Book and pay online
One page: pick a time or a programme, pay by card, done. Terms, casual sessions, private lessons, courts and spaces - each with its own rules, capacity and pricing. No more enquiry-form ping-pong.
A Makings build
Booking & operations systems
Your customers book and pay online. The admin runs itself. Built for NZ businesses that run on appointments - salons, coaches, clinics, studios, classes and venues.
The enquiry form is where bookings go to die.
If parents have to email you to enrol, or members have to phone for a court, you're losing bookings after 3pm and drowning in admin before 9. We build the system that takes the booking, takes the payment, and hands you the roster.
Term & programme enrolment
Built for how NZ activity businesses actually run: term programmes, holiday programmes, classes and clinics. Parents enrol and pay upfront, you get the roster and the money, and make-up sessions, credits and refunds follow your rules.
Venue & court booking
Live availability your members can see and book. Block-bookings for coaching and events. Payments, door access and lighting can hook straight in - unmanned if you want it.
The admin, handled
We can run the inbox too: enquiries answered with drafts your team approves, payments followed up, rosters kept full - a managed service priced against the hours it saves, not another software subscription.
Whatever your customers book, we build for it
The same proven functions - calendars, payments, rosters, reminders - shaped to your trade. If your customers book a time, a class, a court or a chair, this is for you:
- Hairdressers & salons
- Barbers
- Beauty & nail clinics
- Coaches & academies
- Personal trainers
- Gyms & studios
- Yoga & pilates
- Physios & health clinics
- Swim schools
- Dance schools
- Tutors & music teachers
- Kids' & holiday programmes
- Courts & venues
- Photographers
- Pet groomers
- Driving instructors
Straight answers
How much does a custom booking system cost in NZ?
Most Makings builds land between $5,000 and $15,000 depending on scope, plus a monthly care plan that keeps it running, backed up and improving. A single-chair salon booking page sits at the lower end; a multi-venue academy with term enrolment sits higher. You own the result - no per-booking commission, no feature paywalls.
Can customers pay when they book?
Yes - card payment at the moment of booking is the point. Full payment, deposits, or whole-term upfront, with the money settling to your account through Stripe. Refunds, credits and cancellation windows follow rules you set.
Do I need a custom system, or is an off-the-shelf app enough?
For plenty of businesses an off-the-shelf booking app is genuinely the right call, and we will tell you so. Custom wins when your rules do not fit a template - multi-venue timetables, term enrolment, member pricing, approval steps - or when you want your own brand on the page and no per-booking commission clipping every sale.
How long does a build take?
A first working version typically ships in three to six weeks. We stage the work so the piece that hurts most - usually taking bookings and payments online - goes live first, and the rest follows in agreed stages.
Battle-tested, not built from scratch
We run our own booking platform in production - real payments, real rosters, every day. Your system is assembled from those proven functions - bookings, payments, enrolment, scheduling - and shaped to how your business actually runs. You get years of hardening from day one, at a build price.