Booking Engine

Sim racing booking software
that fills empty bays.

Real-time bay availability, member self-service booking, automated reminders, and waitlists — built specifically for simulator rental facilities, not adapted from a generic appointment tool.

No signup required for the demo. Setup takes 2-5 business days.

Inside GTLane

The booking engine,
top to bottom.

Live rig schedule, today's run, walk-in board, and the revenue chart that runs the floor — the same booking engine, from four angles.

GTLane booking admin · view 1
GTLane booking admin · view 2
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The problem

Why generic booking tools
break at sim racing facilities.

Tools like Calendly, Square Appointments, and Acuity were built for hairdressers and dentists. They model a single resource and a single price. That breaks the moment you have four bays, three membership tiers, and a 10-session package to track.

Spreadsheets get you to your first month. By month three, you're double-booking, missing renewals, and chasing payment by SMS. Members notice. Bookings drop.

GTLane's booking engine models the things sim racing facilities actually have: bays, tiered members, packages, blackout windows, and waitlists. Members self-serve. Staff stop being the booking system.

What spreadsheets can't do

  • Show members live availability without staff intervention
  • Auto-deduct sessions from a multi-session package
  • Notify the next person on the waitlist when a slot opens
  • Apply tier-based pricing automatically at checkout
  • Block out a single bay for maintenance without taking the whole site down
How it works

From browse to booked in
under a minute.

01

Member sees live availability

On your branded booking page, members pick a bay and a time slot. Availability updates in real time as other people book.

02

Books and pays in one flow

Stripe handles payment. The booking lands directly in your dashboard. Confirmation goes out automatically.

03

Automated reminders fire

A reminder hits their inbox 24 hours and 1 hour before the session. Fewer no-shows, fuller bays.

What's included

Everything the booking engine
does for you.

Real-time bay availability

Members see live slot availability across every simulator. No double bookings, no phone tag.

Multi-bay calendar view

Manage every booking across every bay from a single calendar. Drag-and-drop reschedules. Color-coded by member tier.

Smart reminders & waitlists

Automated email reminders before each session. When a slot opens up, the next person on the waitlist gets first refusal.

Package bookings

Sell 5- and 10-session packages. Sessions deduct automatically as members book — no manual tracking.

Blackout date management

Block dates for maintenance, private events, or staff training. Members never see slots you can't fulfil.

Member self-service

Members log in, book, reschedule, and pay without staff involvement. Your team focuses on the experience, not the front desk.

Comparison

Built for sim racing,
not adapted.

A side-by-side of what each option gets right and where it breaks. For the long-form version see the full comparison post.

Generic Booking Tools Spreadsheets GTLane
Sim-specific bay modeling
Member self-service booking Limited
Multi-session packages Manual
Automated waitlists Limited
Stripe payouts to your bank Limited
Members see live availability Limited
Pit-stop pricing

One hour of rental.
Per rig. Per month.

Whatever you charge for one hour on a sim — that's your monthly fee per rig. No upfront payment. No setup fees. The math couldn't be simpler.

Your monthly bill — calculator

Rigs
×
$
Your hourly rate
=
$120 / month
Hourly rate × rigs equals your monthly bill. Same simple formula whether you run 2 rigs or 20.

No upfront payment

Start today. We bill you next month.

No setup fees

Self-guided onboarding gets you live in 24h.

Cancel anytime

Month-to-month. No long contracts.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Will this work with my existing simulator hardware?
Yes. The booking engine is hardware-agnostic — it manages reservations, payments, and members independent of the simulator platform. Whether you run Simucube, Fanatec, Moza, or a custom rig, GTLane handles the booking layer. Hardware integration for live telemetry is a separate, optional module.
Can members book themselves, or do staff need to be involved?
Members book end-to-end without staff involvement. They sign up on your branded booking page, pick a bay and time, pay through Stripe, and get an automated confirmation. Staff only step in for refunds, edge cases, or upselling memberships.
How does the waitlist reduce no-shows?
Two ways. First, automated email reminders go out 24 hours and 1 hour before the session — that alone catches most forgetful bookings. Second, when someone cancels, the next person on the waitlist gets an automatic notification with a time-limited claim window. Empty bays get refilled instead of sitting idle.
I'm running everything on spreadsheets right now. Is there an import?
Yes. We can import your existing member list, upcoming bookings, and historic transaction data from CSV. Most operators are switched over within a day. We don't charge for the import.
Does it support multiple locations?
Multi-site management is included on the Enterprise plan. You can run separate booking calendars per site, share a single member database across all locations, and pull combined revenue reporting. Starter and Professional plans cover one location.
How long does it take to go live?
Most facilities are live in 2-5 business days. We handle subdomain setup on a free branded gtlane.com URL (e.g. yourname.gtlane.com), Stripe connection, branding, and data import. You get a staging URL to review before we flip your subdomain live.

Stop being the
booking system.

Try the live demo to see member self-service in action, or contact us to launch on your own branded gtlane.com subdomain in 2-5 business days.