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Bookinglayer Description

All-in-one booking system that allows you to manage and sell your activities and accommodation. You can take bookings directly from your website, and greatly reduce the number and frequency of phone calls required to confirm them. Our Booking Engine allows you to sell packages and give your customers the freedom to choose how much control you want. You can use our Payment Form to collect payments using any payment method you choose. You can set up automatic reminders to pay a deposit or balance payment, and allow bookings to expire if they are not paid. You can request information from your guest through the Customer Portal. You can ask specific questions, set up levels and select diets. The Customer Portal makes it easy to make your initial booking. Changing bookings, handling refunds, scheduling activities, assigning instructors, sending emails.

Pricing

Pricing Starts At:
$100 per month
Pricing Information:
Choose between a fixed fee or a booking processing fee
Free Trial:
Yes

Integrations

API:
Yes, Bookinglayer has an API

Reviews - 24 Verified Reviews

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Company Details

Company:
Bookinglayer
Year Founded:
2013
Headquarters:
Netherlands
Website:
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Product Details

Platforms
SaaS
iPad
Type of Training
Documentation
Live Online
In Person
Videos
Customer Support
Phone Support
Online

Bookinglayer Features and Options

Reservations Software

Activities Booking
Booking Notes
CRM
Customer Support
Group Reservations
Guest Management
Payment Processing
Promotions Management
Rate Management
Room Booking Management
Third Party Booking

Hospitality Property Management Software

Built-in Accounting
CRM
Catering
Employee Management
Extended Stay
Front Office Management
GDS / OTA Integration
Group Management
Guest Experience (GEM)
Housekeeping Management
Loyalty Program
Maintenance Management
Marketing Automation
Marketing Management
Multi-Property
Online Booking
Point of Sale (POS)
Reservations Management
Reviews Management
Single Property
Vacation Rental

Tour Operator Software

Accommodation Booking
Activities Booking
Central Reservation System
Coach Booking
Custom Packages
Customer Management
GDS / OTA Integration
Itinerary Creation
Multi-Day Tours
Payment Processing
Price / Margin Management
Promotions Management
Quote Management
Reservations Management
Vendor Management
Website Management

Camp Management Software

Attendance Management
Billing & Invoicing
Customer Management
Food Service Management
For Campgrounds
For Summer Camps
Medical Management
Online Registration
Parent Portal
Program Management
Registration Management
Scheduling
Staff Management
  • Name: Anonymous (Verified)
    Job Title: CMO
    Length of product use: Less than 6 months
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: Deployment
    Organization Size: 1 - 25
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
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    A powerful tool with the best onboarding

    Date: Feb 15 2024

    Summary: A great tool for business, that offer more than just bed & breakfast. We were checking several tools and were really happy, when we found booking layer.

    Positive: Bookinglayer had an answer to all our questions. We were kind of scared to change the base of our business, but everything went better than I could have imagined. Thanks!!

    Negative: Just a personal thing: The design of the backend could be a little bit more modern, but nothing bad with the current one.

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  • Name: Anonymous (Verified)
    Job Title: Admin
    Length of product use: 2+ Years
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: Administrator
    Organization Size: 1 - 25
    Features
    Design
    Ease
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Efficient Booking Made Easy: A Review of Bookinglayer's Booking Engine

    Date: Feb 09 2024

    Summary: Another standout feature of Bookinglayer's booking engine software is their customer support. Whenever we've had a question or run into an issue, their support team has been incredibly responsive and helpful.

    What's impressive is how quickly they respond. We've never had to wait long to get a solution to our problem, which has been a lifesaver during busy periods. And it's not just about speed – their support team is also really knowledgeable and always goes above and beyond to make sure we're taken care of.

    Knowing that we have such reliable support behind us gives us real peace of mind. It's one less thing to worry about in our day-to-day operations, and it's made a big difference for our business.

    Overall, the fast and effective customer support from Bookinglayer is just another reason why we're so happy with their booking engine software.

    Positive: We've been using Bookinglayer's booking engine software for a while now, and it's been a game-changer for us. It's so easy to use, both for our team and our customers. The interface is really intuitive, and we've had no trouble getting everyone up to speed.

    What's great is how customizable it is. We've been able to make our booking pages look exactly how we want them to, so they fit right in with our brand. And with different payment options available, our customers can pay however works best for them.

    But what really sets it apart are the reporting tools. Being able to track bookings and sales trends has been invaluable for us. It's helped us make smarter decisions and optimize our business operations.

    Overall, Bookinglayer's booking engine software has been a real game-changer for us. It's made our booking process smoother and given our customers a better experience. We'd definitely recommend it to any business looking to streamline their booking process.

    Negative: While it's challenging to think of any significant drawbacks, one minor aspect could be the need for occasional workarounds for certain features. However, the exceptional customer support quickly addresses any concerns, often with upcoming feature releases already in the works. Additionally, their thorough client onboarding process ensures that the system is the right fit for your needs.

