Age-Gating
You now have the ability to age-gate an event. From this day forth, you can require users to validate their age in order to a view a certain event page.
This should help you push forward discussions with beer and liquor brands as many of the top companies (including Brown-Forman) require this sort of functionality on a sponsored event page.
In order to age-gate an event, locate the event in Radmin and click the 'Set it up to force 21+ link' under customizations (and please note that the age number will automatically reflect each metro's proper drinking age):
We also added a 'Buy VIP' ticketing option. Here's another one that can lead to more money. In addition to the regular 'Buy Tickets' link, you now have the ability to add a separate 'Buy VIP' button to an event page.
Next, add any HTML to the 'Age Gate Prompt HTML' and 'Age Gate Access Denied HTML' fields to customize the appearance of the respective modals to fit your event (we can help you with this).
Back on the Radmin event page, you can click the 'Age Prompt Page' and 'Age Denied Page' links to preview these respective pages and ensure they are set up to your liking.
Finally, return to the configuration screen and check the 'enabled' box to make age-gating live on the event.
Once age-gating is enabled, users that click through to the event (either through a direct link, front end search or from a set of event listings) will be asked to confirm their birth date.
If a user enters a birth date that is of the metro drinking age, then (s)he will be directed to the event page as normal.
If the user's birth date is under the metro drinking age, then (s)he will be directed to an 'Access Denied' screen and then re-directed to responsibility.org after 5 seconds - as per the industry standard.
If you have any questions about age-gating or would like our help optimizing your pages to meet a brand's needs, please let us know.
We hope this new functionality is a huge win for you guys and leads to lots and lots of money!
Buy VIP
The button will display on an event page once a VIP Ticket URL is added to the given event in Radmin:
Please note: the 'Buy VIP' button does not express on-sale date. It's either there or it's not. Also, the button will not display on the event cards within your listings - only on the event page itself.
More Stuff
Your home page's 'Latest' dropdown will now display all recent updates. Prior to this adjustment, visitors to a metro's home page weren't necessarily seeing an updated list of 'Latest' posts displaying in the feed - and this was due to the fact that new posts did not automatically bust the header cache. But, now they do.We fixed Page Titles' issues with ampersands. If you've ever seen something like this....
... then you'll know that /p pages were not correctly handling ampersands. Until now. The days of replacing '&' with '+' are over.
We made the 'RSVP Confirmation Email?' checkbox work. There was a bug that was preventing metros from disabling confirmation emails on a given event.
We also fixed a bug that was preventing end times from saving on Do512's SX Lens. Just in time for the festival.
Thanks so much for reading - and thanks for being the best.
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