csxpress User Guide Table of Contents 2. Introduction 3. Signing Into csxpress 4. Edit 9. View 10. Send 11. Additional Features 13.

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1 csxpress User Guide Table of Contents 2. Introduction 3. Signing Into csxpress 4. Edit 9. View 10. Send 11. Additional Features 13. Contact

2 Introduction Welcome to csxpress! csxpress is a web-based utility designed to meet the demands of exhibitors who want their showtimes displayed quickly and accurately in print and online. csxpress is tied into the powerful Cinema-Source database which provides movie showtimes information to all the major websites like Yahoo!, MSN, Google, MovieFone, CitySearch, Hollywood.com, MTV.com, USAToday.com and many, many others, as well as websites and newspapers in your area. Throughout this user guide you will see a few different alerts that have useful tips and important reminders about the use and functionality of the website. Please use the key below as a guide: Helpful Tips will be highlighted in this color. Although reading these are not necessary, most of them are time saving tricks Important information will be highlighted in this color. These boxes are to remind you of critical steps that will ensure your data gets to us accurately. Although this guide will answer most of your questions, our staff is always available to help by either ing us via the Contact Us button on the csxpress or by calling (203) Also check out our FAQ page accessible from the Home page. 2

3 Signing Into csxpress To access csxpress, type this web address into your web browser: Once you have reached the home page, you will see a box in the upper right-hand corner of the page. Please use the username and password that we provided you and hit Login. If you have not received a username and password, please call us at (203) Once you have logged in, you will come to your theatre s home page, which will resemble the screen above. You may change your password by clicking on the link on the bottom of the page that says Change Password. 3

4 Edit On the home page, click the link that says Edit. one pictured above. This will take you to a page like the The Edit Button is also located at the top of each page on the csxpress site. To begin,click the Add A New Film Title This Week button. This will take you to the showtime entry page. 4

5 Edit To add your first film, click the Select Movie Title link. This will open a new window to where you can search for a title or select on from the drop down menu. If a new window doesn t open make sure your pop up blocker is disabled! After selecting a film,enter your showtimes for the upcoming Friday. Make sure you mark you AM shows and matinees! csxpress will also warn you if you enter showtimes out of order or if they do not end with a zero or five. When entering showtimes. there is no need to put them in the correct format. For 5:00 you can type 500 or 5. When saved csxpress will automatically convert them. 5

6 Edit Occasionally the Cinema-Source database may not have a film you are playing. When this happens you ll get a message like the one below. Should this happen you can click HERE to add the title. Simple enter the name of the film and the rating and click Save. You ll then see the title listed in a menu for you to select. Click the button next to the title and you re done! Make sure you spelled the movie correctly when you searched! Otherwise you may be adding a film we already have. 6

7 Edit After entering your showtimes,you ll notice a list of attributes to the left. This is where you can assign film specific attributes to your movies. Are we missing an important attribute? Let us know and we may be able to add it! We re always working to improve csxpress. Once your showtimes and attributes are entered click Save Showtimes at the top of the page. This will take you back to the edit screen where you should see your movie added.

8 Edit To copy the movie and showtimes to the rest of the week use the links pointed out below. Once the showtimes are listed for the entire week, you ll be able remove the last shows on weekdays. Once your showtimes for the week are entered you ll be able to copy the entire schedule to the next weeks schedule to save time next week! Your attributes and matinees are listed here as well. Make sure you didn t leave them out! 8

9 Edit To edit one day of showtimes click the Edit button for the appropriate day of the week.this will take you back to the screen where you entered your title, showtimes and attributes. View The View feature is an easy place to check to make sure your showtimes and attributes are listed properly. If not,make any necessary changes. If everything looks good then you are ready to submit your schedule to the Cinema-Source database! Locate and click the Send button at the top of the page. 9

10 Send After clicking Send you will be taken to a confirmation page. Click Send Showtimes if you are satisfied with your schedule. Congratulations! You are done. Your showtimes are now in the Cinema-Source database reaching millions of movie goers! Still not seeing your showtimes online? As long as your schedule was sent, you data is on it's way to all the websites Cinema-Source supplies showtimes to. 10

11 Additional Features able showtimes Do you have a list of local media outlets (newspapers or websites) that you need to send your showtimes to every week? If so,csxpress has an address book feature which allows you to distribute your showtimes via . After selecting that option you will see the page below. Click Add An Address to get started. Then type in a valid address and click Save.

12 Additional Features You will now see the address listed under the destination. From here, you can Transmit your showtimes which will them in an easy to read format to all the addresses in your address book. Or you can select Add a New Address to continue adding addresses or you can Delete the address. Paid Time Clocks If your theatre is listed in one of the Paid Timeclocks produced by Cinema-Source this feature will allow you to submit special requests. Anything from ticket presale campaigns to job recruitment details. Just click the Send Attribute Information to ExhibitorAds link. Then select the Paid Timeclock you appear in. 12

13 Additional Features Just fill out the form and click submit Your request will then appear in the newspaper ad. It s that simple! Don t forget your contact info in case we have any questions for you! Contact Questions or Comments? Feedback or Suggestions? We re always here (almost always). Give us a call at (203) or click the contact Cinema-Source link at the bottom of every page of csxpress. 13