Cinema ticketing software for Saudi Arabia

A Saudi moviegoer's benchmark is a circuit app with mada, Apple Pay, STC Pay and instalments at checkout, loyalty on the account and every format in one place. A new operator, a boutique cinema or a cultural venue selling through a generic booking page starts behind.

Filmgrail gives you that standard without building an in-house product team: your own website and native iOS and Android apps, loyalty and push on one CMS and one customer record, and Insights analytics. If you run Vista, we already integrate it: see the Vista integration. For anything else we check what your box office exposes and scope it in writing first. If you are weighing a separate loyalty platform, read Movio alternatives.

The Saudi Film Commission reports a 2025 box office of SAR 921m on 18.8m tickets, across 603 screens (as reported by Argaam; see our global box office figures). That is a market measured in hundreds of screens, where every new site needs a digital channel from its opening day.

Saudi moviegoers expect mada debit cards, Apple Pay and STC Pay, and buy-now-pay-later through Tabby or Tamara. We integrate your payment provider rather than forcing ours on you. Content and interface strings are translatable in the CMS; tell us your language requirements, including Arabic, and we confirm them in writing before you sign.

The industry gathers at Saudi Film Confex in Riyadh, run by the Saudi Film Commission, at the Red Sea Souk in Jeddah and at the Saudi Film Festival's production market in Dhahran; the region's exhibitors also meet at the META Cinema Forum in Dubai. See our cinema industry events calendar.

We do not yet have a cinema live in Saudi Arabia. The closest comparable is Ster-Kinekor, southern Africa's largest circuit with more than 30 complexes, which runs its website, ticketing and loyalty on Filmgrail. Bergen Kino runs 18 premium halls with website, native apps and online ticketing on the same platform.

For festivals, our festival platform runs BIFF, Norway's largest film festival, with website, programme and ticketing in one place.

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.