Who Bookio is for
Bookio is a Slovak booking system from Bratislava that sells itself to "100+ segments" — beauty and wellness, medicine and health, sport and fitness, auto services, attractions, consulting, education and office rooms — with separate products for restaurants, accommodation and rentals. It began in 2013 as a restaurant reservation portal and added services in 2016. The site runs in six languages, but the product is a home-market one: prices are in euros or koruna, the payment methods in its widget are Slovak bank gateways, the SMS price list stops at Slovakia, Czechia, Poland, Hungary and Austria, and support is a Slovak phone line on weekdays.
Bookodile is narrower on purpose. It is for a business where the people are not interchangeable, where a room or a piece of equipment is the real bottleneck, and where one visit can involve two people. It reads Slovak and Czech too, and adds Vietnamese. Those are the rows on this page where the two products differ most.
The pricing model, in practice
Bookio charges per plan, and each plan caps users, reservations a month, rooms and rental items. FREEMIUM is free forever at one user and 100 reservations a month; EASY keeps one user and allows 200; SMART allows two users and 1,000; STANDARD allows five users with no reservation cap; PREMIUM has no listed price. Every paid plan shows a monthly figure and a lower one on yearly billing, all without VAT. Features climb the same ladder — email reminders on EASY, recurring bookings and exports on SMART, the waiting list and the API on STANDARD — and the pricing page does not say what a user is.
Two things sit outside the plan. SMS confirmations, reminders and campaigns are paid from prepaid credits, at a per-message price that differs by country. And every online payment, deposit, gift voucher or pass that Bookio processes carries a commission, which its terms say is set in the signed contract; no page gives the rate. The trial is 14 days with no payment up front, and the terms say a downgrade applies from the next period and needs Bookio's consent.
Bookodile charges per location plus per booking spot that actually took a booking that month. People who take no bookings are not counted, and five people sharing one room are one spot. The figures for your country are on the pricing page and the model is explained in What Bookodile costs.
Be honest with yourself about which is cheaper. A one-person business under 100 bookings a month is free on Bookio and may not be on Bookodile. The case for Bookodile is what the rows below describe, not the bill.
Two services, two people
Bookio publishes no help centre, so this section is what its feature pages and its booking widget say, and nothing more.
The pricing page lists Párové služby — pair services — as a headline feature of the STANDARD plan and defines it nowhere: not on the page, not in the plan table, not on any feature page. The one feature page about several people on one booking, Automatické priradenie pracovných síl (automatic assignment of workforce), describes a service that must be performed by at least two team members at the same time. The system offers only the times when at least two are free, does not offer times when they are not, and writes the booking into every participating person's calendar. That is a two-person service that blocks both people for the whole slot. The booking widget has one step to choose a service, one to choose a team member, and a summary that names one person; extras are add-on services inside the same visit, not separately staffed stages.
What Bookio does not publish is whether two services with two different people can be one reservation, each person blocked only for their own part. This page does not guess.
In Bookodile the same thing is a combo service: one service with one person and a second with another, as stages of one booking. Each stage carries its own team member, its own duration and its own room if it needs one, and each person is blocked only for their stage. The customer books once and receives one confirmation.
Switching from Bookio
- Customers. Bookio exports customers to Excel on SMART and above; no export is published for FREEMIUM or EASY. Bookodile has no import tool yet; customers are created the first time they book, and your team can add anyone by hand.
- Bookings. Bookio exports reservations to Excel on the same plans. Bookodile does not import bookings; run the two side by side until the Bookio calendar empties out, then switch the link.
- Your booking link. Your Bookio page is on services.bookio.com. Every place it lives — your website, your Google profile, your Facebook pinned post — gets the new one. Bookodile generates a QR code for the counter.
- Payments, vouchers and passes. If you take deposits or sell vouchers and passes through Bookio, you will need a separate way to do that. Bookodile records payments and issues its own gift vouchers; it does not take money or sell passes. Keep a list of anything already sold through Bookio before you close the account.
- SMS. Bookio's reminders and campaigns can go by SMS. Bookodile's text messages are not switched on; confirmations and reminders go by email.
- Timing. Bookio's terms say cancellation, in writing or by email, takes effect at the end of the subscription period you have paid for. Plan the switch for that date.
Where each one fits
Choose Bookio if you want prepayments, deposits, vouchers and passes taken inside the booking with Slovak bank methods, SMS reminders and campaigns, a free plan for one person doing up to 100 bookings a month, a booking page in Hungarian, Polish, Ukrainian or German, items rented by count, an API, or a phone line.
Choose Bookodile if your people are priced or timed differently, if a room or a piece of equipment limits what you can take, if one visit can involve two people back to back, if you run more than one location as one business, if you want every feature on a free account, or if your customers read Vietnamese.
Book buttons on Google, Instagram and Facebook#
Bookodile
No Reserve with Google or Instagram integration. Your booking link goes in your Google profile, your bio or a post like any link.
Bookio
A booking link or pinned post on a Facebook profile. The Reserve with Google page is pitched at Bookio's restaurant product, and the services plan table lists only being findable in Google. Instagram is not mentioned. Source