How To Host A Party Using The Parti Payments Feature
Become An Experience Creator For Fun Or To Make Money Or Both!
Using the Parti Payments feature on the ComeWith mobile website and progressive web app, Experience Creators can set prices for menu items and mark them up for a profit or get a percentage commission or discount on the tab for the entire party. The terms of how this works depends on your agreement with the venues.
Many venues are open to providing discounts in exchange for bringing in large groups of Customers. The Parti Payment feature provides individual checks and payment using your phone. Using ComeWith to order and pay reduces server workload by 90%. As a result, most venues are willing to work with Experience Creators to have parties at pubs, bars and restaurants.
Steps For Setting Up An Experience On ComeWith With Parti Payments
There are a few steps for setting up an experience with Parti Payments. It sounds like a lot, but once you get familiar with the app you will see how easy it is.
1. Create an account at https://app.comewith.co/register/ if you don’t have one already. Make sure you click on the links in the messages sent to your email and via text so you can receive notifications and messages from other guests and people in your network.
2. Send an email to support@comewith.co with your email and username and ask to have the Parti Payments feature enabled on your account.
3. Create an experience detail page for your event. There are two places where you can do this. Look for the plus sign on the app home page or down in the lower right hand corner at the bottom of the experience search results page. Tap on the plus sign to create a new experience.
4. Enter the details of your experience. Add a photo that captures the feeling of fun and joy your guests will experience at your party! Make sure you enable the Parti Payments feature by toggling the switch to the on position.
5. Check your point-of-sale (POS) settings. You don’t have to make money hosting parties. You could just do it for fun and pay the regular menu prices for your food and drink items. However, if you’re interested in making a few bucks on the event, there are two features that are helpful.
Go to the three dot menu in the upper right hand order of your experience detail page. Tap on the menu and select POS settings.
Parti Payments supports two types of discounts 1) Happy Hour and 2) Volume discount. Select the appropriate incentive type based on your deal with the venue.
For Happy Hour, you will enter the discounted price into the item details and the app will add the markup percentage. The default is 100%, which doubles the item price. For example, if drinks are $7 on the Happy Hour menu, the app will mark up the item to $14 for your guests. You will pay $7 to the venue and collect $14 from your guests, allowing you to make $7 on every drink sold.
For Volume Discounts, you will receive a % discount on all menu items. This will enable you to collect full price from your guests and pay a discounted price for the items based on a percentage discount.
Both Happy Hour and Volume Discounts are default settings for all items in your menu. You can override all unit costs and prices for each item individually if you want to deviate from the default POS settings.
Most venues like to have automatic gratuity for large parties. Set the gratuity amount consistent with the venue’s policy or based on what you negotiated with the venue.
6. Create your menu. Tap on the Menu button on the experience details page. Here you can add menu items to the menu. There are two lines of costs and prices for each item. The first line is used if you have Happy Hour incentives turned on in the POS settings. The second line is used if you have Volume Discounts incentives turned on in the POS settings. Enter each item and save your menu.
If you are using a menu that has been created before or if the venue has created a menu for you, then you can simply import the menu into your experience using the Import from Previous Menu feature.
7. Promote your Party! Now that you have an experience details page and a menu set up, you can tell everyone about your party and ask them to ComeWith you! Every experience detail page has a unique link. Just copy the link and send it over email, text, post it on social or create a flyer or table placard with a QR code that points to your experience page website address (URL). Your experience details page has a link that looks like this - https://app.comewith.co/experience/729/ where “729” is replaced with a unique number for your experience.
8. Ask your guest to order and pay directly from their phones! When people show up for your party, make sure to tell them to order their food and drink items on the experience details page by tapping on the order button. Before placing an order, guests have to create an account on ComeWith and enter their credit card info. This makes sure everyone pays their tab and doesn’t skip out on the bill!
Guests can order items and see the status of their orders in the “My Orders” tab. Guests can reorder items with one tap by tapping on the “Reorder” button.
When the party is over, guests can close their tabs and pay for their items in the My Orders section.
9. Have fun at your party! Remember, life is supposed to be fun!
10. Pay the tab for the party and the end of the event. Once the party is over, you can see an invoice for the tab by tapping on the Billing button on the experience detail page.
The invoice will be the amount you owe to the venue using your pre-negotiated item prices. If you are using discounts to make money, the invoice should be less than the total amount of money your guests paid for their food and drink items. Check the invoice amount with the bill from the venue. It should be the same or close by a few bucks. If it’s wildly different, there is a discrepancy in some of the item prices or amounts. Check the detail on both the invoice and bill to find the errors. Pay the tab with the venue, typically by credit card.
We will collect the funds from all your guests and send you the total amount less our processing fees to you electronically in three to five business days.
11. Create your next party! What are you waiting for? Repeat the process and create your next party on ComeWith!
