Cinema ticketing software for New Zealand cinemas

A New Zealand cinema on Vista or Veezi is running the same operational software as circuits around the world, and there is no reason to move it. The part that is rarely world-class is what the audience sees: a standard web sales page, no app, and no way to recognise your regulars before they buy.

Filmgrail is the moviegoer layer on top. We read films, sessions, seat maps and prices from Vista or Veezi and write each sale back, so the counter and your reports stay as they are. Read Vista alternatives, Vista vs Veezi and Veezi alternatives for the detail.

New Zealand is a small market with big-circuit competition: HOYTS, one of the two Australian-headquartered circuits in our largest cinema chains ranking, operates 500 screens across Australia and New Zealand. Our box office research does not yet publish a separate New Zealand figure, so we will not quote one.

New Zealanders pay by EFTPOS at the counter and by card, Apple Pay or Google Pay online. We integrate your payment provider rather than forcing ours on you.

The industry meets at the New Zealand Motion Picture Industry Council's conference in Auckland, and Vista Group holds VistaCon in Auckland too; both are in our cinema industry events calendar.

We do not yet have a New Zealand cinema live. The closest comparable is across the Tasman: Wallis Cinemas, family-owned for over seventy years in South Australia and at Mildura in Victoria, runs its website, online ticketing and CMS on Filmgrail while using Vista's Oneview analytics. That is the model for a New Zealand cinema: Vista in the back office, Filmgrail in front of the audience.

Filmgrail also runs Classic Cinemas in the US, Ster-Kinekor in South Africa and a long list of town cinemas in Norway, many of them the size of a New Zealand regional cinema.

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.