Online Booking System for Leisure Businesses
Take bookings, manage availability, and keep your venue running smoothly with an online booking system built specifically for the leisure industry.
Whether you run a play centre, escape room, activity centre, farm attraction, or seasonal event, WannaBook brings online bookings, payments, capacity, and booking management together in one simple platform.
What Is an Online Booking System?
An online booking system allows customers to view availability and book sessions, activities, events and experiences directly through your website. Customers can make their booking without needing to call your venue or wait for someone to process it manually.
For a leisure venue, however, taking a booking is only part of the job.
You also need to manage availability, capacity, schedules, payments, customer information, waivers and check-ins. You may have walk-ins arriving alongside online bookings, multiple activities running throughout the day, and busy periods where every available space matters.
That is where WannaBook is different.
WannaBook gives customers a simple way to book online while giving your team the tools to manage what happens before, during, and after each booking.
Take Bookings Without Adding More Admin
WannaBook gives customers a straightforward way to book online while keeping your team in control of what happens behind the scenes.
Online bookings
Customers can view available sessions, activities, and events and make their booking online whenever they are ready.
Availability
Show customers what is available and keep booking information connected, helping reduce unnecessary back-and-forth with your team.
Online payments
Customers can pay as part of the booking process, while your team can manage bookings and payments from one connected system.
Automated confirmations
Customers can receive their booking information and confirmation once their booking is completed, without your team having to process every confirmation manually.
Online, phone and walk-in bookings
Online bookings can work alongside the way your venue already operates. Your team can manage bookings made online, by phone or at the venue.
More Than a Basic Booking Calendar
Leisure venues rarely have a simple one-booking-at-a-time operation.
You might sell parties and packages, manage groups, offer memberships or vouchers, and run different activities or sessions throughout the day.
WannaBook gives you the flexibility to manage these different types of bookings from one platform.
Parties and packages
Give customers the option to book parties, packages and other experiences as part of the online booking process.
Groups and participants
Manage larger bookings and the customer information associated with them without having to build every booking manually.
Extras and upgrades
Give customers opportunities to add relevant extras or upgrades to their booking.
Customer information
Keep customer and booking information connected so your team can see what they need without relying on separate records.
Capacity and availability
Manage availability across sessions, activities and events while keeping online bookings connected to the capacity of your venue.
Why These Features Matter
A booking system shouldn’t just give you more buttons to click.
It should solve problems.
Less admin
Online bookings, automated confirmations, online payments and connected customer information mean fewer repetitive tasks for your team.
Fewer booking problems
Availability and capacity management help reduce double bookings, overbooking and scheduling clashes.
More revenue opportunities
Sell parties, packages, memberships, gift vouchers, upgrades and extras alongside your core bookings.
A better customer experience
Customers can find availability, make their booking, pay and receive their confirmation without needing to contact your venue.
A more organised team
Your staff can see bookings, capacity, schedules and customer information from one connected system.
The result is simple: less time spent managing bookings and more time spent running your venue.
From Booking to Check-In
WannaBook connects the customer journey from the moment someone decides to book.
1. Customers find your venue
Customers can discover your booking link through your website, social media, email campaigns, and other channels.
2. They choose what they want to do
Customers select an activity, session, event, party, or package.
3. They see what is available
WannaBook shows customers what is available, helping reduce overbooking and unnecessary back-and-forth with your team.
4. They add guests and extras
Customers can add participants, upgrades, extras, and other products to their booking.
5. They pay and complete their booking
Payments and digital waivers can be completed as part of the booking process.
6. They receive their confirmation
Customers receive their booking information and digital ticket where applicable.
7. They arrive and check in
Your team can quickly check customers in using their booking information or digital ticket.
8. Your team sees everything in one place
Bookings, capacity, customer information, and check-ins stay connected so your team can see what is happening throughout the day.
Built for Leisure Businesses
WannaBook isn’t a generic appointment calendar. It is designed around the way leisure businesses take bookings, including sessions, activities, parties, groups, seasonal events and walk-ins.
Different venues have different requirements, which is why WannaBook provides specialist booking solutions for different types of leisure businesses.
Leisure & Family Venues
Soft play centres, play cafés, trampoline parks, family attractions and visitor attractions.
Explore our Leisure Booking System
Activity Centres
Escape rooms, laser tag, climbing centres, axe throwing, VR racing and multi-activity venues.
Explore our Activity Centre Booking System
Events & Seasonal Attractions
Halloween events, Christmas experiences, pumpkin picking, workshops, special events and limited-capacity sessions.
Explore our Event Booking System
Ticketed Venues
Attractions, museums, exhibitions and other venues that need ticketing, timed entry and efficient check-in.
Why Choose WannaBook?
We’ve worked in the UK leisure industry for over 20 years, so we understand what it is actually like to run a busy venue.
The Saturday rush. Half-term madness. Last-minute party bookings. Customers asking if you can squeeze them in.
WannaBook was built around those realities.
It gives you the tools to take bookings, manage availability, sell more and keep your venue organised without making your team work around the software.
Built for leisure
WannaBook is designed specifically around the needs of leisure and activity venues.
Easy to use
Your team shouldn’t need a manual every time they want to make a change.
UK-based support
When you need help, you get real people who understand the leisure industry.
One connected platform
Bookings, capacity, waivers, payments, check-ins, and venue management work together rather than being spread across separate systems.
No monthly fee
There are no monthly subscription fees or contracts. You only pay when customers make an online booking.
How Much Does an Online Booking System Cost?
The cost of booking software varies depending on the platform and the features you need.
WannaBook keeps things simple.
There is no monthly fee and no contract. You can sign up and start using the platform without paying a subscription, and you only pay when a customer makes an online booking.
The booking and venue management tools you need are included, giving you a straightforward way to manage bookings without committing to a monthly software bill.
Frequently Asked Questions
An online booking system allows customers to view availability and make bookings through a website without needing your team to process every booking manually. For leisure businesses, it can also connect bookings with availability, capacity, payments, customer information, and check-in.
An online booking system allows customers to make bookings through a website, while a booking system can also include the tools a business uses to manage those bookings. WannaBook combines online booking with tools for availability, capacity, payments, customer information, and venue operations.
Yes. WannaBook connects online bookings with availability and capacity, helping your team manage how many customers can book sessions, activities, and events.
Yes. WannaBook allows your team to manage online bookings alongside bookings made by phone or at the venue, helping keep your booking information connected throughout the day.
Yes. WannaBook supports parties, packages, and group bookings, allowing customers to select the experience they want and complete their booking online.
Yes. WannaBook can be used to sell tickets and manage events alongside other types of bookings.
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