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Inserting a New Household from the Patron Window

In the patron window click the New button.
The New Household (Inserting) window will open.

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Merging Patrons into One Household

Theatre Manager is designed to keep all information about a patron on one record. You can merge patrons into the same household. To merge two patrons into the same household, you perfrom the following steps:

Open the Patron List and find the patrons to be merged into the same household.

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Creating a General Admission Event & Performance(s)

Before you add an event / play into Theatre Manager, a general ledger account number must be created for the new event / play. Refer to General Ledger Accounts for more information.

In the Event / Play window, there are eight different account number fields in five different ticket types. The eight accounts are:

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Exporting Data To Excel

The Export Data Report can be found under the Form Letters, Labels, Exporting Record Counts category and it is also be found under File >> Import/Export >> Export Data. This function is used for exporting data from Theatre Manager into:

Tab Delimited (txt)
Comma Delimited (csv)
Excel 97-2004 Workbook (.xls)
Excel 2008 and higher (.xlsx)

Open the Reports window by clicking on the Reports button.

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Add Price Codes to an Existing Pricing Map

Price Codes are composed of letters, numbers or characters and - in general - represent geographic regions of the venue. For example, "A" may represent the Orchestra Section, while "B" represents the Balcony. Furthermore, you can have multiple Price Codes on each seat that mean different things. An Orchestra seat may have both "A" and "1" enabled for "Single" (A) and "Subscription" (1) pricing.

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Reducing the Number of Seats

To change the number of seats, it is first recommended you duplicate an existing pricing map and make your changes to the new map.

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Duplicate a Pricing Map

To change the number of seats, it is first recommended you duplicate an existing pricing map and make your changes to the new map.

A deployed map cannot have the number of seats decreased.
Adding seats to an existing map only affects current and future sales. You cannot go back and decrease the number of seats later.

To duplicate a Pricing Map, you perform the following steps: