I have been asked if I can set up an online registration site for a karate tournament next March.

 

Karate Dojos need to be able to go to the site and register for which events they want to enter, the number of people entering and pay for each event. It also needs to allow a £5 discount on a 2nd, 3rd 4th event being entered.

 

For example: If 10 people are each entering 3 events the cost would be £15 x 10 for the 1st event, and £10 x 10 for the 2nd and 3rd.

 

I've seen an example of this, but I haven't a clue of the best way of creating my own. I have looked into Shopify, but it doesn't seem to give the discount options I need.

 

If anyone has any advice on this, it would be greatly appreciated.

 

Cheers.

 

Shaun

Would something like this work? I've used Eventbrite before and it's really good.

Thanks Jack.

 

I've had a look and I'm not sure it would work for what I need. The tournament has around 100 categories that can be entered, and needs to be able to offer the discount on the 2nd event etc entered.

 

It seems that the discount option is what is causing the biggest problem. If all the prices stayed the same or if the multiple event discount applied to every event after the 1st, then any e-commerce software would be fine.

 

I did find a sport tournament organiser website that looked promising, but it only worked in the US and not UK!

Any half decent shopping cart system could work here. The key is to use an automatic discount mechanism to reduce the price of any subsequent "product" so long as one has been ordered at full price.

That's what I thought, but I think my problem is that because I'm new to the e-commerce side of things I don't know what I'm looking for!

OK you need a cart system that does:

 

1. Allows you to specify custom text input fields for a product (to collect entrants name, age etc)

 

2. Allows you to specify a pre populated custom text field for a product (so you can populate with your "category names", ie so the entrant is assigned the correct tournament group)

 

3. Has a discounting mechanism whereby if you order 1 of a product, then subsequent purchases of the same product are discounted by £5 (this is a pretty common facility in most cart systems)

 

Of course another way of approaching it is to have 2 products, one for the first item (£15), then a second for additional items (£10 each). The logic here is when you add the first £15 item you then offer the customer the option to buy extra £10 items - they can then add as many £10 items as they wish..

http://www.hotscripts.com/category/scripts/php/scripts-programs/e-commerce/ - big list of cart systems