LaneBooker is the plug-and-play booking and ops platform built for small venues. Drop a widget on your site, take deposits with Stripe, run the whole shop from one staff portal. Setup in an afternoon, not a quarter.
Built by people who've worked the front desk. Every feature earns its keep.
One <script> tag. Drop it on any site — WordPress, Wix, Squarespace. Your booking flow, your branding, no dev work after setup.
Real-time lane availability at half-hour granularity. Staff and customers always see the same truth — no more double-bookings.
$20 a head, drops to $15 for groups of 4+. Brackets, day-of-week rules, peak hours — all configurable. No spreadsheet required.
Built-in Stripe integration. Require a deposit up front, cut no-shows in half, settle directly to your account. You control the rules.
Rock-n-Bowl, Glow Bowl, birthday packages — paint them onto your schedule with deep-link booking URLs you can share anywhere.
Revenue, utilization, average party size, theme-night lift. The numbers you need to decide what to run next weekend — not 40-column CSVs.
This is the same widget your customers will use. Click through — nothing actually books.
Schedule, reports, customers, pricing — all one click away. No setup. No training videos.
Three steps between you and your first online booking.
Magic-link login, no password to forget. You'll have a staff portal in under two minutes.
Add your lanes, set your hours, lay down pricing brackets and theme nights. We import your existing config if you've got one.
Paste one line into your website. Your customers book themselves. You watch the schedule fill in real time.
Pick the tier that fits your lane count. Upgrade or cancel anytime.
Honest comparison against the other booking platforms bowling alleys evaluate.
The only Canadian-owned, published-pricing, software-only bowling platform.
| Feature | LaneBooker | Bowling Booker | ActiveBooker | Bowling Management | CenterEdge | Roller |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starting price (USD equivalent) | ~$35 USD/mo | $79/mo | $119/mo (3+ lanes) | Quote-based | $99/mo + setup | $500/mo |
| Lane count in base plan | 10 lanes | 2 alleys | 3+ lanes, unlimited bookings | Custom | 1 user | 1 location |
| Embeddable widget | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Partial | ✗ | ✗ |
| Transparent pricing (published) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | Partial | ✗ |
| 14-day free trial | ✓ | 14 days | Demo only | Free demo (ON) | No | No |
| Implementation fees | $0 | $0 | $0 | Custom | $1k–$5k | Custom |
| Canadian support | ✓ | US | Partial (USD pricing) | ✓ Ontario-based | US | AU/Global |
| Software-only (no hardware bundling) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Hardware required | ✓ | ✓ |
| Modern web UI | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Mixed | Legacy | ✓ |
| Stripe payments built-in | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Varies | Add-on | ✓ |
| Setup time | ~15 min | Days | Days | Weeks (hardware) | Weeks | Weeks |
Can't find what you need? Email hello@lanebooker.ca.
No. We give you one line of HTML to paste into your website. If you can edit a page on WordPress, Wix, Squarespace, or plain HTML, you can install LaneBooker. Our team will walk you through it on a 15-minute call if you'd like.
On the Growth and Pro plans, you connect your own Stripe account (or create a new one in two minutes). Bookings requiring a deposit collect payment up front and settle directly to you — we never touch the money. Stripe's fees (2.9% + $0.30) apply; we don't mark them up.
Yes. Email us a CSV of your current customers, bookings, and pricing rules and we'll import them for free as part of onboarding. Most migrations take under an hour.
Nothing breaks — we'll notice and email you about upgrading to the next tier. No surprise overage charges, no bookings get blocked mid-weekend.
Always. Export customers, bookings, and pricing rules as CSV any time from the staff portal. Your data is yours — we'll never hold it hostage.
Phone support is included on the Pro plan. Starter and Growth get priority email with same-business-day response. We're a small team and we actually pick up.
Yes. Set a per-lane rate, a per-person rate, or combine them with brackets (e.g. $20/person, drops to $15 for groups of 4+). Rules can differ by day of week, theme night, or time of day.
14 days, full access to every feature on the tier you pick. No credit card required to start. We'll email you before the trial ends so you're never surprised by a charge.
Drop your email and we'll get you set up this week.