Retreat Booking Guru Reviews - Pros & Cons, Ratings & more

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Retreat Booking Guru is a cloud-based application that helps retreat organizations create programs, manage online bookings, and set up pricing tiers. Administrators can create white-labelled websites with program catalogs, allowing customers to choose retreats according to individual preferences.

Retreat Booking Guru

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Communications Manager

It is also great for holding program registrations and creating event listings. I love how powerful the financial/administrative back end is and I love the friendly customer service staff.

Subprioress

It does about 97% of what we want to do with it, an excellent piece of software. I think with feedback from users to developers it should soon do 100% of what we want.

Marketing and Finance Director

Amazing software making our bookings team life simple and effective and our customers happy.

Sales and Marketing Manager

Retreat Guru has been a great solution for our business, his team and tech support are amazing and always available when you need them.

I'm very pleased to be working with such a great group of people and highly competent professionals and would recommend their product and services without hesitation.

Team always improve the software and its getting better and better. Highly recommend for booking solution.

Director of Retreat Operations

It is easy, efficient & intuitive. You always have support when you need it and they are constantly improving it and making it better.

Not crazy about the lack of visual customization on the event listing view.

Founder

If you're wearing a bunch of hats (like most of the small business owners I know!) this product is worth every penny. It will free up tons of time for you to work on the things that really matter.

Webmaster

The ease of use combined with the unparalleled customer service makes Retreat Booking Guru one of the greatest assets I've come across.

Assistant Director 

We are more secure with this software and features than any other product we have used. You guys really built a solid product, it is simple to use yet it has all the features that we need.

Not least important is the cost: we thought for years we couldn't afford such software, but this software is the best for our retreat booking purposes and it's relatively inexpensive.

Hospitality Team Member

We really love the intuitive nature of this software. It has been easy to learn and use.

So it has been a huge success, as well as the integration of wellness services and packages has been working incredible well.

We have a Lunch and Tour program that does not involve an overnight stay. Right now, Retreat Guru does not allow for a one-day program, so registering for it is confusing to us and to our guests.

Simple and effective booking process. Easy payment integration with Stripe.

teacher

Its still evolving, along with the rest of the world. From our side, as we do not have a retreat facility, the large photos of the rooms are unnecessary.

Manager

No real cons...maybe there could be more templates or formatting options.

Easy book and retreat set-up as well as group rental management

Amazing, efficient, easy to use.  

Having retreatants and program participants be able to register and pay online has been something both they and we have wanted for a long time. As soon as it went live, we had people using it and happy to do so. That cut back on the number of phone calls and the time spent on manual registrations done by our staff--a big help to us! People really appreciate being able to register/pay online; it saves them time too. We think our income has increased, but haven't done a complete analysis yet. I'd be surprised if it doesn't show an increase--which is important to us even though we are a nonprofit. Guru has been a big success for us and we are very glad to have found it!

Great Retreat Booking Software

Well intentioned but the outcome looks like a scam: they're selling spots on full retreats

Exactly what we were hoping for from a retreat hosting software

Highly recommended for any retreat centre

We've been using Booking Guru for our yoga retreat registrations for 6 months and we absolutely love it. It has significantly simplified the registration process for our clients, and we love having everything automated and all the information in one place for easy tracking and reporting. It syncs seamlessly with our online payment system. We love being able to customize and configure questions, emails, coupon codes, pricing, add-on purchases and deposits for each retreat, and the waiting list feature is fantastic and saves us so much time not having to track it all offline in spreadsheets. The customer support team is really helpful and always responds to our questions within a couple of hours. We're thrilled to have found this system!

Awesome booking system, easy to use and lots of customizable features

Aside from the great software, I'm really impressed with the team and customer service. Whenever I encounter a hiccup or have a question, the retreatGuru team is available within a short period of time, and always happy to help. 

Awesome system, no more worries

Helps organize all our clients and availability. 

 I love working RetreatGuru - professional, friendly and great service!

We love the responsiveness of the Retreat Guru team.   We are more secure with this software and features than any other product we have used.   You guys really built a solid product, it is simple to use yet it has all the features that we need 

Best Retreat Booking Software there is!

Thank you Nathaniel for your feedback. We are so glad you are happy with your experience, and we wanted to let you know that in the latest version of our software the reporting capability within the Registrations section just became more robust, and easier to use. This is part one of a host of improvements you'll see in the coming months to the various reporting features in the software. 

Combined the work of three+ programs into one and made life simpler. We're still learning how to use the tool and some surprises have cropped up but the support has been fantastic throughout our on-boarding process.

