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Bookings on your own site, without double bookings.

From a request form to live availability. Customers reserve an appointment, a table, a ticket or a night on your own website, at the level you need: a request your staff confirm, or live availability with deposits and reminders.

One person, one calendar, simple appointments? A ready-made online booking tool costs far less than a build.

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Corporate & Multilingual Websites

Company sites in every language your buyers read, kept current.

What it is

The right booking system is the smallest one that stops the phone calls

Booking and reservation systems let customers reserve an appointment, a table, a ticket or a night on your own website, instead of by phone, message or a rented platform.

You get the right level for your business. That can be a request form your staff confirm, or live availability with deposits, reminders and no double bookings. We built restaurant table-request sites in New Orleans and run Outdoora, which sells dated event tickets and per-night stays.

Booking & Reservations is for selling your own time, tables, seats or nights, with rules for when they are available. Many sellers behind one checkout is a Marketplace. Booking inside a bigger system with many user roles starts at Custom Platforms & Portals. A site with a request form is Corporate & Multilingual Websites.

A booking platform or your own system? A platform brings you new customers, charges for it and keeps the customer. Your own system keeps the customer and the data. It pays off only when customers already come to you directly.

What we hear

Three messages that usually come before a booking system

Customers reserve an appointment, a table, a ticket or a night on your own website, instead of by phone, message or a rented platform.

01

Half my week is answering 'anything Saturday?' on WhatsApp.

Customers fill in date, time, party size and notes, so staff just confirm instead of going back and forth. We choose a request form or live availability after looking at how many bookings you get.

Corporate & Multilingual Websites
02

A booking platform takes a cut of every reservation, and the customer belongs to them.

Bookings run on your own site, with deposits through Stripe, PayPal or iyzico, so the customer and the data stay yours. The trade-off: a platform brings you new customers. Your own system pays off when customers already come to you directly.

03

We got double booked again because the website and the front desk keep separate diaries.

The website, front desk and linked calendars all use the same availability. The slot is held during checkout and freed if payment fails.

What we already know

The details that decide whether it holds up

  1. 01

    Plan for it

    Double bookings happen in the last second

    At checkout, the slot is locked in one step, with a short hold that ends if payment fails. Without this, both customers get a confirmation.

  2. 02

    Daylight saving breaks bookings twice a year

    Appointments are saved in the venue's time zone, and we test the weekend the clocks change. On that night a 02:30 slot can happen twice, or not at all.

  3. 03

    Calendar sync is not free

    Syncing with Google or Microsoft calendars depends on connections that expire and updates that arrive late. So we first decide which calendar is the main one.

Who it is for

Worth building when your bookings have rules a standard tool handles badly

A good fit

Your Own Time, Tables, Seats or Nights

For selling them with your own availability rules, on your own site and checkout.

  • Booking by phone or messages costs your staff hours every week.
  • Bookings of different lengths, rooms, chairs or lifts, gaps between bookings, or group sizes.
  • Tickets for a date or stays by the night, or deposits and cancellation deadlines through your own checkout.
Chairs, rooms, bays, tables

Not a fit yet

One Person, One Calendar

Simple appointments: a ready-made online booking tool costs far less than a build.

Use a ready-made tool

Software Your Staff Like

You already run reservation or practice-management software that works.

Keep it, or add a booking page that passes bookings to it

How a booking build runs

Count the real bookings before choosing the level

  1. Step 01

    Count the Real Bookings

    How many bookings, where they come from, cancellations and your staff's unwritten rules decide: request form or live availability.

  2. Step 02

    Plan Availability and Money

    We agree what can be booked, durations, capacity, deposits and the cancellation policy before any screen.

  3. Step 03

    Build, Then Test the Edges

    We test two people booking at once, the weekends the clocks change, refunds and the real customer emails.

  4. Step 04

    Launch Beside the Old Channel

    Phone bookings keep working while customers get used to booking online. We then run it and adjust the rules by season.

FAQ

Questions people ask before booking goes online

An app will do for one person with one calendar. A custom system is worth it when you book several rooms, chairs or staff, different durations or group sizes. It also makes sense when platform fees or owning the customer matter, or when tickets and stays go through your own checkout.
The slot is taken the moment someone books. It is held for a few minutes during checkout, and freed again if payment fails.
Yes. A request form with date, time, party size and notes that staff confirm is the simplest version.
A simple request form is usually part of a website project. Live availability with payments is a fixed-price build. The price depends mostly on calendar sync and how many things are booked together, such as a room plus a staff member. Running it is a monthly Run plan. Typical ranges are on our pricing page.

Bookings still arriving by message and phone?

Tell us what you take bookings for and how they are confirmed today. We will talk through the level you need, from a request form to live availability.

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