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Skedda vs SpacetoCo: The Best Booking Software for Community Venues

Looking for a Skedda alternative?

If you manage bookings for a community venue, council facility, or shared space, you’ve likely come across Skedda. But is it the right choice for your organisation?

Here's how SpacetoCo compares to Skedda - and why more venues are choosing a platform built specifically for community venues. 

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What’s included with both?

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Online bookings & live calendar
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Payments support
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Internal + public bookings
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Trusted by Hundreds of Venues Across the Globe

Whether you manage a single hall or hundreds of bookable spaces, SpacetoCo is the online booking solution that adapts to you - not the other way around.

Booking Growth & Management

Skedda is a widget that you can embed on your existing website or a standalone page that you can direct people to for bookings. SpacetoCo is a local space finding marketplace. Each bookable space has its own rich profile web page and each venue has its own profile page. These pages can be found through google, on the marketplace, from your website or kept private if you prefer. By participating in an active marketplace, venues grow their bookings and can find people to book the less popular times.

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  • Skedda
Booking calendar
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Marketing support & SEO
  • SpacetoCo Attracts new customers via marketplace listings
  • Skedda Relies on your own marketing
Public booking pages
  • SpacetoCo Optimised for Google
  • Skedda Basic
Bundled multi-space listings
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Payments, Invoicing & Bonds

Skedda takes payments for cards or allows you to invoice - but you have to choose which method you want for your whole venue. SpacetoCo allows you to take casual bookings by upfront card payment and invoice your regular or higher value customers for post payment. This means you can choose the right payment method for different customers and their organisations.

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  • SpacetoCo
  • Skedda
Casual + invoice options
  • SpacetoCo Both supported
  • Skedda Choose one or the other
Bond holding + automation
  • SpacetoCo Fully integrated
  • Skedda Manual workaround (if at all)
Refunds & debt collection
  • SpacetoCo Automated
  • Skedda Manual
Reconciliation
  • SpacetoCo Automatically tracked
  • Skedda Needs external tools/spreadsheets

Want to make managing bookings easier at your venue?

SpacetoCo is the best bookings software to help you take bookings online, ditch repetitive admin and grow your bookings!

Venues like yours are seeing 10-30% growth in income and getting hours of time back to focus on the work you want to do - instead of back & forth emails & chasing invoices....

See for yourself how much easier life could be...

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Reporting & Insights

Skedda has a nice dashboard showing a variety of data points. However, the ability to customise or extract this data is limited. SpacetoCo has a dashboard that you can customise by a number of data points. It also has a comprehensive reporting suite where you can set up custom reports, extract all your data in a CSV and even schedule reports to be emailed to management. SpacetoCo also compiles a suite of monthly financial reports including breakdowns of regular vs. casual hire, GST and reconciliation.

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Custom dashboards
  • SpacetoCo
  • Skedda Limited
Exportable reports
  • SpacetoCo CVS, PDF, automated summaries
  • Skedda Basic
Booking question tracking
  • SpacetoCo Up to 32 fields
  • Skedda
Financial summaries (inc GST)
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  • Skedda

Admin Time Saved

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Invoicing & payment follow-up
  • SpacetoCo Automated
  • Skedda Manual
Booking & bond comms
  • SpacetoCo Automated SMS/email
  • Skedda Manual
System switching
  • SpacetoCo One platform
  • Skedda Requires spreadsheets & Zapier
Avg. time saved
  • SpacetoCo 8-12 hours/week
  • Skedda None

Subscription & Pricing

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  • SpacetoCo
  • Skedda
Pricing model
  • SpacetoCo % of bookings (Pay-as-you-go)
  • Skedda  Fixed monthly fee
Free onboarding & support
  • SpacetoCo Included
  • Skedda
    (Depends on plan)
Risk-free to trial
  • SpacetoCo No bookings = no cost
  • Skedda Pay monthly regardless
Value alignment
  • SpacetoCo We only grow if you grow
  • Skedda You pay regardless of usage

Trusted by Communities

Used by Community Venues Around the World

From sports clubs, peppercorn leased-venues, rural halls, to multi-space community venues, SpacetoCo is the preferred booking platform for public and community venues.

