Preschool Photos - How To Apply Their Deposit To The End Order?

Hi Tim,
I am trying to find the best way to give a credit / coupon for pre paid preschool photos.

I am using a booking form for registration to make it easy to collect the deposit, but I am struggling with the best way to give it back to the customer when ordering. It is

I have found the account credit (which is great for family photos) but it doesn't look practical to add a manual credit for each preschool child. I also found coupons but I can't figure out what would stop 2 people in 1 family from ordering and as such using the credit twice on 1 child. Also if a parent has photos of 2 children in 1 order how they can use the coupon twice. Or is there another solution?
Thank you

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Are you using the booking calendar where they are selecting a date as well or just for the deposit?

If it is just for the deposit and the date doesn't matter (not actually booking a session date & time) you could create a store section and store product instead that includes a credit that automatically applies to their account.

Info on creating a store item. You would make it a service product.

But if you are using the booking calendar for selecting a date and time you would need to manually add the credit to their account.

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Hi Mary

When you use coupons you can set it to use "only once" that way multiple members can not use it. I use coupons when I take deposits for dance schools, the amount varies depending on the amount of costumes, children in family, etc. Since I need to collect student and class info also and calculate the total I use a separate system then I supply a coupon code to client for that amount.

As Tim said though, if you charging 1 set fee using a store item works well.

Kat

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