Cinema ticketing software for the UAE

The UAE's big circuits sell through their own apps and booking sites. An operator selling through a generic booking page is competing with that on unequal terms.

Filmgrail closes the gap without an in-house development team. Your own website and native iOS and Android apps, loyalty and push on one CMS and one customer record, and Insights analytics on who your moviegoers are. If you run Vista, we already integrate it: see the Vista integration. If you are weighing a separate loyalty platform, read Movio alternatives and Filmgrail vs Movio.

VOX Cinemas, Majid Al Futtaim's circuit, runs 631 screens across seven countries (see the largest cinema chains). We do not publish a UAE box office figure, because we have not found an official one we could verify.

UAE moviegoers pay by card, Apple Pay and Google Pay, and increasingly by instalments through Tabby. 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 region's exhibitors meet at the META Cinema Forum in Dubai, on 9 and 10 November 2026. Its leaders are in who's who in cinema.

We do not yet have a cinema live in the UAE. 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, including Europe's largest D-BOX auditorium, with website, native apps and online ticketing on the same platform, and Classic Cinemas runs around sixteen theatres in the Chicago area.

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.