Powerful tool with lots of options

I have been using this software now for over a year and it's a game changer!  It streamlines everything giving you so much time to focus on other areas of your business.  Best investment I've ever made! 

Game Changer

Exceeded our expectations!

Super easy to navigate.  At this point don't think I could run this part of my business w/o it.

Great Software and Customer Service

Back-end: 
- Super easy to use 
- Effective way to manage bookings and finances 
- Saves a lot of time from previously using spreadsheets 

Customer-end
- Simple and effective booking process 
- Easy payment integration with Stripe 
- Easy to navigate and choose rooms 

General 
- Much better than adapting a hotel or other Wordpress based booking service to retreats. Simply put, it's made for retreats, and the exact functionality we need it for is there. 

Amazing software making our bookings team life simple and effective and our customers happy

We are a busy yoga retreat and training centre and Retreat Guru has significantly helped streamline our booking system and communication with clients, saving time and improving efficiency. Guests can see room availability at the time of booking and often upgrade and include add-ons that previously weren't offered at the time of booking, which has seen our revenue jump considerably! We couldn't be happier with the features and customer support - we have even had a few new little features that we've requested added to the system! We are only a few months into using the program and we wish we'd found this software years ago! 

Wish we'd found this software years ago! 

The best decision I ever made. 

Retreat Guru has been a wonderful experience. Everything about it is helpful. Many, many thanks!

From the time I first reviewed Retreat Guru's promotional materials I was impressed. Since we have gone operational with the system the tracking and booking of individuals seeking our Retreat Center experience has improved greatly and allowed time and  attention to be allocated to other important customer service areas. The training and support is wonderful. There is no perfection in anything but this team is always helping and listening about ways to improve the functionality of the system. This is money well invested and returned time and time again.

This is a marvelous organization and product to work with.

Our experience with Retreat Booking Guru has been exceptional.  We've just started to use the product and it's already saving us tons of time, which frees us up to work on things that produce revenue and help us run a more profitable business.  Plus, it's so easy to get all the data we need, in one place.  Goodbye Excel spreadsheets!  

What a lifesaver!

I implemented this software at the end of 2015 and can't believe the difference it makes in managing my time and events.  Before I would have to translate the online booking form to an excel spreadsheet, create an invoice, process the payment, etc etc....all manually and taking up to 45 minutes per guest registration.  This software is a game changer!  And the back end is an organizer's dream come true as it streamlines everything allowing you to generate all types of reports in order to organize & manage the event.  I'm so grateful that Terri got in touch as I didn't even know that something like this existed.  With everything streamlined, I can now focus more time on sales & marketing.

I can't say enough great things about the software along with the superior customer support the team offers!!! 

Forever grateful to the designers and the customer support team!!!

A must for any retreat or workshop organizer with multiple events!

After retreat.guru team fix the mobile design, it's start looking great on any device. 
Support experience is good, especially personalised VIP manager. 
Team always improve the software and its getting better and better.
Highly recommend for booking solution.

Retreat.Guru is the perfect software for retreat booking.

Hi Slava - Thanks for your feedback! We are happy to report that last week we released a new version of our software. Your previous feedback about our mobile design helped us to make several much-needed changes to our multi-device compatibility.  The registration process is now more visually  appealing on mobile phones and tablets.

We are also grateful that you have decided to return to us as a client after these changes have been made. We appreciate the email you sent to us this week letting us know that in your search you haven't found any software systems that compare to Retreat Booking Guru. :)

Retreat Booking Guru has helped us streamline administration in that we are now able to implement a much more thorough screening process which allows us to engage much more responsibly in ensuring the safety of our guests. We are much more organized and can handle a lot more now with guest registration details, payments, and medical records maintained all in one place. The RBG system has allowed our administrative process to finally complement and accommodate our growing organization.  I am also continuously impressed by the rate at which the RBG team is developing new features that are relevant to our needs and by their timely and personal response to our requests. I'm very pleased to be working with such a great group of people and highly competent professionals and would recommend their product and services without hesitation.

Efficient, Adaptive, Flexible, Responsive

I've spent the last year looking for a solution for our retreat centers online booking and program management issues. After 7 (yes seven) interviews with some VERY expensive PMS/Booking systems (eg. Room Key PMS, InnRoad etc.) and I finally found Retreat Booking Guru.

This software has replaced our our booking system, our retreat listing system, our property management system and our Filemaker Database in one easeful swoop.

The ease of use combined with the unparalleled customer service makes Retreat Booking Guru one of the greatest assets I've come across.

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