Veezi alternatives: a real front end on top of Veezi

Veezi is cloud-based cinema management software for independent cinemas, developed in New Zealand by Vista Group. Its feature list covers point of sale, film programming, cinema management and reporting, V-Tix internet ticketing, websites, the UsherPoint app, Movie Mailer showtime emails, loyalty and subscriptions, inventory, vouchers and gift cards, kiosks, digital signage, time and attendance, and Veezi Payments. Pricing is a personalised quote, with a free trial.

That is a sound way to run a small cinema, and there is rarely a reason to move off it. What independents on Veezi usually want more of is the part the audience sees: a website that looks like their cinema rather than a template, their own app on the phone, and a real relationship with the people who book. That is a front-end problem, and Filmgrail solves it without touching the counter.

An independent has the least tolerance for disruption of anybody in exhibition. There is no IT department, the manager is also doing the rota and the film bookings, and a fortnight of counter chaos is not survivable the way it is for a circuit with head-office support.

Putting Filmgrail on Veezi keeps the counter untouched. Filmgrail reads your programme, sessions, seat maps and prices from Veezi and writes each online sale back, so your staff's day does not change and your reporting does not move. The Veezi integration page shows what moves between the two, and Filmgrail vs Veezi compares them line by line.

And it is the change your audience notices. Nobody has ever chosen a cinema because of its back office. They choose it because the film page made them want to go, the app reminded them on Thursday and the checkout took thirty seconds. Across cinemas on Filmgrail, nine in ten end users create a profile, and the average yearly increase in digital ticket sales is 89%.

Because an independent's website and app are its shop window, and they deserve a product built for nothing else. Filmgrail runs cinemas from single-screen town cinemas and cultural centres to Bergen Kino, Trondheim Kino and Ster-Kinekor, each on its own brand.

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 Veezi, 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.