Software profile
Simply Halls
A UK service from GKR Solutions for listing and booking church halls, village halls and community venues.
30-second answer
What to know before you open the full record
- What it is
- A UK service from GKR Solutions for listing and booking church halls, village halls and community venues.
- Contexts worth testing
- Churches listing a hall for community hire, Volunteer-run halls wanting a shared booking calendar and public discovery, Venues that want online booking and payout handling without a subscription fee
- Relevant UK checks
- UK-specific evidence · UK registered
- Shortlist when
- Church halls wanting public discoverability as well as booking management
- Check first
- Create a test listing and model a real booking, cancellation, refund and payout before publishing the church hall to the platform
- 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
Simply Halls combines public discovery with booking management for community and church halls. The supplier's no-subscription, no-commission model may suit a volunteer-run hall, but its customer booking fee, payment and payout model should be tested against the church's hire policy and financial controls. It is a public hire and promotion platform, not an internal church room scheduler or a replacement for a church database.
Decision framing
Shortlist when, then check first
- Shortlist when
- Reducing volunteer administration while making a church hall easier to find and book
- Test in a real workflow
- A UK hall-discovery and booking platform with no stated hall subscription or commission
- Settle before buying
- Create a test listing and model a real booking, cancellation, refund and payout before publishing the church hall to the platform
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.
- Data-processing agreement
- Supplier sourceSupplier privacy policy states it acts as controller for bookings, payments and accounts, and processor for hall owners; it publishes six-year retention for booking and payment records.Source: Recorded evidence · checked 25 July 2026
Best suited to
- Church halls wanting public discoverability as well as booking management
- Volunteer teams seeking no subscription fee for the hall
- Venues comfortable with customer-paid booking fees and online payout workflows
Evidence-backed strengths
- Named UK company and public registered address
- Church-hall-specific UK product scope
- No subscription or commission stated for hall owners
- Published controller/processor distinction and retention statement
Limitations and questions
- Customers usually pay a booking fee, which may not suit every church's hire policy
- Confirm payment-provider, payout, refund and cancellation arrangements
- Obtain current contract, sub-processor, hosting, incident, export and deletion documents
- Not an internal ministry-room or church-management platform
What the supplier publishes
- Public hall listing
- Shared availability calendar
- Online booking requests
- Hall-owner approval or auto-approval
- Hire-charge rules
- Online payments and payouts
- Hall hire terms and cancellation-policy display
- Booking and hall management account
- Existing-booking upload during setup
What does the supplier currently publish?
Pricing and trial
Simply Halls says halls pay no subscription or commission and retain their hire fees. It says customers usually pay a £2.25 booking fee. Confirm the current customer fee, payment-provider terms, refunds and payout timing before relying on it for hall income.
| Tier or starting point | Published price | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Hall listing and booking management | No subscription or commission stated | Shared calendar, online bookings, public listing, approval controls and automatic hall-owner payouts |
| Customer booking fee | Usually £2.25 | Supplier-stated fee paid by the customer when booking online |
Free trial: No
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
- Simply Halls says it acts as controller for booking, payment and account data and processor for hall owners. Its published policy covers data categories, retention, international-transfer safeguards and user rights. Obtain the current contract, payment-provider/sub-processor list, hosting location, incident terms, data export and deletion arrangements before uploading hirer data.
- Import and export
- Supplier states it will upload existing bookings during setup
- Support
- Supplier-led setup and training stated on its public site, Email and WhatsApp support contact published
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.
- Simply Halls
Reviewed 25 July 2026 · Supports: Church-hall scope, Free-to-hall pricing model, Customer booking fee, Booking and payout workflow, Company details - Simply Halls privacy policy
Reviewed 25 July 2026 · Supports: Controller and processor roles, Data categories, Retention, International transfers, Data-subject rights
