Tickets Manager
Use Macros to Automatically Pre-fill Your Listing Titles, Subtitles and Descriptions
Back to Tickets Manager How to Use Menu
Use Macros to Automatically Pre-fill Your Listing Titles, Subtitles and Descriptions
Macros are placeholders that you can use in your profiles to generate initial titles, subtitles, and descriptions for your listings automatically. Your macros will automatically fill your titles, subtitles, and descriptions from the ticket information you enter on the Edit Ticket Information page. This prevents the need to cut, paste, and replace text to establish these sections of your listings. Keep in mind that you can edit and polish this information later on with just a few clicks.
- Make sure you are logged in.
- Click on the Sales Manager tab, then on the Manage Profiles link.
- On the Manage Profiles page, click the 'New' button to create a new profile, or select an existing profile and click the 'Edit' button to change its settings.
- Once inside the Edit Profile page, you can create a new profile by making changes to an existing one. Simply select the profile you want to base your changes on from the 'Current profile based on:' dropdown menu.
- Use the 'Choose macro...' dropdown menu to select the macros for your title and subtitle. In the example illustrated below, we have chosen to display the number of tickets for sale, the event name, and the date for our title. Note than you can insert text between each macro field, such as TICKETS for or on like the example below:
If you created a listing using the macros in the illustration above, the resulting title would appear like:
2 TICKETS for San Francisco Giants - Toronto Blue Jays on 4/27
When selecting the macros for your description, keep in mind that Vendio has already set up a default description for you using simple HTML. The default macros are set to display your event information neatly into two tables, with supporting bullets just below the tables, as illustrated below:
2 TICKETS for San Francisco Giants - Toronto Blue Jays on 04/27
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 04/27/04 | San Francisco Giants - Toronto Blue Jays |
| Venue | City | Seating |
|---|---|---|
| SBC Park | San Francisco, CA | Section Lower Box 101 Row 11 |
- You are bidding on 2 great Lower Box 101 seats together for San Francisco Giants - Toronto Blue Jays on Tuesday, April 27, 2004 at SBC Park in San Francisco, California. Time is 7:15 PM.
- Buy-It-Now for: 199.99
- Shipping costs are ***** for *****.
- PayPal is the preferred method of payment.
- Buy with Confidence - Our Feedback on eBay is *****
- Feel free to email us with any questions about this listing.
Depending on how you want your description formatted, you can delete or modify the HTML in the Description field. Pay close attention to the bullet points beneath the tables, which you can edit depending on your shipping costs, preferred methods of payment, feedback rating, etc.
Complete List of Available Macros
Refer to the table below for a list of the available macros, what ticket information will be displayed, and the correct profile form. Except as noted, the ticket information displayed comes from the Ticket Information column on the Edit Ticket Information page.
| Macro Name | Ticket Information Displayed | Profile Form |
| Event Name | 'Event' field | %%TIX_EventName%% |
| Venue State | 'State/Province' field | %%TIX_VenueState%% |
| Venue State (Short) | Two-letter abbreviation for the state or province, if available (All US States & Canadian provinces are supported) | %%TIX_VenueStateShort%% |
| Venue City | 'City' field | %%TIX_VenueCity%% |
| Venue Name | 'Venue' field | %%TIX_Venue%% |
| Event Month | The full name of the month in which the event takes place, as taken from the 'Month' field. Note: in order for this macro to work properly, the information in that field must be in one of the following formats:
|
%%TIX_EventMonth%% |
| Event Day | The day of the month in which the event takes place, as taken from the 'Day' field. Note: this macro only displays the numerical day of the month, without any ordinal suffixes (i.e. "th", "st" or "nd") | %%TIX_EventDay%% |
| Event Year | The full year in which the event takes place, as taken from the 'Year' field. Note: in order for this macro to work properly, the full year must be provided (i.e. "2004", not "04") | %%TIX_EventYear%% |
| Event Day of Week | The day of the week in which the event takes place, as calculated based on the 'Month, Day and Year' fields | %%TIX_EventDayofWeek%% |
| Event Day of Week (Short) | The three-letter abbreviation of the day of the week in which the event takes place, as calculated based on the 'Month, Day, and Year' fields | %%TIX_EventDayofWeekShort%% |
| Event Date (MMDDYY) | The date of the event, in MM/DD/YY format, as based on the 'Month, Day and Year' fields (i.e. 9/22/04) | %%TIX_EventDate_MMDDYY%% |
| Event Date (MMDD) | The date of the event, in MM/DD format, as based on the 'Month and Day' fields (i.e. 9/22) | %%TIX_EventDate_MMDD%% |
| Event Date (Mon/Day) | The date of the event, in Month/Day format, as based on the 'Month and Day' fields (i.e. Sep 22) | %%TIX_EventDate_MonDay%% |
| Event Date (DDMMYY) | The date of the event, in DD/MM/YY format, as based on the 'Month, Day and Year' fields (i.e. 22/9/04) | %%TIX_EventDate_DDMMYY%% |
| Event time | The time of the event, in HH:MM am/pm format, taken from the 'Event Time' field (i.e. 7:15 pm) | %%TIX_EventTime%% |
| Number of Tickets | 'Number of tickets' field | %%TIX_NumTix%% |
| Section | 'Section' field | %%TIX_Section%% |
| Row | 'Row' field. | %%TIX_Row%% |
| Seats | 'Seats' field | %%TIX_Seats%% |
| Face Value | 'Face Value' field | %%TIX_FaceValue%% |
| BIN Price | 'BIN/Fixed Price' field from the Ticket Editor page | %%TIX_BINprice%% |
| Notes | 'Notes' field | %%TIX_Notes%% |
| Event Participant 1 | The main participant in the event, as taken from the Event Catalog (for sporting events, this is typically the home team) | %%TIX_Participant1%% |
| Event Participant 2 | The secondary participant in the event, as taken from the Event Catalog (for sporting events, this is typically the visiting team) | %%TIX_Participant2%% |