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  • Name: Timothy S.
    Job Title: Marketing and Tech Manager
    Length of product use: 1-2 Years
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User, Administrator
    Organization Size: 26 - 99
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    The Apple of Booking Management Systems

    Date: Feb 07 2024

    Summary: Bookinglayer from our initial interaction caught our attention with their ability to understand our bespoke business. From demos to video calls, Tim Has and his team take a personalised approach to delivering a booking management system that is intuitive, robust, and ever-evolving. If you've ever left Windows for Apple and reflected on how your user experience improved you'll love switching to Bookinglayer. Where other systems we trialed left us wanting more and were resistant to customisation and feedback, the BookingLayer team is quick to consider feedback and provide a roadmap to your feature request. Their system is easy to set up, navigate, and use with its clean UI. Integrations with other platforms like Xero, ActiveCampaign, Mailchimp, and CRMs improve efficiency across our business. There's nothing to worry about as the team gives you a sandbox account to trial how it works and even provides demos to give you an idea of what it might look like on your site. Don't waste more time trolling forums for another solution. Give Bookinglayer a call or email and start a trial, you won't look back.

    Positive: Our business appreciates the simple user interface, the stability of the platform, and their continued support. Thoughtful and intentional placement of functionality streamlines our workflow and no detail is left out. The platform provides the foundation of our booking system but leaves space for customisation to match our brand.

    Negative: While the platform is stable there are sometimes bugs in the updates, but these are resolved quickly and quietly without lots of back and forth. As we are located in Australasia we sometimes have to wait awhile for tickets to be resolved from Europe.

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  • Name: Maxime L.
    Job Title: Co-owner
    Length of product use: 1-2 Years
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: Administrator
    Organization Size: 1 - 25
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
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    Best for us

    Date: Jan 26 2024

    Summary: Way better than our previous booking software. Lots of way to customize the look and the text in different language. We love it.

    Positive: Easy of use and the way we can add activities and book those with ease.
    Customer service is excellent.

    Negative: The taxes (we have 3 here in qc) is not an easy set-up and need a workaround if you have more than one.

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  • Name: Luis F.
    Job Title: Owner
    Length of product use: 2+ Years
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User, Administrator
    Organization Size: 1 - 25
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Booking Layer is a game changer!

    Date: Dec 04 2023

    Summary: After the transition from our old software, our manager said that she would pay the app use from her own pocket if she had to. That's how much it eased her work!

    Positive: The ease of use, how everything is smartly designed to be fluid and how it's tailored for the purpose. The ready available support team!

    Negative: Nothing to declare. They have a channel the users to report their optimization needs.

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  • Name: Sven D.
    Job Title: Director
    Length of product use: 2+ Years
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: Administrator
    Organization Size: 1 - 25
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
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    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
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    Great booking management system

    Date: Nov 27 2023

    Summary: We are very happy with Bookinglayer. Have been using this software for 10 years (were the first customer :-) ), and never thought of trying another booking system. We can highly recommend BL if you want to save time.

    Positive: Great user interface with a powerful backend. It's like having an employee who does most of the bookings and administration.
    Our customers find it user-friendly and it improves our efficiency by saving us a lot of time! Time we like to put into other quality things.

    Negative: It is a non-customised platform (would be prohibitively expensive), but the Bookinglayer team is always helpful in providing a solution so that the problem can be solved quickly and efficiently.

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  • Name: Anton H.
    Job Title: GM
    Length of product use: 6-12 Months
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 1 - 25
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
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    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
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    Great booking software

    Date: Nov 22 2023

    Summary: Overall great product and highly recommended for small scale business like surf camps and surf schools!

    Positive: Great functionality and support for affordable price, lots of functions which can be customized to suite your needs.

    Negative: Some advanced features only available at extra cost.

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  • Name: Mili V.
    Job Title: Manager
    Length of product use: 1-2 Years
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User, Administrator, Deployment
    Organization Size: 1 - 25
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
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    My experience with Bookinglayer

    Date: Nov 21 2023

    Summary: In general the program has satisfied my needs as a sales manager and operationally, since I had the induction with Diego Alvarado, an excellent person by the way, it has been very easy to teach the receptionists the use of the program.
    The only thing that gets a little tedious is the configuration of seasonal prices and discounts, it is a bit complex and you have to be careful. However, the rest is quite user friendly.
    The customer service is very good, they are always attentive to help and in general it is a super useful tool for those who are starting the hosting sector and for those who already have many years of working this we will agree that it is a tool that facilitates the management of the day to day.

    Positive: After having worked with three different PMS, without a doubt Bookinglayer has very useful facilities in the booking business, since it facilitates everything from communication to the management of collections and payments.
    Its calendar is dynamic and you know you can easily locate with your day to day, the connection between the sales channels and the implementation of the channel manager make you have everything at hand without the need to configure or review another additional program.

