Showtime Manager overview

Showtime Manager is the main tool for scheduling sessions at your cinemas. You can use Showtime Manager in either Film Manager or Cinema Manager, depending on your role. 

In Showtime Manager, you can:

• Schedule sessions using the film search or holdover sheet

• Set the screen, pricing, and other properties for each session

• Share planned sessions between film programmers and cinema managers for review

• Approve sessions and open them for sale

• Monitor session occupancy and swap sessions to different screens

• Schedule special events like marathons and corporate bookings

There are many ways to use Showtime Manager, depending on the specific workflows used in your company. See the articles listed below for help with many of the most common tasks and questions.

Creating and scheduling sessions

• Creating sessions in Showtime Manager
• About the Film palette in Showtime Manager
• Create an assisted schedule from a film forecast
• Creating sessions in bulk
• Copying sessions
• Creating sessions in Session Entry
• Setting time gaps between sessions
• Planning and scheduling a marathon

Setting ticket prices and session properties

• Suggesting price cards for sessions
• Automatically suggesting new-release price cards
• Applying ticket purchase rules to a session in Showtime Manager
  • Loyalty: Member-only sessions
• Working with show numbers

Reviewing, approving, and opening sessions

• Creating and publishing draft sessions in Film Manager
• Tracking changes with a snapshot in Showtime Manager
• Restoring a snapshot in Showtime Manager
• Opening sessions for sale

Maintaining sessions

• Moving sessions or marathons in time
• Swapping sessions to a different screen or seating layout
• Deleting sessions in Showtime Manager

Using Showtime Manager efficiently

• Customising a shortcut key in Showtime Manager
• Showtime Manager FAQs
• Changing the view in Showtime Manager
• Changing the colour view in Showtime Manager
• Customising session card colours in Showtime Manager
• Hiding inactive screens in Showtime Manager
• Editing multiple sessions in Showtime Manager

Setting up Showtime Manager

• Films and Sessions (what to set up before you can schedule sessions)
• Restricting session properties in Showtime Manager
• Lock film bookings and sessions in Showtime Manager
• Limit film booking periods in Showtime Manager

Setting references

• Viewing and updating session properties in Showtime Manager
• Working with session times
• Working with ticketing and sales
• Session Entry in Showtime Manager
• Editing a marathon session's properties in Showtime Manager
• Marathon panel in Showtime Manager

See also:

• Films overview

• Marathons overview