About BookingHive
Built From Frustration, Perfected Through Experience
BookingHive wasn't born in a boardroom—it was built out of pure frustration at 11 PM after spending three hours trying to book a single birthday party.
We ran a mobile laser tag business and thought the hard part would be managing equipment and running great events. We were wrong. The hardest part was everything that happened before we showed up: calculating drive times on Google Maps, texting back and forth about deposits, chasing down waivers, and figuring out if our Saturday 2 PM slot had enough buffer time after the noon party across town.
We tried everything. But many just to make them remotely usable wanted $200+ per month, but still often required separate software for things like waivers. Generic booking tools didn't understand travel time or equipment conflicts. We found ourselves juggling five different systems, three spreadsheets, and endless messages just to run our business.
Every feature exists because we lived the pain it solves. The offline mode? Built after losing cell signal at countless parks. Automatic deposit collection? Added after our second last-minute cancellation in one month, cost us $1,500. Travel-based pricing? Created after realizing we'd been losing $20-30 per party on gas.
We will never forget where we came from—standing in a customer's driveway, frantically searching for WiFi to process a payment while 20 kids wait impatiently.
We built BookingHive because we've been you. And we know that running a mobile entertainment business is hard enough without fighting your booking software.
We ran a mobile laser tag business and thought the hard part would be managing equipment and running great events. We were wrong. The hardest part was everything that happened before we showed up: calculating drive times on Google Maps, texting back and forth about deposits, chasing down waivers, and figuring out if our Saturday 2 PM slot had enough buffer time after the noon party across town.
We tried everything. But many just to make them remotely usable wanted $200+ per month, but still often required separate software for things like waivers. Generic booking tools didn't understand travel time or equipment conflicts. We found ourselves juggling five different systems, three spreadsheets, and endless messages just to run our business.
Every feature exists because we lived the pain it solves. The offline mode? Built after losing cell signal at countless parks. Automatic deposit collection? Added after our second last-minute cancellation in one month, cost us $1,500. Travel-based pricing? Created after realizing we'd been losing $20-30 per party on gas.
We will never forget where we came from—standing in a customer's driveway, frantically searching for WiFi to process a payment while 20 kids wait impatiently.
We built BookingHive because we've been you. And we know that running a mobile entertainment business is hard enough without fighting your booking software.