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Mode 2 · Venue hire

Block bookings for community halls & clubs.

Best for community venues, churches, and local sports clubs.

Weekly yoga classes, monthly committee meetings, and weekend hires are a headache to track in a notebook. I take the admin off your hands, including hires that don't sit on a neat time grid.

What I do here

Free-form times

No rigid slot grid. Bookers set their own start and end: a two-hour class, an all-day hire, or a full weekend. I track it either way.

24-week block series

Book a recurring class or monthly meeting in a single flow. I write the entire series into the diary for you.

Clash catcher

If one week in a 12-week block conflicts, I don't just reject it: I flag the clash and suggest the closest open slot.

Approval queue

Let members request dates. I hold the room as pending and drop a notice on your admin dashboard until you give the nod.

Setting it up

Six steps, about ten minutes.

  1. 1

    Add each hall or space

    Set its capacity and add resources like projector, kitchen, or PA system so hirers know what they're getting.

  2. 2

    Allow free-form times

    Unlike the appointments grid, hires set their own start and end. I handle bookings with no fixed length, from a one-hour hire to a full weekend.

  3. 3

    Set your rates · if you charge

    Add a rate per hour or per session. I apply it to any hire length by tracking the actual booked duration.

  4. 4

    Turn on the approval queue

    Outside hires are held as pending until your committee approves, so nothing gets confirmed without a human nod.

  5. 5

    Book recurring series in one go

    Set a weekly class or monthly meeting up to 24 weeks ahead. My clash-catcher flags any conflicting week and offers the nearest open date.

  6. 6

    Export & invoice each month · if charging

    Download the CSV of hires and their durations, drop it into your accounts, and invoice each hirer.

On billing: rates & exports

Charge for sessions with no fixed clock.

Venue hires rarely fit a neat 50-minute box, so I price them on what was actually booked. Set a rate per hour or per session and I track the duration of every hire, however long. At month end I export a clean CSV of who booked what and for how long. You invoice the hirers and collect the money; I never touch payment data or charge a fee.

Ready to let me run the hall diary?

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