Menus

This section presumes you:

• Have read navigating in Theatre Manager.

The answer appears at the bottom of this page.

• The Theatre Manager menu (which appears on the left on a Mac, and on the right on a PC), allows you to read "About Theatre Manager" information, containing such as licensure, contact and your current version.

• Standard File management such as Page Setup,
• Importing and exporting data to an outside application such as Excel,
• The ability to Change the currently logged on User,
• Access to various Statistics about the database.

• Standard Edit controls, such as Cut, Copy, Paste and Select All
• Paste from File for use in Form Letters

• Quick Buy, for allowing direct access to the Buy List (bypassing the patron record)
• Before Event Sales, for turning Theatre Manager into a "cash machine" in the critical get-them-seated minutes before the show,
• Season Subscription management,
• Till balance, for daily cashier closing,
• Access to Web Sales, including starting a Web Listener,
• Recent Patron List, to bring back patron records for recently accessed patrons.

• General Ledger access,
• End of Day operations,
• Attendance Confirmation,
• Transaction Monitor, to track real-time transactions system wide.

• Form Letter access and creation,
• Tasks, such as printing or emailing the form letters.

• System Tables - the vast majority of setup information is contained in tables including:
  • Code Tables (drop-downs in Theatre Manager)
  • Sales Promotions
  • Donation Campaigns and Giving Levels,
  • Member/Pass Types,
  • Tax & Fee tables,
  • Coupon setup,
  • Merchant Account setup,
  • and others.
• Users & Access controls,
• System Preferences, and Company Preferences,
• Batch Functions, such as batch printing of tickets or donation receipts.

• Standard navigation for display windows

• Access to Theatre Manager Online help,
• Sign up for the RSS Feed,
• Email Arts Management Systems Support (support@artsman.com),
• Start a Remote Support session allowing Arts Management Systems to directly access your workstation for assistance,
• Check for updates directly from within the application
• Find the latest release notes
• Access various social media channels for help such as our youtube videos on how to accomplish some specific tasks

• Logon name, listing the name of the current user.

And the answer is...

From here you can:

• Return to the nagivation to learn about how to navigate through the demonstration tutorial.
• Move forward to learn about toolbars.
• Move forward to learn about tabs.
• Jump to the Patron Window.
• Jump to selling a ticket.