Key features

• Four user roles: admins, cashiers, registered users and guests, each with their own screens. Users can sign up, log in or continue as a guest by giving their contact details.
• Movies & showtimes: posters, genre, duration and rating, with showtimes filtered by the selected date.
• Seat selection: an interactive seat map per screening that shows available, selected and reserved seats, booking of several seats at once and an automatic total price.
• Tickets: booking confirmation with movie, date, hall, seats and total, and a “My Tickets” view for registered users.
• Cashier mode: sell tickets on behalf of customers, change or delete existing tickets, add new movies with their screenings (date, time, hall and price) and remove movies.
• Administration: a dashboard to manage users, create accounts with a specific role, and manage the films.

Under the hood

The application follows the Model–View–Controller pattern. The models (movie, screening, seat, ticket, user) are plain Java classes, every screen has its own FXML view and controller, and a central service handles the business logic and talks to Firebase. Prices are calculated per seat, and the data model already supports different seat types with their own price multiplier. Input such as emails and phone numbers is validated before it is saved, and the whole project is built and run with Maven.