Stop losing bookings to the operator who replies first.
Your own booking site that sells your day-trip seats, answers private-hire enquiries in seconds and takes the money straight into your account — at 11pm on a Saturday as well as 9am on a Monday.
3 months freeNo card neededLive in about a minuteNo contract
Four people want the coach to the races on the 20th.
The job you lost this week
You didn't lose it on price. You lost it because you took three hours to reply, the details got muddled, and someone else got there first.
The slow reply
A wedding enquiry comes in on Facebook while you're driving. By the time you've pulled over and typed out a price, they've booked the firm that answered in ten minutes.
The forgotten follow-up
A club asks for a price for their Christmas night out. You mean to chase it. You forget. In December you see their coach pull out of the car park with someone else's name on the side.
The muddled details
Pick-up time on a Post-it. Drop-off in a WhatsApp voice note. Somebody waits at the wrong stop, never books with you again, and tells their friends why.
None of that is about price. It's about who answers first, who remembers, and who gets the details right — and those are the jobs a machine does better than a busy person at the wheel.
See The Conductor in action
One booking on an event coach, start to finish. The link opened at 21:47 on a Saturday night; four seats gone, card charged and confirmation sent before the operator woke up. One minute 47, and it needs no sound.
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These are the real booking screens. The trip and the passenger are demonstration data — no card was charged.
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That could be your coach, tonight.
Start freeOne link does the work
Put your trips on sale once. Share one link everywhere you already talk to customers. The Conductor handles everything that happens after somebody taps it.
Put a trip on sale
Where, when, the price, the seats and the pick-up points. A couple of minutes on your phone. Child and OAP prices too, if you do them.
Share one link
Your Facebook page and groups, your Instagram bio, your WhatsApp status, a poster in the pub window. Every trip and your private-hire form sit behind it.
It sells while you work
People choose their seats and their pick-up, pay by card, Apple Pay or Google Pay, and get a confirmation there and then. The seats come off the coach as they go.
You drive the coach
The day before, everybody gets their own pick-up time. On the day, your boarding list is on your phone, sorted by stop.
Day trips and private hire, in one place
You run two very different kinds of work. The Conductor treats them differently, because they are.
Day trips and event coaches
Football, concerts, the races, the Christmas markets — trips where you know the seat price. The whole run happens without you, and a trip only runs if it sells.
- You set the price, the seats and the minimum it needs to run
- While it's filling, cards are saved, not charged — if it doesn't fill, nobody has paid a penny
- Before the decision day you're asked: run it, give it longer, or call it off. Passengers are told either way
- Once it's on, the fares are taken and the receipts go out in seconds — into your own account
- Sold out? A waiting list builds itself, and a cancelled seat is sold on to it
Private hire
Schools, weddings, weekends away, rail replacement, whole-coach jobs. These get priced one at a time, and a mis-quote on a £2,000 charter is expensive.
- A proper enquiry form gathers the dates, numbers, pick-up and destination you need to price it
- The customer gets a reply in seconds, so the enquiry doesn't go cold
- You set the price. Nothing goes out until you've approved it
- They accept online and pay the deposit; the balance is taken on the day it's due
- If they go quiet, a polite chase goes out for you
The lag disappears. The judgement stays yours.
All the jobs that eat your evenings
Every one of these runs by itself once a trip is on sale. None of them costs extra.
Day-before reminders
Everybody on the coach gets their own pick-up point and time, and a calendar entry. Fewer no-shows, fewer 7am phone calls.
A boarding list by stop
On your phone or printed: names, seats, who has paid, and anyone who has told you about access needs.
Phone bookings in thirty seconds
For the regulars who would rather ring. Cash, bank transfer or card in person — and the seat count stays right.
Passengers sort themselves out
They can cancel, or pass their seat to a friend, from their own link — under refund rules you set. No phone tag.
Failed cards chased for you
If a card is declined, the passenger gets a fresh payment link and reminders. You get a short list of anybody to ring.
Message the whole coach
Running late, or a change on the day — one message reaches everybody on the trip.
Posters with a QR code
One for each pick-up stop. Scan it in the pub window and land on the trip with that stop already chosen.
A launch pack for Facebook
Put a trip on sale and a ready-to-paste post for your Facebook groups lands in your inbox, with the link in it.
