Take bookings and payments for your venue — all in one place
Melda manages availability, pricing, inquiries and payments for your venue, and handles payment processing in partnership with Straumur.
- Melda collects and remits payments
- Precise pricing by day, season and weekend
- Put the booking engine right on your own website
Try the booking engine
This is how your guests see the booking flow
Press "Book the venue" to walk through the same flow your guests do — availability, the price for a chosen date and the deposit.
This is a live booking engine. You can complete the flow to see exactly how it looks from the renter's point of view.
Everything a party venue needs to take bookings
Precise pricing by day, season and weekend
Payment processing through Straumur. Deposits, balances and extra charges — all in one flow.
A booking engine for your own website
Catering commission calculated, split and tracked per booking
Present photos and detailed information about your venue, clearly and neatly organised
Integrations with accounting and calendars — Payday, dk, Outlook and Google Calendar
01Precise price control
The right price for every date — automatically
A Friday night and a Saturday aren't the same product as a Tuesday morning. In Melda you set up a base price and let the system raise or lower it by weekday, season or specific dates.
- Base venue price with weekday and weekend uplifts
- Seasonal and peak-period pricing
- Custom prices for specific dates — holidays, New Year's, long weekends
- Guests see the exact price for their date right away
02Booking requests & offers
A booking request shaped together with the renter
An inquiry in Melda isn't just a message. The guest goes through a clear booking flow: picking the date, time, guest count, occasion, catering and extras. Melda assembles a complete booking request that you approve or reply to with an offer. The booking is confirmed once the renter pays the deposit.
- The guest picks the date, time, guest count and occasion
- Catering and extras are chosen in the same flow
- You get a complete request — approve it or send an offer
- The date locks once the deposit is paid
Booking request — Hall A
Request sent · awaiting approval
03Booking engine on your site
A booking engine right on your own website
Point guests to your own site instead of juggling calls and emails. You drop a code snippet onto your website and get a full booking engine tied to your brand. Well-defined, clear booking requests instead of vague emails and calls where the details get lost.
- Booking requests with every detail you need
- A small code snippet — works on any site
- The same availability and pricing everywhere
- Fewer calls and emails, more clear requests
04Payment processing in partnership with Straumur
Take payments sooner, with no hassle
You don't need your own agreement with Straumur or any other acquirer. Melda remits payments. You receive the deposit when the booking is made, and the balance is charged on the terms you set up.
- Melda handles the technical side of collecting payments
- Deposits, final payments and cancellation terms
- Every payment with a clear history and full traceability
More that Melda does
Party venues need all kinds of things — Melda does it all
Beyond pricing, inquiries and payments, there's everything else that matters for running the operation well — add-ons, extra revenue, communication with renters and terms.
Access to all your data, anywhere
Don't tether yourself to the computer — you have access to all of Melda's features from your phone, and everyone involved in the operation reaches the same information.
- Mobile-friendly design and interface
- No more Excel sheets and calendar systems
Sell catering with the rental
Make catering part of your product offering. Pick a partner from the catering category on Melda and sell their service for a commission inside the booking flow.
- Catering required or optional in the booking
- Commission calculated and tracked per booking
Live availability
Guests see exactly what's open and book on the spot. More visibility means more bookings — including dates that would otherwise sit empty.
- Guests see open dates and book on the spot
- Fills dates that would otherwise go unsold
Add-on services per hall
Sell add-on services for each hall — kitchen help, equipment rental, decorations, catering, cleaning fees and anything else you can think of!
- Priced add-on services guests choose themselves
- Build ready-made packages for common occasions
Multiple halls in one interface
Manage several halls or spaces — each with its own pricing and availability.
- Separate pricing and availability per hall
- Set up flexible spaces (expandable halls)
- An overview of bookings across every hall in one place
All communication in one place
Keep all communication with the renter on one thread per booking — and let the whole team follow along.
- Messages, offers and documents on one thread
- All staff have access to the same conversations
Terms and cancellations
Set your own terms for the deposit, cancellation notice and balance payment. You can also add general terms renters agree to at payment, to protect you against damages.
- Clear cancellation terms guests agree to
- The deposit protects you against loss if a renter cancels
Hourly, day-part and multi-day bookings
Take hourly bookings, day-parts, full days and bookings that span several days — whatever each hall offers.
- Hourly slots, day-parts, full days or whole weekends
- The right price for each format and the full period
Integrations
Connects to the systems you already use
Melda talks to your accounting and calendar so information lands in the right place automatically — no double entry.
Accounting
Integrates with Payday and dk
Bookings and payments flow straight into your accounting system. No manual bookkeeping, nothing lost along the way.
Outlook
Google CalendarCalendars
Syncs with Outlook and Google Calendar
Bookings appear automatically in your calendar and availability stays correct — wherever you work.
Coming up
More integrations on the way
Including hotel property-management systems (PMS). Need a specific integration? Talk to us.
Two ways to book
Booking request or direct booking — your call
Choose how guests book with you. Party venues usually prefer booking requests, but direct booking suits simple spaces.
Booking request
- The guest completes the whole booking flow and sends a request
- You approve before the date locks
- Room for offers, catering and special requests
- Deposit paid when the offer is accepted
Direct booking
- Guests book and pay right away
- Suits simple spaces with fixed pricing
- Availability locks the moment payment goes through
- No waiting — the booking completes in one flow
You can use a different method for different halls — inquiries for the main hall and direct booking for smaller meeting space.
The team behind Melda
We know bookings
Before Melda, we spent a combined 20 years at Bókun, the availability and booking platform much of Icelandic tourism runs on, later acquired by TripAdvisor. We worked on its booking engines, availability calendars and day-to-day operations — and millions of travellers booked through those systems.
Venues and meeting rooms deal with the same things: availability, pricing and bookings that simply have to work. We know where systems like this tend to break — and we built Melda with that in mind.
Questions about a booking system for party venues
Answers to what venue operators ask most before they get started.
Your ideas get heard
Melda is Icelandic and evolving fast — we build it in conversation with our users. Need a specific feature, integration or custom workflow? Tell us — we listen, and we ship quickly.
- A direct line to the team
- User requests shape our priorities
- New features in days, not months
Ready to take bookings online?
See how Melda handles pricing, inquiries and payments for your party venue in one short demo.
No commitment — we'll show you the system and answer your questions.
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