    From my experience I can say that it is the most complete hotel management and administration program I have ever used.
    And even though the time difference in Costa Rica with the Bookinglayer staff and big, whenever I needed help they were quick to help me, but in reality the program is designed so that you can do most of the work yourself.

    Negative: The only thing I could suggest to improve is the handling of customer data with the credit card, as a means of guarantee to make effective the cancellation policies and damages, however you manage with the web check in in the files you ask customers.
    I would also suggest and it would be very useful to have a mobile version, that way as an administrator or manager you can manage a reservation wherever you are, without depending on the computer.
    An App would be great, where you can assign visual roles for maintenance and cleaning workers.

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  • Name: Jim E.
    Job Title: General Manager
    Length of product use: 2+ Years
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 26 - 99
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
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    Great platform

    Date: Nov 21 2023

    Summary: Great platform and saves us a lot of time and resources. I would recommend this platform for very customisable bookings.

    Positive: Easy to use and very adaptable to our needs. Once it is set up, it pretty much runs all our bookings with little involvement from our staff. Great customer support, always quick and helpful.

    Negative: Calander is a bit tricky sometimes, although we do not use that feature too much.

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  • Name: Challyn A.
    Job Title: Operations Manager
    Length of product use: 2+ Years
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 1 - 25
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Bookinglayer is a game-changer for any business in the hospitality industry.

    Date: Nov 20 2023

    Summary: Bookinglayer is a game-changer for any business in the hospitality industry. The platform's functionality is nothing short of amazing, streamlining our booking process with unparalleled ease. Its user-friendly interface makes managing reservations, scheduling, and payments a breeze. What truly sets BookingLayer apart is their exceptional support team. Prompt, knowledgeable, and always ready to assist, they've turned what could be a daunting task into a seamless experience. Their dedication to customer satisfaction is evident in every interaction. Thanks to Bookinglayer, our business has not only gained efficiency but also a reliable partner. Highly recommended for those seeking excellence in functionality and support!

    Positive: Their abundant options for design, tailoring to your unique services and customer easy to use portals.

    Negative: They don't have an app yet for using on the go and using the web on my mobile doesn't allow full functionality or responsiveness.

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  • Name: Kellie S.
    Job Title: Retreat Manager
    Length of product use: 1-2 Years
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User, Administrator, Deployment
    Organization Size: 26 - 99
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Best booking platform I have used!

    Date: Nov 20 2023

    Summary: Happy with the service and its super easy to use, rarely any issues with it going down, its user friendly on the back-end and for the guests on the front end its clean.

    Positive: Easy to use, great support, and now with a channel manager integrated, it works really well!
    Highly recommend!

    Negative: I have not encountered anything that I have not liked to date.

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  • Name: Priyal K.
    Job Title: CEO
    Length of product use: 2+ Years
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 26 - 99
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
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    What a find

    Date: Nov 20 2023

    Summary: As the business owner of Surf & Yoga Retreats operating in five countries, I find this system to be very efficient and user friendly.

    Positive: - Easy to use as a back office use
    - Outstanding customer service
    - Minimal downtime
    - Easy to use as a front end user

    Negative: I don't find any cons with this at the moment.

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  • Name: Anonymous (Verified)
    Job Title: Owner
    Length of product use: 2+ Years
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 1 - 25
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
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    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
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    The best for surf camps and houses

    Date: Nov 20 2023

    Summary: I run both a big surf camp and a small surf house and I've been using Bookinglayer since 2019. It's just the best software. I run everything super easily and smoothly, from packages to rentals and other services. Everything can be visualised clearly and organised with our teams. They also integrated a channel manager to their system. Tutorials will help on every aspect to set it up. On top of that, the team is very friendly and responsive. Definitely recommend them!

    Positive: The team/support behind it, the features, the customisation to make it perfectly adapted to your business.

    Negative: A Pro that has a Con: As you can customise everything you want, it can take time to set up the whole system and master it, but that's only because in our camp there are so many things included and optional. Probably not a problem for smaller structures.

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  • Name: Quico C.
    Job Title: Owner
    Length of product use: 2+ Years
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User, Administrator, Deployment
    Organization Size: 26 - 99
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
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    Essential to the business.

    Date: Nov 20 2023

    Summary: I did have some challenge to set up Bookinglayer and fit my business' needs but once it was found a way, my life became much easier.

    Positive: Makes thing easy for owners and customers. Lots of sales information useful to make decisions. Great support from the team.

    Negative: Nothing bad to appoint. All good.

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  • Name: Tono G.
    Job Title: Owner and GM
    Length of product use: 2+ Years
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User, Administrator
    Organization Size: 26 - 99
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
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    Excellent POS for Surf Camp and Experiences managment

    Date: Nov 20 2023

    Summary: Recommended 100% for all the Surf Camps and Experience developers who manage accommodations, activities, retreats or so.

    Positive: Easy to use. Great features that can help businesses to develop the operations of our company making more easy our business life.

    Negative: Still, a couple of features are to be developed, but minor things will be solved soon (words of the BookingLayer team).

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