Let's suppose your organization is a Church and you want your patrons to reserve seats for services at your local church.

If we have LOADED seat plans or General Admission events, any of these kind of events can be set up as usual but with a zero price.

We can install a simple Reservations payment module in Admin>Payment (this will NOT ask your visitors for payment but is merely a gateway for a free checkout).

Now there are a few ways to organize a Free Checkout.

1. If we prefer our visitors to a) Choose a seat/product (Add to cart) >Register> Checkout in the quickest way possible.
   We can set a ZERO Price checkout. Admin>Products>Advanced>Free Checkout>No checkout for zero price events=Enabled. This option will always operate a truly Free Checkout (for any zero price) with no obstacles in the way. For this setting, visitors will NOT be able to choose any Payment Method at all but will only see a SUCCESS page when they click any Checkout Button.

2. If you want your visitors to follow the Checkout Process disable the Free Checkout Admin>Products>Advanced>Free Checkout>No checkout for zero price events=Disabled. Your visitors will be first directed to the Payment Information page. Here there is an option for visitors to write comments to accompany their order.

3. If you combine a Free Payment module with paid products be sure to set the payment status for the free payment module to 'Pending' so that customers do not unwittingly acquire paid products without submitting a payment.

4. Other ways to offer a Free Checkout may require issuing a 100% Discount Coupon.