Name

1–30 characters

The name of the rule.

Type

Ticket Purchase

Advance Booking

Advance Seating

Minimum Price

• Ticket Purchase — This rule is used to limit ticket sales.

  For example: Limit unpaid bookings to 30% of available seats.

• Advance Booking — This rule determines how far in advance tickets can be purchased for sessions.

  For example: Tickets to sessions can be purchased from 3 days before the film's release date.

• Advance Seating — This rule determines how far in advance certain seats can be purchased by Loyalty members only.

  For example: An area category can be set up where seats are only available to Loyalty members until 30 minutes before a session's start time, when they become available to all patrons.

• Minimum Price — This rule determines the minimum price of tickets for a specific period.

  For example: The government requires tickets to Avatar to be sold for at least $30 from 8 December, and then for at least $25 from 22 December. Tickets at the cinema usually cost $20, so the cinema creates a rule to enforce these minimum prices. For Avatar, ticket prices will increase to reflect both minimum price requirements at the given times when the rule is applied to the film.

Note: The option selected here determines which fields are available in the Details section of this form.

Sales Channel

Any configured sales channel (cleared or selected)

The sales channel that the ticket purchase rule affects.

When a price card is configured with the ticket purchase rule, each sales channel selected in this field will be restricted to the limits configured on this maintenance form.

For example: Internet Ticketing.

Note: When the dropdown is expanded, the Description of all sales channels are displayed (e.g. website). When the dropdown is collapsed, the Short Code of each selected sales channel is displayed (e.g. IVR|WWW).

Type of Sale

Unpaid Bookings

Paid Bookings

Normal Sales

The types of sale that the ticket purchase rule affects.

When a price card is configured with the ticket purchase rule, each type of sale selected in this field will be restricted to the limits configured on this maintenance form.

Limitation

Number

Percentage

• Number - the number in the corresponding box indicates the maximum number of tickets that can be booked through the configured sales channel(s).
• Percentage - the number in the corresponding box indicates the maximum percentage of the total tickets available for a session that can be booked through the configured sales channel(s).

Fail Message

1–512 characters

When the limit set by the ticket purchase rule has been breached, an error message will inform the user.

For example: Insufficient tickets remaining for this sale channel.

Description

1–255 characters

A description of the advance booking rule. This can be used to give information that may be useful to film programming and scheduling staff.

Before Date

Cinema Film Opening Date

First Booking Date

National Film Opening Date

Determines which date the advance booking period is relative to:

• Cinema Film Opening Date - The advance booking period applies the specified number of days before the film's opening date.
• First Booking Date - The Advance Booking Period applies the specified number of days before the first session of the film at a site, excluding sneak previews.
• National Film Opening Date - The advance booking period applies the specified number of days before the film's national opening date.

Advance Booking Period (day)

Any number

The number of days in the advance booking period.

Booking Start Time

Any time of day

The time of day at which tickets become available for sale at the beginning of the advance booking period.

This defaults to the value of the system setting StartTimeOfDay.

Booking Timezone

Specific Timezone

Local Timezone

Determines which time zone the advance booking period is relative to.

• Specific Timezone - allows you to select a specific UTC time zone.
• Local Timezone - the time zone configured on the cinema's site maintenance form will be used.

Advertise Open Sessions in Advance

Cleared

Selected

When selected, open sessions are advertised to the public before tickets can be purchased.

When cleared, sessions are only advertised once tickets can be purchased during the advance booking period.

Enforce Maximum Additional Time for Loyalty Members

Cleared

Selected

When selected, the corresponding Time options specifies the extra advance booking period that is available only to Loyalty members.

When cleared, Loyalty members have the same advance booking period as regular customers.

Time

day:hr:min

The extra advance booking period given to Loyalty members.

For example: If the standard advance booking period is 3 days before a film's release, Loyalty members may get an extra day.

Note: This setting is only available if Enforce Maximum Additional Time for Loyalty Members is selected.

Sales Channels

Any configured Sales Channel

Select a sales channel to create an exception for.

For example: The standard advance booking period is 3 days before a film's release, but on your website you want it to be 7 days.

Days

Any number

The number of days to use as the advance booking period for the corresponding selected sales channel.

Time

Any time of day

The time of day at which tickets become available for sale at the beginning of the advance booking period for the corresponding selected sales channel.

Description

1–255 characters

A description of the advance seating rule. This can be used to give more information than the Name, which may be useful to film programming and scheduling staff.

This can also be configured in an alternate language.

Time Prior to Session

Any number

The amount of time prior to the session start time that the general public can access the seats.