CINEMAS
Box office, concessions, memberships, corporate sales and reporting on one platform. No on-premise servers to maintain, and no separate vendors to reconcile at the end of the day.
CINEMAS
Box office, concessions, memberships, corporate sales and reporting on one platform. No on-premise servers to maintain, and no separate vendors to reconcile at the end of the day.
Reserved seating that holds up
Complex seat maps, halls, zones and price categories, with single and bulk seat changes, allocations, seat ownership and automatic conflict detection.
Sell on every channel
Web, mobile app, kiosk, point of sale and call center stay in sync in real time. One order and one customer record, wherever the sale started.
Concessions and food service
A unified till for tickets, food and merchandise, with menu management, in-seat dining, live inventory, bundles and retail promotions.
Programming and scheduling
Film and program scheduling with a planning wizard, trailer management, alternative content and live events, informed by how each title actually performed.
Cash, ledger and audit
Cash desk control with full daily audits, general ledger and financial export, plus country-level fiscal reporting and electronic invoicing.
Subscriptions and memberships
Season products, seat-based and section-based subscriptions, renewals, upgrades, freezes and subscriber seat reassignment, with cross-channel loyalty wallets.
One head office, every site
Multi-site and multi-region management from a single console: central configuration, staff roles and permissions, operational overrides and bulk tools.
What cinema management software has to do
Cinema management software is the system a circuit runs on every day: it sells the seat, serves the popcorn, closes the cash desk and tells head office what happened. Most exhibitors still run these jobs on several products stitched together, a ticketing engine from one vendor, a concessions till from another, a loyalty tool and a reporting layer on top. Every join between them is a place where numbers stop matching.
Bigger Picture puts box office, online and app sales, kiosks, concessions, memberships, corporate sales, back office and reporting on one cloud platform with one customer and transaction record. Around 70 venues and 500 auditoriums in eight countries run on it today, and it has sold more than 20 million tickets.
How a typical day looks on one platform
Programming is planned in the scheduling module and published once. The sessions appear at the same moment on the website, the app, the kiosks, the box office and every ticketing partner connected through the API, all selling from one seat inventory, so a seat can never be sold twice. Prices follow the rules you set per format, time band and audience, and can move with demand.
At the counter, the same till sells tickets, food and merchandise. Combos, upsells and member benefits are applied automatically, stock is deducted live, and the shift closes with a cash count that reconciles against every transaction. At night the general ledger export and the fiscal reporting for your country are produced from the same data, and head office sees attendance, spend per head and margin per site the next morning without anyone building a spreadsheet.
Built for circuits, not just single sites
Central configuration
Prices, products, menus and permissions defined once at head office and overridden per site only where you allow it.
One customer record
A ticket bought online, a drink at the bar and a membership renewal land on the same profile, which is what makes loyalty measurable.
Open API
Aggregators, ticketing partners and your own apps connect to the live inventory through documented REST APIs.
Local fiscal compliance
Electronic invoicing and fiscal reporting implemented inside the platform for the markets we serve.
Cloud infrastructure
Multi-tenant on AWS and Kubernetes. No servers in the projection booth, and upgrades reach every site at once.
Business intelligence
Reporting by title, session, site, channel and product, with forecasting that helps plan staffing and stock.
Moving from your current system
Switching cinema software is planned site by site. Seat maps, price structures, products, members, balances and open vouchers are imported before cut-over, and the first site usually runs in parallel with the old system until the daily numbers reconcile. Training happens at the site, with the box office and bar teams working on their own configuration rather than a demo environment. Once the first site is stable, the rest of the circuit follows on a schedule you control.
If you are comparing vendors, our buyer guide for cinema management software lists the questions worth asking each of them, and the Vista alternative page explains where we differ.
Related capabilities
Read more about the cinema ticketing system, the movie theater POS system, concession management, cinema loyalty software, self-service kiosks and dynamic pricing.
Frequently asked questions
What is cinema management software?
It is the system that runs a cinema's daily operation: ticket sales on every channel, concessions, memberships and loyalty, cash control, programming, back office and reporting. Bigger Picture provides all of these on one cloud platform.
Is Bigger Picture suitable for a single cinema as well as a circuit?
Yes. The platform is multi-tenant, so a single-site cinema and a multi-country circuit use the same product with different configuration.
Does it replace our concessions point of sale?
Yes. Tickets, food and merchandise are sold on the same till, with stock control, combos, member benefits and cash reconciliation per shift.
Can ticketing partners and aggregators sell our seats?
Yes. Partners connect through open REST APIs to the same live seat inventory as your own channels, with settlement reported per channel.
How long does a migration take?
It depends on the number of sites and integrations. The first site is configured and run in parallel until the numbers reconcile, and the remaining sites follow on an agreed schedule.
Built for how cinemas actually run
Every module writes to the same customer and transaction record, so a refund at the box office, a voucher redeemed at the kiosk and a membership renewal online are all the same story rather than three systems to reconcile.
