Made with care for the volunteers who keep Britain's halls running.
Product updates
Everything we have changed, and when
Most of what is on this page started as an email from a village hall. We write these in the same words we send our
halls, so you can see for yourself how often this thing actually moves.
Adding a team member you already know works every time
Adding someone whose email address was already on the system could fail if the address was typed with different capital letters. It now finds the existing account and adds them to your venue.
New feature
Keep a gap between bookings
New under Bookings: the Buffer page lets you keep 15, 30, 45 or 60 minutes free before and after every booking, so one group has time to clear up before the next arrives. Clashing times are blocked automatically.
New feature
Half-hour bookings
The booking form now has a half-hour button alongside 1 hr, 2 hrs and all day, and the enquiry form on your website offers times in half-hour steps - handy for shorter lets.
Fix
The embedded calendar now works on your own website
The calendar you embed on your village hall website displays properly again, and the month arrows and room filters work inside it - no more "page has expired" messages for your visitors.
New feature
A Getting Started guide, right in the menu
New under Settings: a searchable, step-by-step guide to rooms and rates, hirers, bookings, invoicing, compliance and your committee - with buttons that take you straight to the right screen.
New feature
Charge a different rate for the first hour
Rooms and rate cards can now carry an optional first-hour rate, with your hourly rate applying after that. Invoices show the first hour and the further hours as separate lines.
New feature
Attach papers to a meeting agenda
Reports, quotes and previous minutes from your Document Vault can now be attached to any meeting, and they are listed on the minutes PDF.
New feature
Invoices now show booking times
Invoice lines state the start and end time as well as the date - for example "Main Hall, 1 Jun 2026, 10:00am to 1:00pm (3 hrs)".
New feature
Booking times are easier to enter
You can now type dates and times directly instead of using the little arrows, and one-tap buttons (1 hr, 2 hrs, all day) fill in the end time for you.
New feature
Colour-coded types of hire on the calendar
Give each type of hire (classes, parties, meetings) its own colour and both your calendar and website calendar use it, so you can see the shape of the week at a glance.
Fix
Editing a booking now saves reliably
Some edits were wrongly blocked with a message about a time clash even when nothing overlapped. That is fixed - you can rename and adjust bookings freely.
Most of this came from a village hall asking
If your hall needs something this does not do yet, say so. That is how nearly everything above got built.