Marketplace commissions eat bookings
GetYourGuide and Viator can bring demand, but typically charge around 20 to 30 per cent. That leaves less money from every group booking and keeps you dependent on someone else's audience.
Direct booking for paintball & airsoft venues
Take More Paintball Bookings Directly
A direct booking website for paintball and airsoft venues, built around the booking system you already use. Take more bookings, own the customer relationship and rely less on marketplaces. Packages start at £2,495, excluding VAT.
From £2,495
Direct booking build price
£3,995
Booking Growth package
£59 a month
Required Website Care
£169 a month
AI Receptionist
Every booking through GetYourGuide or Viator can carry a heavy cost. These marketplaces typically charge suppliers around 20 to 30 per cent of each booking. On £50,000 of annual sales, that can mean roughly £10,000 to £15,000 paid away before your venue costs, staff and equipment.
Moving even part of that demand onto your own website changes the numbers. Your website does not take a commission on each booking. You own the customer details, the repeat opportunity and the chance to sell birthday parties, corporate days, ammunition, upgrades and future visits.
The problem
What is costing Paintball & Airsoft Venues work right now
Missed calls become lost groups
Your team cannot answer calls during briefings, games and kit checks. Without a clear callback message, a parent, organiser or stag group may simply book another venue.
The website cannot take deposits
Some venue websites show activities but send visitors to a confusing third-party page. Customers lose confidence when prices, availability, deposits and waivers are not joined together.
The ACCC Framework
Attract
Convert
Capture
Compound
How the system works
What you get
Included in the build
Every client also takes Website Care at £59 a month. Everything else is modular.
01
Booking engine integration
02
Experience and tour pages
03
Availability and book now
04
Online payments and deposits
05
Review generation
06
Destination and location pages
07
Booking conversion tracking
08
Google Ads landing pages
09
Google Business Profile work
10
Group quote forms
11
Waiver information pages
12
Mobile-friendly booking journeys
Pricing
Packages for Paintball & Airsoft Venues
For tour operators, attractions, activity providers, accommodation and leisure businesses. Built to reduce how much of your business depends on the big booking marketplaces.
Direct Booking
£2,495
A conversion website wrapped around the booking system you already use.
Best for: Small operators already on a booking platform such as Bokun, FareHarbor, Rezdy, Checkfront, Bookeo or Freetobook.
- Up to 10 pages
- Booking engine integration
- Experience and tour pages
- Availability and book-now integration
- Payment integration where relevant
- Mobile booking journey
- Reviews and galleries
- WhatsApp and contact capture
- GA4 and booking conversion tracking
- Google Business Profile optimisation
- SEO foundations
- Audience Simulator access, included
- Copywriting and training
Booking Growth
£3,995
Built to shift demand away from the marketplaces and onto your own site.
Best for: Operators with several tours or experiences who want a direct sales channel they own.
Everything in Direct Booking, plus:
- Up to 20 pages
- Multiple tours and experiences
- Destination pages
- Service and location pages
- Advanced booking tracking
- Abandoned enquiry capture
- Email marketing integration
- Review generation
- Google Things to Do feeds where applicable
- Channel connectivity help where supported
- SEO content structure
- Google Ads landing pages
- Direct-booking conversion optimisation
Tourism Pro
From £5,995
For operators with real inventory and operational complexity.
Best for: Multi-location operations, accommodation, packages, ticketing and larger inventories.
Everything in Booking Growth, plus options such as:
- Multiple tours and attractions
- Accommodation and packages
- Ticketing
- Multi-location operations
- Large inventories
- Channel managers
- API connectivity
- Complex availability rules
- Supplier systems
- Bespoke booking workflows
Genuinely bespoke platforms move into custom travel and booking development, quoted separately from £10,000.
Website Care £59 a month Required
Hosting, SSL, daily backups, security monitoring, software updates, uptime monitoring, up to 30 minutes of content changes each month and email support.
All prices exclude VAT.
Monthly
Everything else is modular
Website Care is required for every client. Add anything else when you need it, and drop it when you do not.
Website Care
Required£59 a month
Hosting, SSL, daily backups, security monitoring, software updates, uptime monitoring, up to 30 minutes of content changes each month and email support.
AI Receptionist
£169 a month
Answers every call 24/7 in your business name, takes the job details, qualifies the caller and texts you immediately.
A human receptionist costs £24,000 to £28,000 a year. A live answering service runs £200 to £450 a month.
