Release Notes

Jul 1 2025: Web

  • Improvement: Past due monthly membership cancellations now take effect immediately and stop payment retry attempts.
  • Improvement: Membership plan options on renewal pages are now ordered from least to most expensive after the current plan.
  • Fix: Ticket types now require a price to be entered, ensuring they work properly in the Box Office app.
  • Fix: Showtimes with Box Office-only ticket types are no longer clickable on series pages.
  • Fix: Removed built-in listing pages for Movies, Special Events, Programs, and Showtimes.
  • Fix: Search box no longer appears when printing the Orders listing page.
  • Various PHP warning cleanup and stability improvements.

Jun 16 2025: Web

  • New: Enhanced Campaigns list with sortable columns including Promotion, Campaign Type, Send count, Codes Sent, Redeemed count, and Redemption %. Added Campaign Type filter for better organization.
  • New: Improved Membership Plans list now shows Active Memberships count with direct download link to the Memberships report for that plan. The list is now sorted by active memberships count.
  • New: Enhanced Past Showtimes report with new sortable columns for Showtimes count, Sold Out count, Date/Time, Advanced Sales %, and Capacity %, and the ability to group by show or showtime in the web view.
  • New: Exclude specific seats from Fandango sales by entering seat numbers in the auditorium settings. These seats will appear as already sold/taken on Fandango.
  • Improvement: Running Time columns in admin Movies, Programs, Special Events lists are now sortable.
  • Various fixes and improvements.

Jun 02 2025: Box Office 2.8.2

  • New: You can now sell annual and monthly memberships through the Box Office app! Read more.
  • New: Annual members can now change to a different membership plan when they renew in person.
  • Improvement: Apply Discount Code search results now have significantly more details.
  • Improvement: Replaced MORE/BACK buttons with smooth vertical scrolling when there are more than 10 shows on a date.
  • Improvement: Streamlined the card reader selection process and added the ability to clear the selected card reader.
  • Fix: Resolved errors that occurred when more than 100 ticket types existed in the admin.
  • Fix: Card reader no longer retains incorrect payment amounts after canceled transactions.
  • Fix: Date picker now allows previous day selection before 3 AM.
  • Fix: Minor interface improvements and stability enhancements.

May 27 2025: Web

  • New: Various internal API updates to prepare for the next Box Office app release.

Apr 29 2025: Web

  • New: Promotions can now be attached directly to membership plans, so you can provide additional discounts to your members in a more seamless way. Contact us at support@filmbot.com if you’re interested in using this new feature.
  • Improvement: Monthly members can now change their payment method on file to Stripe “wallet” payment methods that may be enabled in your Stripe account, such as Stripe Link, Cash App pay, or Amazon Pay. The initial payment must still be made with a card on the membership signup form, but payment methods can subsequently be changed on the member’s “Update” page.
  • Fix: Imported annual memberships will no longer have a payment amount associated with their first year in the Memberships report.
  • Fix: “This Week” and “Last Week” datepicker shortcuts will now always load the correct report data.
  • Fix: The Count column in the Movies > Series list will now correctly link to the showtimes with that series, instead of the shows.

Apr 08 2025: Web

  • New: For cinemas and festivals that sell memberships, customers can now add a donation to their membership purchase or renewal! Read more.
  • Improvement: More filters and columns have been added to the Movie, Special Event, and Program listings in the admin.
  • Fix: Section names on festival sites will no longer be displayed in all uppercase on some show types.
  • Fix: The datepicker will no longer be blank in some cases when visiting reserved seat map checkout pages.
  • Fix: In the Stripe Payout report, the filename will now correctly include the date of the payout being reported on.
  • Minor ux improvements and backend enhancements.

Apr 04 2025: Web

  • New: Sell tickets on Fandango with our latest integration! Read more.

Mar 25 2025: Web

  • Fix: Membership renewals processed through the Box Office app will now be listed at the correct station in the Sales Detail report.
  • Fix: Resolved an issue with the datepicker when the Now Playing panel was included on a subpage.
  • Fix: Products can now be set to draft status.
  • Fix: Gift membership confirmation emails will now be listed in the Event History on the order detail.
  • Fix: Resolved an issue with mobile date dropdowns on cinema websites when borders were set on the showtime buttons.
  • Improvement: Text indicating global posts has been updated for greater clarity.
  • Improvement: The movie autofill feature on festival sites will now populate the movie’s main production still image into the featured image field rather than its poster. The featured image field has been renamed from “Poster” to “Production Still”.

Mar 18 2025: Web

  • New: Annual members can now change their membership plan when they renew! Read more.
  • New: Improved visibility into annual memberships which have an upcoming renewal scheduled, including:
    • Two new columns added to the Memberships Report for “Renewal Payment Date” and “Renewal Paid Through”.
    • The “End Date” field has been renamed to “Current Term Ends”
    • A note has been added below the “Current Term Ends” field to indicate that a renewal has been paid, and when the benefits will renew.
    • Renewal confirmation emails sent to members will now explicitly state the date their membership will renew, and what their new term end date will be.
  • Fix: Going forward, orders that contain more than one showtime will no longer have incorrect totals on the Showtime Attendees report.
  • Fix: It’s now possible to add and update orders that contain the only remaining tickets for a showtime in the Box Office.
  • Fix: When a showtime has an extra, the View link under Movies > Showtimes will now go to the Extra page instead of checkout.
  • Fix: Titles with international characters will now display correctly in the Schedule Export PDF.
  • Fix: Monthly membership plans which have a Dual price added after they are published can now be sold properly.
  • Fix: Program detail pages will now include the “Program still” image at the top of the page.

Feb 18 2025: Web

  • Fix: Resolved a crash when trying to reserve unavailable seats after concessions in the box office app.
  • Fix: Fixed an error when assigning a sales tax category with a blank tax rate.
  • Fix: Improved reliability when resending membership order confirmation emails.
  • Improvement: Removed partial transparency from series pills on pages throughout the cinema sites.