What is a custom booking system?

A custom booking system is a booking platform built for your business specifically, so it follows your services, rules, pricing and payment terms rather than forcing you into a generic calendar tool.

Why not use an off-the-shelf booking tool?

Simple appointment tools are fine for simple appointments. If you take deposits, sell packages, need approvals, manage several providers or need bookings to feed into invoicing and admin, a custom system saves the manual work in between.

Can the booking system take deposits and payments?

Yes. We can set up card payments through Stripe, including deposits with the balance collected later.

Can you build a booking platform with multiple providers?

Yes. We have built a marketplace-style booking platform where customers book from many providers, each with their own profile.

Can you manage the booking system after launch?

Yes. Ongoing management covers fixes, updates, new features and day-to-day support.

Booking system development · UK

Booking System Development: Custom Booking Platforms for UK Businesses

We design, build and manage custom booking systems for businesses whose bookings don't fit a basic calendar plugin: multiple services or providers, deposits and staged payments, approvals, and all the admin that comes with them.

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Does this sound familiar?

Bookings arrive by email, DM and phone and get copied around by hand

Your booking tool can't handle your deposits, packages or approval steps

You're chasing balances and sending the same reminders every week

Customers can't see what's available without messaging you first

Built for you

What your custom booking system can include

Every platform is built to order, so you get the features your business needs and nothing that gets in the way.

Online bookings and enquiries

Booking and enquiry forms built around your services, packages and questions.

Availability and calendars

Show what can be booked, when, and by whom.

Deposits and staged payments

Take a deposit up front and the balance later, with card payments through Stripe.

Confirmations and reminders

Automatic emails so customers know what is booked and what happens next.

Customer and provider accounts

Let customers manage their bookings, and let staff or suppliers manage their side.

Multi-provider bookings

Marketplace-style booking where customers choose between several providers.

Invoicing

Create and send invoices from the same system that holds the booking.

Admin dashboard

Every booking, payment and customer in one place for your team.

How we work

From the way you take bookings to a platform that does it for you

Step 1

Design

We map how your business works today: who uses the platform, what they need to do and where time is being lost. Then we design the platform around that, not the other way round.

Step 2

Build

We build your bespoke platform with the features you actually need, connected to the tools you already use, such as payments and email.

Step 3

Manage

Optional ongoing management after launch: fixes, updates, new features and day-to-day support, so the platform keeps working as your business grows.

Built and running

AnyGig, an entertainment booking platform

Katie co-founded and built AnyGig (anygig.app), a booking and invoicing platform with live users. It covers performer profiles, bookings, staged card payments through Stripe and admin tools for the team.

Optional

Ongoing management

Booking systems handle real customers and real payments, so they need looking after. With ongoing management we handle fixes, updates and new features, and help keep your booking rules and payment setup consistent as your business changes.

What people say about working with Kate

"Kate has an impressive technical mindset. She approaches projects with solid architecture, clean execution, and a clear focus on scalability and maintainability. It's always great to see such a high engineering standard."

Daniel Teddi

"She was enthusiastic and ambitious, and she believed in the build in a way that I hadn't seen from a partner before… She's excellent with not just design and backend systems, but she is absolutely brilliant at SEOs. Her attention to detail in every single facet of development really shines through… she's one of the builders who's able to take something that starts as a maybe and make an entire world out of it."

Megan Apostol

"Katie doesn't just build functional and scalable websites, she builds infrastructures that rank on the internet… she is really keen on security too, she refers her clients to me for a thorough pentest and security review, ensuring that you get not just what is good, but also what is secure."

Isaac, CyberPantheon

"From her work ethic to her shareability and kindness, she is truly unmatched when it comes to her capabilities! I can without a shadow of a doubt suggest and recommend Kate to anyone needing an amazing builder!"

Sam Talarico

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