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Automate the everyday. School & club management made easy!

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MagicBooking - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

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Last updated: December 2025

MagicBooking overview

What is MagicBooking?

MagicBooking: The Ultimate Admin Solution for Schools and Clubs

MagicBooking is an all-in-one software solution designed to automate administrative processes for schools, clubs, and care providers. With robust features and seamless integration, MagicBooking saves time and enhances efficiency by streamlining complex tasks such as bookings, payments, attendance tracking, and information management.

Custom Discounts Made Easy - MagicBooking enables you to easily set up custom discounts, ensuring accurate billing and a smooth experience for parents. You can automate sibling and weekly discounts, apply entitlements for free childcare, and offer discounts for free school meals, pupil premium, and staff. The system's smart recalculation feature ensures that discounts are applied automatically, even when bookings are partially canceled, meaning less manual intervention and fewer errors.

Seamless Data Management and Sharing - All critical student and family information is securely stored and easily accessible within MagicBooking's platform. This includes medical records, SEND (Special Educational Needs and Disabilities) data, consents, emergency contacts, authorized collectors, check-in/out times, and accident reports. By eliminating the need for physical paperwork and hand-written forms, MagicBooking improves data accuracy and enhances internal communication between staff and parents, ensuring that everyone stays up to date with real-time information.

Built-In Security & Compliance - Data security is at the heart of MagicBooking. With end-to-end encryption, secure access controls, and GDPR compliance, you can rest assured that sensitive information is protected. The platform also allows different user permission levels, so staff members only access the data they need. Parents and caregivers benefit from secure login portals where they can manage bookings and payments without compromising data integrity.

Advanced Integrations - MagicBooking offers seamless integration with popular school management systems, payment gateways, and communication tools. It works in harmony with the systems you already use, such as childcare voucher providers and financial software, ensuring smooth data flow and reducing the need for duplicate entries.

Flexible and Scalable - Whether you're a small school club or a large organization with multiple sites, MagicBooking scales to meet your needs. It’s designed to grow with your business, offering flexible packages and customization options tailored to your specific operational requirements.

Top-Tier Support - Our dedicated support team is always ready to help, from initial setup to ongoing use. We provide full training, troubleshooting, and software updates to ensure you get the most out of MagicBooking.

Why Choose MagicBooking?

- Automate bookings and payments to save time and reduce errors

- Custom discount application for free childcare entitlements, sibling discounts, and more

- Securely manage and share critical student information

- Ensure compliance with GDPR and other regulations

- Seamless integrations with key systems and platforms

- Scalable for any size of school or club

MagicBooking isn’t just a booking system - it’s a powerful tool to transform how you manage your operations, freeing up valuable time to focus on what matters most: providing the best care and experience for the children and families you serve.

Key benefits of using MagicBooking

Streamline admin tasks with an all-in-one, automated platform that organises bookings, payments, and communications in one place.

Reduce admin time by automating booking processes, notifications, registers, invoices and payment reconciliation.

Boost revenue by accepting multiple payment options and customisable booking settings for full programmes or ad hoc sessions.

Avoid confrontation by freezing bookings from overdue accounts, setting payment reminders and late fees.

Grow faster and easier with a system designed to scale with your business.

Redirect thousands of pounds on admin per staff member each year towards enhancing childcare and growing your business.

Enhance communication with built-in email and SMS templates, allowing you to reach all parents at once.

Keep track of everything with detailed records, tracking, and reporting features that keep you organised.

Stay compliant with Ofsted and GDPR, safeguarding sensitive data like medical information and authorised collectors.

Improve customer satisfaction with a seamless, 24/7 accessible booking system that is mobile-friendly, offering ease of use for parents that reduces the need for phone calls.

Customise the system to reflect your brand and meet your unique needs and preferences.

Starting price

59flat rate /
per month

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MagicBooking reviews

Overall rating

4.6

/5

17

Positive reviews

88

%

Rating breakdown
  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend8.47/10
Rating distribution

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4

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Pros
“Simple, easy to use and fantastic support if required.”
KB

Karen B.

Admin asst

“Very good, there is always someone there to answer a ticket and support you.”
NG

Nikki G.

Assistant headteacher

“Overall, MagicBooking has been a great investment for us. It has taken a lot of time out of admin and allowed us to have information at the tip of a fingers in a click of them.”
OH

Obe H.

Manager

Cons
“It can be slow to operate, freezes quite a bit. Our site has very poor internet connection so this is a real problem.”
LC

Liz C.

