Save on learning this year

Your success is important to us. We’re making learning easier with 50% off all 2024 Hands-On Courses at the Tessitura Training Center. Register by November 30 to take advantage of this discount. Courses are available in:

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    Fundraising

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    Memberships

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    Ticketing

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Our Hands-On Courses help students with limited to no experience in Tessitura obtain the foundational knowledge, hands-on experience and practical skills to become valued Tessitura users for their organizations.

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    Flexible schedule with 24/7 access—great for learners in any time zone

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    Personal feedback from expert Tessitura instructors

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    Access to a personal training database for practice

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    Tools to track progress and skills

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    Tessitura Training Center certificate of completion

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    Overview of Tessitura terminology and structures

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    Video lessons on fundamental topics, reinforced with quizzes and hands-on exercises

Pricing

We're offering 50% off all Tessitura Training Center Hands-On Courses. Take a course in fundraising, memberships or ticketing for only $298. Register by November 30 to take advantage of this rate.

Details & dates

  • Courses are offered in three topics: fundraising, memberships and ticketing. See below for detailed curricula. 
  • Courses are offered February through November of 2024.
  • Courses are three weeks long and begin on the first Monday of the month.
  • Registration closes on the Friday ten days prior to the course start date or whenever the course sells out. Specific close dates for each course are listed on the registration landing pages.
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If you are a member, please log in below to register. If you’re not currently employed by a Tessitura organization, please complete the form below to find out how to register for one of our paid monthly training courses.

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Fundraising

This course takes place in Version 15. We are developing Version 16 content to offer in early 2025. (If your organization uses v16, the material is relevant but the constituent interface is significantly different. This course may not be appropriate for new users with no familiarity with v15.) 

Constituent management

  • Find, create, and update constituent records
  • Manage constituent records and attributes
  • Learn to locate and understand constituent’s engagement and transactional data
  • Account management operations

Tessitura administration for end users

  • Identify, edit, and update system tables
  • Understand security permissions and data protection controls

Tracking contributed revenue and solicitation efforts

  • Understand and create coding structure for tracking contributed income
  • Create a sustainable fund structure
  • Organize and track deployment and success of solicitation efforts

Contribution processing

  • Detailed understanding of how to enter basic gifts, pledges and pledge payments
  • Manage contribution batches
  • Process new, renewal and upgrade memberships
  • Advanced contribution processing, payments, and adjustments
  • Process contributions across fiscal years
  • Process soft credits including matching gifts and donor advised funds

Membership

  • Understand the life cycle of a membership
  • Identify different types of membership structures

Moves management

  • Create a plan to support the moves management of your donors
  • Set up and navigate your portfolio of donors
  • Create and edit plans via plans maintenance

Maximizing customer service

  • Leverage the constituent record flexible headers
  • Log a customer service issue
  • Constituent Data hygiene best practices

Lists and output sets

  • Creation and application of constituent lists
  • Creation and application of output set filters for a list of constituents

Reporting

  • Schedule a report
  • Identify and understand critical fundraising reports

Donor events

  • Process event payments
  • Manage a special paid charitable event
Memberships

This course takes place in Version 16. (If your organization uses Version 15, this course would be an appropriate way to prepare for your v16 upgrade.)

Two levels of content

  • Level 1: All students learn membership concepts, front-end processing, constituent management, benefit fulfillment, and reporting
  • Level 2: Students can continue on to analytics, communications, and configuration after completing level 1
  • Earn a completion certificate for level 1 only, or certificates for level 1 and level 2

Membership concepts and examples

  • Membership structures and cycles
  • Apply memberships to different business models

Membership transactions for end users

  • Detailed understanding of how to sell transactional memberships and enter philanthropic memberships
  • Apply discounts and payments
  • Upgrade and renew memberships

Constituent management

  • Find, create, and update constituent records
  • Learn how to locate and understand a member’s engagement and transactional data
  • Account management operations

Benefits

  • Administer and fulfill membership benefits
  • Redeem membership benefits in ticket orders
  • Offer comp benefits and other adjustments

Reporting and analytics

  • Key reports for memberships and other operations
  • Understand membership dashboard reporting

Membership communications

  • Create lists and segmentation sets
  • Generate membership renewals and other membership communications
  • Output membership details

Membership configuration

  • Set up key structures including membership level benefits
  • Understand how campaigns, funds, and membership organizations work together in membership processing and reporting
  • Configure membership discounts
Ticketing

This course takes place in Version 16. (If your organization uses Version 15, this course would be an appropriate way to prepare for your v16 upgrade.)

Two levels of content

  • Level 1: All students learn ticketing concepts, basic transaction processing, constituent management, and advanced transaction processing
  • Level 2: Students can continue on to reporting, analytics, inventory management, configuration, and communications after completing level 1
  • Earn a completion certificate for level 1 only, or certificates for level 1 and level 2

Ticketing concepts

  • Ticketing products in Tessitura
  • How tickets are priced

Ticket transactions for end users

  • Detailed understanding of how to sell tickets for general admission and reserved seat events
  • Work with ticket discounts and promotions
  • Process ticket returns and exchanges
  • Sell packages

Constituent management

  • Find, create, and update constituent records
  • Locate and understand a customer’s engagement and transactional data
  • Account management operations

Advanced customer service

  • Customer-focused ticket troubleshooting
  • Prepare for customers in the venue

Reporting and analytics

  • Key reports for ticketing and other operations
  • Understand season sales dashboard reporting

Inventory management

  • Adjust when and where events are on sale
  • Create and edit pricing grids, price events, and pricing rules
  • Adjust event inventory with hold codes and allocations

Ticketing configuration

  • Set up key structures including performances, packages, and fees
  • Understand how configuration settings affect product searches and reporting

Ticketing communications

  • Create lists and output sets
  • Work with HTML templates for transactional emails

“The Tessitura instructors were GREAT teachers. I told them this is by far the best systems training class I’ve ever taken.”

Gina Gentile, The Dallas Opera
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