Create a discount for free ($0) tickets

there may be times when you'd like/are required to offer free tickets to specific patrons with the discounts feature, you can do so while still preventing the general public from accessing the free prices! this article will walk you through the specific settings you need to create such a discount creating a discount code for free tickets you will create a 100% discount code that you can hand out to any patron(s) you'd like you're able to add a ticket limit to the discount in case they only get x number of free tickets ludus will track each patron so they can't continue to use the same code over and over again in this example, let's pretend we want to offer 2 free tickets to patrons to do so next to the desired event, click pricing > discounts click the + add discount button for "code", enter the code you want to hand out (e g , 'staff2024') for "amount", type in 100 this will reduce any ticket price to zero if you set a flat amount off, it will be a fixed reduction instead of flexible, based on the starting ticket price this comes into play if you have multiple ticket types/prices to limit how many tickets they get free, check the box for "limit number of tickets the code applies to in an order" type the desired quantity into the box that appears and leave it set to per patron click +add discount at the bottom of the page there are many other settings and options you can add to your discount to make it specific to your needs for more information about the settings available for discounts, check out this article suggested article create a discount docid\ zql61l tdyd1xhmhqbpiz note worried about patrons sharing codes? don't fret! with the ludus reporting, you can easily sort your reports to see which patrons are using the discount code on their orders additionally, you can limit the amount of times a specific code can be used before it is invalid if you set this to "1", once it is used, it will not work again you can set up multiple one off discounts to provide extra security