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Payment Data Window

The Payment Data window opens when you select a record in the payment window and click the button.

It will show various information such as how the payment was made, the order number, the elapsed time for authorization, and any information necessary to contact the bank for an online or phone in authorization.

Parts of the Pricing Map Window

The Pricing Map window contains all the information about the selected map.

Exporting Data From TM

You can export data from Theatre Manager in several formats.
  • Theatre Manager (Workstation) export options include:
    • tab-delimited
    • comma-delimited
    • Excel 97-2004 and
    • Excel Format (for Excel 2008 and later).
    • Specialty data interchange format for things like maps

Access ID/Password

For enhanced security, Employees can be required to login using their own Access ID and password. The benefit is, to log in, the Employee must know BOTH their Access ID and their password, rather than a potential hacker choosing a name from a list and having to guess only one login access.

To enable this setting, change the Login Window Setting parameter in Setup>>System Preferences>>PCI Security tab.

List of Employees

To login to Theatre Manager from the list of employees, you perform the following steps:

  1. Select your user name from the log in window.

Calendars

The calendar window displays a lot of data in a limited amount of space and has powerful filtering features that make it "Command Central" for managing and viewing tasks, performances, volunteer activities and projects.

The 'trick' is to get the calendar to display in may ways so that it provides you with the results/information you need - like a Rubik's Cube®, with the sides being:

Performances Tab

The Performances tab, allows you to veiw indepth information about the Plays / Events / Performances you want to apply the promotions to.

Plug In Tab

Plug-Ins are special code segments designed specifically for your Theatre that affect how the sales process works. For example, a sales promotion plug in might look at the number of tickets and change regular sales to group sales of tickets automatically.

Click the Plug In button to open the the Plug In List Window.

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