Answers.Body: <p>There are two solutions:</p>
  
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  <li>Make your events free in civicrm but I assume that is not what you want</li>
  <li>Differentiate in your reports between financial types. CiviCRM has Financial type system to register event fees with the type event fee, and donation with the type donation. You can also add other financial types. </li>
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  <p>See the manual: <a href="https://docs.civicrm.org/user/en/latest/contributions/key-concepts-and-configurations/#financial-types-financial-accounts-and-accounting-codes" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://docs.civicrm.org/user/en/latest/contributions/key-concepts-and-configurations/#financial-types-financial-accounts-and-accounting-codes</a></p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>You could also set up Summary Fields then you have any easy 'count' happening for all your Donations and exclude Event fees based on your settings in Summary Fields.</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://civicrm.org/extensions/summary-fields" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://civicrm.org/extensions/summary-fields</a></p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>I don't know where you are based, but in the UK, the Gift Aid extension <a href="https://civicrm.org/extensions/gift-aid-extension-uk" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://civicrm.org/extensions/gift-aid-extension-uk</a> is designed to deal with the tax differences for different sorts of income. Even is you are elsewhere it might be worth looking at it to see if it will work for you.</p>
  
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Body: <p>Is there a way to have events not total into a contact's contributions?  I want to register people for events but each time I do and use event fee it shows the running total in contributions which is not correct for our usage case. </p>
  
  <p>I see contributions as donations so I don't want fees from events (in this case a theater production) to show as a contribution (donation) for tax purposes.  </p>
  
  <p>Any ideas?  I have tried to change how the funds are </p>
  
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Comments.Text: I understand the distinction you want to make in terms of separating event and donation income but am not quite clear when and how you want to display it. But also be aware that "contribution" in CiviCRM language means any income associated with a contact. If you really wanted to use the word contribution in a more restricted sense you might have to do some additional language translations but that might be messy.
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Title: Event Fees display as total of contribution when they should not
ThreadText: # Event Fees display as total of contribution when they should not
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2019-11-07)
  
  Is there a way to have events not total into a contact's contributions? I want to register people for events but each time I do and use event fee it shows the running total in contributions which is not correct for our usage case.
  
  I see contributions as donations so I don't want fees from events (in this case a theater production) to show as a contribution (donation) for tax purposes.
  
  Any ideas? I have tried to change how the funds are
  
  **Tags:** contributions
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: I understand the distinction you want to make in terms of separating event and donation income but am not quite clear when and how you want to display it. But also be aware that "contribution" in CiviCRM language means any income associated with a contact. If you really wanted to use the word contribution in a more restricted sense you might have to do some additional language translations but that might be messy.  
  
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  ### Answer by username_2 on 2019-11-07. Score: 1
  
  There are two solutions:
  
  1. Make your events free in civicrm but I assume that is not what you want
  2. Differentiate in your reports between financial types. CiviCRM has Financial type system to register event fees with the type event fee, and donation with the type donation. You can also add other financial types.
  
  See the manual: <https://docs.civicrm.org/user/en/latest/contributions/key-concepts-and-configurations/#financial-types-financial-accounts-and-accounting-codes>
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_3 on 2019-11-07. Score: 0
  
  You could also set up Summary Fields then you have any easy 'count' happening for all your Donations and exclude Event fees based on your settings in Summary Fields.
  
  <https://civicrm.org/extensions/summary-fields>
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2019-11-07. Score: 0
  
  I don't know where you are based, but in the UK, the Gift Aid extension <https://civicrm.org/extensions/gift-aid-extension-uk> is designed to deal with the tax differences for different sorts of income. Even is you are elsewhere it might be worth looking at it to see if it will work for you.
  
  
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