Participant Count and Capturing additional participant information

Question

If I am using a Price Set field with a multiple participant count (Say, Five registrants for a discounted price of $550) will or can I also capture the additional registrant information.

to expound:

We have individual registration options, as well as a group registration option. I was planning on doing - 1 price field for General registrant (Participant count of 1) - 1 price field for Student registrant (Participant count of 1) - 1 price field for Group of Five (Participant count 5)

Do I need to activate the "Register additional participants" option in order to capture the additional participants names or will civi prompt for that info since the participant count is 5 for the Group of Five option.

If I do have to select the "Register additional participant" setting, would the registrant have to both select 4 from the Register Additional Participants drop down as well as select the "group of 5" option? if this is the case, should the group of 5 participant count really be 1 instead of 5?

Thanks

Answer 1

Yes - typically you would activate "register additional participants" to capture the additional names. The participant count being 5 will NOT trigger this. That workflow is preferred when someone is, say, buying a table of 10 for a fundraiser gala but doesn't know who will be attending. And yes - the participant count should be "1" in this case.

Answer 2

It sort of depends on what counts as 'additional information'. For example you could have a Profile that has (Participant-based) fields for the names of Persons 2 - 5, so this does not create Contact records for them, but you do know who they are.