We're doing this for the first time this year at my daughters school. We did so mainly to have less money floating around. The parents have requested it in the past and I think it will work out well. We have blue tickets for food and games-the game attendants will give out red tickets to be redeemed in our prize room.
Limiting the points where cash is taken is one of your best cash control policies, so this is a very good practice to allow other stations to accept only tickets.
At our events, we operate similarly to skoolmom. We sell one ticket (usually for 50 cents), then everything is paid for with those tickets. The only exception we make is T-shirts. If we sell those, we have the station adjacent to one of the cashier stations, so a person can pay cash/check for that.
(But it's still the cashier handling the money.)
One year we had two tickets - one color for food (blue/50 cent) and the other for photos (grey/$1.50). (It was pictures with Santa). It's a little more confusing for people to understand, so have good signage. In that case we had enough photo stock to take 200 pictures and we wanted to control how many were sold, so we wanted it to be a separate ticket. But you need to think about the circumstance and if that is really necessary.
At our spring carnival we use the same type of ticket for games, activities and food. We sell the tickets for 25 cents each, so a snow cone would be 4 tickets ($1) and a game might be 3 tickets (75 cents). Using the same ticket doesn't cause us any problems. It means fewer people handling money, we have one table selling the tickets and handling money. It means the volunteers running the games can concentrate on running the games, not making change.
Hi, I am planning our school's spring carnival and I thought using tickets only for food was a great idea. Less cash floating around, etc. Tonight at the meeting it was 50/50 on whether or not we should do this. Please give me some examples of how it did or didn't work for you. Thank you so much.
