I'm Doris.
Let me take care of all the room booking admin.
Your bookings probably live in a shared calendar, and half of them arrive by text message. Hand the lot over and get on with the rest of your job. I'm the member of staff who never loses the diary or calls in sick.
From NZ$250 a year. Not per month.
Up to 28 days free · no card
What changed at Beyond Counselling
“Calls to Kirsten about room bookings have all but stopped.”
Kirsten
Clinical Lead
Beyond Counselling CIC, Wolverhampton
25 counsellors live on Doris within a week
Read the Beyond Counselling story →Read the story →Which one are you
However your rooms actually work, I already do it.
- Tidy, tappable session slots
- Double bookings made impossible
- Recurring appointments in one pass
- Any start and end time, to the quarter hour
- A whole term of regular lets in one go
- Term-time and holiday opening hours
- Approvals for the spaces that need a yes
- Desk pools with automatic allocation
- A floor map showing what's free right now
- A live count of what is free
- Members free, renters billed
Two roles
Built for the people who run the room, and the people who use it.
Admins manage everything. Bookers just need a room.
For admins
Run the room without running yourself ragged.
- Full schedule across every room and day, or a floor map of the building
- Approve, reject, move or cancel anything
- Invite members and manage active memberships
- Set opening hours per season, term or holiday
- Every change on a booking, logged and attributable
Getting started
Up and running in three steps.
- Set up your roomsName them, set capacity, add tags like projector or hearing loop. Pick your sector and most of it is already filled in.
- Invite your teamEmail invites. They sign up and start booking immediately. No training, no PDFs.
- Let me take overYour team asks me for a room and I write it in the diary. Installs on any phone, straight from the browser.
What I'm not
Your people, your rooms.
Most booking software takes bookings, and money, from the public. I do the other job: your own people booking your own rooms.
Double bookings
Nothing stops a clash
Rejected as you book
Self-service
Hand out edit access, or field the messages
Your people book themselves, safely
Who it serves
Public pages, payments, stored client records
Private to your organisation. Nobody pays to book, no client data
Price
Priced per space or per seat
Two flat plans, whoever books
Pricing
Two plans. That's the whole menu.
No per-user fees, no hidden costs. Pay annually and get two months free.
Diary
A plain, excellent room booking system.
plus taxes
Two months free against monthly
100
rooms
500
members
Everything about taking bookings
- All three booking styles, plus desk pools
- Floor map, room views and the full diary
- Recurring and block bookings
- Approvals, tags and custom fields
- Seasonal and term-time opening hours
- Installs on any phone, no App Store
Diary & Billing
What your trial includesEverything I do. All of it.
plus taxes
Two months free against monthly
100
rooms
500
members
Everything in Diary, plus the money side
- Per-room pricing, invoicing and statements
- Member categories, charity and commercial rates
- Chargeable extras, with shared kit counted
- Utilisation and revenue analytics
- Connects to your other software, and to your AI assistant
Cancel whenever you like. Your diary and history stay put, read-only, and you can come back to them anytime. Prices exclude tax.
FAQs
Frequently asked.
Is Doris a public booking page like Calendly?
No. There's no public link and no marketing your venue to strangers. I'm for your own people. The exception is a guest hire: when someone outside your organisation books the hall, you take their details and I handle the deposit and the balance. They never need an account.
Does Doris handle payments?
I never hold your money, and I never take a cut. On Diary & Billing I raise the statements, and if you connect your own Stripe account your members and guests can pay by card straight into your bank. Bank transfer and cash work exactly as before. The money is yours; I just keep the score.
Which plan do I need?
Diary if you need rooms booked without clashes. Diary & Billing if money is involved: per-room prices, different rates for different members, extras, statements and analytics. One thing worth knowing, because it catches people out: desks and hot-desking need prices to work, so if you run co-working you want Diary & Billing.
Do my team need to download an app?
No App Store needed. I install from the browser: one tap, and I sit on the home screen like a native app.
How does the free trial work?
Up to 28 days free, no card, and every trial is a full Diary & Billing trial. You get 14 days to start, a week when you finish setup, and another week once you've added five members.
Does Doris use AI?
Not in the part that books your room. That is plain, predictable software that does the same thing every time, and I would not have it any other way. At the edges I open up: the assistant you already use can read your diary and draft the fiddly bits, and nothing it drafts takes effect until you say so. On Diary & Billing, with your permission, revocable in one click.
What happens if I cancel?
Read-only. Your diary and your history stay exactly where they are, nobody can make new bookings, and you can pick up where you left off whenever you like. Nothing is deleted automatically. If you do want it gone, ask me and I will delete it properly.
I've a year of bookings in a shared calendar. Do I have to type them all in again?
There's no import button, so someone does type them in. The shortcut is that anything repeating only gets entered once: put your regular weekly bookings in as a repeating series and they fill the diary forward on their own, then let the one-offs arrive as they come. If you would rather not start from a blank diary, book a walkthrough and we will go through it together.
Can someone outside my organisation book a room?
Yes, as a guest hire. You take the booking and their details, and I look after the deposit and the balance. There is still no public page, so nobody is browsing your diary or booking behind your back. It is you taking a booking, with the paperwork done for you.
Let me take it from here.
Twenty-eight days, no card. Then decide.
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