Free online booking for balloon and party decor
What you see. A sample dashboard, shown with a cleaning business's bookings.
What your clients see. The balloon and party decor starter page, before you change anything.
Balloon and party decorators price by the piece, the size and the set-up. 1MinuteBooking asks for each, with inspiration photos, before you order a single balloon.
Clients pick the occasion and tick what they'd like: a balloon arch or wall, columns, bouquets, a photo backdrop, light-up letters, table centerpieces, a dessert table or a full setup. How quote requests work
Clients type their colors or theme and add up to 5 photos - a picture they saved, or the room it goes in. Optional questions cover indoors or outdoors, set-up and take-down. See the quote form
Send your price in a ready-made email with a link to the quote. The customer can save it as a PDF and pay a deposit or the full amount by card. How payment links work
No add-ons to buy and no per-feature upgrades. Pro, at $10 a month, only adds your branding, your own domain, Excel export and analytics.
Price a request and email a link to pay a deposit or the full amount by card, Apple Pay or Google Pay, straight into your own Stripe account. How it works
Once you set the date, clients get the date, time and address by email 24 hours before, or when you choose. How it works
Every job you schedule shows up in Google, Outlook or Apple Calendar, and moves and cancellations update by themselves. How it works
A captcha, connection checks and your own filters send fake requests to a Spam folder, away from your real ones. How it works
Every client's events, notes and past quotes in one place, so next year's birthday is quick to price. How it works
Percent or flat-amount codes for referrals, slow seasons or returning customers, with an optional expiry. How it works
Paste one line of code, and clients request a quote right on your site.
Square, Calendly and BookingKoala, side by side, for one person running their own business.
| 1MinuteBooking | Square Appointments | Calendly | BookingKoala | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cost for one person | $0, with no time limit. Pro is an optional $10 a month | Free for one location. Plus is $49 a month per location (Oct 2026) | Free for one event type. $10 to $12 a month for more (Oct 2026) | From $27 a month, after a 14-day trial (Oct 2026) |
| Prices built from the job | Hours, quantities, sizes, add-ons and travel fees | Service variations | One event, one length | Pricing parameters for cleaning-style forms |
| Card deposits as they book | On the free plan, into your own Stripe account. 2% plus Stripe's fee | Through Square payments | On paid plans | Through its payment gateway |
| Quote requests with photos | Yes, with your own questions and up to 5 photos | Estimates in Square Invoices, not on the booking page | No | A lead form |
| Travel fees and drive time | A fee and drive time for each distance | Not a built-in setting | No | Pricing by location |
| Setup | Minutes. Your trade's services, prices and questions start filled in | Build your services in the Square dashboard | Build your event types | Pick an industry, then set up forms and providers |
Last updated . From each company's pricing page and help center. Plans change, so check theirs before you decide. Full comparisons: Square Appointments · Calendly · BookingKoala
Decorators looking at software mostly find event-planning suites built for venues and teams, or shop tools that sell ready-made balloon bouquets for delivery. A one-person decor business usually needs the date, the look and a photo before it can quote.
If you mostly sell a fixed menu of bouquets for delivery, an online store fits better. For custom balloon arches, backdrops and full setups, 1MinuteBooking takes the request with photos, and you reply with a price. It's free, with no time limit.
Your booking page with 5 photos of your work, client reviews, bookings and quote requests.
Your logo, your own photos and colors, your own domain, Excel export and analytics, and no "Made with 1MinuteBooking" line.
Event-planning suites suit venues and teams. A one-person decorator mostly needs the date, the occasion, what the client wants and an inspiration photo before quoting - 1MinuteBooking does that for free.
Yes - up to 5 photos per request: a picture they saved, the colors they want, or the room or yard it goes in.
Yes. Optional questions ask whether you set up at the venue, drop it off or the client picks it up, and whether you take it down after the event.
Yes, as an optional question, with "Not sure yet" for clients who haven't picked a venue. It becomes the booking's location.
Yes. Add services like a balloon bouquet delivery or a set-size balloon arch in Settings > Service types and switch to Set prices and quotes. Clients then pick a time and see the price, and the quote form stays on the page for everything else.
When you send your price, the email can include a link to pay a deposit or the full amount by card, straight into your own Stripe account (2% plus Stripe's fee). Cash, e-transfer and anything else you take still work.
Sign up free with Balloons & Party Decor already selected. You can change anything later.