Stop wrestling with your booking software.

I started BookMyBays after talking to independent golf simulator venue owners who were frustrated with booking software that wasn't designed for the way they worked. The same gaps turned up in darts, axe throwing, escape rooms and pool venues, so it's built for anything you rent out by the hour: bays, lanes, oches, rooms and tables.

None of them were making do with a generic booking tool, either. Most were already paying for golf-specific software. The complaints were consistent: clunky to use, slow to change anything, sold as separate modules that add up to a serious monthly bill, and reporting that never quite answers the question you actually asked.

Then there are the quirks the software has to handle. Sessions run in odd lengths. Four people share one bay and the price depends on how many turn up. The sim PC needs unlocking at the start and shutting down at the end, and someone has to walk over and do it if the software won't. Activity venues have the same operational problems, whether it's oches, lanes, escape rooms or pool tables, and plenty of venues run several of them under one roof.

So BookMyBays is the version I'd want to run a venue on. One monthly price with every feature included, a booking flow customers can finish on a phone, every resource on one calendar, and reports that tell you what to do on a Tuesday.

If you're weighing us up against what you're on now, the comparison pages lay it out feature by feature, with the pricing worked through.