# Hatcel > Hatcel is an Australian all-in-one booking and venue management platform for activity and entertainment venues. Take online bookings and manage customers, gift cards, waivers, payments, POS, and automated workflows from one place. Hatcel is a cloud-based SaaS platform used by Australian venues, activity centres, tour operators, and other experience-based businesses to run online bookings, staff schedules, customer records, payments, gift cards, waivers, and automated workflows from a single dashboard. ## Key Features - **Online Booking Portal**: Customisable public booking flow for customers to browse activities, select dates, and pay online - **Customer Portal**: Authenticated area where customers manage bookings, view gift card balances, sign waivers, and invite guests - **Gift Cards**: Sell and manage digital gift cards with automated delivery and redemption tracking - **Automated Workflows**: Trigger-based automations for emails, SMS, status changes, tagging, and more - **Waivers & Consent**: Digital waiver signing with version tracking and compliance - **Point of Sale**: In-person POS terminal for walk-in bookings and on-site payments - **Team Management**: Role-based permissions, staff scheduling, and multi-location support - **Payment Processing**: Stripe-powered online and in-person payments with refunds, credits, and split billing - **Customer Management**: Built-in CRM with tags, lists, notes, and communication history - **Analytics & Insights**: Traffic sources, geo-location data, booking trends, and revenue reporting - **Reviews & Feedback**: Collect and manage customer reviews linked to bookings - **Multi-Location & Custom Domains**: Manage multiple venues and run white-label booking portals on your own domain - **Phone System**: The venue's number runs through Hatcel, so calls are recorded, transcribed, classified by outcome and matched to the customer, with an AI voice agent that books against live availability - **Maintenance**: Fault reports, work orders and day-based service schedules per asset, where taking an asset out of service removes it from bookable capacity - **Devices**: Register tills and tablets to a venue with single-use pairing codes, a PIN lock instead of a full sign-in, and remote revocation ## Use Cases - Activity and experience providers (escape rooms, paintball, go-karting, axe throwing) - Venues, event spaces, and adventure parks - Tour and experience operators - Salons, spas, and fitness studios - Any business that takes bookings for experiences or activities ## Product Pages - [Booking calendar](https://hatcel.com/bookings): resource-by-time grid, availability engine, drag to reschedule, day sheet - [Phone system](https://hatcel.com/phone): call recording, transcripts, outcomes, missed-booking queue, AI voice agent - [Point of sale](https://hatcel.com/pos): touch register, walk-in bookings against live availability, cash and card - [Customer portal](https://hatcel.com/portal): self-service bookings, digital ticket, split payment, wallet and loyalty - [Marketing automation](https://hatcel.com/marketing): visual automation builder, booking-aware email blocks, SMS, segments - [Reporting](https://hatcel.com/reporting): revenue and utilisation dashboards, marketing attribution, conversion funnel - [Products](https://hatcel.com/products): activities, packages, events, inventory, gift cards, collections, per-venue stock - [Maintenance](https://hatcel.com/maintenance): fault reports, work orders, service schedules, asset availability - [Devices](https://hatcel.com/devices): device registration, pairing codes, PIN lock, remote revocation - [Multi-venue](https://hatcel.com/groups): one workspace, many venues, shared catalogue and customers ## Company - [About](https://hatcel.com/about): mission, values and who builds Hatcel - [Contact](https://hatcel.com/contact): email, phone and demo booking, Sydney, AEST hours - [Platform status](https://hatcel.com/status): live health check of every service ## Documentation - [Full product documentation](https://hatcel.com/llms-full.txt) - [Hatcel homepage](https://hatcel.com)