Wednesday cinema week
Booking grids, play weeks and holdovers run Wednesday to Tuesday.
Philippines
Film distribution in the Philippines, settled in pesos
DISTmio runs Philippine bookings on a Wednesday cinema week, applies each cinema's local amusement tax and writes rent invoices with VAT.
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What a Philippine distributor needs
Local amusement tax
Philippine cinemas pay a local amusement tax set per cinema, recorded once on its card and applied to every settlement.
VAT on rent
Rent invoices carry VAT, while cinema tickets carry none.
Straight into your books
Approved rent invoices flow into Xero, QuickBooks, Odoo or Zoho Books.
Philippine settlement
From box office to rent invoice
DISTmio removes each cinema's local amusement tax, applies your share, guarantee or flat fee for each cinema week and turns approved settlements into rent invoices with VAT.
- Weekly shares, guarantees and flat fees
- Amusement tax set per cinema
- Rent invoices in pesos
- Gross box office
- Less local amusement tax
- Net box office
- Rental share
- Guarantee or flat fee
- Rent invoice with VAT
Invoicing and accounting
Xero, QuickBooks, Odoo or Zoho Books
Connect the accounting program you already use and rent invoices from approved settlements flow into it.
- Xero and QuickBooks
- Odoo and Zoho Books
- Payment links with Stripe or PayPal
Xero
Invoice DM/2025/042
- Payer
- Cinema example
- Film
- The Northern Lights
- Rent
- ₱348,000
- VAT
- ₱41,760
- Due date
- 16 Apr
- Status
- Approved
Online payment link
Xero
QuickBooks
Odoo
Cinema week
Play weeks from Wednesday to Tuesday
The booking grid, play weeks and the Monday holdover board follow the Wednesday week, and a holdover decision extends the booking and orders new KDMs together.
- Booking grid by Wednesday weeks
- Monday holdover board with the national average
- One-click extension with new KDMs
- Mon
- Tue
- Wed
- Thu
- Fri
- Sat
- Sun
Questions
Philippines: common questions
Which accounting programs work in the Philippines?
Xero, QuickBooks, Odoo and Zoho Books connect directly.
How is the local amusement tax handled?
You record it once on each cinema's card, and every settlement for that cinema starts from box office net of it.
Philippines
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