A church hall booking system built for parish volunteers.
Take church hall hire online, invoice hirers and accept card payments — all from one platform that a parochial church council can actually manage. No IT skills needed: we set it up with you.
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BOOK-88625 May 26PendingSt Mary's Toddler GroupAiden Smith28 May 2609:00–10:00
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BOOK-88519 May 26ApprovedParish ChoirThursday rehearsal4 Jun 264 Jun – 27 Aug 26
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BOOK-88419 May 26DeclinedMargaret Doyle40th birthday party13 Jun 2618:00–23:00
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BOOK-88318 May 26ApprovedTuesday Lunch ClubWeekly lunch club3 Jun 263 Jun – 26 Aug 26
Hall hire calendar & online booking forms.
Publish a live calendar so the parish can see at a glance when the hall is free, then let hirers send a booking request straight from an online form. Regular church groups show their title; private hires appear simply as ‘booked’, so availability is clear without exposing personal details.
- Separate colours per space (Main Hall, Meeting Room, Vestry)
- Block out for services, festivals and holidays in seconds
- Set up repeat bookings for regulars (toddler group, choir, lunch club)
Invoicing & online payments for hirers.
Spare the PCC treasurer a stack of handwritten receipts. As soon as a hall booking is approved, the church hall booking software raises a tidy invoice with the church's logo and your own sequential numbers, ready for the parish accounts. Hirers pay from the link on the invoice — no LemonBooking account required.
- Simple, clear layout with VAT details only when needed
- Add payment links so hirers can pay online by card
- Friendly automated reminders for overdue invoices
- Syncs with Xero, QuickBooks, Sage and FreeAgent
Pepperton, GL2 4XY
| Description | Qty | Rate | Total |
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Main Hall hire
Sat 14 Mar · 2–5pm · baptism reception
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3 hrs | £20.00 | £60.00 |
Works with your bookkeeping software Works with the bookkeeping software you already use
Promote your regular groups & activities.
The weekly round of parish life fills most of the hall diary — the toddler and parent group on a Tuesday, the choir on a Thursday, the lunch club, the bell-ringers, Sunday school. Set each pattern once and LemonBooking generates the calendar entries, then invoices each regular group on the cycle that suits them — weekly, monthly or per quarter.
Repeat bookings, set once
Weekly, fortnightly, monthly or first-Monday patterns cover the groups most parishes run. Skipping a half-term Tuesday or a festival week? Just delete that one occurrence from the calendar.
Publicise what's open to all
Mark the toddler group, lunch club or choir as public and they show on your calendar for the whole parish to see — while private hires stay simply ‘booked’.
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WeeklyToddler & parent groupTue & Thu · 09:30–11:00 · Main Hall
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WeeklyParish choirThu · 19:30–21:00 · Main Hall
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MonthlyLunch clubTue · 12:00–14:00 · Main Hall
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WeeklyBell-ringers' practiceMon · 19:00–20:30 · Meeting Room
Add hall hire to your parish website.
Your church almost certainly has a website already — very often the parish or diocese site — and there's no need to replace it. Drop the hall hire calendar, booking form or room info straight into a page via iframe, or pull live data from the REST API for your own pages, a mobile app or a noticeboard kiosk in the porch.
- Calendar, booking forms, hall info and events — each available as a paste-in iframe snippet
- Inherits your site's fonts and colours so it doesn't look bolted on
- Read-only REST API with documented endpoints for bookings, payments, events and customers
- Prefer to start fresh? Our built-in website editor can build a new church-hall site too
<iframe src="https://stmarys.org.uk/lb/calendar" width="100%" height="640" style="border:0" loading="lazy"> </iframe>
$ curl api.lemonbooking.com/v1/bookings/425 \ -H "Authorization: Bearer …" { "id": 425, "facility": "Main Hall", "start": "2026-06-12T19:00", "status": "confirmed" }
No website yet? LemonBooking's built-in website editor can build a new church-hall site too.
Simple software for busy volunteers.
Church wardens, parish administrators and volunteers run LemonBooking every day with no IT staff behind them. We do the initial setup with you, then get out of your way. No in-your-face chatbots, no upsells. Drop us an email and we'll reply within one or two working days.
- Initial setup & configuration done for you
- Email support, whenever you need it
- Self-serve help centre, YouTube videos & written guides
- UK data centre, GDPR-compliant and registered with the ICO (ZB547878)
- Cyber Essentials certified — data encrypted at rest & in transit
Hi! We've just gone live with online bookings. How do I set up our toddler group so it repeats every Tuesday during term — but skips the half-term week?
Hi Helen — great to see you launched! Set the toddler group up as a weekly recurring booking and it fills the term automatically; when half-term comes round, just cancel that one Tuesday and the rest stay put. I've popped a short walkthrough below — give me a shout if you'd like me to set the first one up with you.
Customer review from Trustpilot
“We are a small religious charity, who hire out our building. LemonBooking's Bronze package is perfect for us. It is very competitively priced, the website and bookings calendar are easy to use and they were straight forward to set up with lots of customisation.”
Frequently asked questions
Anything we haven't covered, drop us a line.
Is there a free church hall booking system?
You can run your church hall on LemonBooking free for 30 days, with no card required. The trial is the full system, not a cut-down version, and we help you import your existing diary so the parish can see how it works before committing.
Is LemonBooking easy enough for parish volunteers?
Yes — it is built for church wardens, parish administrators and volunteers with no IT staff. We do the initial setup with you, and multi-user access with simple admin and editor roles means a churchwarden and the hall coordinator can both manage bookings without treading on each other.
Can hirers pay for church hall hire online?
Yes — connect SumUp, Stripe, GoCardless or PayPal and hirers pay from a link on their invoice; no LemonBooking account needed. Card fees are paid to the provider; we don't add anything on top. Invoices are charity-friendly and use your own sequential numbers.
Does it suit a small PCC with only one hall?
Yes — a small parochial church council with a single church hall is exactly who this is for. You only pay for what you need, and the parish hall booking system scales down to one room as happily as it scales up to several.
Can we keep our existing parish website?
Yes — most parishes already have a website, so you can embed just the calendar or booking form into your existing parish or diocese site via an iframe. Or, if you would rather start fresh, the website editor can build a new church-hall site for you.
Can churchwardens manage hall bookings from a phone?
Yes — LemonBooking runs in any web browser, so there's nothing to install on the church computer or anyone's phone. The calendar, booking forms and admin all work on a phone, tablet or laptop, and a warden or hall coordinator can approve a hall booking from home. Bookmark it on the vestry computer and it's one click away after the Sunday service.
Ready to try LemonBooking at your church hall?
30 days free. No card required. We do the initial setup with you so the parish isn't staring at an empty system on day one.
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