To enforce a minimum admission price, create a minimum price rule and assign it to a sales profile.

• If a ticket price is less than the minimum price, the ticket price increases to match the minimum price.
• If a voucher price is less than the minimum price, an added surcharge increases the admission price to match the minimum price.

Before you begin:

Ensure that Sales Profiles have been created and assigned to films.

Creating a minimum price rule

1. Go to Head Office Manager or Cinema Manager > Maintenance > Rules.
2. Click Create.
3. Enter a rule name.
4. Select Minimum Price as the rule type.
5. Enter a description for your rule. A short, clear description of what you want the rule to accomplish can be helpful in the future when you need to adjust or troubleshoot your configuration.
6. Enter a minimum price for any period of time you want to specify.

Applying your rule to a sales profile

1. Go to Head Office Manager or Cinema Manager > Maintenance > Sales Profiles.
2. Select a sales profile.
3. In the sales profile record, select the rule you just created.

Applying your rule to a film

1. Go to Head Office Manager or Cinema Manager > Maintenance > Sites and select a site.
2. Link films to the site as needed.
3. Select the sales profile you edited for each film for which you want to enforce a minimum admission price.
4. Open each film record and specify the period during which the sales profile will apply and enforce a minimum admission price according to your rule.

Example

An exhibitor shows Avatar across its circuit. During the first week of release, starting December 8, the exhibitor's Group A cinemas set a minimum ticket price of $30. During the third week of release, starting December 22, the minimum ticket price drops to $25.

At the head office level, the exhibitor's pricing manager creates a minimum price rule. She sets the period 1 value to $30 and the period 2 value to $25. She selects the minimum price rule in the sales profile Blockbuster, which is assigned to the film Avatar. The manager then links Avatar to all her Group A cinemas. In the film record for Avatar, she then sets the start date for period 1 to 8 December and the start date for period 2 to 22nd December.

See also:

Ticket sale rules

Sales Profile form

Setting minimum prices for tickets