Built around your bays, sessions, rooms or tours rather than a generic template. From the team behind Laganview Golf Centre's bay booking system.
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Case study
A bay booking system and website, in Lisburn
Laganview runs 50 floodlit bays, 12 social bays and a VIP suite. We built its bay booking system and website in Vue.js and Laravel, with Dojo card payments, gift cards and automatic PDF confirmations.
Site visits rose 48% from December to June after the relaunch.
Both Kyle and Luke took the time to listen to our requirements and provided valuable insights throughout the development process. The end result exceeded our expectations, providing a seamless and efficient booking experience for our customers while streamlining our operations. This is demonstrated through the increase of bookings we've received since launching our new website.
Each kind of venue has its own awkward rules.
Bays, social bays and VIP suites, each priced and booked its own way.
Sessions capped by staff, equipment or group size, with buffers between them.
Timed departures, capacity per slot and group bookings.
Function rooms and suites with deposits, minimum spends and enquiry routes.
Recording, dance, photography or fitness, booked by the hour with minimum durations.
Pitches, courts and halls, with peak and off-peak pricing and member rates.
Including when the answer is to subscribe.
At low volume, subscribe. When the rules or the volume are yours alone, build.
Venue booking software is a mature market. BookMyBays publishes a price of £30 a month for an activity venue's first two spaces with no commission on bookings, and CourtOS publishes plans for sports venues from £79 a month plus VAT (published prices, checked 4 November 2026).
For a small venue that is usually the right answer, and it is what we would tell you. At around 20 bookings a week, our advice is to build nothing.
A bespoke system starts to make sense when your rules are your own: sessions limited by staff or equipment, private hire with deposits, memberships that change the price, gift cards, or a payment provider you already use.
It also matters who holds your customer accounts and booking history if you ever leave a platform.
Where a platform charges commission, the maths moves quickly.
The tools above charge a flat monthly fee rather than commission, so against them the case for building is fit, rules and ownership, not cost. The full working is in what an online booking system costs in Northern Ireland.
Where we started, and still the clearest example.
BookMyBays publishes £30 a month for up to 10 range bays, with no commission on ordinary bookings, card fees paid to Stripe and a 14-day free trial (published price, checked 4 November 2026). For many small ranges that is the right answer.
Build when you have social bays, a VIP suite, memberships that change the price, gift cards or a card provider you already use. That is what Laganview had, and its card payments run through Dojo.
Sometimes the right booking route is an enquiry form, or the engine a venue already runs.
Booking enquiries for accredited guides
Every guide's profile carries a booking enquiry form. A visitor picks a date and describes the tour they want, and the request goes to that guide and to head office.
Six venues, each with its own booking route
Tables book through ResDiary and activities through Roller, from each venue's own pages. Private rooms, group events and corporate days have their own enquiry routes.
The awkward rules are the reason to build.
What is free right now, on a phone.
Peak and off-peak, minimum durations, buffers and cut-offs.
With the refund and cancellation rules you set.
Sold, redeemed and applied in the same system.
Sent automatically, so staff are not chasing them.
A back office shaped around how you run.
Two people can press book on the same slot in the same second.
The database decides who gets it, not the interface: each booking locks the slot while it is taken, so one person gets it and the other is told it has just gone.
Card deposits or payment in full, through Stripe or the provider your venue already uses.
Laganview's card payments run through Dojo.
A fixed quote, against a written scope.
Every venue gets its own fixed quote, agreed before work starts.
You get the approach, what is in, what is out, a timeline and a fixed price in writing.
A golf or leisure booking system typically takes about 4 to 8 weeks to build.
A maintenance plan covers updates, backups and small changes, priced separately so you can see the ongoing commitment.
Our studio is in Holywood, about 10 minutes from Belfast city centre. For booking systems outside venues, such as appointments and services, see our booking systems page.
For a small venue, off-the-shelf booking software is usually the right answer. At around 20 bookings a week, our advice is to build nothing. A bespoke system makes sense when your rules are your own, such as bays, sessions with staff or equipment limits, private hire, memberships that change the price or gift cards, or when you are paying commission on high volume.
Whatever your venue actually sells. Bays priced differently from each other, sessions capped by staff or equipment, minimum durations, buffers and cut-offs, deposits, private hire and group bookings can all follow your rules rather than a template's.
Every venue gets its own fixed quote, based on a written scope and agreed before work starts. You know the price before any money changes hands.
A golf or leisure booking system typically takes about 4 to 8 weeks to build, once the scope and the fixed quote are agreed.
The database decides, not the interface. Each booking locks the slot while it is being taken, so if two people press book at the same moment, one gets it and the other is told it has just gone.
Yes. Payments can run through Stripe or the provider your venue already uses. Laganview's card payments run through Dojo.
You do. The customer accounts, the booking history, the code, the database, the domain and the hosting are all in your name, so nothing is lost if you move on.
Yes. Laganview Golf Centre in Lisburn runs a bespoke bay booking system built by Element Seven for its 50 floodlit bays. Since December 2023 it has taken more than 11,100 confirmed and paid bay bookings, and over 3,800 customers have created accounts.