Website Chatbot
Price on application
Answers visitor questions on your site around the clock, using only what it has been taught about your business, and captures the enquiry before they leave.
Most visitors will not ring and will not fill in a form. They ask one question, get no answer, and leave.
Google Ads Management
£449 a month
Campaign management, bid and budget optimisation, ad copy testing, negative keyword management, landing page optimisation and a monthly reporting call.
Your ad spend goes direct to Google and is never marked up. Minimum recommended spend is £400 a month.
SEO and Content
£249 a month
Two optimised pages or articles a month, local SEO, Google Business Profile posts, citation building, rank tracking and monthly reporting.
Automated Social Media
£99 a month
Plans, writes and posts your social media to Facebook and Instagram. You approve a month of content in one sitting.
Intelligent Marketing Coach
£49 a month
A marketing plan built around your business, broken into weekly tasks, so you always know the next thing to do.
Extra Support Time
£75 a month
An additional 2 hours a month for changes, new pages and seasonal updates.
Bundles
Bundle them and pay less
The same modules, priced lower when taken together.
Care plus Receptionist
£199 a month
Saves £29
Care plus Receptionist plus Ads
£595 a month
Saves £82
Everything
£795 a month
Saves £141
No Upfront Option
£199 a month , 24 month term
No setup fee. A template site built for your trade, with hosting, care and the AI receptionist included. For businesses who want to start now without the upfront cost.
Start with no upfront cost- No setup fee
- Template site built for your trade
- Up to 5 pages
- Hosting and Website Care included
- AI Receptionist included
- Live in 5 working days
Terms
- 50% on signature, 50% on launch.
- Monthly billing starts at launch, with a 12 month minimum term and monthly thereafter.
- Ad spend is billed separately by Google and is never marked up.
- Modules can be added at any time.
- All prices exclude VAT.
Quote request
Get a price for your paintball & airsoft venue website
Two minutes of questions and we will send back a real number, not a range. Website packages start at £1,295, ecommerce from £2,495, and there is a no upfront option at £199 a month.
- A fixed price, not a range
- Reply within one working day
- No obligation and no sales sequence
The result
What changes once it is live
More bookings belong to you
Visitors can move from an experience page to availability, payment and confirmation on your website. You keep the customer relationship and avoid marketplace commission on those direct bookings.
Groups get clear next steps
Parents, organisers and companies can find the right activity, understand the deposit and book or request a quote. Your team receives the information needed to respond properly.
Your venue looks trusted
Recent reviews, clear photographs, useful answers and accurate Google information show new customers what to expect. They can judge your venue with more confidence before contacting you.
01
Your website becomes the hub of every booking
Your website should do more than show photographs of muddy players. It should bring together your experiences, prices, availability, deposits, waivers, directions and booking links in one clear place. Visitors should understand the day, choose a date and pay without waiting for someone to reply.
We build the website around the way your venue actually runs. That includes large group bookings, birthday parties, stag and hen days, corporate events, school trips, deposits, ammunition upgrades and age restrictions. The site works while your team runs briefings, resets kit and manages games.
Your booking engine remains the source of truth. We connect the website to it, then make the surrounding pages easier to find and easier to use. The result is a paintball airsoft venue booking website that supports the whole operation, not just a digital leaflet.
- Experience and tour pages
- Availability and book now
- Online payments and deposits
- Waiver and group information
02
Local search brings nearby groups to your venue
People search for paintball near Newcastle, airsoft parties in Durham and outdoor group activities across the North East. Your website needs useful pages that match those searches. We create clear location and experience pages for the areas and events you serve.
We also improve your Google Business Profile, the business listing shown in Google Maps and local search. It will point people to the right booking page, show accurate opening information and help visitors see your latest photos, reviews and availability.
This work helps your paintball airsoft venue website UK customers find you without depending entirely on marketplace listings. We cover venues from Newcastle upon Tyne across Gateshead, Sunderland, Durham, North Shields, South Shields and the wider North East.
- Google Business Profile updates
- Destination and location pages
- Experience pages for key events
- Clear directions and venue details
More detail
More on websites for paintball & airsoft venues
The rest of what paintball & airsoft venues ask us, tidied away. Open what you need.
A message saying "How much for 20 people?" creates work for your team. You need the date, group size, player ages, event type, preferred session and any special requirements before you can price the booking properly.
