Cinema ticketing software for Portugal

On a general ticketing platform, a cinema sits alongside concerts, theatre and football, and the programme is presented as a list of events rather than films. That is fine for a one-off concert. It is a poor way to sell a changing weekly programme to regulars.

Filmgrail is built only for film. Your own website with a page for every film, your own app on the phone with push when a saved film goes on sale, and a customer record that belongs to you. We read films, sessions, seats and prices from your box office and write each sale back. Where a platform exposes an API, as B6 says its software does, the integration is simpler; either way we scope it in writing first. Circuits on Vista can start from our Vista integration.

UNIC reports Portuguese box office down 3.9% in 2025 and admissions down 8.2% (see European cinema statistics). In a shrinking year, the audience a cinema can reach directly, by app and push, is worth more than the one it rents from a marketplace.

Portuguese moviegoers expect MB WAY: the Cinemas NOS app offers MB WAY, PayPal and card. Multibanco references remain common for online payments. We integrate your payment provider rather than forcing ours on you.

Portuguese cineclubes meet with their Galician neighbours at the Encontro Luso-Galaico de Cineclubes in Viana do Castelo, and European exhibitors gather nearby at CineEurope in Barcelona. Our cinema industry events calendar lists both.

We do not yet have a Portuguese cinema live. The closest comparables to Portugal's cine-teatros are Norway's cultural centres: Elverum Kulturhus runs its cinema programme alongside its wider cultural programme on Filmgrail, and Fosnavåg Konserthus runs its cinema, concert and event programme and ticketing on the same platform. For circuits, Bergen Kino runs 18 halls with website, native apps and online ticketing, and Ster-Kinekor runs southern Africa's largest circuit on Filmgrail.

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). Prices are in US dollars. 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 system we have not connected before takes about a month, and we confirm the scope in writing before anything is signed.

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.