AgileTix alternatives for cinemas and film festivals

Agile Ticketing Solutions, based in Hermitage, Tennessee, sells AgileTix as "Intelligent Venue Solutions": ticketing for reserved and general admission, CRM, memberships and loyalty, concessions ordering, reporting, kiosks and scanners, streaming for virtual events, custom website hosting and a WordPress plugin, and a branded app for tickets, passes and push notifications. It serves cinemas, art houses, historic theatres, fairs and festivals, museums and more, with customers including the Belcourt, Coolidge Corner, FilmScene and Cinequest.

It is a broad venue suite. Film is one of many markets it serves, alongside museums and attractions, conferences and equestrian events. Filmgrail serves one: cinemas and film festivals. That focus is the argument for putting Filmgrail in front of your ticketing.

A ticketing change means migrating customers, memberships, pass holders and reporting history, and retraining everyone at the box office. You do not need any of that to get a better website and app. Filmgrail reads programme, sessions, seating and prices from AgileTix and writes each completed sale back, so AgileTix stays the record for customers and reporting. The Agile Ticketing integration page explains how, and the Filmgrail vs Agile Ticketing comparison lays out the two side by side.

What changes is the product your audience uses. A page for every film with trailer, runtime, rating and structured data that ranks for that film in your town. Native iOS and Android apps on the same CMS as the website, with push when a saved film goes on sale. Watchlists, ratings and audience analytics. A checkout built for completion on a phone.

For festivals, Filmgrail adds a dedicated festival platform: strands, venues, passes and a site that holds up on the day the programme drops. It runs BIFF and the Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund.

Filmgrail runs Classic Cinemas, a Chicago-area circuit of around sixteen theatres, alongside operators such as Bergen Kino, Ster-Kinekor and Wallis Cinemas. Across cinemas on Filmgrail, nine in ten end users create a profile, and the average yearly increase in digital ticket sales is 89%.

Pricing is published and scales by screens: from $200 a year for a single screen up to $20,000 a year for a large circuit, and about $5,000 a year, flat, with no per-ticket fees for a mid-size festival (see pricing). The AgileTix integration is available on demand: we build it during onboarding, and you go live in about a month.

See your own cinema on it first: the cinema website prototype tool builds a prototype from your current URL. Then book a demo against your real programme.