We build quote forms around those details. A customer can tell you whether it is a birthday party, stag or hen event, corporate day, school trip or private airsoft session. They can also ask about food, equipment, ammunition, deposits and accessibility.
The form sends useful information to your team instead of another vague enquiry. It can direct ready-to-book visitors into the booking engine, while larger groups receive the right follow-up. That means fewer back-and-forth emails and more enquiries your team can act on.
- Group size and age ranges
- Event type and preferred date
- Ammunition and upgrade options
- Deposit and payment requirements
- Useful details for larger groups
A first-time group is taking a small risk. They want to know the games are well run, the equipment works and the venue is worth the journey. Recent reviews answer those concerns faster than a page of sales copy.
We set up a follow-up process that asks for a review after each completed booking. The request can be timed after the event, when the experience is still fresh. Happy customers get a simple route to Google, while your team can see feedback that needs attention.
Those reviews support your Google Business Profile and your booking pages. They also help parents, organisers and corporate buyers compare venues. Good proof can be the difference between a visitor booking your site or returning to a marketplace search.
- Review requests after bookings
- Google review links
- Feedback routes for service issues
- Reviews placed beside booking choices
Paintball and airsoft venues miss calls for obvious reasons. Your team may be in a safety briefing, checking kit, marshalling a game or dealing with a large group. The caller still expects an answer, and may call the next venue instead.
Our AI Receptionist costs £169 a month, or £199 a month with Website Care. It answers 24/7 in your business name, takes the caller's details, sorts urgency and texts the information to you straight away.
It can capture the group size, event type, preferred date and reason for calling. Your team receives a clear message rather than a missed number. You can then call back with the right information, while urgent matters are easier to spot.
- Answers calls 24/7
- Uses your business name
- Takes booking details
- Sorts urgent enquiries
- Texts your team immediately
When you are ready to buy more leads, Google Ads can place your venue in front of people searching for paintball parties, airsoft days and group activities. We manage the campaigns for £449 a month, including ad testing, budget work and landing page improvements.
Your advertising spend goes directly to Google. We never mark it up. The management fee covers campaign management, bid and budget optimisation, ad copy testing and removing searches that are unlikely to become suitable bookings.
We also track what happens after the click. That can show whether an advert led to a booking, a quote request or a useful phone call. You can judge campaigns by real enquiries and jobs, not just by how many people saw an advert.
- Google Ads campaign management
- Ad copy testing
- Negative search removal
- Booking conversion tracking
- Google landing pages
- Monthly reporting call
A new website needs useful activity after it goes live. Our SEO and Content service costs £249 a month. It includes two useful pages or articles each month, local search work, Google Business Profile posts, listings on relevant directories, position tracking and monthly reporting.
New pages could cover birthday paintball, corporate team days, airsoft skirmishes, school trips or venue areas. They can answer practical questions about age limits, clothing, weather, parking, deposits and what players should bring. That gives searchers a reason to visit your site.
Automated Social Media costs £99 a month and plans, writes and posts to Facebook and Instagram. You approve a month of content in one sitting. The Intelligent Marketing Coach costs £49 a month and gives you weekly tasks built around your venue.
- SEO and Content, £249 a month
- Automated Social Media, £99 a month
- Intelligent Marketing Coach, £49 a month
- Monthly content approval
Direct Booking costs £2,495 and suits a venue that needs a stronger website around its current booking system. It includes the key experience pages, booking connection and clear routes from search to availability and payment.
Booking Growth costs £3,995 and is the package most operators should take. It gives you a stronger platform for direct demand, group enquiries, reviews, location pages and campaigns that can reduce reliance on marketplaces.
Tourism Pro starts from £5,995 for operators with real inventory and operational complexity. Genuinely bespoke platforms are quoted separately from £10,000. Every client also needs Website Care at £59 a month. It includes hosting, security, backups, updates, monitoring, support and up to 30 minutes of monthly content changes.
If you want to start without the upfront build cost, the no upfront option is £199 a month on a 24 month term. It includes a template site built for your trade, hosting, care and the AI receptionist. All prices exclude VAT.
- Direct Booking, £2,495
- Booking Growth, £3,995
- Tourism Pro, from £5,995
- Website Care, £59 a month
- No upfront option, £199 a month
- Bespoke platforms from £10,000
The honest comparison
Why do some websites cost £199?
It is a fair question, and it deserves a straight answer rather than a sales pitch.
