Admit One alternatives: the better front end for your cinema

Admit One describes itself as "more than just your POS": the A1 Suite spans Lobby (kiosks and staff tools), F&B, Digital Sales, Back Office and Guest Experience (loyalty), sold to independent, boutique, multi-site and enterprise cinemas as well as multipurpose venues and visitor attractions. Its Digital Sales module includes a customised, mobile-responsive website and booking engine, Apple and Android apps, and third-party sales channels such as Fandango and Meerkat Movies.

That breadth is the point of a POS suite. It is also why, when a cinema goes looking for an Admit One alternative, the complaint is rarely the counter. It is the website and the app: the part where a moviegoer decides whether to book at all. In a suite, that is one module among five. At Filmgrail it is the whole product, and that is the argument of this page.

A POS migration touches staff training, stock, F&B menus, film hire settlement and the daily cash-up, and every failure is visible at the counter. Replacing the front end touches none of it. Filmgrail reads programme, sessions, seating and prices through Admit One and writes the completed sale back, so Admit One stays the single record for reporting. The Admit One integration page shows exactly what moves between the two.

What changes is everything your audience sees. Film pages with trailers, context and structured data that can rank for a film in your town. A native app that sends push when a film someone saved goes on sale. A checkout built and measured on completion rate. Loyalty and profiles that tell you who your moviegoers are before they buy, not just after. Across cinemas on Filmgrail, nine in ten end users create a profile, and the average yearly increase in digital ticket sales is 89%.

Admit One's own website and apps come with the suite. Our view is simple: a module is not a strategy, and for most cinemas the online sale is now the biggest box office they have.

Because the digital layer is the one part of the operation that sells tickets on its own, and it deserves a product built for nothing else. Filmgrail runs cinemas from single-screen town halls to Bergen Kino, Trondheim Kino, Ster-Kinekor and Classic Cinemas in the US.

Pricing is published and scales by screens: from $200 a year for a single screen to $20,000 a year for a large circuit, flat per screen with no per-ticket fees (see pricing). Because we already integrate with Admit One, you can be live in a few weeks.

See it before you talk to anyone: the cinema website prototype tool builds a version of your own site from its current URL. Then book a demo against your real programme.