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I am trying to sell tickets to a limited-run theatrical event.

The show runs several days; we have separate prices for adults, students, seniors.

We have a small theater (general admission, no reserved seats) so we tend to sellout. I don't want to oversell.

Here's my issue:

My "inventory" is 90 seats for each night. I need a variant for ticket type (adult, student, etc.), but I don't want to set an inventory for each variant -- they must TOTAL 90 seats (and all variants stop selling when 90 is hit).

How do I do that.... AND

How do I do that for each performance? I would really really prefer to make each show date a variant rather than a separate product. In fact, that's kind of dealbreaker.

Non-working front-end: http://www.wstheatrealliance.org/boxoffice.html

Sorry, we really don't have any way for separate products or differently-priced Variants to draw inventory from a common "pool" of stock.

However, you could use Inventory Control with a general stock of 90 for the ticket product, then simply configure your discounted ticket prices using Item Discounts in the main ticket product's settings, so e.g. buyers would type STUDENT or SENIOR as a discount code in their cart to claim those discounts:
http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/help.discounts.htm