If you simply need a basic online presence, a low-cost website builder may be enough. Somewhere to point people who already know your name. If that is genuinely all you need, do that and spend the money elsewhere. We would rather tell you that than take a fee for something you will not use.
Our websites are designed for established businesses that want Google traffic to turn into calls, enquiries and customers. Copy, tracking, conversion setup and ongoing management are built in. That is a different product solving a different problem, and it is priced accordingly.
A £199 builder site
Fine for a basic presence. Not built to win work.
A Look North website
Built so search traffic becomes booked jobs.
Who writes the words
A £199 builder site
You do, usually at 11pm, into a blank box.
A Look North website
We do. Copywriting for every page is included, written around the jobs you actually want.
Whether it shows up on Google
A £199 builder site
It will rank for your business name. Not much else.
A Look North website
A page for every service and every town you cover, structured so each one can rank.
What happens to an enquiry
A £199 builder site
A contact form emails you. If you miss it, you miss it.
A Look North website
Quote forms written for your trade, instant SMS and email alerts, and every enquiry stored so none are lost.
When the phone rings and you are on a job
A £199 builder site
It goes to voicemail. Most callers hang up and ring the next business.
A Look North website
Our AI receptionist answers 24/7 in your business name, takes the details and texts you straight away.
Knowing what is working
A £199 builder site
A visitor counter, if that.
A Look North website
Call tracking, conversion tracking and call attribution, so you know which clicks became real jobs.
Getting reviews
A £199 builder site
You remember to ask, sometimes.
A Look North website
Review generation set up so a request goes out after every job, with the results shown on your site.
What happens after launch
A £199 builder site
Nothing. It sits there until you cancel the subscription.
A Look North website
The Marketing Coach gives you a plan broken into weekly jobs, so the site keeps earning its keep.
Who owns it
A £199 builder site
The platform. Stop paying and it disappears.
A Look North website
You do. The code, the domain, the hosting account and the content are yours.
Speed on a phone
A £199 builder site
Template bloat, often slow, which costs you rankings and visitors.
A Look North website
Built mobile first, because that is where almost every local search happens.
When something breaks
A £199 builder site
A help centre article and a support queue.
A Look North website
Website Care at £59 a month: monitoring, backups, updates, and a person who answers.
We have a £199 a month option too. It is not the same thing.
If the upfront cost is the blocker rather than the quality, we do a no upfront option at £199 a month on a 24 month term. That is not a builder subscription. It is a real site built for your trade, with hosting, Website Care and the AI receptionist included, live in 5 working days. The difference between that and a £199 builder site is the difference between renting a van and renting a parking space.
What the difference buys
What you actually get for the difference
Not features. The things that change how much work comes in.
Every call answered
A missed call is a customer ringing your competitor. The AI receptionist picks up 24/7, qualifies the job and texts you. Most trades win back more than the cost of the whole website in the first few months.
Found for the work you want
One page cannot rank for eight services across twelve towns. We build a page for each, so you show up for the specific job someone is searching for right now.
Enquiries you can price
Not "how much for a bathroom?" but property type, scale, access, timing and photos. You quote accurately, first, without a site visit.
Proof that compounds
A review request after every job. In a year you have the review count competitors cannot catch up with, and reviews are the last thing a customer checks before calling.
Words written for you
Copywriting for every page is included. No blank boxes, no writing your own service descriptions at 11pm, no page that sounds like everyone else.
Proof of what paid off
Call tracking and conversion tracking show which clicks turned into jobs. You stop guessing which half of the marketing worked.
A plan for after launch
The Marketing Coach turns a strategy into weekly jobs small enough to actually finish. That is why our sites are still growing a year later.
You own the lot
Code, domain, hosting, content and your Google Business Profile. Nothing switches off if you leave, because nothing was rented to you.
If a basic presence is all you need, a builder is the sensible choice and we will say so. If you want the phone to ring more often, that is what we build. Get a fixed price.
FAQ
Paintball & Airsoft Venues ask us these most
Price, timescales and ownership, answered for a paintball airsoft venue.
Direct Booking costs £2,495, excluding VAT. Booking Growth costs £3,995 and is the package most operators should take. Tourism Pro starts from £5,995 for venues with more inventory and operational complexity. Genuinely bespoke platforms are quoted separately from £10,000. Website Care is required at £59 a month. It covers hosting, security, backups, updates, monitoring, support and small content changes.
