Benefits
Be open for business to online customers 24-hours a day, 7-days a week!
Whatever size of your business, BookingHound offers a wealth of functionality from which you can pick and choose to personalise the system, ensuring the most effective usage for your individual circumstances.
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Take real time bookings 24/7/365 and increase the volume of sales and hence your profitability.
- BookingHound enables your business to take bookings direct from the general public, online 24 hours a day 7 days a week.
- BookingHound doesn’t just let you sell vouchers or non-inventory type items, customers can actually book dates from your live inventory on-line!
- Customers are provided with their own account within the system. They can then login, edit their details and see the status or their order(s).
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With our ‘pay as you go’ pricing you pay for the functionality you need – when you need it.
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As we invoice in arrears we help reduce your financial risk
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By selling real time, dated and timed inventory your customers can book into an event straight away, 24/7.
- Real time bookings can be made over the phone, via the web and by resellers
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Take payments from your customer by credit card or Paypal as you will be open for business 24/7.
- BookingHound allows you to clear credit/debit card transactions online via your own e-merchant account or by Paypal.
- For security purposes, BookingHound does not hold credit card or Paypal information on file but processes the necessary information as soon as it has been entered. The payment is made directly into the supplier’s bank account by the card acquirer, in accordance with your existing merchant terms, and there are no additional fees charged by BookingHound.
- Payment details are not stored but are processed immediately through a secure site to the acquiring bank
- All monies are cleared directly into your bank account
- No additional processing fees are charged by BookingHound although there is an annual fee of £300 pa for the on-going Datacash facility.
- There is no charge by Bookinghound for the use of Paypal.
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Quickly and easily add, cancel and amend event dates and times.
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Reduce operational IT costs by keeping your cash where it should be and focus on your business and not IT.
- BookingHound allows you to clear credit/debit card transactions online via your own e-merchant account or by Paypal.
- Bookinghound eliminates the need for expensive server, network and technology admin expense.
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Benefit from free software updates
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With NO hidden fees you can accurately plan for what it will cost
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You are free to get on and run your business by taking advantage of our simple setup, maintenance and management of the system
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Increase your profit by selling additional products
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Reward your best performing reseller by creating custom contract rates for each reseller
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Maximise your profitability by the use of our Flexible Pricing feature
- BookingHound allows pricing to be flexible based on your contract requirements.
- By making prices competitive for those dates that are hard to fill and increasing prices on popular dates, BookingHound aims to increase your profitability and pay for itself many times over.
- BookingHound allows ‘flexible’ pricing of activities. This means that the price may be varied according to any and all of the following variables:
- By Booking Date ranges
- By Activity Date ranges
- By Days of the Week
- By Times of the Day
- By Number of Places
- Flexible pricing will accommodate group pricing – specifying group size and price per group; “Flexible Group Pricing” e.g. £100 for 1 person, £190 for 2 people etc.
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Give your customers the ultimate flexibility by selling and offering ‘open dated’ vouchers, which can be redeemed online.
- Sell and redeem gift vouchers for specific events and/or money vouchers that can be used against any of your products
- You set the rules for complete control
- Your customers may:
- Redeem vouchers on-line subject to voucher purchase rules. i.e. Weekend / weekday / season / time restrictions
- Redeem on dates outside of restrictions but will be subject to supplemental charges as worked out by you at the time of redemption
- Reduce the burden of administration overhead as after the sale is made, BookingHound will send all confirmation booking and voucher information to your customer (you set the content).
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Increase customer spend and revenues by offering additional extra’s such as printed voucher packs, souvenirs, lunch, insurance etc either at the time of a booking or the time of voucher redemption
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Increase your profits by passing on the bank credit card or paypal charges and BookingHound transaction fees to the customer by way of a booking fee
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Capture additional revenue for hard to fill spaces, seasonal lulls, test new product launches.
- BookingHound allows you to setup special deals, promotional offers and last minute offers with ease.
- You can control all the variables and determine who the offers are made available to and how they are sent.
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Our feature rich software provides everything you would expect for you to run your business efficiently and profitability
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Make informed decisions, save time and money collating data.
- BookingHound collates all financial data allowing you to invoice and reconcile quickly and efficiently.
- Use the marketing and operational data to make immediate and informed decisions enabling you to you’re your business effectively.
Typical examples:- Banking report – filtered by date range, payment types and sub-totalled
- Daily Attendee report –searchable across all events or a specific event or a range of dates
- Bookings overview report – searchable across all events, a single specific event or a range of dates
- Revenue reports – both Earned and Unearned as well as detailing redeemed vouchers for future sold events
- Vouchers Outstanding – details non-expired vouchers that have yet to be used or that still have balances remaining
- Vouchers expired – A report that can list expired vouchers with a date range
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Why use us
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No Sign-Up Fees
BookingHound does not charge any upfront fees to sign up. This gives you the freedom to try our booking solution at no cost or risk.
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Pay As You Go
Pay BookingHound after you have received your customers confirmed order making your use of BookingHound totally risk free.
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Receive Bookings 24/7/365
Increase the volume of sales and hence profitability by taking real-time dated and timed inventory bookings direct from the general public and your agents, 24 hours a day 7 days a week, everyday of the year.
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Powerful Range of Features & Reporting
Our feature rich software provides everything you would expect for you to run your business efficiently and profitability.
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Maximise your Profitability
By taking advantage of features within BookingHound such as our Flexible pricing, Wait Listing and Viral Ticket Sales you will be able to protect and potentially increase your revenue and hence profitability.