Cinema ticketing software for UK cinemas

Every system in that table is a box office first. Each one also offers some kind of online sale — a booking website inside Oscar, Admit One's Digital Sales module, a Tapos iFrame or WordPress plugin, Spektrix and Ticketsolve booking pages — but for all of them the website is one module in a larger product. At Filmgrail it is the whole product.

That is why we do not ask you to leave any of them. Filmgrail reads your programme, sessions, seat maps and prices from the box office and writes each completed sale back, so the counter, the bar, memberships and film-hire reporting stay exactly where they are. If you are weighing up a move, read our comparisons first: Savoy Systems alternatives, Admit One alternatives, Tapos alternatives, Spektrix alternatives, Ticketsolve alternatives and Veezi alternatives.

The UK is Europe's second-largest cinema market by box office in our data: £996.8m and 123.5 million admissions in 2025, across 4,563 screens, according to the BFI figures in our global box office research. The national circuits have the apps and the loyalty schemes: Vue International, headquartered in the UK, runs 2,001 screens across eight countries, and Everyman runs 171 screens on 49 sites (see the largest cinema chains).

An independent does not win that fight on screen count. It wins on being the local cinema with the better programme, and it needs a website and an app that make that programme easy to buy. In our crawl of cinema websites, only 7% linked to an app and only 4% marked up their showtimes for search engines. That gap is the opportunity.

UK moviegoers expect to pay with a card, Apple Pay or Google Pay, and often PayPal. We integrate your payment provider rather than forcing ours on you.

We will be straight with you: we do not yet have a UK cinema live. The closest comparables are English-language circuits and the kind of mixed-programme venues the UK is full of. Classic Cinemas runs around sixteen theatres in the Chicago area, from restored historic single screens to recliner multiplexes, on Filmgrail. Wallis Cinemas, a family-owned independent in South Australia for over seventy years, runs its website on Filmgrail. Ster-Kinekor, southern Africa's largest circuit, runs website, ticketing and loyalty on it.

For arts centres, the Norwegian cultural venues are the better comparison: Vega Scene in Oslo and Rådhus-Teatret sell film alongside stage and events, much like a UK arts centre on Spektrix or Ticketsolve. And for festivals, Bergen International Film Festival runs on our festival platform.

Being early in the UK has an upside for you: the first UK cinemas get our full attention during setup.

The UK Cinema Association represents operators across the country and holds an annual conference in London. Independents meet at the Independent Cinema Office's Screening Days, the BFI Film Audience Network hubs and Cinema For All events. We list 42 cinema industry events in the United Kingdom, with dates where the organiser has published them.

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.