Box Office Xpress Jr - Screen Shots

Note: Box Office Xpress Junior 4 has just been released. Consequently, the information here is out of date. This site will be updated in the coming days.

In the meantime, screen shots of the new version can be found here.

Box Office Xpress Junior is an extremely user friendly computer program that provides a box office with the tools it needs to efficiently perform sales and marketing tasks. The program focuses on fulfilling these key functions …

• Sell and print tickets fast
• Track box office sales via detailed, specific reports
• Keep current customer records for marketing
• And much, much more

All this can be done without the aid of additional supporting programs and at a price not usually associated with highly specialized software of this caliber.

The seat selector. One of the many point & click screens you'll see on this page. Note the printable patron list and seating plan functions (considered to be one of the gems found in Box Office Xpress Junior).

Seat Selector (click on the image to enlarge it)

Help

Throughout the several years of use by numerous organizations, Box Office Xpress has had considerable enhancements made to it based on customer requests. When you order Box Office Xpress Junior, you will receive a fully functional, user-friendly program that includes the HTML Help system, which was written with the technically challenged in mind.

HTML Help System

To make life even easier, when you are first getting started, there is a tutorial that guides you through the process of setting up your season.

Tutorial

Features and Functions

So, what are some of the great features found in Box Office Xpress Junior? Here is a little taste …

• Search and recall orders quickly using point-and-click.
• Use the built-in customer database program.
• Unlimited customizable pricing schemes.
• Highly customizable single, subscription, voucher, and membership pricing categories.
• Unlimited number of productions, performances, seats, dates, times, orders, customer names (get the idea).
• Customize your own seating plans.
• View a customer's sales history.
• View sales by the day or month, or by performance or production, and much more.
• Performance and production sales also show you how many seats are sold and still available (in numbers and percent).

Box Office Xpress Junior offers extremely versatile features. For example, theatres can select specific seats for an order or they can just sell general admission tickets. Payment methods, pricing and performances are listed and can be easily selected by a click of the mouse.

You can also specify what performances apply to what pricing schemes. One method of accomplishing this is to specify a range of days based on a specific time of day that a performance must fall under to be eligible for certain pricing schemes.

Pricing can be based on grouped performances

The resulting group can then be used in a pricing scheme of your own design.

Pricing schemes

Create your own user codes to block access to all or part of the program.

User codes

Box Office Xpress prints to dot matrix and thermal printers, and offers several styles to choose from. This is primarily evident with thermal tickets where you can view several styles and also have Corporate Consultants customize a ticket style for you.

Ticket setup

To make mailing out ticket orders, such as subscriptions, even easier, you can optionally print out an address ticket with each order (only available with thermal ticket printers). The program allows you to design the address ticket so that it, along with the regular tickets, can be dropped into a small windowed envelope, ready for mailing.

Address ticket

You can also add up to three lines of miscellaneous text to each ticket. The text can be used for special information, sponsor recognition, etc., and can optionally vary from performance to performance.

Additional ticket information

Due to the importance of effective marketing strategies, you can print customer address labels based on various criteria.

Address labels

Extensive Flexibility

You can have as many prices and pricing schemes as you want. In addition, each pricing scheme is user-definable (you can name it what you want, such as Weekday Subscriptions). These pricing schemes can be based on four different categories, including Single, Subscription, Voucher and Membership. You can use these categories as often as you want. For example, you could have 6 pricing schemes under the subscription category (1 based on any of the performances, the other 5 based on specific performances or performances that occur during a specific time). Each pricing scheme can have up to 5 user-definable pricing types (typically child, student, adult, etc.) plus a complimentary type. In addition to all this, you can add a fee based on each pricing scheme

There are also user-definable discounts, such as seniors getting 15% off or students get $2.00 off. Then there are the optional fees that can be applied to each type of payment method. You can have an additional two percentage fees that could be used for taxes that are also user-definable.

