Cinema ticketing software alternatives: where Filmgrail fits

Ask this: is the thing that is broken visible to a customer?

If the answer is no — reporting is painful, scheduling is manual, settlement is a mess, the system is end-of-life — you are shopping in categories one to three.

If the answer is yes — the website does not do your programme justice, there is no app worth opening, the checkout loses people, you know nothing about your audience, you cannot run a campaign without a developer — you are shopping in category four. Replacing your box office will cost you months and fix almost none of it. Putting Filmgrail on top of it fixes exactly that, in weeks, with no change at the counter.

Most cinemas that ask the question honestly answer yes.

Because the online sale is now the biggest box office most cinemas have, and it deserves a product built for nothing else. Filmgrail runs Bergen Kino, Trondheim Kino, Ster-Kinekor, Classic Cinemas in the Chicago area, Wallis Cinemas in South Australia and festivals such as BIFF. 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 to $20,000 a year for a large circuit, flat per screen with no per-ticket fees (see pricing). Where we already integrate with your box office you can be live in a few weeks; a box office we have not connected before takes about a month.

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.