Managing venue and event bookings can often feel like a juggling act, particularly when dealing with rigid systems that don’t reflect the real-world needs of their users. Whether it’s for corporate meetings, workshops, sporting facilities or community spaces, having adaptable booking tools isn’t just a nice-to-have; it's essential to providing excellent customer service and maximising your resources.
Jadu’s Flexible Event Bookings add-on is designed to transform the way you manage events, spaces, and venues, offering a smarter and more intuitive booking experience for both administrators and customers.
What is Flexible Event Bookings?
Flexible Event Bookings is an enhanced extension of Jadu’s existing event booking capability, designed to simplify the management of bookings for a wide range of venues and events. It offers enhanced configuration options, including recurring bookings, all-day bookings, and flexible start and end times.
Whether you manage multiple venues, community spaces, meeting rooms, or sports facilities, Flexible Event Bookings streamlines processes, reduces administration, and enhances the customer experience - all within a simple, intuitive platform. The module seamlessly integrates with your existing forms and My Account functionality, and is fully compatible with Microsoft 365.
Who is it for?
Flexible Event Bookings is ideal for organisations that manage bookings across a wide range of activities, whether corporate or community-based, for both regular and one-off bookings at venues hosting events. Some of the most common use cases include:
- Seminars & workshops
- Conferences & exhibitions
- Fitness, art and education classes
- Sports pitches, courts & leisure facilities
- Clubs, societies & local groups
- Fundraisers & charity events
- Celebrations & ceremonies
- Theatre and musical performances
- Boardroom meetings
Why choose Flexible Event Bookings?
Benefits to your organisation:
- All-day and flexible booking configurations: Configure events of varying lengths, add buffers for set-up and clear-down, and accommodate different scheduling needs with ease.
- Integration with Jadu Connect: enabling you to send booking data to Jadu Connect
- Non-bookable times management: Easily block out times for bank holidays or unavailable slots.
- Efficient booking management: Set notice periods, control slot availability, manage cancellations, and apply custom pricing rules for different customer groups.
- Custom booking views: Filter bookings by venue, date, status, or booking ID for clearer insights.
- Microsoft 365 integration: Sync bookings directly with Outlook calendars for seamless scheduling.
- Fully accessible and WCAG compliant: saving you testing time and worry.
- Controlled admin access: Tailor permissions for staff managing venues, bookings, and pricing.
- Reduce contact centre demand: Customers can view availability, book, and pay online, reducing inbound queries and administrative overhead.
Benefits for your customers:
- Streamlined booking process: Find availability and book instantly, without the need to call or email.
- Clear availability: Quickly view available options to book a time and venue that suits their needs.
- Multi-session bookings: Book multiple sessions simultaneously, ideal for recurring events.
- Transparent pricing: View cost estimates upfront before confirming bookings.
- Instant confirmation: Receive confirmation emails and calendar invites, including iCal support.
Ready to make bookings simpler?
Get in touch to find out how we can help you transform your booking processes for your team and your customers.