Google reviews, asked for you
After every trip each passenger gets a thank-you asking them to review you on Google — one tap for them. Add your review link once and it happens every time.
Bring past passengers back
The thank-you shows what's on next, and when you put a new trip on sale one tap emails everybody who has travelled with you before. Unsubscribes are handled for you.
A morning summary
One email with what needs you: enquiries waiting, decisions coming up, money to collect and anybody to ring.
Your year in numbers
Trips run, passengers, takings and margin over the last twelve months — and everything downloads to Excel whenever you like.
All of it, for £99 a month.
Start freeWhat your customers see
You are not the only one who notices the difference. This is the part the firm down the road cannot offer — and it is why the booking comes to you.
- They can book at eleven at night. From a phone, in the pub, on the night they decide to go — not Monday morning, by which time they have rung somebody else.
- They can see whether the coach is real. Confirmed and running, or still filling, with the seats left and the date you decide. Nobody has to guess.
- They are never charged for a trip that does not run. While it is filling, nothing is taken. If it does not fill they are told, and the money was never touched — which beats a refund, because there is nothing to wait for.
- A confirmed seat is paid for like anything else online. Card, Apple Pay or Google Pay, a receipt in seconds, and your business name on their statement.
- They turn up at the right place. The confirmation and the reminder name their own pick-up and their own time, not the coach's first stop.
How much are you leaking every month?
Drag the sliders to match your business. The number on the right is what slow replies and dropped follow-ups are quietly costing you.
Lost every month
£960
from 40 enquiries at 10% lost
Lost every year
£11,520
An estimate built from figures you typed in — not a promise, and not a claim about your business. I'd rather show you the arithmetic than a testimonial. What I will say plainly: this doesn't create demand. It stops you dropping the demand you already have.
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Pick a plan. Be live in a minute.
One product, every feature, on every plan. The only difference is how often you pay. No setup fee, no per-booking fee, no commission on your jobs.
3 months free on every plan. No card needed.
Start free and pay nothing for three months. If your first trip hasn't run by then, your free time runs on to the end of the month it does, up to six months in all. We email you a week before it ends. To carry on, you add a card; if you don't, it simply stops. Nothing is ever taken without a card you added yourself.
- £0to start, and no card
- 3 monthsto sell a real trip
- 1 clickto add a card when you're ready
Monthly
Billed monthly after your free trial
Rolling. Cancel whenever you like and the next payment simply doesn't happen.
3 months free · no card · live in about a minute
Yearly
£990 billed once a year, after your free trial
Two months' price saved against paying monthly.
3 months free · no card · live in about a minute
Six months
£540 billed every six months, after your free trial
A cheaper rate without committing to a year.
3 months free · no card · live in about a minute
A four-seat booking at £15 a seat is £60. Two of those a month that would otherwise have gone elsewhere, and it has paid for itself.
Nothing is charged to start, and no card goes in. When you carry on after the trial, Stripe takes the card on its own secure page — we never see the number. By starting a trial or a subscription you agree to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, including what happens when you leave.
What happens after you start
- You startYour email and your trading name, then Stripe's secure page with both filled in. No card.
- Your site is builtAt your own address — yourfirm.bookaseat.uk — with its own secure certificate. About a minute.
- An email arrivesWith a link to set your password. That link is the way in.
- You set it upYour name, your logo, where replies go, and your own Stripe account for passengers' money. About ten minutes.
An honest word
It won't find you customers. But it will stop you losing them! It makes sure the ones who already come looking are answered, booked and reminded. If your phone never rings and your inbox is empty, fix the marketing first, then come back.
The free trial is three months, not two weeks, and there is no contract. A short trial runs out before most operators have sold their first trip, so this one is long enough to put a real trip on sale, and it runs on if your first trip is later than that. No card goes in at the start, so nothing can be taken by surprise. After the trial, cancel by email any time and the next payment doesn't happen; everything keeps working to the end of the period you've paid for.
If you leave, you leave cleanly. At the end of your trial or paid period your booking site stops taking bookings. You then have 30 days to sign in and download every booking and passenger list, after which the passengers' personal details are deleted. We email you before each step. The full rules are in section 8 of the terms.
If something breaks, you're emailing the person who built it. A small outfit in central Scotland, not a call centre — which cuts both ways, and you should know which one you're buying.
