How to Get Started with Online Booking Software in the UK
Your own branded booking site, your customers, your identity — GetaBooking makes you look professional from day one.
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GetaBooking gives you a professional booking presence that looks like you — not a generic platform. Your logo, your colours, your URL. Customers book directly with your business, not through a marketplace that lists your competitors next to you.
What Is GetaBooking and Who Is It For?
GetaBooking is an all-in-one online booking system built for UK small businesses, solo traders, and growing service providers. Whether you run a dog grooming salon, teach yoga classes, hire out boats, offer personal training, run small events, or provide private tuition — GetaBooking gives you a professional booking website and all the tools you need to manage your diary for a flat £9.99 per month.
Unlike platforms that take a percentage of every sale or charge £40+ per month, GetaBooking keeps your costs predictable and your revenue entirely yours.
Five Steps to Your First Online Booking
Claim Your Free Booking URL
The first step is choosing your custom business URL. Within seconds, you'll have a branded booking page live at getabooking.co.uk/yourbusiness — ready to share with customers, add to your Instagram bio, or print on a QR code for your window.
No coding, no web design experience, and no technical know-how required. Our AI assistant can read your existing website if you have one, or create your initial setup from a simple text description — and then audits your configuration to make sure everything is correct before you go live.
Add Your Staff or Equipment Resources
Before creating your first service, you'll add a "resource" — the staff member, room, piece of equipment, or vehicle that will be booked. For a solo trader, this is simply "Me." For a salon with three stylists, you'd create one resource per person.
This is what makes GetaBooking different. When a booking is made, the system instantly blocks every resource involved — preventing double-bookings across every channel simultaneously, whether someone books via your website, Instagram, or a WhatsApp link.
Create Your First Bookable Service
Creating a service takes around one minute. Set the name, price, duration, capacity, and availability. You can also add:
- Custom fields — collect information before arrival (breed and weight for dog groomers, medical requirements for physios, student details for tutors)
- Add-ons — upsell products or extras at checkout (up to 10 per service)
- Deposits — reduce no-shows without requiring full payment upfront
- Small events & ticketed sessions — set capacity, sell tickets, manage attendance
- Discount codes — for promotions, members, or loyalty rewards
New users can skip manual setup entirely by using our Copy Demo Service feature — browse professionally configured services from 22 demo businesses and copy them into your account in one click.
Connect Stripe for Online Payments
Connecting Stripe takes approximately five minutes. Once connected, your customers can pay in full or leave a deposit at the time of booking, using a credit card, debit card, Apple Pay, or Google Pay.
GetaBooking never takes a commission from your payments. Every penny goes directly from your customer's card to your Stripe account. The only charge is Stripe's standard processing fee (typically 1.5% + 20p per transaction).
Not ready for online payments yet? No problem — you can take bookings without payment and collect cash or bank transfers yourself.
Share Your Booking Link Everywhere
Once your services are live, GetaBooking gives you 8 ways to take bookings:
- Your branded booking website
- An embeddable widget for your existing WordPress, Wix, or Squarespace site
- A clean view link optimised for Instagram and Facebook bios
- QR codes for physical locations (windows, counters, flyers)
- WhatsApp — links work natively with no app prefix needed
- Facebook and Instagram direct links
- Google Search — your services are indexed and can appear in local results
- Email signatures and newsletters
Simple, Transparent Pricing
✓ Unlimited bookings
✓ Up to 30 services
✓ All 8 booking channels
✓ Automated email confirmations and reminders
✓ Stripe payment integration — zero commission
✓ AI-powered setup assistant
✓ Small events and ticketed sessions
✓ Membership management
✓ UK-based support via WhatsApp and email
✓ 14-day free trial — no credit card required
Built for UK Service Businesses
GetaBooking was built in the UK, for UK businesses. Our support team is based here, our pricing is in pounds, and our system is designed around how British service businesses actually work.
Frequently Asked Questions
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