Ticketsolve alternatives for cinemas and film venues

Ticketsolve calls itself a live experience platform. Its product covers ticketing, box office, marketing, CRM, fundraising, data and insights, an Event Hub, its own payments (Ticketsolve Pay) and fraud protection, sold at a single all-inclusive cost quoted per organisation. It works with theatres, arts and cultural centres, festivals, museums, galleries and heritage sites across the UK and Ireland, including Venue Cymru, Komedia Bath and Farnham Maltings.

That is a platform built around the live arts organisation and its supporters. Its own app is a check-in and scanning app for staff, and tickets go to Apple and Google wallets. For a venue whose audience comes mainly for film, the comparison that matters is with streaming apps and national chains, and that is exactly the job Filmgrail is built for.

If Ticketsolve works for your box office, your memberships and your fundraising, moving all of that to fix the website is the expensive way round. Filmgrail reads programme, sessions, seating and prices from Ticketsolve and writes each completed sale back, so Ticketsolve stays the record for customers, memberships and reporting. See the Ticketsolve integration page for the detail, and the Filmgrail vs Ticketsolve comparison for who does what.

What you gain is a surface designed for film. Every film gets its own page with trailer, runtime, certificate, synopsis and structured data, so it can rank for that film in your town. Native iOS and Android apps put your programme on the moviegoer's home screen and send a push when a saved film goes on sale. Watchlists, ratings and browsing behaviour give you audience signals from before a transaction exists. And the checkout is measured on one thing: completion on a phone.

Across cinemas on Filmgrail, nine in ten end users create a profile, and the average yearly increase in digital ticket sales is 89%.

Filmgrail already runs cinemas and cultural venues that mix film with stage and events, from Vega Scene in Oslo and Rådhus-Teatret in Kongsvinger to national-scale operators like Bergen Kino and Ster-Kinekor.

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, flat per screen with no per-ticket fees (see pricing). The Ticketsolve integration is available on demand: we build it during onboarding, and you go live in about a month.

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