Filmgrail vs Filmbot for independent cinemas

Filmbot describes itself as "ticketing for the new era of independent cinemas". It bundles a customisable website, online ticketing with Apple Pay and Google Pay, a showtimes scheduler, an iPad box office, memberships, campaigns and promotion codes, donations, gift cards, sales reports and a festival extension. The app it lists is a Ticket Scanner App for verifying orders on iOS and Android. It names cinemas such as The Brattle, Nitehawk Cinema and Vidiots, and reports 7 million tickets sold.

The app. A native moviegoer app on the home screen is the one channel that reaches people who were not already planning to visit: a push when a saved film goes on sale, a reminder before a Q&A, a member offer on a quiet Tuesday. Filmgrail includes iOS and Android apps on the same CMS as your website. Across cinemas on Filmgrail, nine in ten end users create a profile, and the average yearly increase in digital ticket sales is 89%.

A price that does not grow with every ticket. Filmgrail is flat per screen. Model a per-ticket fee at your real annual volume and compare.

Your choice of box office. Filmgrail runs on Veezi, AgileTix, RTS, Vista and others, so the counter and the audience experience are no longer bound to one supplier's roadmap.

Filmgrail runs independents and circuits from single-screen town cinemas to Classic Cinemas in the Chicago area, and festivals such as BIFF.

Pricing is published and scales by screens: from $200 a year for a single screen to $20,000 a year for a large circuit, flat per screen with no per-ticket fees (see pricing). If we already integrate with your box office, such as Veezi or RTS, you can be live in a few weeks; a new box office integration takes about a month.

See it before you talk to anyone: the cinema website prototype tool builds a version of your own site from its current URL. Then book a demo against your real programme.