Free online booking for party entertainers
What you see. A sample dashboard, shown with a cleaning business's bookings.
What your clients see. The party entertainer starter page, before you change anything.
Calendly and Square book a time. 1MinuteBooking books the act, the hours, the extras, the venue and the deposit in one request.
Parents pick the act and how many hours, add face painting or balloons for every kid, and give you the venue, the birthday child's name and age, and how many kids are coming. Book a test party
Connect your own Stripe account and parents pay a deposit or the full price by card as they book. No monthly fee: 2% per card payment, plus Stripe's fee. How deposits work
Venues farther away add a travel fee and block your drive time. Festivals and school events come in as quote requests you price and send back with a card payment link. How travel fees work
No add-ons to buy and no per-feature upgrades. Pro, at $10 a month, only adds your branding, Excel export and analytics.
Clients get the date, time and address by email 24 hours before, or when you choose. How it works
A Manage booking button lets clients move or cancel up to a cutoff you set. You get an email for every change. How it works
When you mark a booking Completed, the client gets a Book again button with their last booking filled in. How it works
Every booking shows up in Google, Outlook or Apple Calendar, and moves and cancellations update by themselves. How it works
Price a quote or a booking you added yourself, and email a link to pay a deposit or the full amount by card. How it works
A captcha, connection checks and your own filters send fake requests to a Spam folder, where they never hold a time. How it works
Paste one line of code, and clients book or check your availability 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
Party entertainers looking for booking tools find GigSalad and Party Pro Manager. GigSalad brings leads through its marketplace for a fee; party rental software suits companies with inventory and staff.
Keep a marketplace profile if it brings you work. For parents who already found you, 1MinuteBooking books your acts with the venue and party details in hand, and takes no cut. It's free, with no time limit.
Your booking page with stock photos, bookings and quote requests.
Your logo, your own photos and colors, Excel export and analytics, and no "Powered by" badge.
Through marketplaces like GigSalad or directly from the performer's own link. 1MinuteBooking is a free direct booking page with packages, add-ons and the venue address.
Yes. Turn on Stripe Payments for a deposit or the full price, charged before the request is sent, into your own Stripe account.
Yes - Second Face Painter or Balloon Twister (+$100 an hour) starts on face painting and balloon twisting, for parties of 20 or more kids, and Second Character (+$150 an hour) on the costumed character visit. Parents pick the same number of hours they booked.
Yes - every booking asks for the event venue and address, and the birthday child's name and age with roughly how many kids are coming.
Yes - with location options. The Kids' Party Entertainer preset starts with "Within 20 miles (30 km) of us" (no charge), "20-40 miles (30-65 km) away" (+$20) and "More than 40 miles (65 km) away - we confirm first" (+$40). Change the names, prices and travel times, or add your own, under Settings > Locations. The drive time blocks your calendar but is never shown to the client.
Yes - add Face Painting for Every Kid (+$60) or Balloon Animals for Every Kid (+$50) to a magic show, bubble show or character booking. You do them yourself after the show, inside the hours they booked, so the party isn't any longer. Parents who only want face painting or balloons book those acts by the hour instead.
Sign up free with Kids' Party Entertainer already selected. You can change anything later.