A general booking system, applied to venues
Checkfront handles a wide range of businesses, from equipment hire to accommodation to activities. Breadth is the point of it, and it is also the trade-off.
Flexible, and it publishes pricing
Configurable enough to fit a lot of different businesses, with published plans and a solid reputation. If your setup is unusual, flexibility is worth something.
General purpose means general purpose
Nothing in it knows what a reset is, or that a coach can run one lane at a time, or what a session outcome is. You can configure around some of that. You cannot configure it into understanding your business.
Plans are tiered on features and volume, so growing moves you up rather than being included.
| Checkfront | Venue Harmony | |
|---|---|---|
| Published pricing | Yes. Tiered monthly plans | Yes. 1% of online revenue, capped at $99 per venue |
| Feature access | Tiered | Everything inside one number |
| Booking volume | Factors into the plan you need | Not metered |
| Resets and turnaround time | Configured as padding, not understood as a reset | Modelled as its own thing, kept off availability |
| Staff as capacity | Not a native concept | A coach or host can be the thing that limits the slot |
| Session outcomes | No native concept | Captured against the session |
| Payments | Connect your own gateway | Your own gateway. You stay merchant of record |
| Getting your data out | Export available | Full export, any time, no charge |
Checked 22 August 2026 against Checkfront's own published plans at checkfront.com/pricing. Checkfront publishes its tiers, so read their page for the current figures. If anything here is out of date, tell us and we will correct it.
Should I stay on Checkfront?
Stay if you run several different kinds of business and need something that bends to fit all of them.
Talk to us if you sell time in sessions, tables or lanes, and you are tired of describing what you do in someone else's vocabulary.