Booking system for parks, reserves & sportsgrounds.
A park booking system used by councils across the UK. Take bookings and card payments for events in your parks, allocate numbered market-stall sites to regular traders, and book out shopping-centre promotional spaces — all from one calendar.
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BOOK-412Sat 13 JunPendingTown GardensCharity summer fete
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BOOK-411Sat 13 JunConfirmedMarket stall 7Saturday market
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BOOK-410Mon 8 JunConfirmedPark greenFitness boot camp
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BOOK-409Fri 5 JunApprovedMall sitePromotional gazebo
Parks & green spaces, booked online.
An outdoor space booking system for everything that happens in your parks — one-off events on the oval, regular activities such as boot camps, dog training and walking groups, and casual hire of a reserve, rotunda or pavilion. It is booking software for outdoor activities that residents can actually use.
- Events in parks — fetes, fairs, fun days and outdoor cinema
- Regular activities — boot camps, dog training and walking groups
- Casual hire of a reserve, rotunda or pavilion
- Capacity limits and conflict checks built in
A market stall booking system for your traders.
Set up the weekly market once and let regular traders hold the same numbered site every week, while casual traders book any site that is free. Allocate sites at a glance, and invoice regular and casual traders without raising each one by hand.
- Recurring weekly stall bookings for regular traders
- Allocate numbered sites and see what's free at a glance
- Take casual one-off stall bookings alongside the regulars
- Invoice regular and casual traders from the same system
Promotional & town-centre spaces.
Open up your shopping-centre promotional sites and gazebo spots so charities and local businesses can book them online. LemonBooking shows the dates each space is available, applies your own pricing, and routes the booking to an officer for approval where you need it.
- Book out shopping-centre promo sites and gazebo spots
- Open to charities and local businesses, with your rules
- Set available dates and pricing for each space
- Send every booking through to an officer for approval
Invoicing & payments built in.
Auto-invoice the moment a booking is approved, take online card payments through the providers councils actually use, and generate a month of trader invoices in a single bulk run rather than raising each one by hand.
- Auto-send an invoice with a payment link the moment you approve
- Online card payments through Stripe and PayPal, plus SumUp and Square in Australia
- Bulk invoice runs for regular weekly market traders
| Regular trader | Stalls | Total |
|---|---|---|
Green Farm Veg Saturdays · Site 1 |
4 | $80 |
Hill Bakery Saturdays · Site 2 |
4 | $80 |
The Cheese Van Saturdays · Site 3 |
4 | $80 |
Trusted by councils.
This isn't a guess at what councils need. Councils and shires already run their parks, markets and promotional spaces on LemonBooking — the same system that handles their halls, sports facilities and meeting rooms. Your data is encrypted at rest and in transit and backed up daily, with the controls a council's information-management policy expects.
- Hosted on Amazon Web Services, encrypted at rest and in transit
- Access roles and a full audit log against every named officer
- Cyber Essentials certified
- Access, correction, export and deletion for a Privacy Act request
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Hosted on Amazon Web ServicesManaged, monitored cloud infrastructure
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Encrypted & backed upEncrypted at rest & in transit, backed up daily
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Cyber Essentials certifiedThe UK government-backed security certification
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Role-based access & audit logEvery approval, invoice and refund against a named officer
Customer review from Trustpilot
“We run a busy Town Hall with three rooms and over two hundred customers. Lemon booking has all the function we need for web site, bookings and invoicing (it can handle payments as well but we do that on Quickbooks). The support is fantastic. We were already using another good booking system but Lemon had so many useful additional functions and was cheaper.”
Frequently asked questions
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How much does a park booking system cost?
Plans start at $720 a year for Silver, billed annually. Parks start on Silver because it adds invoicing and payment reconciliation for hire fees and bonds. Your website, hosting and SSL are included, as are email support and the online help centre, and there are no set-up fees. Councils running parks, sportsgrounds and halls together pay more; the pricing page sets out what each plan covers. Card fees, where you take card payments, go to the payment provider rather than to us.
Can we take bookings for parks and green spaces?
Yes — let residents and organisers book events in your parks, regular activities such as boot camps, dog training and walking groups, or casual use of a reserve, rotunda or pavilion. Each space gets its own calendar, pricing and booking form, with conflict checks built in.
Can we handle recurring market-stall bookings and invoice traders?
Yes — set up the weekly market once, allocate numbered sites to regular traders and take casual stall bookings alongside them. Generate a month of trader invoices in a single bulk run rather than raising each one by hand.
Can we book out promotional and town-centre spaces?
Yes — let charities and businesses book shopping-centre promotional sites and gazebo spots online, with your own approval rules, available dates and pricing for each space.
Is it actually used by councils?
Yes — Councils and shires in Australia, and district and regional councils in New Zealand, run their halls, sportsgrounds and reserves on the system. Your data is encrypted at rest and in transit, backed up daily, and never sold or shared.
Is there a free trial?
Yes — start a 30-day free trial with no card required. We help you set up your spaces, sites, booking rules and payment providers so you are not starting from a blank page.
Can we take market and outdoor bookings from a phone?
Yes — LemonBooking runs in any web browser, so you can allocate stall sites, check the market or approve an event booking from a phone or tablet out on site, not just at a desk. There's no native app to install or update; just bookmark the login in your mobile browser and it's ready whenever you're walking the sites.
Ready to bring your parks & markets bookings online?
30 days free. No card required. We help you set up your spaces, market sites, booking rules and payment providers so you're not starting from a blank page.
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