Software profile
Hall Booking Online
A UK online booking and invoicing system from Fen Street Designs for church halls, village halls and community venues.
30-second answer
What to know before you open the full record
- What it is
- A UK online booking and invoicing system from Fen Street Designs for church halls, village halls and community venues.
- Contexts worth testing
- Churches hiring out a hall or multiple rooms to the public, Volunteer teams needing online booking requests and invoices, Venues that want an availability calendar embedded in an existing website
- Published starting price
- £10 / month
- Relevant UK checks
- UK-specific evidence · UK registered
- Shortlist when
- Church halls with public and community lettings
- Check first
- Use the trial with a real hall, regular hirer and invoice workflow, then agree the current data-processing and payment responsibilities
- Evidence date
- Sources checked 25 July 2026
This is an evidence-led starting point, not a ranking or hands-on verdict. Supplier sources establish what they publish; your church should test material workflows and resolve the questions below.
Five-minute assessment
Assess the likely fit and trade-offs
Directory assessment
Hall Booking Online is a low-cost UK option for public church-hall hire. It focuses on practical venue administration: public availability, booking requests, invoices, payments, reports and a website calendar. The published £10-per-month price makes it particularly relevant to volunteer-run venues. It is not a church-management system or an internal ministry-room scheduler, and a church should review current data-processing and payment terms before uploading hirer records.
Decision framing
Shortlist when, then check first
- Shortlist when
- Replacing manual church-hall booking, invoice and availability processes
- Test in a real workflow
- A low-cost UK product combining hall-booking calendar, invoices, payment links and website embedding
- Settle before buying
- Use the trial with a real hall, regular hirer and invoice workflow, then agree the current data-processing and payment responsibilities
Decision evidence
Published details for a shortlist
These details are traced to the source shown. Supplier material establishes what the supplier publishes; it is not hands-on testing.
- GBP pricing
- Supplier sourcePublished GBP starting priceSource: Hall Booking Online · checked 25 July 2026
- Data-processing agreement
- Recheck sourceSupplier publishes an ICO registration number and says customer data is stored on UK/EU servers, but current controller/processor roles, sub-processors, retention and incident terms for venue data need supplier documentation.Source: Recorded evidence · checked 25 July 2026
Best suited to
- Church halls with public and community lettings
- Volunteer teams seeking a low-cost booking and invoicing workflow
- Venues wanting to embed availability and booking requests in their website
Evidence-backed strengths
- Named active UK software company and current privacy page
- Clear public monthly GBP price and free trial
- Booking, invoicing, payment tracking and reporting included
- Website calendar integration and export options
Limitations and questions
- Designed for public venue hire rather than internal church administration
- Confirm payment-provider charges, deposits, cancellations and refunds
- Obtain current DPA, hosting, sub-processor, retention, backup and exit documentation
- Published free-trial duration was not established on the reviewed home page
What the supplier publishes
- Online availability calendar
- Provisional one-off and repeat booking requests
- Multiple rooms
- Administrator accounts
- Invoice, receipt and credit-note generation
- Payment tracking
- Reporting and booking data export
- Website calendar widget
- Custom hire-rate calculation
- Venue terms-and-conditions link
What does the supplier currently publish?
Pricing and trial
Hall Booking Online publishes a subscription price of £10 per month plus VAT and a free, no-commitment trial. Confirm the current evaluation length, renewal terms and payment-provider charges before purchase.
| Tier or starting point | Published price | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Hall Booking Online | £10/month plus VAT | Online booking calendar, invoicing, payments, reports, calendar embedding and data export |
Free trial: Yes — Supplier promotes a free, no-commitment trial but does not state the trial duration on the reviewed home page.
Full due diligence
Evidence, operations and source record
Use this full record to test practical details, retain source links and take specific gaps to the supplier.
Published operations and support details
- Data protection information
- Hall Booking Online identifies its ICO registration (ZB545615), says data is stored on UK/EU servers and publishes individual-rights information. Its policy does not establish current controller/processor roles for church booking data, the exact hosting provider, sub-processors, retention, backup or incident arrangements; obtain the current contractual data-processing pack before use.
- Integrations
- Stripe, PayPal, Square, Google Calendar, Calendar API
- Import and export
- Export invoice data for Xero, QuickBooks or Excel, Calendar API
- Support
- Supplier publishes weekday contact hours of 9am to 5pm, Online FAQ and documentation
Sources reviewed
Sources support only the fields named beneath each link. Supplier material is not independent testing; external review material is included as a limited signal rather than a verdict.
- Hall Booking Online
Reviewed 25 July 2026 · Supports: Church-hall scope, Booking and invoicing features, Published price, Free trial - Hall Booking Online privacy policy
Reviewed 25 July 2026 · Supports: Trading name, ICO registration statement, UK/EU server statement, Data-subject rights - Companies House: Fen Street Designs Ltd
Reviewed 25 July 2026 · Supports: UK company identity, Active status, Software-development SIC
