Saturday · dinnerBookings confirmed, without the back-and-forth.
Kahu Bookings is KahuLogic's online booking and appointment software for restaurants, clinics, salons, studios and any business that runs on a diary. Set your hours, covers and slot lengths once; guests book the free slots on your website, the diary never takes more than a slot holds, and each guest gets a confirmation and reminders.
Your whole day on one screen.
Set what can be booked once: hours, services, tables, rooms or practitioners. Kahu turns them into bookable slots, checks capacity on every request and keeps the diary honest.
Appointments, consultations, spaces and tables.
The restaurant above is one way to use Kahu Bookings. The same diary takes appointments, consultation requests and bookings for a room or a space. Pick the one closest to your business.
Session type, team member and a free time.
Set each session type with its length, and the hours each team member is available. Guests choose a session type and a free time on your booking page, and the diary only offers times that are still open. A guest who books a free time is confirmed at once.
Request, confirmation and reminder.
A consultation request that comes in through your booking form waits for you. Press Book it and the guest gets a confirmation, then reminders the day before and three hours before, by email and SMS.
- 1 · Request from your booking formWaiting for you
- 2 · Confirmation by email and SMSWhen you press Book it
- 3 · Reminders by email and SMSDay before and 3 hours before
Resource availability and a calendar view.
Make a room, a studio or a space its own resource, with its own hours and slot length. Guests book its free slots, and the week board shows what is booked and what is still free across the week.
Covers, capacity and service windows.
Set a window for each service, a slot length and the covers each slot can take. Kahu turns every window into bookable slots, and the diary never takes a booking for more covers than a slot has left.
The booking widget
Your booking page sits on your Kahu Site. Guests see only the free slots, pick one and leave their details, and the booking is confirmed at once with a confirmation by email and SMS.
Google and Apple calendar sync
Connect Google Calendar or Apple Calendar, and Kahu Bookings keeps it in sync with your diary.
Workflows that run by themselves
Every confirmed booking gets its confirmation, then reminders the day before and three hours before, by email and SMS. Reminders are the messages that go without you. Anything Kahu drafts for you waits for your approval.
Confirmed at once, or waiting for you?
A guest who books a free slot on your booking page.
A request through a booking form, until you press Book it, and a booking Kahu makes for you in chat, in Approvals.
Your website assistant answers questions from your site's own pages and can hold a slot. It never changes a booking.
Today at a glance: who is coming, when, and for how many.
Tane W. · 4 peopleCapacity and covers per slot, so a booking is never taken for seats you do not have.
Next weekThe week ahead, day by day, so you can see where the gaps are.
Request. Check. Confirm.
A guest picks a free slot on your website. The diary checks the covers left in that slot, confirms the booking and sends the confirmation and reminders by email and SMS. A request that arrives through a booking form waits for you to press Book it.
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Set availability
Define when your business can accept bookings.
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Manage reservations
Keep bookings organised in the diary.
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Monitor capacity
See availability and covers alongside your schedule.
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Stay organised
Use day and week views to manage upcoming activity.
Classes and sessions
Other reservation-based operationsWorks with everything else you run on Kahu.
The booking page lives on your Kahu Sites pages, confirmations and reminders go out by email and SMS, and Kahu Assist can take a booking in chat for your approval.
Frequently asked questions
What is online booking software?
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Online booking software lets customers request a table, appointment or class from your website or a booking link, and puts the request straight into your diary. Good booking software checks availability and capacity for you and sends confirmations and reminders. Kahu Bookings does all of that: a guest who books a free slot online is confirmed straight away, and a booking Kahu makes for you in chat waits for your approval.
Which businesses can use Kahu Bookings?
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Restaurants and cafés with covers and sittings, clinics and physios with practitioners and rooms, salons and barbers, studios running classes, trades and consultants booking site visits. If your day runs on a diary, Kahu Bookings fits it.
Can I manage team and resource availability?
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Yes. Each team member, room, space or dining room is a resource with its own hours, slot length and capacity, and you can close a window, on your approval, when someone is away or a room is out of use. The booking page only offers the slots that are still free.
Can Kahu Bookings show bookings by day and week?
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Yes. Switch between a week board and a day list of who is coming.
Does a booking require confirmation?
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Not when a guest books a free slot on your booking page: that booking is confirmed straight away, because the diary only offers slots with covers left. A request sent through a booking form waits for you to press Book it, and a booking Kahu makes in chat waits in Approvals.
Does Kahu Bookings send reminders?
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Yes. Each guest gets a confirmation, then reminders the day before and three hours before, by email and SMS.
Does KahuLogic work for local service businesses like trades, salons or clinics?
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Yes. Local service businesses are the core of KahuLogic. Kahu Bookings handles the diary, Kahu Sites keeps hours and services current on your website, Kahu Reach runs local ads, and Kahu CRM keeps every customer's history.
How much does Kahu Bookings cost?
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Kahu Bookings is included in Pro (US$349 a month) and is a US$39-a-month add-on on Starter and Growth, with no per-booking fees. Start with a free 7-day trial, no credit card needed.