As you can see, the word user-definable is everywhere and is a sample of Box Office Xpress Junior's flexibility. This also applies to other segments of the program such as performances, user codes, seating plans and more.

When setting up your season, you can create an unlimited number of productions, performances, dates and times. To save a lot of typing, enter groups of up to five productions and times and then create a performance by simply selecting the buttons next to the applicable production and time. After you have completed all the performances based on the first five productions, simply repeat the process until you have entered performances for all your productions. The performances can be automatically combined with your seating plan with the click of a button. Can it get an easier than that?

Performance setup

Easily create and edit your own seating plan. Even make a dinner theatre arrangement. You can utilize up to 600 seats in a seating grid and you can create as many seating grids as you need. Each grid can be easily selected when selling tickets.

Seating plan design

Sales

Selling tickets is an extremely easy process with Box Office Xpress.

• Simplistic, logical format. Just point-and-click (Box Office Xpress Junior makes sure you select everything you need to).
• Print the tickets when the order is taken or anytime thereafter. You can also pre-sell subscriptions, vouchers and memberships.
• General admission or reserved seating selection. General admission performances always display the total seats and the quantity sold.
• Clearly defined individual seats that are easy to view and select.
• A printable seating plan and customer seating list.
• Multiple seat prices per order (ex; 2 adults, 3 children; 1 complimentary).
• Keep track of the total amount if a customer orders several items at once.

Point and click easy! Search for a customer by typing as little as the last 4 digits of their phone #, select the pricing scheme, select a performance, select the quantity of seats and method of payment, and (if it's not a general admission order) select the specific seats.

Order screen   Seat selection

View, add to, delete, refund, change a hold into an order, and alter customers' orders from the handy Order Details screen.

Order details

View and print out the detailed sales results by day, month, production, performance or customer. You can also view the percentage and number of seats sold and still available by performance and production. Other reports are also included such as the customer sales history. An abbreviated version of the customer's activities can also be easily found in the Customer section of the Order screen.

Sales report generator

USER FRIENDLY

• No techno-babble. It is assumed that Box Office Xpress will be used by people who are not very computer literate. This program only requires a very basic knowledge of Windows, such as using a mouse, how buttons and other items (like list boxes) work when you click on them. At least one person on staff should be rather computer literate in order to deal with more complex issues involving the program, such as performing daily backups, etc.
• No sequence processing. There is usually no need to perform tasks in an exact sequence (as is often the case with DOS programs).
• Plenty of safety checks. Box Office Xpress is always watching for potential problems due to incorrect user input and tries to warn you in advance of the consequences of inappropriate actions.

MORE FEATURES

• Step-by-step on-line instruction, Computerized stick-on notes, calendars, cue cards, unique order number generator, e-mail and file exporting support for reports, color printing, automated end-of-season deletion methods, print invoices, the list goes on and on …

The end-of-season mass clearing screen, for when you're ready to start a new season …

Bulk Delete

Single-User and Multi-User (network) Versions

Networked computer systems are becoming more common place today, and that certainly includes the realm of the box office. In order to keep on top of that market, Box Office Xpress Junior is not only available in a single user version, but a network version as well. Now, multiple box office people can take orders and print tickets at the same time by utilizing the advanced networking capabilities of this program. Also included in the network version is a monitor window that displays who is selling seats for what performance and which seating plan.

Why does Box Office Xpress Junior cost so little?

There are a great many small venues that just can't afford to pay tens of thousands of dollars for a ticketing program. We created Box Office Xpress, originally to help out a local theatre that needed such a program. This theatre didn't want to deal with the learning curve and quirks of similarly priced DOS  and poorly designed Windows software. After looking at demos of various other companies' programs it became apparent that, despite product claims, no thought was given to user-friendliness. Consequently, Box Office Xpress quickly evolved into an internationally recognized Windows ticketing program. The Junior version has maintained the objective of having a very reasonable price point.