Book rooms by slot with reset time built in, and sell private games without blocking the wrong room.
No monthly platform fee — a 1.5% online booking fee on online bookings.
Reset time gets forgotten and two groups arrive at once.
Private bookings need to lock the whole room, not just some seats.
Multiple rooms with different durations break a single shared calendar.
Each room is a single-occupancy resource with a fixed game length plus a reset window. If the schedule does not enforce the reset, you will book back-to-back games your staff cannot physically turn around.
Multi-room venues add a second constraint: game masters. Three rooms running simultaneously with two GMs on shift is a schedule that looks fine online and fails at 7pm.
Most venues have moved to private bookings, which means the first booking takes the whole room. Pricing then works on group tiers — a flat rate for up to four, per-person after — rather than a simple per-seat rate.
If you still run public games, the system needs to keep selling seats until the room fills while respecting a minimum player count.
Corporate team-building is the highest-value segment and it arrives by enquiry, needs an invoice rather than a card, and often books several rooms at once. Gift cards are the second: heavily seasonal and, if they redeem cleanly in checkout, a genuine acquisition channel.
After the game, the win photo and a review request should go out automatically. That is the loop that fills weeknights. Booking Hog charges a 1.5% online booking fee across all of it.
Each room has its own duration and turnover time, so the next slot cannot be sold into your reset window.
A private booking consumes the entire room's capacity and closes the slot instantly.
Sell multiple rooms in one order for team events, with a single payment and one manifest.
Website widget, phone bookings, kiosk, and partner channels all read and write the same live inventory.
Take cards directly through Stripe at a 1.5% online booking fee. No per-booking commission on direct sales.
Waiver Hog waivers are built in, sent with confirmations, and tracked per guest on the manifest.
Confirmations, reminders, follow-ups, and review requests fire automatically by email and SMS.
Assign staff, publish shifts, and hand every team member a live manifest on their phone.
Revenue, occupancy, channel mix, and refunds in one place, exportable whenever you need it.
Yes. Duration and turnover time are configured per room, and the schedule is generated from those rules.
Yes. Private products consume full capacity, so the slot closes to other guests the moment it is purchased.
It should — corporate groups routinely split across rooms at the same time, and forcing that into separate bookings makes both billing and scheduling harder than they need to be.
A deposit or full prepayment at booking plus a clear cut-off for changes is the standard approach, since a no-show on a private room is a lost hour you cannot resell.
Booking Hog charges a 1.5% online booking fee on online bookings. There is no monthly platform fee and no OTA-style commission on your direct sales.
Yes. An embeddable widget drops the full booking flow into any website, and a hosted storefront is available if you do not have one.
Most operators are live in a day. You build your products, set availability rules, connect Stripe, and paste in the widget.
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