The timescale depends on how quickly we receive your content, prices, photographs, booking access and venue information. A clear project can move quickly, while several activity types, locations and booking rules need more planning. We agree the stages before work starts. We can also advise which pages to launch first, so you are not held back by less important content.
Website Care keeps the site hosted, secure and monitored after launch. It includes an SSL certificate, daily backups, security monitoring, software updates, uptime monitoring, email support and up to 30 minutes of content changes each month. A booking website connects visitors with payments and availability, so it needs ongoing attention. Monthly billing starts at launch, with a 12 month minimum term.
Yes. We build around the booking system you already use rather than replacing it by default. We can integrate systems such as Bokun, FareHarbor, Rezdy, Checkfront, Bookeo and Freetobook. We will review what your system supports, including availability, payment, deposits and booking links. If your current setup is limiting the business, we can discuss a replacement separately.
Yes. The website can explain deposit rules, payment stages and booking conditions clearly. Large groups can be sent through a quote form that asks for the date, group size, activity, ages, event type and upgrades. Smaller bookings can go straight to availability and payment. We can also make separate pages for birthday parties, corporate events, school trips and stag or hen days.
That depends on the options supported by your booking system. Where the system allows add-ons, we can present ammunition, equipment, food, private games or other upgrades during the booking journey. Where it does not, we can collect the request in a quote form and show the choices clearly. We will confirm the practical limits during the planning stage.
Yes. We can create clear pages covering waivers, age limits, clothing, footwear, safety rules, weather arrangements, parking and what players should bring. If your booking system handles digital waivers, we can link or connect the process where possible. The aim is to answer common questions before arrival and reduce avoidable calls to your team.
The AI Receptionist answers calls 24/7 in your business name. It takes the caller's details, records the reason for the call, sorts urgency and texts the information to you immediately. It is useful when your team is running games, giving safety briefings or checking equipment. It does not remove your control. You receive the details and decide how and when to follow up.
The AI Receptionist costs £169 a month on its own. It costs £199 a month when bundled with Website Care, saving £29 compared with buying both separately. It answers missed and out-of-hours calls, captures useful booking information and texts your team. We configure it around your business name, services and the details you need from callers.
Google Ads Management costs £449 a month. This includes campaign management, bid and budget optimisation, advert copy testing, removing unsuitable searches, landing page improvements and a monthly reporting call. Your advertising spend is billed separately by Google and goes directly to Google. We never mark up the ad spend. We also track which clicks became calls, enquiries or bookings.
Yes. The website gives marketplace visitors another route to find and book your venue directly. We build useful experience and location pages, clear booking journeys, review prompts and campaign landing pages. Marketplaces may still have a place in your sales mix. The goal is to build more demand that reaches your own website, where you control the customer relationship and avoid commission on direct bookings.
You own the website and the business content created for it. We provide the hosting, care and support needed to keep it working. Your booking system, customer records and advertising accounts remain yours as well. We can explain the handover arrangements if you later choose another supplier, although Website Care is required while we manage the live website.
Yes. The no upfront option costs £199 a month on a 24 month term, with no setup fee. It includes a template site built for your trade, hosting, Website Care and the AI Receptionist. This option suits a venue that wants to start now without the full upfront payment. It is not the same as a fully bespoke build or Tourism Pro project.
Website Care includes up to 30 minutes of content changes each month, along with email support. You can add Extra Support Time for £75 a month, which gives you another two hours for changes, new pages and seasonal updates. Modules can be added at any time. Larger new features or a genuinely bespoke platform are scoped and quoted separately.
Yes. Newcastle upon Tyne and the North East are our home patch, including Gateshead, Sunderland, Durham, North Shields, South Shields, Whitley Bay, Wallsend, Jarrow, Washington, Cramlington and Blyth. We also work with businesses across the UK. Your website, local search work and booking journey are planned around the areas your venue actually serves.
Where we work
Working across the UK
We build local landing pages for every town you cover. These are the areas we work in most often.
Newcastle upon Tyne
Gateshead
Sunderland
Durham
North Shields
South Shields
Whitley Bay
Wallsend
Jarrow
Washington
Cramlington
Blyth
Morpeth
Hexham
Ponteland
Chester-le-Street
Consett
Gosforth
Jesmond
Heaton
Tynemouth
Killingworth
Houghton-le-Spring
Seaham
Bedlington
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Get a fixed price for your paintball airsoft venue website
Tell us the paintball airsoft venue work you want more of and the towns you cover. We will send back a real number with a scope attached, not a range.