An operating system for activity operators

Powering everything bookable.

Big Day Out is one complete platform for the businesses where people book, show up, and spend — full-suite management and a fully-fledged point-of-sale, designed to run together as a single system.

Built for activity operators of every shape: clubs, courts, classes, courses, and everything in between. One source of truth, end to end.

  • Operator Portal
  • Booking Apps
  • Point of Sale
Big Day Out Assistant Online
Book me a court near Sandton for Saturday morning.
Claude
POST /api/app/availability
POST /api/app/bookings

Booking confirmed

Tennis · Court 3

Saturday 14 March · 10:00 AM

Harbourside Racquet Club

Confirmed · R350

01

Operator Portal

The control room for your venue.

Every member, every booking, every resource. The Operator Portal is one source of truth for everything that happens on-site — and everything that's coming next.

  • Members & customers
  • Bookings & schedules
  • Resources & courts
  • Activities & events
  • Dynamic pricing engine
  • Reports & insights
Inside the Operator Portal
Schedule view — Operator Portal

Featured — Dynamic Pricing

Pricing that bends to your business.

Compose rules across season, time of day, day of week, advance window, member tier and age. Stack as many as you need. No code. Just conditions.

Member

Gold early-bird

15%off

Conditions

  • Booked 7+ days in advance
  • Member tier: Gold
  • Age: 18+

Applies toCourt hire · Group sessions

Promotional

Summer weekend retreat

R450fixed

Conditions

  • Event dates: Jun–Aug (seasonal)
  • Days: Sat & Sun
  • Outlets: All locations

Applies toHalf-day spa pass

Guest

Mid-week studio

25%off

Conditions

  • Time: 9:00–16:00
  • Days: Mon–Fri
  • Age: 18+

Applies toAll studio classes

Five categories Promotional · Member · Partner · Guest · Affiliate Every booking through the platform — portal, booking apps, POS — resolves through the same engine.

Web & mobile booking flow — Booking Apps

02

Booking Apps

Where every booking begins.

Web and mobile apps your customers actually want to use. From discovery to checkout to coming back next week — designed end-to-end as one experience.

  • Discover & browse activities
  • Real-time availability
  • Web, iOS & Android
  • Tap-to-book checkout
  • Wallets & loyalty
  • Push notifications
Inside the Booking Apps

03

Point of Sale

A full point of sale. Not a register.

A complete commerce engine, purpose-built for hospitality and retail. Stock across outlets, recipes that deduct themselves, tills that reconcile themselves, Xero that just works — every counter, every kitchen, every screen, deeply connected.

  • Food & beverage menus
  • Inventory across outlets
  • Recipes & live COGS
  • Multi-tender payments
  • Kitchen + customer displays
  • Web, tablet & mobile
Inside the Point of Sale

KDS

Sale screen + Kitchen Display — Point of Sale

Deeper than it looks

A POS that runs the whole business.

Operators see substance. Investors see the moat. Both start with the loop that runs itself.

Featured — Inventory automation

Stock dips. The platform handles it.

Three steps you used to do by hand. Now the platform does them — and tells you what happened.

i. Auto-PO

Low stock detected

PO #1042 → supplier

Stock-out triggers a purchase order.

Reorder points per item, per outlet. When stock dips, a PO drafts itself, gets sent to the right supplier, and lands in their inbox — no human required.

ii. AI extraction

Claude is reading

Claude reads the delivery note.

Supplier paperwork in any format. Items extracted, matched to your SKUs by fuzzy reasoning, costs captured. Anything unclear is surfaced for a one-tap human OK.

iii. Auto-GRN

Stock + 48 GRN posted Xero synced
GRN posts. Stock updates. Xero gets it.

Goods-received note writes itself with weighted-average costs. Inventory moves. A journal lands in Xero. You get a notification — not an interruption.

i.

Inventory & Stock

Stock counts per outlet, transfers between, supplier catalogs with pack-size conversions, barcode/SKU management. Manual counts with variance tracking when you want hands-on control.

ii.

Recipes & Live COGS

Recipe cards linked to menu items, modifiers and variants. Ingredients deduct on sale at weighted-average cost — real-time gross profit per dish, drink and bundle.

iii.

Tills & Cash Control

Opening floats, safe drops, pay-ins, pay-outs. Per-device or per-operator drawer modes. End-of-day reconciliation flags variances. Manager approval and a full audit trail.

iv.

