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Adding the Graphic Map

Click here, for quick reference information for Venues and Maps

As noted earlier in this section, each Venue can contain multiple Pricing Maps.

    To add a new Pricing map, click the New button in the Theatre window.

Adding a New Venue / Theatre

Click here, for quick reference information for Venues and Maps

When you add the venue, you add:

  • Venue Information
  • Icons and Notes for your internet sales for the venue
  • Then you add the Pricing Maps
  • Venues also have Plays, Tasks, Default Resources and G/L Entries attached to them.

To add a Venue, you perform the following steps:

  1. Click Setup >> Venue.

    The Venue List window opens.

Google Maps from a List of Patrons

You can use Google Maps to locate either a single address, or a group of addresses from any patron contact list. This means from the Patron Contact List, the WHO's IN tab of a Mail List of Patrons, an Attendance list on an Event setup or anywhere you can generate a listing of patrons.

This is helpful if you wish to see a graphic representation of where your subscribers or donors live.

To generate a map from the Contact List, you perform the following steps:

Festival Seating - Holding and Releasing Seats

Seats can be held on a performance basis (or group of performances). We recommend using this feature as an alternative to selling the seats to a specified house account.

To hold seats for festival seating, you perform the following steps:

  1. Open the Play Setup Window.
  2. Find the play you wish to release tickets for.
  3. Select the Performance Tab.

Creating an Event for Traveling Troupe Performances

Theatre Manager has a Performance Type/Sales Mode for Traveling Troupe performances. It is a method to record each run-out performance traveling group does, including the income from the run-out, activities of the group while they're traveling, and attendance/demographic data about the audience.


There are a few steps to setting up a Traveling Troupe performance.

Emailing Invoices

You must globally enable Email an Invoice in company preferences to use this feature.

An Invoice for an Order can be emailed direct to a patron from within Theatre Manager. Invoices can be generated in four different locations

Disable Sales Promotions

Sales promotions can be enabled or disabled in a batch mode using the 'Enable' and 'Disable' menu items on the sales promotion list window.

To Disable a batch, you perform the following steps:

  1. Select the promotions you want to disable.

  2. Click the Disable button.

    The Disable Promomotions for Performance dialog opens.

Finding a Patron using Quick Find

Quick find uses a database feature called text search to look for partial words almost anywhere in text string in the database. Quick find:
  • searches for words in any order, regardless of the order you typed them
  • searches for words that start with what you type
  • generally ignores plurality - so that a search for actors will find actor and vice versa

Inventory Ticket Sales

To sell inventory (such as CD's, T-Shirts, mugs, hats) a performance must be created for the sale to be assigned to a patron. Click here for more information on creating a new event.

  1.  Open the Select Events(s) Window and search for an inventory Performance.

    Click here for more information on Creating a Buy List.

Consignment Ticket Sales

Consignment ticketing is used when you sell tickets for a performance at another venue. The venue would give you a specific number of tickets for you to sell. To sell a Consignment performance, an event must be created for the sale to be assigned to a patron. Click here for more information on creating a new event.

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