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Applies the Ars Nova Singers season package discounts by counting distinct concert categories in the cart, not line items.

Highest matching tier wins. The discount applies only to cart items carrying a child term of the Season Concerts product category (term 86), which is what excludes the House Concert, the Blake Morgan residency, Livestream, all Student and Youth tickets, and the Nova Circle membership fee.

Why it exists

It replaces two hand-configured Discount Rules for WooCommerce (Flycart, free) rules that enumerated Adult product IDs, because category filtering is a PRO feature. Those rules went stale silently when Springs & Gears was rebuilt from one performance into four, and on 2026-08-18 a real customer was charged $176 for a $160 package. Nothing surfaced an error and nothing could have.

A category-driven rule cannot go stale when a performance is added, because adding a performance is categorising a product.

It also closes a second, older defect: three different nights of one concert used to read as three concerts and wrongly earned 15% off - $102 where it should be $120.

Design notes for whoever edits this next

• woocommerce_before_calculate_totals fires repeatedly in one request. Every price is computed from the product's stored price meta (get_regular_price() / get_sale_price() in edit context), never from get_price(), which is the value this plugin sets. That makes the calculation idempotent. Do not "optimise" ans_spd_base_price() into get_price().
• Item price, not a negative cart fee. A fee is taxed separately from the items it discounts; adjusting the item price keeps tax following the item.
• The category is the gate, not ticket-ness. Since 2026-08-20 the Nova Circle membership fee is itself a real Tickera ticket type, so a "skip tickets" rule would skip everything.
• Nothing is injected into the block checkout's DOM. The customer-visible reason goes through woocommerce_get_item_data, which reaches the classic cart, the block cart, the checkout and the Store API's item_data as data rather than markup.

Filters

The prefix is ans_spd_, not ans_sp_, and that is deliberate. ars-nova-ticketing-bridge already owns ans_sp_* for "season projects" - ans_sp_render(), ans_sp_place(), ans_sp_date_range(), ans_sp_styles(), ans_sp_event_term(). Neither plugin guards its declarations with function_exists(), and this plugin loads first alphabetically, so a collision would fatal the bridge on every request. Do not "tidy" the prefix.

Order records

Each discounted line item carries _ans_season_package (machine-readable array: tier, label, percent, distinct concert count, base price, unit price, plugin version) and a human-readable Season discount meta for the box office and for refunds.

Rollback

This is a standalone plugin on purpose - deactivating it is the entire rollback, and it touches no ticketing infrastructure. Re-enabling the two Flycart rules restores the previous behaviour with no code change.

Free audit that falls out of the design

The sum of the product_cat counts on the concert terms must equal the number of Adult products the discount considers. Two API calls, and it catches a miscategorised product before a customer does.