Cinema ticketing software for Australian cinemas

If you run Vista or Veezi, your box office is in good hands and there is no reason to move it. What Vista-family software does not give an independent is its own moviegoer product: a website that sells your cinema rather than a session list, an app on your regulars' phones, and loyalty that competes with the national chains.

Filmgrail adds exactly that. We read films, sessions, seat maps and prices from your box office and write each sale back, so your counter, candy bar and reports do not change. Read Vista alternatives, Filmgrail vs Vista, Veezi alternatives and Spektrix alternatives for the detail.

Wallis Cinemas has been family-owned and independent for over seventy years, with cinemas at Mitcham, Mount Barker and Noarlunga in South Australia and at Mildura in Victoria. It runs its website, online ticketing and CMS on Filmgrail. It also uses Vista's Oneview analytics, and its CEO is quoted on Vista's own website, which makes Wallis the clearest example of how the two fit together in Australia: Vista in the back office, Filmgrail in front of the audience.

For a larger circuit, Ster-Kinekor runs website, ticketing and loyalty on Filmgrail across more than thirty complexes in South Africa and Namibia.

Australia took A$970m at the box office in 2025 on 54.2 million admissions, across 2,238 screens, according to our global box office research. The two Australian-headquartered circuits in our largest cinema chains ranking are EVT, with 1,059 screens on 123 sites in three countries, and HOYTS, with 500 screens on 60 sites.

Australian moviegoers pay by Visa, Mastercard and eftpos debit, and increasingly by Apple Pay and Google Pay; buy-now-pay-later services such as Afterpay are common in Australian online retail. We integrate your payment provider rather than forcing ours on you.

The Cinema Association Australasia runs the Australian International Movie Convention at The Star Gold Coast, and Independent Cinemas Australia holds its own annual conference for independents. We list cinema industry events in Australia, including the MIFF 37ºSouth Market in Melbourne. Festivals such as MIFF and Sydney Film Festival are exactly who our festival platform is built for, at about $5,000 a year for a mid-size festival.

Pricing is published and flat: from $200 a year for a single screen to $20,000 a year for a large circuit, per screen, with no per-ticket fees (see pricing). A mid-size film festival pays about $5,000 a year. If we already integrate your box office and payment provider you can be live in a few weeks; a provider we have not connected before takes about a month.

See your own cinema on it before you talk to anyone: the free cinema website prototype builds a version of your site from its current address. Then book a demo against your real programme.