Custom booking systems

Custom booking system development for UK travel, experience and events businesses. Live dates, cabin and ticket pricing, deposits and payments, built around your suppliers and run from a Webflow site your team can edit.

In short

A custom booking system is software built around how you sell: your products, dates, prices, suppliers and payment rules. Customers book and pay on your own website, and your team runs it all from one CMS.

Built for

  • Tour and travel companies
  • Experience and activity providers
  • Agents selling other suppliers’ inventory
  • Events and hospitality venues

How a booking works on LuxuryTrainTickets.com

The journey a guest takes on LuxuryTrainTickets.com, from selecting a cabin to paying a deposit.

1

Select your cabin

Twin Cabin, Cabin Suite or Grand Suite, each with its own photos, description and price.

2

Choose a departure date

Dates come directly from the CMS, so a new departure goes live as soon as the team adds it.

3

Add extras

Champagne, flowers and a carbon offset, each with its own price added to the total.

4

Pay in full or leave a deposit

The user selects their option, the total updates at once, and checkout goes through Foxy and Stripe.

Prices your team controls

LuxuryTrainTickets.com lists over 50 Venice Simplon-Orient-Express trips, each showing three cabin prices in pounds, dollars and euros. If an operator hasn’t shared a price, the page displays POA instead of a guess.

  • Prices for each journey, cabin and date
  • Pounds, dollars and euros from one CMS
  • POA when a date isn’t priced yet
  • Supplier price updates flagged for review

Booking software vs custom

Off-the-shelf booking tools work well for many businesses. Here is how they compare with a system built for you.

Booking software
Custom booking system
Cost to start
Low, a monthly subscription
Higher, a one-off build
Ongoing fees
Monthly costs, usually plus a fee per booking
Hosting and ongoing support
Tailored to your products
You adapt to the tool’s model
Created for your products and rules
Booking on your website
A hosted page or embedded widget
Native pages that are on-brand and indexable
Integrations
Whatever the vendor allows
Anything with an API
Your data
Hosted on the vendor’s platform
Yours, in systems you own
Best for
Easy bookings from one provider
Multiple suppliers, complex pricing, high-value orders

What a booking system costs

The cost of a booking system depends on the number of suppliers, your pricing complexity and what it connects to. Share those details and we’ll give you a price.

Get a tailored price

What affects the price

  • The number of suppliers and inventory feeds
  • How complex your pricing and date rules are
  • Payments: deposits, balances and currencies
  • Links to your CRM, accounts and email
  • Moving content and rankings from a legacy site

What it runs on

The stack behind LuxuryTrainTickets.com. We choose tools your team can manage easily, with or without us.

Webflow

Pages, CMS and SEO, managed by your team

Foxy

Cart, checkout, deposits and balances

Stripe

Card payments, routed by currency

Cloudflare

Background tasks like supplier checks

Mailchimp

Guest lists and campaign emails

Questions

How much does a custom booking system cost?+
Price depends on the number of suppliers, how complex your pricing is (dates, cabins, deposits, currencies) and what the system connects to. Tell us those details and we’ll provide a cost.
Can you add booking to our existing Webflow site?+
Yes. We build the booking pages, cart and checkout into your current Webflow site so you keep your design, content and rankings.
Can clients pay a deposit now and settle the rest later?+
Yes. Full payments, deposits and balances can be set per product, just like on LuxuryTrainTickets.com.
Does it accept payments in multiple currencies?+
Yes. LuxuryTrainTickets.com displays prices in pounds, dollars and euros and routes each currency to its own Stripe account.
Can it manage inventory from other suppliers?+
Yes. We pull in supplier dates and prices via feeds or APIs where available, and flag updates for your team to review when they aren’t.

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