Before, we would typically set a date with you and run a year-end process with you to make it easy and convenient to set up your 2nd, 3rd, and Xth year season, festival, or series. While you could run this "Close Festival" process yourself, rather than explain it to people, it's just something we would do.
There are some significant benefits to having a kind of reset button, especially if your events have a complex setup. It is, more or less, a magic button that allows you to tweak some pricing and language, schedule new events, and be on your way for the next year. No one remembers every little rule or association they set a year ago. I can't even remember what I had for lunch.
Archiving the prior event cycle does more than just clean up your workspace--it resets any left over customer history that might affect any rules, restrictions, maximums, or usage that would cause issues in future years.
We gave the entire concept of what it means to end an event cycle and reworked this entire process. Enter the Archive tools.
More self-service than before, you can now archive any of your products, events, and showtimes en masse from the Back Office. Just visit the submenu of any of those things.
You can filter the list down by brand, name, or in the case of events, a date range.
You have some flexibility here--you can discontinue items easily, or just reset them and plan to use them in the future.