Last Saturday, before the show, the Executive Committee had a preliminary meeting about starting to accept credit cards at the theatre....using one of those Square Readers.
There was a lot of discussion. The President had included his wife since she is our bookkeeper.
I asked her if it was something she wanted us to do, since it would mean some extra work for her, and she said yes. I personally think it's TOO expensive for us....because we would then have to add a service charge which I think people would HATE.
And there was much discussion about how to keep track of purchases if more than one thing was purchased....i.e. a season ticket and a donation OR a ticket and a box of popcorn....all of those things are separate line items.
ANYWAY - day before yesterday the president sent an email to members of the Executive Board saying just forget the whole thing because we were not cooperative and resistant to change and would do nothing to help Brenda separate the purchased items and he was going to tell the board the EC argued too much, so forget it.
I emailed back and said, I thought that was just a first discussion and we were going to talk about it more.
No response.....which is fine. I would just as soon NOT take cards....right now we take telephone reservations and people pay when they get their tickets. Now and then somebody doesn't show up....maybe 4 tickets for the run of the show. If they have to pay for the tickets on the phone by card - which takes a lot of time - I would say that our reservations will drop considerably...although our walk in business might pick up.
