Price bands, colours and the buyer view

Price bands are how the same map charges different amounts for different parts of the house. Prices are set per performance; the band is the part of the map they apply to. In the free plugin a band takes a colour from a built-in palette. In Pro you choose it.

Band colours

The Price bands panel in the designer lists every band with a fill and an outline colour. Pick whatever suits your venue; the legend under the buyer's seat picker names each band and its price, so colour is never the only cue.

Colours belong to the venue, so a change applies to every performance at that venue at once.

Colour guidance

The designer checks the colours you choose and says when one will cause trouble:

• an outline that is hard to see against its fill (it aims for 3:1);
• seat numbers that will be hard to read on the fill (it aims for 4.5:1);
• two bands that look alike, including to people with red-green or blue-yellow colour blindness, which is about one man in twelve;
• a band close to your brand colour, which marks a chosen seat, so buyers may think those seats are already picked;
• a band that looks like a sold seat, which is grey.

It is guidance only. You can keep a colour it warns about.

The buyer view

Under Buyer view you choose what buyers see on the plan:

• Show seat numbers on the plan. Buyers always see the seat name in the tooltip, in list view and in the basket; this also prints it on the seat itself.
• Text on each seat: the number only (7) or the row and number (E7).
• Show row letters beside each row.

These apply to the seat picker on your site and to the same picker at the box office till.