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Push notifications that fill seats
Reach moviegoers with the right message at the moment they are most likely to act, on the device they actually use — then measure what it earned.
Five things push does for a cinema
Real-time updates
New films, special events and schedule changes reach your audience the moment they happen.
Ticket and concession sales
Sell premiere tickets and associated goods — popcorn, drinks, gift cards — straight from a notification.
Booking reminders
A seat reserved but not paid for is a recoverable sale. Automated payment reminders recover it.
Engagement
Stimulate interest in specific films and lift attendance on screenings that need it.
Campaigns and offers
Communicate discounts and promotions to a large audience in minutes, not in a print deadline.
Automated and segmented
Automated push plus SMS campaigns, targeted by behaviour — watchlist, genre, location, what they have already seen.
Priced by screens, from $200 a year for a single screen to $20,000 for a large circuit. Push runs inside your own Filmgrail apps, on the same platform.
A flat annual price with no per-ticket fee and no percentage of your sales. A record year costs nothing extra.
A few weeks if we already integrate your box office and payment provider; about a month for a new one.
Segments you can only build if you know your audience
Generic broadcast push trains people to switch notifications off. Filmgrail sends one-to-one because it knows who watched what, who saved what to a watchlist, and who abandoned a checkout.
Campaigns are composed, scheduled, segmented and logged in the CMS, and their performance comes back in Filmgrail Insights.
Frequently asked questions
Do push notifications work for cinemas?
They work when they are specific. Broadcast messages to a whole install base get muted; behaviour-triggered messages — a watchlisted film opening, an unpaid seat reservation, a screening near a moviegoer’s usual location — reliably convert because they arrive at a decision point.
Can I send push to web visitors as well as app users?
Yes. Filmgrail supports both web push and native app push from the same campaign tooling.
Can campaigns be automated?
Yes. Automated push notifications fire on triggers such as new releases, watchlist matches and unpaid reservations, alongside scheduled manual campaigns and SMS.
How much do push notifications cost?
Filmgrail is priced by screens: one flat annual price from $200 a year for a single screen to $20,000 a year for a large circuit, with no per-ticket fees and no share of your sales. A mid-size film festival pays about $5,000 a year. Card fees go to your own payment provider. Push runs inside your own Filmgrail apps, on the same platform. Full details on the pricing page.
How long does it take to go live?
A few weeks when we already integrate your box office and payment provider; about a month when we need to build a new integration.
You do not have to replace your box office
Filmgrail reads your programme, seat maps, ticket types and pricing from the system you already run, and writes the completed sale back so your reporting stays whole.
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