Our write up on this one actually comes from recent personal experience of working with FLOW reformer studio which is a boutique studio offering three locations in Bottesford, Grantham and Bingham (all in the East Midlands, UK) and their struggle for an app that actually worked for their setup. Reformer Pilates bookings jumped 71% in…
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Here is a typical Friday-night for every music venue owner: the gig sells out, the bar is three deep, the room is electric, and you are still one very quiet Tuesday away from a knot in your stomach. Live music is the best job in the world and the most nerve-shredding business on the high…
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Keep Square for bookings and payments, and add your own branded app with push notifications and loyalty. What Square gives you, and what it costs.
Here is a fun little maths problem for you. You already take payments through Square. The tap happens, the receipt prints, the customer smiles, and off they go. Lovely. But right there, in that three second window, sits the single biggest missed opportunity in your whole business: you have no idea when they are coming…
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You run a tight ship. Square handles your payments, your card reader beeps happily all day, and your online store looks lovely. So why does it feel like customers pay once, wave goodbye, and vanish into the ether like a sock in a tumble dryer? Here is the thing nobody tells you when you set…
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Let’s start with a confession most holiday let owners will recognise. You spend months getting your cottage picture-perfect, you hoover under the sofa cushions like a woman possessed, you leave a welcome hamper that would make a hotel weep, and then a booking platform takes a chunk of the money for the privilege of introducing…
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You already run your business on Square. The card reader, the receipts, the little chime when a sale goes through. It all just works. So why would you bother building your own Square business app on top of it? Fair question, and the honest answer is: because Square is brilliant at taking payments, but it…
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Picture this… You have blocked out five hours for a half-sleeve, cleared your afternoon, set up your station, and your 1pm client has ghosted you harder than a bad Tinder date. No text, no call, no deposit. Just you, a fully inked stencil, and the small sound of money not being made. If that made…
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As i’m on holiday right now I thought it only appropriate to write about vacation lettings apps, and two strong contenders in the market: AppBuild.diy vs Touch Stay. Touch Stay does one job superbly: it turns the tatty printed welcome folder into a slick digital guidebook, so guests find the Wi-Fi code, the check-in steps…
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Today’s comparison introduces AppBuild.diy vs Setmore in the busy world of bookings and appointments! Setmore has won a lot of fans by being genuinely free where it counts: a clean scheduling tool with a booking page, reminders and even free video calls, with a free plan that covers four staff calendars and two hundred appointments…
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