What a customer sees when a rental is already booked
When a rental is already booked on the customer's date, your Papalocal booking page says so. It lists other rentals free that day, each with a Swap button, and the nearest days their pick is open. One tap swaps it, and the date is checked again.
0:00Open your booking page. This is your booking page, as a customer sees it.
0:09The customer checks a date. They add the pink castle, choose their date, type the address, and click Check my date.
0:14It's taken. It says so, and lists rentals under Free that day instead.
0:20Other days show too. Under Open for your rentals, it shows the nearest days the pink castle is open, one tap each.
0:25They swap it. They click Swap beside the castle they like. It checks the date again by itself: Available! Fill in your details to book.
Good to know
Up to three swaps. Rentals free that day are listed most alike first: the same category, then a shared word like Bounce, Slide or Tent, then the closest price.
Up to three open days. They're the nearest days everything in the customer's cart is free.
Booking checks once more. The list helps them pick. When they book, the date is checked again.
Pinewood Party Rentals and its rentals and prices in the video are made up.
Written with AI from this video's script and screens.
Your booking page is one part of running your rental company on Papalocal.
The everything app. As simple as you want it, or as complete as you allow it to be.
Looking for bounce house booking software? Your booking page checks each date as customers pick it, and offers another way when it's taken.
The plan holds, in one place:
Your customer list: each lead and customer, with their quotes and jobs on one page
Quotes, jobs and schedule
Invoices and pay links
Your website, on a domain you own
Google Business Profile sync, for your first location
Reviews: links, QR codes and an embed
Time clock, team chat and training
The same account holds your own side too: music, books, messages, your money and your people. Some of it has paid upgrades.
Free to sign up, no card. Your account and your business page have no monthly charge. One thing is on from the start: AI replies to your reviews, $0.15 each plus AI usage. You can pause them.
Once you turn the plan on: $30 a month (one person; each added employee is $10 a month), plus 1.25% of payments your customers make through Papalocal, plus Stripe's processing fee. It's billed daily from a prepaid balance. Once your card is saved, it's charged a top-up within the hour, and again each time the balance falls under a month's charges plus 15%. You choose the top-up amount ($25 or more; $100 until you change it). You can cancel the plan online after its first 30 days; cancel any add-ons on it first.
Papalocal's founder, Garret Merkley, has started 7 local service businesses in 16 years. He bought one, sold one and closed some.
Up to three that are free that day, most alike first: the same category, then a shared word in the name, then the closest price.
Can the customer pick another day instead?
Yes. Under Open for your rentals, it shows the nearest open days, one tap each.
Does the booking page have a rental availability calendar?
Yes. Its month calendar marks the days open for their rentals and the days already booked.
What if more than one rental is taken?
Each one taken gets its own swaps, for up to three of them. The open days shown are days everything in their cart is free.
What does it cost?
It's free to sign up, with no card. Your account and your business page have no monthly charge. One thing is on from the start: AI replies to your reviews, $0.15 each plus AI usage. You can pause them. The plan starts only when you turn it on: $30 a month (one person; each added employee is $10 a month), plus 1.25% of payments your customers make through Papalocal, plus Stripe's processing fee.
How is it billed, and can I cancel?
It's billed daily from a prepaid balance. Once your card is saved, it's charged a top-up within the hour, and again each time the balance falls under a month's charges plus 15%. You choose the top-up amount ($25 or more; $100 until you change it). You can cancel the plan online after its first 30 days; cancel any add-ons on it first.
Will Papalocal find me customers?
No. Papalocal gives you the tools. Finding customers is your work.
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