Parents pick their party block off your page and pay for it before you deliver.

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
A parent books the eleven to three block on a Saturday from their phone at nine at night, picks the concrete option because it is going on pavers, pays, and never rings you at all.
A fete wants three units for a full day with an attendant, booked as one job against the school, and the P&C settles by payment request after the day rather than putting it on a personal card.
A company family day needs the units, the supervision and a certificate of currency, and the whole thing goes out as a written quote they accept rather than a figure read out over the phone.
A morning party in one suburb and an afternoon in another only works if the drive between them does. Both land on the same day schedule so you can see whether the gap is real before you say yes to the second one.
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 hire sits on the day at the time it actually runs, so the drive from the morning party to the afternoon one is something you can see before you say yes to the second.
Draw the areas 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.
That 3% is a processing fee on the money you take, on top of the $2 a booking rather than out of it.
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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The booking page only offers the days and times you are genuinely open, and a booking that is taken stops being offered. The Saturday is committed in one place rather than in a notebook, a phone call and one person remembering.
Yes. Fixed blocks like a four hour hire and a full day hire are set up with their own stored prices, so the customer picks the block they want and pays exactly what it says.
You can add your own question to the booking with your own list of answers, so the customer says whether it is going on grass or on pavers as they book. Put a price against an answer and the total moves with it, which is how the extra work of anchoring on concrete gets paid for.
You choose per service. Set it to pay in full online and the card is charged as the block is taken, or set it to settle after and send a payment request. Card payments run on the Pro plan at a flat 3%, and the Free plan covers 200 bookings a month with no per-booking fees.