What is a Custom Promotion?
Custom Promotions allow you to create and sell your own promotional products directly through your portal's CitySpark Promotions page. They appear alongside CitySpark's built-in promotions and can be positioned anywhere in the promotions list using the Sort Order setting.
Custom Promotions are a flexible way to offer advertising or marketing opportunities that are unique to your organization. Common examples include:
Guaranteed print placement
Guaranteed newsletter inclusion
Marketing packages
Social media promotions
Featured listings
Custom advertising packages
Each Custom Promotion can be customized with its own pricing, description, purchase instructions, fulfillment settings, and inventory options, giving you complete control over how the promotion is presented and sold.
Creating A Custom Promotion
Custom Promotion Information
Promotion Name: This name will be displayed to user.
Portal: The calendar associated.
Description: Will be displayed to users to describe what they are buying.
Instructions: Will be displayed to users after they have selected the promotion and are filling out the options associated with the promotion.
Price: Price as a fixed rate for each inventory unit (e.g., if sold by the week, this is the price per week)
Approval Emails: Approval notifications will be sent to all on this list. If there are multiple emails, they need to be separated by a ";" and no spaces. Example: support@cityspark.com;sales@cityspark.com.
Fulfillment Type:
Manually Fulfilled - This means CitySpark will not be responsible for fulfilling this promotion.
Facebook(CitySpark use only)
CitySpark(CitySpark use only)
Calendar Sponsorship - A calendar sponsorship is created when a portal is created, so there will already be one associated with each portal. This promotion is free for admin accounts to utilize. You put an ad in the top right corner of the calendar next to the featured events. This can be a house ad or bought by event submitters.
Auto Apply Labels: If you put a label in this field, then when that custom promotion is purchased it will be automatically applied to the event.
Sort Order: This determines where the promotion appears on the list. Default sort order of 100 comes after CitySpark built in promotions. 1-49 will place it ahead of them.
Active: This determines if the promotion is visible on the promotions page or not.
Fulfillment Settings
Image Upload: The options are No image upload, Image Upload Allowed but not Required, and Image Upload Required. It will give an image upload box at checkout.
Inventory Type:
Unlimited - With this inventory type, the promotion is not limited to dates. If Maximum buy is set to 0, and the Inventory Unit is Unlimited, they can purchase as many as they want.
Instances - The user can select what days of the promotion they want.
Duration - Users can select a date range. The dates have to be connected to be selected.
Inventory Unit: The options for this promotion are Daily, Weekly, and Monthly. With this setting you can determine what days are available, or whether you want them to purchase a week or a month at a time.
Default Available: How many of this promotion can be bought per inventory unit. Example: one per day, one per week, one per month. This can also be managed at the bottom of the page.
Availability Window: Number of days into future that inventory is made available to purchase.
Lead Time: Lead time in hours -- purchase must be made at least this many hours in advance of earliest fulfillment date.
Minimum Buy: Minimum number of instances that must be purchased
Maximum Buy: Maximum number of instances one can purchase (default to 0 to allow unlimited)