Scheduling for your fellowship hall, run by volunteers.
Take fellowship hall rental online, invoice renters and accept card payments — all from one platform that a church board 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 269 AM–10 AM
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BOOK-88519 May 26ApprovedChurch ChoirThursday rehearsal4 Jun 264 Jun – 27 Aug 26
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BOOK-88419 May 26DeclinedMargaret Doyle40th birthday party13 Jun 266 PM–11 PM
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BOOK-88318 May 26ApprovedTuesday Lunch ClubWeekly lunch club3 Jun 263 Jun – 26 Aug 26
Hall rental calendar & online booking forms.
Publish a live calendar so the congregation can see at a glance when the hall is free, then let renters 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 renters.
Spare the church board treasurer a stack of handwritten receipts. As soon as a hall booking is approved, the fellowship hall booking software raises a tidy invoice with the church's logo and your own sequential numbers, ready for the congregation accounts. Renters pay from the link on the invoice — no LemonBooking account required.
- Simple, clear layout with sales tax details only when needed
- Add payment links so renters 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 rental
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 congregation life fills most of the hall diary — the toddler and parent group on a Tuesday, the choir on a Thursday, the lunch club, the quilting group, 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, every two weeks, monthly or first-Monday patterns cover the groups most congregations run. Skipping a Tuesday in spring break or a festival week? Just delete that one occurrence from the calendar.
Publicize what's open to all
Mark the toddler group, lunch club or choir as public and they show on your calendar for the whole congregation to see — while private hires stay simply ‘booked’.
Add hall rental to your congregation website.
Your church almost certainly has a website already — very often the church or denomination site — and there's no need to replace it. Drop the hall rental 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 fellowship hall site too
<iframe src="https://stmarys.org/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 fellowship hall site too.
Simple software for busy volunteers.
Church board members, facility coordinators 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 center, YouTube videos & written guides
Hi! We've just gone live with online bookings. How do I set up our toddler group so it repeats every Tuesday through the season — but skips the spring break 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 spring break comes round, just cancel those Tuesdays 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
“Been running 6 months system has reduced my workload and is easy to navigate with great customer care.”
Frequently asked questions
Anything we haven't covered, drop us a line.
Is there a free fellowship hall booking system?
You can run your fellowship 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 congregation can see how it works before committing.
Is LemonBooking easy enough for congregation volunteers?
Yes — it is built for church board members, facility coordinators 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 renters pay for fellowship hall rental online?
Yes — connect SumUp, Stripe, Square or PayPal and renters 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 church board with only one hall?
Yes — a small church board with a single fellowship hall is exactly who this is for. You only pay for what you need, and the congregation hall booking system scales down to one room as happily as it scales up to several.
Can we keep our existing congregation website?
Yes — most congregations already have a website, so you can embed just the calendar or booking form into your existing church or denomination site via an iframe. Or, if you would rather start fresh, the website editor can build a new fellowship hall site for you.
Can facility coordinators manage fellowship 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 board member or facility coordinator can approve a fellowship hall booking from home. Bookmark it on the church office computer and it's one click away after the Sunday service.
Ready to try LemonBooking at your fellowship hall?
30 days free. No card required. We do the initial setup with you so the congregation isn't staring at an empty system on day one.
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