Company Owner

“Also the option to pay via Childcare voucher or other means monthly isn't very clear when booking. The downside is that if you have poor internet onsite it can't be used properly.”
LC

Liz C.

Company Owner

“We're having to work manually with a downloaded register on the day because our Internet is so poor so we cold really do with this function to alert us.”
LC

Liz C.

Company Owner

Who uses MagicBooking?

Based on 17 verified user reviews.

Company size

Small Businesses

Enterprises

Midsize Businesses

Top industries

Education Management
Nonprofit Organization Management
Primary/Secondary Education
Sports

Use cases

School Management
Camp Management
Club Management
Event Booking

MagicBooking's key features

Most critical features, based on insights from MagicBooking users:

Online payments
Registration management
Parent/Student portal
Student information/records
Records management
Attendance management

All MagicBooking features

Features rating:

Financial management
Payment processing
Admissions management
Alerts/Notifications
Mobile access
Reporting & statistics
Membership management
Student management
Electronic payments
Booking management
Role-Based permissions
Activity dashboard
Billing & invoicing
Customizable forms
Calendar management
Attendance tracking
Marketing automation
Learning management
K-12
Invoice management
Incident management
Multi-Location
Multiple user accounts
Online booking
Online calendar
Online registration
Group registration
Onsite registration
Forms management
Website integration
Wait list management
User management
Transaction history
Timesheet management
Third-Party integrations
Special education
Self service portal
Scheduling
Reporting/Analytics
Reminders
Recurring/Subscription billing
Real-Time updates
Real-time scheduling
Real-Time reporting
Real-Time notifications
Promotions management
Personalization and recommendation
Parent portal
Credit card processing
Contact management
Contact database
Confirmations/Reminders
Communications management
Communication management
Client portal
Class scheduling
Class registration
Check-in/Check-out
Cafeteria management
Availability management
Automated scheduling
Attendee tracking
Attendee management
Assessment management
Appointment scheduling
Activity tracking
Access controls/permissions
Event scheduling
Event management
Event calendar
Enrollments/Onboarding
Enrollment confirmation
Employee management
Electronic signature
Document storage
Document management
Discount management
Data security
Data import/export
Customizable templates
Customizable reports
Customizable fields
Customizable branding
Customer management
Customer database
Customer accounts

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MagicBooking pricing

Value for money rating:

Pricing plans

Pricing details:

Free plan
Free trial
Subscription

Clubs (for Clubs/Businesses)

59

Per month

Features included:

  • bookings
  • payments
  • communication
  • email
  • SMS
  • notifications
  • admin
  • registers
  • invoices
  • reports
  • GDPR
  • Ofsted
  • Child notes
  • Injury reports
  • Safeguarding
  • Booking policies
  • E-shop

Schools (Schools and MATs)

82

Per month

Features included:

  • bookings
  • payments
  • communication
  • email
  • SMS
  • notifications
  • admin
  • registers
  • invoices
  • reports
  • GDPR
  • Ofsted
  • Child notes
  • Injury reports
  • Safeguarding
  • Booking policies
  • E-shop

User opinions about MagicBooking price and value

Value for money rating:

To see what individual users think of MagicBooking's price and value, check out the review snippets below.

“Simple, easy to use and fantastic support if required.”
KB

Karen B.

Admin asst

“Very good, there is always someone there to answer a ticket and support you.”
NG

Nikki G.

Assistant headteacher

MagicBooking integrations (3)

Top integrations

MagicBooking support options

Typical customers

Freelancers
Small businesses
Mid size businesses
Large enterprises

Platforms supported

Web
Android
iPhone/iPad

Support options

Email/Help Desk
FAQs/Forum
Knowledge Base
Phone Support
24/7 (Live rep)
Chat

Training options

In Person
Live Online
Webinars
Documentation
Videos

MagicBooking FAQs

Q. Who are the typical users of MagicBooking?

MagicBooking has the following typical customers:
Freelancers, Large Enterprises, Mid Size Business, Small Business

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Q. What languages does MagicBooking support?

MagicBooking supports the following languages:
English


Q. Does MagicBooking support mobile devices?

MagicBooking supports the following devices:
Android, iPad, iPhone


Q. Does MagicBooking offer an API?

No, MagicBooking does not have an API available.


Q. What level of support does MagicBooking offer?

MagicBooking offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, 24/7 (Live rep), Chat

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