Booking system for studios, venues and rooms rented by the hour
Hourgrid closes the three places where hourly rental leaks money: the inquiry answered too late, the guest who never showed and never paid a deposit, and the month nobody added up.
Next free slot: Rehearsal room, 17:00
- 1Booked online, no phone calls
- 2Deposit collected when booking
- 3Reminder sent before the visit
See how it works for your space
Three places the money leaks
whoever answers first wins the booking
The inquiry lands in the evening, the reply comes tomorrow noon. By then the guest has booked the room next door — not because it is better, but because someone answered right away.
is what a no-show hour earns
The hour is blocked, the room is empty, the money never arrives. A deposit fixes this — but only if someone asks for it and reminds about it.
one day a spreadsheet sells the same room twice
While the books live in a sheet, “are we ahead?” is answered by eye. And two open copies of one file will sooner or later book the same slot for two guests.
Each of the three is fixed by automation, not discipline — that is what Hourgrid does.
And three places the money is simply never charged
Not leaks — revenue nobody got around to. Real studios write all three into their policies, and then nobody counts them.
Overtime
The guest ran forty minutes over. The policy says “billed in 15-minute blocks”; in practice nobody counts it, and the owner pays for that hour.
Damage deposit
Separate from the prepayment and returned afterwards. Merged into one figure, it will one day go back to the guest along with the rent.
Cancellation with no rule
“A week out we refund everything, three days out half, later nothing.” While that lives only in your head, every cancellation becomes an argument.
Hourgrid counts all three by itself and keeps what the guest agreed to — as a snapshot taken at booking, not a link to the current wording.
What Hourgrid does about it
The clock starts on minute one
Every inquiry shows a timer: how long it has been waiting and whether you kept your own promise. The guest gets free slots back immediately — even while you are driving.
Deposits and reminders
How much is due and by when, right on the booking. The reminder goes out before the slot, not after nobody turned up.
Two crews, one door — never
The ban on overlaps lives in the database, not in a form: a form is bypassed by the second simultaneous request, a constraint is not. The cleaning buffer counts as occupied.
One inbox for everything
A photo of a receipt, a voice note on the way home, a letter from a marketplace. The model drafts — the record appears when you confirm, never on its own.
The month in one number
Revenue, costs, and how far you still are from breaking even. The owner’s personal spending lives in the same book and stays out of the business result.
Everyone sees only their own
Staff see their shifts and their tasks. No sums — and not hidden on screen: the numbers never leave the server.
Peak hours cost more
Prices by weekday and time of day, seasons, minimum length. The same walls earn more without a single extra guest.
Bring back the ones who came before
See who used to come every month and stopped, who missed twice, and who brings in the most. Calling them costs less than buying a stranger.
Pricing
Each plan adds to the one before: from one room to a studio with a team and a venue that works with companies.
- 2 resources
- 2 team members
- + an accountant for free
- Booking page, deposits and reminders
- 8 resources
- 6 team members
- + an accountant for free
- Peak prices, overtime and extras
- Packs of hours, tasks and shifts
- Inbox with automatic parsing
Three days free on Starter, no card. Higher plans start paid.