
Wallaroo and Marina BBQ Boats
Boat hire
Before: A brand-new business starting from scratch, so we could build everything they would need from day one.
Now: Customers book a boat and session, pay on the spot through Square, and add food and drink to their order, even after booking. Boats, session times and terms all managed in one place.
Printable manifests: every customer and booking for the day, plus a food and drink shopping list for any period they choose. The whole business runs from the back end.
Everything it does
For customers
- Live availability by date and session, with sold-out dates blocked automatically
- Book online: group size, one boat or several, priced automatically by group size
- Food and drink added to the booking from the on-board menu
- Pay in full by card through Square at the time of booking
- Confirmation email with reference, session details and receipt link
- Gift vouchers bought online, emailed as a branded PDF with a personal message
- Vouchers redeemed against bookings, with partial balances kept for next time
- Terms accepted by typed name, with the exact version agreed to recorded
For the business
- Manage the fleet: each boat's weekly sessions, with daylight-saving timetables
- Block one boat's session, or close whole dates from a click-to-toggle calendar
- Phone bookings entered by hand, discounts applied, balances recalculated automatically
- Special requests hold a booking as pending for staff to price up
- Daily run sheet per date: boats, guest counts, contacts, food orders
- Food and drink manifest for any date range, with an aggregated kitchen prep list
- Every email the site sends is logged, with alerts for new bookings, vouchers and capacity conflicts
- Weekly automatic database backups, plus a test mode for practice payments







