
A school fun fair and a backyard birthday use different inflatables. Keep rain delays, collection and drying on the actual unit.

The one hot Saturday in October
You have plenty of castle. What you only have one of is that Saturday in October. Put your four-hour and all-day blocks on a page at your own prices, so the good dates go once, in writing, instead of being promised on the phone.
Built for the way you hire
Reserve loading, postal-code delivery, event time and the dry inspection.
Keep the chosen compact unit and access note on one rental.
Move the booking and extend drying time without altering nearby rentals.
The backyard bounce house: hold the inflatable after hand-back for cleaning and inspection before the next handover.
A school fun-fair inflatable: public booking captures one postal code; staff add later delivery or return details to notes.
Rain delays the Sunday collection: repeat this job on one chosen weekday weekly or fortnightly, ending with the arrangement.
The backyard bounce house: keep both alternatives on the estimate, letting the organizer approve the suitable service lines online.
A school fun-fair inflatable: record the offline receipt and leave the remaining amount visible without creating a card transaction.
Rain delays the Sunday collection: keep the return note on the booking and extend unavailable time when inspection prevents the next turnaround.
The backyard bounce house: if the booking cancels, release only that unit’s interval; neighbouring hires remain where they were.
A four hour party hire and a full day are two services with their own set prices. A parent picks the one they want off your page and pays exactly what it says.
Price the block itself, so what the parent reads before they confirm is what comes off the card. No "from", no working it out on the phone.
The page offers real openings out of your own diary and your own hours, so a Saturday you have already committed is not sitting there looking bookable.
A confirmation email goes out as they book and an automatic reminder 24 hours out, so somebody is home and the side gate is unlocked when you pull up.
Grass or pavers changes what you load and what you charge. Ask it as part of the booking, with your own answers and your own prices against them.
Write it once and list the answers you can genuinely deliver. The customer picks one on the way through rather than ringing to describe the yard.
Anchoring on concrete costs you more and takes longer, so put that against the option and the total and the slot both account for it.
The delivery address sits on the booking and on the customer record, so the next party at that house is one whose yard you already know.
Every leg of the hire sits on the day at the time it actually runs, so the drive from the morning drop to the afternoon pack-down is something you can see before you say yes to the second party.
Draw the regions you will drive a trailer into, and a party ninety minutes the wrong way never lands on your Saturday in the first place.
Mark each leg as you work it, so whoever is answering the phone can see where the run is up to without ringing the driver.
A P&C is one customer with a history you can open, so this year's fete starts from last year's order instead of a blank page.
Three units for the day, an attendant on site and the delivery, itemised on one quote the P&C can take to a meeting.
They accept and sign it on a phone, and you can put options side by side when the committee cannot decide between two units and three.
The signed quote becomes a booking against that school, with the date held and nothing re-typed.
Put a use-by date on the price so a quote written in March cannot be accepted at that number in the busiest week of October.
When there is honestly nothing left, the family sends the days that would work for them instead of ringing the next mob in the search results.
Their preferred dates arrive in your inbox and you accept one or decline it without leaving the conversation.
It drops onto the day and the confirmation email goes out on its own.
When the forecast makes the call for you, the booking is a record you cancel with the customer contactable and the money refundable, not a name in a notebook.
Is there any chance of a castle on the 18th? Otherwise the 25th would work.
Set a block to pay online and the card is charged as the Saturday is taken, so a peak date you are holding is a date somebody has actually paid for.
Taking the booking, quoting the job and running the day are all on the Free plan. Card payments are the one part that needs Pro.
Some customers cannot put a party on a personal card. Set that service to settle later, send a payment request by email when the day is done, and a receipt goes out when it clears.
The money is paid out to your own Stripe account rather than being held somewhere inside Bookables.
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Yes. A school fun-fair inflatable: keep the selected inflatable closed from warehouse check and loading through the dry return inspection, including the complete occupied interval.
No. The backyard bounce house: collect one starting address; staff add later delivery or return detail to notes.
Rain delays the Sunday collection: post e-transfer manually to the booking. The receipt reduces the visible amount while settlement remains offline.
Yes. The backyard bounce house: the organizer can approve an estimate containing compact bounce house or larger obstacle inflatable, then staff convert its accepted lines.
Yes. Rain delays the Sunday collection: repeat this job on one weekday weekly or fortnightly, ending on a date or after the agreed count.
A school fun-fair inflatable: the exact span returns to that inflatable; other confirmed work does not move.