Book cinema seats online
The cinemas Moviemento and City-Kino contacted us to add online booking to the existing administration tool. As our team has high expertise in the implementation of complex processes, the cinema operators decided to collaborate with us – and got a higher level of security when using the whole software.
Project Description
The online reservation tool offers a number of functionalities: user can search for films, look for the seats in the screen and choose the fitting seats for the following cinema visit themselves over an online platform. Together with the cinemas, we worked out the necessary processes like e.g. access to data that is up-to-date or network environments. In the conceptual design, we focused on a smooth process and an error-free operation.
Besides programming the online reservation tool, we have implicated the necessary framework requirements. These are e.g. the access to the current data or the fitting network infrastructure. This guarantees high security in operation.
The online reservation shows the cinema listings. Seats can be chosen for each film, therefore the seating plan of the screen can be used. Seats that are already reserved as well as the seats reserved by the user himself are highlighted in colour.
Up-to-dateness of data in real time
The online tool has to access the latest status of the data. Parallel executed reservations have to be online visible without any delay, no matter if the reservations are arranged by the staff of the cinema or through the online reservation platform. Two reservations of one seat must not happen. The arrangement of the information transfer between the clients has to ensure that the reservations can take place without an error.
The database is realized with PostgreSQL. Statistics and analysis can be exported out of the database. A searching function allows e.g. the searching of a certain film. To ensure the necessary speed for data transfer and provisioning of data, we have configured a suitable server and network environment. VPN connections provide high security.
Key data of the Project
Project start: April 2013
Project duration: 10 months
Extensions: Q4/2018
Find out more about Moviemento & City-Kino at www.moviemento.at