Independent Cinema Software You Build by Describing It

Mythex builds the website and back office an independent cinema runs on: weekly listings entered once and shown on the website, a printable sheet and the lobby screen, member tiers with free tickets, private hire requests and waiting lists for sold-out Q&As. Describe your program and your screens, check the live preview, then publish.

The Friday problem

New film times start every Friday. By Thursday evening someone is typing the same screenings into the website, the newsletter, social posts and the lobby board, and one of the four is always wrong. On top of the weekly program sit repertory seasons, festivals, director Q&As, relaxed and captioned screenings, school mornings and private hires that must not clash with public shows. Members expect priority booking and their free tickets to work at the box office. The bar often earns as much as the screens, so the numbers that matter are admissions and spend per head together.

One program record per screening with date, time, screen and certificate
Clear labels for captioned, audio-described and relaxed screenings
Member tiers with free tickets, discounts and renewal dates
Private hire that checks against the public program
Waiting lists for sold-out events
Occupancy by time slot next to bar spend

What you can build for independent cinemas

Listings typed once, shown everywhere

Store each screening as a record linked to its film, with running time, language, subtitles, certificate and trailer. The website, a printable weekly sheet and a full-screen lobby page all read from those records, so changing a time changes it in every place. Accessible screenings get a label and a filter, and the bar and private hire pages are one click from the home page.

Build a website for our independent cinema with two screens. Films have title, running time, certificate, language, subtitles and a trailer link; screenings have date, time, screen and a tag for captioned, relaxed or parent-and-baby. Show this week's listings, a printable weekly sheet and a full-screen lobby page, all from the same data.

Member tiers that pay for themselves at the bar

Set up tiers with free tickets, a ticket discount and priority booking, plus joint and concession prices. Each member gets a code to show at the box office, and the desk view flags anyone whose renewal is due in the next month. Recurring fees are collected through a billing provider you connect yourself.

Add memberships with three tiers: Friend, Joint and Concession. Each tier sets free tickets per year, a ticket discount and priority booking days. Give members a code for the box office, track free tickets used, and list members whose renewal is due within 30 days.

Q&As, silent films with live music, quiz nights

Special events need their own price and a capacity that matches the screen they play in. When an event sells out, people join a waiting list and you release returned tickets to it in order. Season pages link every screening in a retrospective, so someone who books one film sees the rest.

Create event ticketing for our cinema. Each event has its own price, a capacity from the screen it plays in, guest names and partner logos. When it sells out, show a waiting list form and let me release returned seats to the list in order.

Private hire requests that respect the program

A private hire form asks for date, time, film choice, group size and catering, and only offers slots that do not clash with public screenings. Bookings stay as requests until you confirm you can get the rights for the chosen title, then the deposit is taken through a payment account you connect. School screenings ask for age range and a teacher contact.

Add a private hire request form for our two screens: date, time, film wanted, group size and catering options. Hide times that clash with public screenings. Requests stay pending until I confirm the film license, then I send a deposit request. Add a school screenings form with age range and teacher contact.

Admissions, occupancy and spend per head

See admissions per film, occupancy by day and time, and bar and café spend per head next to ticket income. Over a few months the quiet slots stand out, and that is where a cheaper early show, a film club or a parent-and-baby screening can go. Membership joins and renewals sit on the same page.

Make a dashboard for our cinema showing admissions per film, occupancy by screen, day and start time, bar spend per head beside ticket income, and new members and renewals per month. Let me import box office and till exports as CSV.

An audience list that knows horror fans from documentary regulars

Tag each contact by what they book, mark members, donors and volunteers separately, and store email consent with every record. Then the newsletter can send each group the screenings that match what they come for, which keeps unsubscribes low.

Build an audience CRM for our cinema. Record contacts with email consent, tags for the genres they book, and flags for member, donor, volunteer and private hire client. Let me filter by tag and export a list for the newsletter.

What to set up before next Friday

Start with the film and screening records and the three outputs that read from them: the website listing, the print sheet and the lobby page. Enter one week by hand and check that a changed time shows up in all three. Then add the season pages and accessible screening labels. Memberships and private hire can follow once the weekly routine is quicker than it was.

Films and screenings in the database
Website, print sheet and lobby page from the same records
Labels for captioned and relaxed shows

Volunteers and staff on a rota that follows the program

Build next week's rota after the program is fixed, usually Monday or Tuesday, so late shows and events get extra people. Volunteer ushers and bar staff can pick and swap shifts themselves, and training records show who can run projection alone. That keeps the front of house covered without a string of messages on Friday night.

Questions

Can we sell tickets online?

Yes. Ask for ticketing per screening or event with seat or capacity limits. Card payments go through a payment provider such as Stripe that you connect with your own account.

Can the lobby screen update on its own?

Yes. Ask for a full-screen listings page and open it on the lobby display in a browser. It reads the same screenings as the website, so it changes when you change them.

Can I import screenings from a spreadsheet?

Yes. Ask for a CSV import of films and screenings, and Mythex maps the columns and tells you which rows it could not read. Many cinemas keep entering the week directly once the form exists.

Do I need to code?

No. You describe the cinema in plain language and Mythex writes the app with a live preview. The code editor is there if you want it, with full editing and export on Pro.

What does it cost?

The Free plan needs no card and includes daily credits and publishing. Pro is $25/month and adds a custom domain, code editing, GitHub export and credit top-ups.

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