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Online room booking for your community hall

I'm Doris. Your regulars book the whole term in one go.

Regulars book the whole term once
No double bookings, ever
One-off hires booked after a phone call
Holidays and closed weeks blocked out

Dev, now using Doris: regulars book once for the term

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Free for up to 100 bookings a month. No card needed.

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The Doris diary at Brookside Community Centre: the kitchen, main hall and both meeting rooms busy through a Tuesday afternoon and evening, with Carla's Zumba at six

Sue booking Meeting Room 2 on her phone, ten till twelve on a Thursday, with the tea urn added

Dev’s weekDiary & Billing

The Tuesday clash.

Before: a paper diary on the front desk

Dev runs Brookside Community Centre: a hall, two meeting rooms and a kitchen. Every week he copied the regulars into the diary by hand, until Zumba and the whist drive both turned up on a Tuesday.

With me, Carla books her Zumba term in one go, and I won't let two groups have the hall at the same time. Sue adds the tea urn when she books her room for Knit & Natter, and once she has it nobody else can. When Jess rings about her daughter's birthday party, Dev talks it through and books her in as a guest before he hangs up, deposit and all. And Mike, the volunteer who does the books, sees the statements and payments and nothing he could break.

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The old way: Zumba and the whist drive both turn up for the hall on the same Tuesday — The old way

With Doris: regulars book once for the term and Doris stops the clashes — With Doris

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Carla's Zumba in the Main Hall, Tuesdays at six: session 1 of 10, booked once for the term — **The real screen**Carla's Zumba: booked once for the whole term.

Dev’s week, drawn

Swipe through it.

This is Dev. He runs the community centre: a hall, two rooms, a kitchen.

Dev used to take bookings in a diary on the front desk.

Copying the regulars in, week after week.

Zumba and the whist drive both turn up for the hall on the same Tuesday.

Dev now uses Doris. Regulars book once for the term, and Doris stops the clashes.

Dev has his Tuesdays back. Regulars book the whole term once.

What you get

What changes for a place like Dev’s.

Would you rather hire the rooms in fixed sessions, an hour or a morning at a time? That is how Margaret runs her practice.

On Free

Regulars book a term of up to 14 weeks at a time. Guest bookings for the one-off hires. Closed dates. Up to 100 bookings a month.

On Diary

No monthly limit. Regular bookings with no end date.

On Diary & Billing

A community rate for the regular groups and a hire rate for parties, the tea urn as an extra, a deposit and a balance on each party hire, and statements that send themselves.

A real one

“Calls to Kirsten about room bookings have all but stopped.”

Kirsten, Clinical Lead, Beyond Counselling, Wolverhampton

Margaret, Dev and Priya are drawings. Kirsten isn’t.

Read the Beyond Counselling story

Switching over

Moving across takes an afternoon of typing.

There's no import button, so here is what someone types in, and in what order. One of the team will walk you through it on a call if you'd like.

Your rooms and opening hours
Each weekly group as one regular booking
The one-offs already in the diary
Your members, a few at a time, with the welcome email held until you're ready
Run both for a month, then stop the old one

Pricing

Three plans. One of them is free.

Everyone starts with up to 28 days of everything, free. Then keep Free, or choose Diary or Diary & Billing. No per-room fees, no per-member fees. 100 rooms and 500 members on every plan. Pay yearly and get two months free.

MonthlyYearly

Doris Diary Free

The diary, free for as long as you use it.

£0

What’s includedHide what’s included

100 bookings a month, counted in the month they happen
Members book themselves; clashes refused
Regular bookings up to 14 dates
Guest bookings, approvals, closed dates
Shared kit counted, so the projector is never double-booked

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Diary

The whole diary, no limits.

£20 a month£200 a year

What’s includedHide what’s included

Unlimited bookings
Regular bookings with no end date
Co-working desks and the floor map
Your own AI assistant

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Diary & Billing

Everything I do. All of it.

£40 a month£400 a year

What’s includedHide what’s included

Everything in Diary, plus:
Prices, rate cards and membership plans
Statements with pay links, no cut taken
Saved cards charged on the day
Prices on extras, guest deposits and reports

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Prices plus VAT. Cancel whenever you like; your diary and its history stay put. Every price and question.

Questions

Can the public book the hall online?

Not by themselves, on purpose. Someone rings, you talk it through, and you book them in as a guest. It works on every plan.

What about the week we close for redecorating?

Close the dates once. Everyone's regular bookings step round them.

We have a new secretary every few years. Is that a problem?

No. The diary belongs to the hall, not to a person. Add the new admin, and the old one can step down.

Not sure you’re like Dev? Three quick questions

Not a hall? Margaret’s practice Priya’s desks

No more Tuesday clashes

Let me take it from here.

Free for up to 100 bookings a month. No card needed.

Start free Or book a 30-minute call first