Friday cinema week
Booking grids, play weeks and holdovers run Friday to Thursday.
Ireland
Film distribution in Ireland, ready for Peppol
DISTmio runs Irish bookings on a Friday cinema week, settles net of the 13.5% ticket VAT and sends your rent invoices to Sage, Xero or QuickBooks.
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What an Irish distributor needs
13.5% on tickets, 23% on rent
Irish cinemas start with 13.5% VAT on tickets and your rent invoices with 23%.
IFCO ratings
Films carry their IFCO rating (G, PG, 12A, 15A, 16 or 18) per version, with a warning on bookings when one is missing.
Ready for e-invoicing
Revenue's e-invoicing starts with large corporates on 1 November 2028, and DISTmio sends invoices over Peppol.
Irish settlement
From box office to Irish rent invoice
DISTmio removes the ticket VAT, applies your share, guarantee or flat fee for each cinema week and turns approved settlements into rent invoices.
- Weekly shares, guarantees and flat fees
- Settlements approved, then invoiced in one step
- Reverse-charge wording for cinemas abroad
- Gross box office
- Less 13.5% ticket VAT
- Net box office
- Rental share
- Guarantee or flat fee
- Invoice, 23% VAT
Invoicing and accounting
Sage, Xero or QuickBooks
Send approved settlements to the accounting program your team already uses, or issue invoices over Peppol.
- Sage, Xero and QuickBooks
- Invoices over Peppol
- Payment status kept with each settlement
Peppol
Invoice DM/2025/042
- Payer
- Cinema example
- Film
- The Northern Lights
- Rent
- €5,800
- VAT
- €1,335
- Due date
- 16 Apr
- E-invoice
- Peppol
Online payment link
SageXeroQuickBooksPeppol
Cinema week
Play weeks from Friday to Thursday
The booking grid, play weeks and the Monday holdover board follow the Friday week, and a holdover decision extends the booking and orders new KDMs together.
- Booking grid by Friday weeks
- Monday holdover board with the national average
- One-click extension with new KDMs
- Mon
- Tue
- Wed
- Thu
- Fri
- Sat
- Sun
Questions
Ireland: common questions
Which accounting programs work in Ireland?
Sage, Xero and QuickBooks connect directly, and invoices can also go out over Peppol.
Ireland
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We set up a demo with your films, your cinemas and a Friday cinema week.
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