Venue Booking Software for Studios and Event Rooms

A rehearsal room booked for a weekday afternoon and the same room booked for a Saturday night reception aren't the same booking wearing two names, they're two different services that happen to share four walls. There's no instructor walking in with the booking, no class filling a set of places: what's being sold is the room itself, for the window of time somebody's asked for. Set each configuration up as its own service with its own length, so the daytime rehearsal booking and the evening reception booking are never forced to behave like the same thing.
  • Each configuration of the room set as its own service, its own length
    Each configuration of the room set as its own service, its own length
  • A break between hires long enough to reset the room
    A break between hires long enough to reset the room
  • One-off event hire and a standing weekly slot on the same calendar
    One-off event hire and a standing weekly slot on the same calendar
  • A package of bookings sold once, redeemed one at a time
    A package of bookings sold once, redeemed one at a time
Empty meeting room with pastel chairs around a table and blank screen
Water pitchers, glasses and notepads set along a polished conference table
Woman arranging papers and water bottles along a sunlit conference table
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Empty hall with a polished wood floor, arched windows and a stage at the far end
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Integrate with your website or use our standalone booking page

Halewood Studios' Photography Studio Hire page with date, time and price to book

Booking widgets in your website

  • Integrate in 3 mins with an embed scriptIntegrate in 3 mins with an embed script
  • Your own web pages convert to paying customersYour own web pages convert to paying customers
  • Compatible with all systems (Wix, Wordpress, Squarespace, Weebly and more)Compatible with all systems (Wix, Wordpress, Squarespace, Weebly and more)
Halewood Studios' booking page listing photography, rehearsal and event room hire

Standalone booking page

  • Your custom domain and designYour custom domain and design
  • Use in your ads (social media, newsletters)Use in your ads (social media, newsletters)
  • Optimized for conversion and customizableOptimized for conversion and customizable
Laptop showing the kiwilaunch admin dashboard with sales, bookings and staff figures

Room booking software for the space, not the person inside it

A room booking isn't a booking for a person's time, it's a booking for a window of the room's time, and the same four walls can be several different bookings depending on when they're used. kiwilaunch treats each configuration as its own service with its own length, a break between hires to reset the room, and both one-off and recurring bookings on the same calendar. A package can be sold once and drawn down one booking at a time, and a standing weekly hire can be charged automatically, always with the customer's permission.
Stacked folding chairs and a coiled orange extension cord against a wall

The same room, sold as two different bookings

A daytime rehearsal and an evening reception can happen in the same four walls and still be nothing alike: different setup, different length, different everything except the address. Set each one up as its own service, each with its own length, so a morning booking and a night booking don't get squeezed into one listing that's really describing two different rooms. Nobody is delivering a class or a session inside it. What's being booked is the space itself, for however long it's needed.
Woman setting up a tripod and light stand in an empty room

The gap between one hire and the next

A wedding reception doesn't end when the last guest leaves. Someone still has to reset the chairs, clear the tables, and get the floor back to how the next booking expects to find it. That reset time is a setting on the service itself, a break between bookings, the same way the service has its own length. It's the part of the day nobody's paying to use, and now it's a number you've set rather than time borrowed from the next hire's setup.
Card and phone exchanged across a wooden table between two people

One-off hires and a standing weekly slot, both on one calendar

A touring company needs the hall for one Saturday night. A local theater group needs the same rehearsal room every Tuesday for the whole season. Both are bookings, not different systems: set the one-off up as a single booking and the standing slot to recur, so it appears on the calendar the same way each time it comes around. When the touring company's date changes, that booking simply moves to the new date instead of getting canceled and rebuilt.
Man pausing in a doorway looking into an empty room with stacked chairs

A regular hirer, sorted once instead of every time

A resident company or a weekly hirer doesn't want to settle up after every booking. Sell a package, paid once and drawn down one booking at a time as the room is actually used, instead of billing separately for each visit. A standing weekly hire can also be set to recur, with the card charged automatically each time, always with the customer's permission. When something needs sorting after the fact, a refund, an extra charge, or a payment link for someone settling up later all run from the same dashboard.
kiwilaunch iPhone app showing room bookings and a rehearsal hire payment to collect

Your desk is wherever the next booking walks in

You're not always by a computer when someone wants to know whether the hall is free next Thursday. The kiwilaunch iOS app answers that from your phone: check the calendar, see who's booked and what's already paid, without a trip back to a desk. Tap to Pay on iPhone takes a card from someone settling up in person, with no reader to keep at the front desk.

iPhone app

Run the whole thing from your iPhone

Everything you'd sit down at a desk for, on the phone that's already in your hand.

kiwilaunch iOS app get started screen

Set the rooms up from the phone. Add each room and each block of hours, share the link.

kiwilaunch iOS app dashboard with the day's bookings

Who has which room today. Which room, which block, and who still owes you.

Collecting a payment in the kiwilaunch iOS app

Paid before the door is unlocked. Take the card at the counter or send a payment link.

Apple Tap to Pay screen collecting a payment

Take a card with nothing but your iPhone. No reader to buy, carry, or charge.

Download on the App Store

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Flexible pricing plan suited for the size of your business

Free
$0/month
Take bookings and get paid online, with no monthly bill.
  • 100 bookings100 bookings
  • Own branding experienceOwn branding experience
  • Custom labels and localizationCustom labels and localization
  • Custom landing pageCustom landing page
  • Online payments via StripeOnline payments via Stripe
  • Self onboardingSelf onboarding
Transaction fee : 1%
(Excluding payment gateway fees)
Solo
$9/month
One calendar, one person: you.
  • Everything in FreeEverything in Free
  • Unlimited bookings and customersUnlimited bookings and customers
  • Custom domainCustom domain
  • Google Calendar integrationGoogle Calendar integration
  • Marketing integrationsMarketing integrations
Transaction fee : 1%
(Excluding payment gateway fees)
Business
$39/month
Bring your team. Add as many staff members as you need.
  • Everything in SoloEverything in Solo
  • Unlimited team membersUnlimited team members
Transaction fee : 1%
(Excluding payment gateway fees)
Scale
$99/month
Assisted onboarding, enterprise support, and the lowest transaction fee we offer.
  • Everything in BusinessEverything in Business
  • Assisted onboardingAssisted onboarding
  • Enterprise supportEnterprise support
Transaction fee : 0.5%
(Excluding payment gateway fees)

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Frequently asked questions
Can the same room be listed as more than one kind of hire?
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How do I build in time to reset the room between hires?
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Can I take a one-off booking and a standing weekly slot on the same calendar?
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Can a regular hirer pay once instead of booking one hire at a time?
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Can a standing weekly booking be charged automatically?
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A hire needs to move to a different date. What happens to the booking?
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How do I add online booking for studio hire to the website I already have?
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What does it cost to start, and do my current hirers come with me?
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