenda

  • Event building
    • Event Inventory tab anatomy
    • Public Site: settings and setup
  • Ticket printing
  • Reporting for Box Office
Subscription Administration/Building

The Subscription Administration/Building training covers subscription structure and the basics of setting up all three subscription types: Fixed, Pick Later, and Choose Your Own.

We'll also cover best practices for planning your season, and for mixing in-person and virtual events.

Prerequisites

Be sure to complete your PatronManager User Certification before attending.

We also recommend reading and watching the content laid out in the Build Events and Subscriptions Learning Path.

Agenda

  • Subscription Types 
  • Setting up Subscription packages
  • Linking Events and Instances to Subscriptions
  • Reporting on Subscription sales
Subscription Reporting and Renewals

The Subscription Reporting & Renewals training session includes a tour of the best CRM Snapshots and Reports to use for contacting subscribers, as well as a demo of the Subscription Renewal process: Creating Subscription Series, Managing Seat Assignments, and creating Pending Renewal Orders.

Note that Subscription Renewals (via the Subscription Renewal Tool) are only available for Fixed subscriptions.

Prerequisites

Be sure to complete your PatronManager User Certification before attending.

We also recommend reading and watching the content laid out in the Build Events and Subscriptions Learning Path (if your organization doesn't sell subscriptions, you can skip the Subscriptions section).

Agenda

  • CRM Snapshots and Reports for contacting subscribers
  • Creating Subscription Series for renewal
  • Managing Seat Assignments
  • Using the Subscription Renewal Tool to create Pending Renewal Orders
Memberships & Benefits

We'll outline the process of using PatronManager's built-in Memberships and Benefits feature, and cover setting up Benefits, setting up and managing Membership packages, selling Memberships, applying Benefits, and reporting on Memberships and Benefits. 

Note this training will only cover our best recommended practice of Memberships as Tickets. Memberships as Donations will not be covered in this group training session.

Though you may use Memberships without PatronPortal, the experience is much greater with Portal.

Prerequisites

Be sure to complete your PatronManager User Certification before attending.

We also recommend reading and watching the content laid out in the Build Events and Subscriptions Learning Path (if your organization doesn't sell subscriptions, you can skip the Subscriptions section).

Finally, get familiar with the feature via our All About Memberships article.

Agenda

  • How to set up Benefits
  • How to set up Memberships (using PatronManager's built-in Membership feature)
  • Selling a Membership
  • Applying Benefits
  • Reporting on Memberships

Recorded Sessions

Development Passcode: n=Ov3ytC (recorded 1/24/24)

Marketing Passcode: &J6y4JzF (recorded 1/31/24)

Reporting Passcode: v9.4VKnV (recorded 2/14/24)

Box Office Users (Selling & Operations) Passcode: taF5@V&4 (recorded 6/7/23)

Box Office Administration / Box Office Management Passcode: Z.?Yp4.! (recorded 2/28/24)

Subscription Administration Passcode: bkJM$13& (recorded 3/1/23)

Memberships & Benefits Passcode: I%D?WYY3 (recorded 2/7/24)

Subscription Renewals Passcode: !3OL.bZ= (recorded 9/20/22)

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