Concession Profiles determine which Concession Items and Vouchers are available as buttons on each POS interface, determining where the buttons appear on the screen. Concession profiles are also a way of grouping terminals together on the basis of the items that they sell.

For example: Concessions, Box Office, Bar.

A profile called Candy Bar may be configured to only include a restricted set of items such as packaged sweets. This profile can then be assigned to terminals to limit the items that can be sold. At least one Concession Profile must be set up, and each profile can be configured with up to 24 buttons on each sub menu.

Concession Profiles are applied to workstations in Workstation Maintenance. Profiles can be applied to more than one workstation.

Note: Concession profiles are used mainly for Kiosk sales channels. While POS terminals can also make use of concession profiles, a more sophisticated layout can be achieved at POS using POS Designer application.

Concession Profiles can also be converted to POS Designer profiles.

Note: When creating a new record, the Concession Profile code and Name must first be specified and saved before continuing. At least one Tab Title (and optionally, the Alternate Language) must then be specified and saved before Buttons can be configured in the table.

Configure Concession Profiles in Cinema Manager > Maintenance.

Creating concession profiles

When creating a new Concession Profile, the Concession Profile code and Name must first be specified and saved before continuing. At least one Tab Title (and optionally, the Alternate Language) must then be specified and saved before Buttons can be configured in the table.

Concession profiles can be converted to POS Profiles in the POS Designer application.

Deleting concession profiles

A Concession Profile can be deleted from the maintenance form by selecting Delete from the Vista dropdown menu.

A confirmation message will appear before the profile is completed to ensure the delete is intended.

Warning! When a profile is deleted, the profile including all associated tabs and buttons will also be deleted completely.

Configuring the tabs section

Concession Profile Tabs are used to group the items for sale onto a single screen, called a Tab here. This can be used to assist POS operators in locating a particular item, by putting similar items together on the same tab.

For example: Concession profile tabs could be set up to include all or some of the following groups:

Concessions - popcorn, sweets, soft drinks
Kitchen - cooked food such as pizza, burgers or fries
Coffee Bar - espresso coffee drinks
Drinks - beer and wine
Voucher - voucher booklets
Ice Cream - ice cream, sundaes

A new tab can be created by clicking the row marked with the * and entering the Tab Title. The Profile Tab ID will then be generated automatically, and the Alternate Language title can also be defined. Select a tab to edit its details and configure the associated buttons. Each tab can be configured with up to 24 buttons, each corresponding to a Concession Item.

When a tab is moved or inserted, the whole Concession Profile record must be saved. A prompt will be displayed to confirm this. If the checkbox on the prompt window is selected, the confirmation message will not be shown again. When a tab is deleted, a prompt will be displayed to confirm this if there are Buttons associated with the tab. If no buttons are configured for the selected tab, it will be deleted without warning.

Configuring the buttons section

Concession Profile Buttons are used by POS operators to add Concession Items to an order. Concession Profile Tabs are configured with up to 24 buttons. The grid indicates the layout in which the buttons will be displayed on POS.

Click an empty grid square to configure a new button by associating a concession item with it, or select an existing button to edit its settings. Font and Colour can be configured manually, or copied from an existing button by using the Same As dropdown list.

To remove a button, select the Blank option from the Item dropdown list. This will also remove the font and colour configured for the button. The Disabled checkbox can also be used to configure the button as hidden from view at POS, without completely removing it.

Note: A new or copied Concession Profile must be saved before buttons can be added to the concession profile.

The Same As dropdown list will only load items that have already been saved. When a new button is created, it must be saved before it appears in the dropdown list.

Concessions profile form

Note: POS Tabs refer to the tabs at the top of the POS Screen, i.e. Tickets, Concessions, Tabs. Concession Profile Tabs refer to the buttons at the bottom of the Concessions POS Tab, e.g. Food, Drinks, Sweets.

Option	Allowed Values	Description
Concession Profile	1–4 characters	A unique four-character code to identify the Concession Profile.
Name	1–25 characters	The name of the Concession Profile. When assigning a POS Profile to a Workstation, the dropbox will be populated with both POS profiles created in the POS Designer application and concession profiles created in this maintenance form. For example: POS workstations may be configured with profiles from POS designer, but Kiosk workstations may be configured with concession profiles.
Profile Tab ID		Number 1–X corresponds to the order of display of the Concessions Tabs from left to right. Note: This is an automatically generated numerical sequence. Use the Move Up and Move Down buttons to alter.
Tab Title (primary language)	1–10 characters	The text that will display on the Concessions Profile Tab button, in the primary language. For example: Food, Drink, Sweets.
Tab Title (alternate language 1-3)	1-10 characters	The text that will display on the Concessions Profile Tab button, in an alternate language. Tab Title fields are displayed for up to three configured alternate languages, with the alternate language given in parentheses. For example: Title(Dutch)
Insert Tab Before		Inserts a tab before the currently selected tab.
Insert Tab After		Inserts a tab after the currently selected tab.
Delete Tab		Deletes the currently selected tab.
Move Up		Move the currently selected tab up.
Move Down		Move the currently selected tab down.
Font		Opens a window where the Font style can be altered for the Button currently selected in the grid.
Color		Opens a window where the Color style can be altered for the Button currently selected in the grid.
or Same As...	Any Button in the grid that has already been configured	Choosing a previously configured Button from the dropbox will cause the Font and Color settings of that button to be copied to the button currently selected in the grid. For example: A button may have been configured with the Concession Item Small Popcorn. In order to keep all popcorn related buttons with the same font and color, a button being configured as a Large Popcorn can be selected to be Same As small popcorn. All the style settings of the small popcorn button will be copied to the large popcorn button.
Disabled	cleared selected	If this checkbox is selected for a configured Button in the grid, that button will not be available at a Workstation using this Concession Profile.
Table	Any configured Concession Item	Each cell in the table represents a Button that can be shown on the Concessions POS Tab at a Workstation using this Concession Profile. Each button position can be associated with a Concession Item, either by using the dropbox list or the search function.

See also

Concessions

Creating concession profiles

Deleting concession profiles

Configuring the tabs section

Configuring the buttons section

Concessions profile form

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