Payments

Cash, card, bank, mobile, wallet, saved cards. Tips with preset percentages. Split tenders on a single order. Refunds that restock inventory and post back to accounting.

v.

Full Xero Sync

Real-time or end-of-day. Per-order invoices or daily journals — your call. POs, GRNs, inventory movements all post back. Supplier fuzzy-match keeps your contacts clean.

vi.

Kitchen + Customer Displays

Tickets routed by station and category. Item-level prep status. Time thresholds flag warning then critical. CFDs pair to terminals with your branding and live order status.

And rentals, stored-value wallets, loyalty programmes, staff shifts & PIN unlock, petty cash, and the reporting that ties it all together.

The Loop — how Big Day Out compounds

Operators ask.
The platform answers. In days.

The people running on Big Day Out every day are the ones who know what it should do next. We've built the platform to listen — and to act — at a pace nothing else can match. Every operator makes Big Day Out better for the next one.

i.

The ask

From an operator using the platform every day. They know what should come next.

ii.

The review

Filtered for impact, breadth, effort and fit. Aligned to where the platform is going.

iii.

The build

Spec to ship, end to end. Supervised throughout. Faster than anything you've seen.

iv.

Released to all

Live. Every operator gets the upgrade, not just the one who asked.

Loops The shipped feature surfaces the next idea. Compounds with every customer.

Why it compounds

Most platforms have customers. Big Day Out has a flywheel.

A platform that listens. A platform built to ship at the speed of asking. A platform engineered for what comes next — the decade where bookings arrive through agents. None of the three is novel alone. The combination is.

i.

Listening, built in

Your customers are your roadmap.

The roadmap isn't ours alone. Operators using Big Day Out every day surface the friction that matters. We listen, we decide, we ship — and the platform keeps getting more useful, every week, for the next operator who joins.

24
Shipped
~48h From approved to shipped, in the common case.

ii.

Built for velocity

Features land in days, not quarters.

Big Day Out is engineered to ship — fast and supervised. Ideas approved on Monday are running by Saturday. Quietly, the platform doubles in capability while everyone else is still planning.

Bulk member-rate editMon
Mobile push notificationsWed
Supplier auto-matchThu
Court availability widgetToday
15× Feature throughput vs. comparable platforms.

iii.

Built for what's next

The next booking won't be human.

When AI agents start booking on customers' behalf, Big Day Out is where they'll come looking. The platform is engineered, end to end, for the bookings of the next decade — long before they arrive.

A customer asks their assistant “Book me a tennis court near Sandton for Saturday at 10.”
Harbourside · Court 3 · Sat 10:00 — Booked.
0 Clicks required when an agent does the booking.

04 — Switching

What you'll notice.

No demo will tell you the truth of a platform — only running on it will. Here's the shape of what running on Big Day Out actually feels like, from the first hour onward.

i.

The first hour

You're trading before lunchtime.

Account Activity Pricing Live
Setup wizard or migration script under 10 min

Switching from another platform? Migration scripts move members, history, inventory and bookings in minutes, not weeks. Brand new? The setup wizard takes your first activity live in under ten minutes. Either way, you're trading by lunchtime with a real person from our team beside you through the first day.

Two paths in — migration scripts or a guided wizard. One person beside you.

ii.

The first week

Sunday's sales, Monday's books.

Sat — Sun

Court 3R350
Bar tabR120
Court 5R400

Mon — Books

RevenueR870
COGSR245
NetR625

What sold on Sunday posts to your accounts on Monday, with COGS calculated against the recipes that fired them. The court your member booked drew from the same inventory as the bar. The reconciliation that used to take two hours takes two clicks.

One source of truth — booking, sale, stock and books, deeply joined.

iii.

The first quarter

Your first idea ships.

“Bulk-edit member rates from one screen.” Shipped
Submitted Mar 4 Shipped Mar 9 · 5 days, end-to-end

A friction you noticed in week two becomes a UserSource submission in week three. Approved on Thursday, shipped by Saturday. Then the next one. The platform stops feeling like software you bought and starts feeling like a tool being built specifically for you — because it is.

UserSource — the part where the roadmap is yours.

05 — Begin

Power yours

Book a 30-minute walkthrough. We come prepared — your data already imported, your scenarios already mapped. You'll know whether Big Day Out is the right fit by the time we hang up.