  • Used by organisations across Australia, New Zealand, and the UK
  • Co-designed with venue managers
  • Proven to cut admin by up to 80%

“SpacetoCo is the best way to manage facility hire, easy entry, easy cancellations. We have 120 hirers across 20 facilities and what used to be a very complex, labour intensive and time consuming task, is now much simpler and straightforward

Maggie, City of Tea Tree Gully, Adelaide Australia

As a community group of diverse multi-cultural communities representing all of the various 18 organisations and cultural backgrounds, the group found the SpacetoCo platform to be a user-friendly model that enabled those in which English is not a first language to navigate the bookings system with more ease due to the intuitive design than the current system the city has in place.

Kim, City of Canning, Perth Australia

“I know that if anything goes wrong, if we have any problems, SpacetoCo has our backs. We know that there's a team there to support us with what we're doing and what we're trying to achieve.”

Connie, Kete Aronui Rehearsal Facility, Auckland New Zealand

“We share the vision with SpacetoCo of connecting people with spaces. The availability of our amazing spaces on the SpacetoCo platform is an exciting way for Local Government to respond to what our customers want. It's allowed us to move way beyond the old way of doing things.”

Michael, City of Vincent, Perth Australia

“We used to be quite heavy on administration. Now we're found we're freed up from that, and that gives our our minds, more opportunity to activate and to think about who are the people that live in this community and what are their needs, and how can we respond”

Jill, St Heliers & Glendowie Community Centre, Auckland New Zealand 

"We have increased our bookings quite significantly year on year. We're probably getting close to maxed out at the moment. But without SpacetoCo, hand on heart, I could not have done this. So it's been an absolutely sensational find for us."

Michelle, Fraser's Property Group, Western Australia

"We've been on SpacetoCo now three years. We're we're still seeing a 354% percent increase in bookings."

Adam, City of Kwinana, Western Australia

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Who It’s Built For

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  • SpacetoCo
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Community venues
  • SpacetoCo Optimised for councils, halls, sports clubs
  • Skedda Built for corporate hot-desking
Local government use
  • SpacetoCo Multi-venue dashboards + internal workflows
  • Skedda Limited control
Multi-venue support
  • SpacetoCo Included
  • Skedda Manual or complex

Why this rehearsal venue in Auckland moved from Skedda to SpacetoCo

Kete Aronui explain why it was the right decision to invest in a more comprehensive bookings and payments system for their busy venue.

"It's cut down our admin times by 80%"

 

Connie Boston, Administrator, Kete Aronui Rehearsal Facility, Auckland.

 

 

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Customer & Admin Support

Both Skedda and SpacetoCo have email and chat support for venues and have comprehensive documentation for how they work. However, Skedda does not provide customer support for your hirers. Things like enquiries for how to reset a password need to be done by the venue. As a marketplace, SpacetoCo provides the same high quality support to both hirers and venues. This means we handle many of the small technical enquiries from your customers that can take up a lot of time.

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Support for admins
  • SpacetoCo Phone, email, chat
  • Skedda
    Plan-dependent
Support for hirers
  • SpacetoCo We help your customers, too
  • Skedda You handle it all
Local team
  • SpacetoCo Based in Australia/NZ
  • Skedda Offshore
Onboarding help
  • SpacetoCo Free training, videos, checklists
  • Skedda Self-serve
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Ready to Compare?

Check out our comparison videos or chat to our local team to see how much admin time your venue could save by switching to SpacetoCo.

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Still Unsure?

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We’ll show you how SpacetoCo can:

  • Reduce your admin time
  • Automate your payments and bonds
  • Grow bookings with built-in marketing features to manage tasks including SEO
  • Make it easier for your community to access your spaces

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