Opening sessions for sale

Once your schedule has been reviewed and finalised, you can open your sessions for sale. 

Opening a session has the following effects:

• The session becomes available for ticket sales at POS and any other sales channels you've enabled. 
• You may not be able to change certain settings, such as the start time (depending on your system settings). 
• Once tickets have been sold, you can no longer delete the session.
• If you want to move the session to a different screen, you must perform a session swap and reallocate assigned seats. 

Steps

To open one or more sessions:

1. In Film Manager or Cinema Manager, go to Showtime Manager. 

2. Select the planned sessions. 

   Tip: To select multiple sessions, click and drag to highlight the sessions you want. Alternatively, hold Control and click on multiple sessions. 

3. In the quick access toolbar, set the Session status to Open. 
4. The system warns you that the sessions will be available for ticket sales. Click Continue.
5. Click Save. 

To open all sessions in the week you are viewing:

1. In Film Manager or Cinema Manager, go to Showtime Manager. 
2. Deselect all sessions by clicking on the background of the schedule. 

3. Film Manager: Click Manage sessions, then Open sessions.

   Cinema Manager: Click Open sessions.

4. The system warns you that the sessions will be available for ticket sales. Click Continue.
5. Click Save.

Tip: You can confirm which sessions are open by switching to the Status colour view in the toolbar. 

See also:

• Showtime Manager overview
• Swapping sessions
• Restricting session properties in Showtime Manager
• Viewing and updating session properties in Showtime Manager