Cinetixx alternatives: keep the till, upgrade what your audience sees

cinetixx is cloud-based cinema software from YUVENDA Cinema Solutions GmbH in Munich. It combines the till, film planning, kiosk and concessions, online ticketing, marketing (newsletters, vouchers and bonus programmes) and reporting in one system, and says around 400 cinemas in Germany use it. It describes an API-first architecture with interfaces to websites, payment, DATEV accounting and partner platforms such as Kinoheld, Cineville and rausgegangen.

That is a sound operational base. When a cinema on cinetixx starts looking for alternatives, the complaint is rarely the till. It is the online presence: the website the programme lives on, the app a regular opens on Thursday evening, and how much the cinema really knows about the people who buy. Those are front-end questions, and replacing the box office is an expensive way to answer them.

An all-in-one system treats online sales as one channel among several. Filmgrail treats it as the whole product. Film pages carry trailers, context and structured data that can rank for a film in your town. The native app sends a push when a film someone saved goes on sale. The checkout is built and measured on completion rate. Loyalty and profiles tell you who your moviegoers are. Across cinemas on Filmgrail, nine in ten end users create a profile, and the average yearly increase in digital ticket sales is 89%.

And the till does not move. Filmgrail reads programme, sessions, seating and prices from the box office and writes each completed sale back, so your reporting stays in one place. If you ever change box office, your website and apps stay as they are.

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

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). A new box office integration takes about a month; for systems we already connect to, it is 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.