Laser tag booking software.Every game sold to the number of vests you have.
Venuboost runs the business side of a laser tag arena. Guests book a game or a party online and sign their waiver on their phone. The counter takes walk ins on the same board, and the briefing, the games and the party room are all held on one timetable, so the arena is never sold twice and the room is free when the cake arrives.
Laser tag arena software
Four numbers decide how a Saturday in the arena runs.
Anyone who has run an arena on a wet school holiday knows the problem. The booking sheet says there is room at two, the marshal knows the vests from the last game are still coming off, and the group at the door has been told the wrong arrival time. Most of that comes from a booking system that thinks a game is a table booking.
In Venuboost the arena is set up once with the numbers that actually govern it. Every screen reads the same four, from the online booking page to the counter to the day board, and the wording follows the activity: games, players and the arena, rather than sessions and guests.
Players per game
The number of vests you run. Every booking, online or at the counter, counts against it, so a game never sells past what you can kit out.
Briefing time
Minutes between arrival and the first game for the safety talk and gearing up. Guests see an arrival time, and the briefing is already inside it.
Game length
How long a game actually runs. A party buying three games gets three of them on the board, each one held for its own length.
Start interval
How often a game starts. Run games back to back every fifteen minutes or leave a turnaround between them for the marshals.
Laser tag management system
From the online booking to the last game of the party.
Online bookings
Guests pick an activity and only see the times that fit.
Your booking page lists what you sell. A guest picks laser tag, picks a game or a party package and sees the start times the arena can actually take for a group their size. Small groups share a game until it is full. A private game holds the arena for that booking alone. Take the whole amount or a deposit, as a percentage, a flat amount or an amount per player.
- Single games, multi game packages and parties on one page
- Shared games filled to capacity, or private games that hold the arena
- Age bands with their own price, and a rule for whether bands may share a game
- Standing group rates for schools and youth groups, with the school's name recorded
Parties and groups
A party of forty in a thirty player arena still books in one go.
Turn on group splitting for the arena and a group bigger than its capacity is split into groups that take turns. The first games run straight after the briefing, and each later game is placed so the break since that group's last one sits between the shortest and longest break you allow, as close to your preferred break as the day permits. If no running order fits, that start time is not offered.
- Groups split evenly or filled to capacity one at a time
- Party rooms held for the part of the visit they are used for
- Two rooms joined for a big group, with clean up time held after
- A school term or a weekly club night set up once as regular bookings
Saturday 29 August
Three legs, ordered against what was free
1:00pm
Grand prix, heat one
Track 1, Qualifying then a 12 lap final
2:10pm
Laser tag, two games
Arena B, Briefing starts 2:05pm
3:00pm
Food in the party room
Party room A, Held until 4:00pm, then released
The arena was full at 1:00pm, so the visit starts on the track and the room moves to match.
Waivers
Every player signed before they are kitted up.
Laser tag gets its own waiver, with your wording, the age a parent or guardian has to sign for, and how many months a signature lasts. The link goes out with the booking so each player signs on their own phone. Anyone who did not can sign at a kiosk by the door before they go into the briefing.
- A waiver per activity, written by you
- A parent or guardian signs for children
- Signatures that last as long as you set
- A kiosk at the door for the ones who forgot
Combos
Laser tag, a race and the party room in one booking.
Most arenas make their best money on the second activity. A combo chains up to six of them, each on its own space with its own length and a gap after it for walking, changing or the next briefing. The guest pays one price and gets one itinerary with a time on every part.
Set the combo to a flexible order and, when the arena is full at the time the group asked for, the booking engine tries the activities the other way round before it gives up on that start. Lock a leg in place, such as food last, and it stays where you put it. More on mixing activities on the activities page.
The counter
Walk ins, extra games and slushies on one till.
The till shows the day's start times with the places left in each, so a walk in is sold into a game in the same motion as their drinks. Card payments go through a terminal paired to the till and into your own merchant account.
When a party finishes and wants one more game, staff add it from the booking. Only start times the arena can still take are offered, and it is paid there and then or left on the bill. If a few vests are out of action, a manager lowers the capacity of the games affected for the day with their PIN. It never drops below the places already sold.
What it does not do
Your laser tag system still runs the game itself.
Venuboost does not connect to laser tag packs, vests or scoring software. It does not start games in your arena system, read scores or print scorecards. It sells the game, fills it, gets the waivers signed and keeps the timetable honest, and the system you already own keeps doing the part that happens in the dark.
The laser tag module itself costs nothing on top of your plan, and neither does a second or third arena. Plans are monthly, with no lock in contract and a free first month, and the details are on the pricing page.
More on Venuboost for laser tag arenas
Questions
What arena owners ask us first.
What does laser tag booking software do?
It sells games and parties online against the real capacity of your arena, takes the deposit or the full payment, gets the waivers signed before anyone arrives, and puts every booking on one board for the staff on the floor. Venuboost also runs the counter, so a walk in and an online party land on the same game.
Does Venuboost connect to our laser tag system or scoring?
No. Venuboost does not talk to laser tag packs, vests or scoring software, and it does not print scorecards. Your laser tag system keeps running the game itself. Venuboost handles everything around the game: the booking, the payment, the waiver, the party room and the timetable.
Can two small groups share one laser tag game?
Yes, by default. A game is filled up to the arena's capacity, so a family of four and a group of eight can be sold into the same game. Mark an experience as private and that booking holds the whole arena for its games instead.
How are big birthday parties handled when the group is bigger than the arena?
Turn on group splitting for the arena and a party bigger than its capacity is split into groups that take turns. You set the shortest, longest and preferred break between one group's games, and the schedule is worked out before the guest pays, so a time that cannot fit is never offered.
Can we run more than one arena?
Yes. Each arena has its own capacity, game length, briefing time and start interval, and they sit side by side on one board. Adding a second arena costs nothing extra on your plan.
Can laser tag be booked together with karting or other activities?
Yes. A combo chains up to six activities, such as laser tag, a race and food in a party room, into one booking with one price. If the arena is full at the time the group wants, a flexible combo tries the activities in another order before giving up on that start time.
Bring us your busiest school holiday Saturday and we will build it on the screen.
Your arena, your vest count, your party packages and your prices, set up in front of you. You will see where the games fill and where the gaps are before we talk about what it costs.