Questions operators ask
If yours isn't here, email team@theconductor.uk.
I'm not great with computers. Will I manage?
If you can post on Facebook, yes. Everything is done on your phone: putting a trip on sale, changing a price, closing a coach off, taking a phone booking. There is no software to install and no code, ever. Setting it up takes about ten minutes.
Do I need my own website?
No. You get your own booking site at your own address — yourfirm.bookaseat.uk — branded with your name and logo. If you already have a website, paste two lines into it and your trips show there too, always up to date — see an example. If you don't, this is the one you share.
Where does the passengers' money go?
Straight into your own Stripe account, and from there to your bank. It never passes through ours, and we take no commission on it. If you haven't got a Stripe account, you make one during setup — Stripe will ask for some ID and your bank details, as any card processor does.
What does it cost on top of the £99?
Nothing from us: no setup fee, no per-booking fee and no commission. The only other cost is Stripe's own card fee on each passenger payment, which Stripe charges to your account, as it would on any card machine or payment link.
The one optional extra: up to 25,000 marketing emails a month to your list are included, and booking emails are never limited. If you ever need more in a busy month, a top-up of 25,000 more is £29, whichever plan you're on.
What about the regulars who ring up, or pay cash?
Take the booking on your phone in about thirty seconds, marked as cash, bank transfer or card in person. It goes on the boarding list with everybody else, and the seat count stays right — so the coach can never be sold twice.
Does it quote private hire automatically?
No, and on purpose. It replies to the customer straight away and gathers what you need to price the job. You set the price, and nothing goes out until you have approved it. Once they accept, it takes the deposit, collects the balance when it's due, and chases them if they go quiet.
What if a trip doesn't fill?
You set the minimum when you put it on sale. While it's filling, passengers' cards are saved but not charged. Before your decision day you're emailed and asked to run it, give it longer, or call it off. If you call it off, everybody is told and nobody has paid a penny.
Does it post to Facebook for me?
When you put a trip on sale, a ready-to-paste post for your Facebook groups arrives in your inbox with the booking link in it, and a poster with a QR code is ready to print for each pick-up stop. Posting it is one paste, by you — so it reads like you, not like a robot.
What about messages on Facebook and WhatsApp?
The Conductor doesn't read your Messenger or WhatsApp chats. What it does is make sure nobody waits for a reply. During setup you put your booking link in Messenger's instant reply and in your WhatsApp Business away message. Both are free and built into Meta's own apps, and the how-to guide shows where. Anyone who messages you at eleven at night gets the link straight back and can book there and then.
Is there a free trial, and a contract?
Three months free on every plan, and no card to start. If your first trip hasn't run by the end of the three months, your free time runs on to the end of the month it does, up to six months in all. We email you a week before it ends; to carry on you add a card, and if you don't, it simply stops. Nothing is ever charged without a card you added yourself.
After the trial there is no contract and no notice period: email us to cancel and the next payment doesn't happen. The trial is once per business. Section 4 of the terms has the detail.
What happens if I stop?
Nothing changes until the end of your free trial or the period you've paid for. Then your booking site stops taking bookings, and you have 30 days to sign in and download everything — every booking with names, emails, mobiles and pick-ups, every enquiry, every waiting list. After that the passengers' personal details are deleted; your trips and takings stay on record. We email you before each step. Section 8 of the terms has the detail.
I only run trips part of the year. Should I cancel over the winter?
Better not. If you cancel, your passengers' details are deleted 30 days after your paid period ends, and with them the list you would email when next season's first trip goes on sale. Your trips and takings stay, and your site comes back at the same address if you rejoin, but the passenger list does not. The six-month plan costs less a month than Monthly and keeps everything in place through the quiet months.
Whose data is it?
Your passengers' details are yours. Under UK data-protection law you are the controller and we are your processor: we hold them to run your bookings and for nothing else. We never sell anything, and we never contact your passengers on our own account. Download it all whenever you like. The privacy policy sets it out.
Who is behind The Conductor?
A small outfit in central Scotland, building it for coach firms like yours. If you email, you get an answer from the person who built it, at team@theconductor.uk.
Start tonight. Take bookings in the morning.
Your own booking site, live in about a minute. 3 months free with no card, then £99 a month. No setup fee, no contract.
A question first? Email team@theconductor.uk — you'll hear back from the person who built it.