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title: Hybrid Events
slug: hybrid-events
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createdAt: 2024-01-22T15:53:45.361Z
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Hybrid seating allows an event to sell **Reserved Seating** and **General Admission** simultaneously.

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This is for the entire event and cannot be set up by event time. IE - You cannot have one event time that is General Admission, while another is Reserved Seating. 
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Creating a **Hybrid Seating Event** is done during the setup of your event. You will want to have a seating chart that has only the *reserved seats* in your space active (turned on) for sale. Seats turned off (grey) would be where the general admission seating will be available. 

During the setup of the **Hybrid Event**, you will also be asked to enter how many seats should be sold as general admission. These seats will be however many you are allowing, and are either the greyed-out seats on your chart, or they are additional seats you are not showing. 

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Be sure that you don't exceed your total seating capacity between the assigned seating chart and your general admission numbers.  The total number of seats available will be displayed on the **Hybrid Breakdown **(below).
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### Pricing Your Hybrid Event

When setting up pricing for a **Hybrid Event, **you will want to create pricing for both your Reserved Seats and pricing for your General Admission seats.  This is done under the **Pricing** button for your event.  

When you create a price type, you will **select** whether it is for **Reserved Seating** or **General Admission** seats at the top of the pricing screen.


### What does a Hybrid event look like for the admin/patron?

When you or a patron selects a hybrid event to purchase tickets from, a prompt will open asking if you want **Reserved** or **General Admission **tickets before continuing.

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Once the choice has been made, the next step will be to either select seats (**Reserved**) or enter the number of tickets needed (**General Admission**) before proceeding to the cart.

This is also true of the box office view.