No. Its own pages list no free plan: Go Booking starts at $20 a month for up to five team members plus a $100 setup fee, and Go Check In at $59 a month plus $100. Both are offered on a trial — 14 days on gocheckin.net, 30 on fastboy.com. Bookodile is free at one location with up to two active booking spots and 40 bookings a month, every add-on included, and stays free.

Can I move my customers and bookings from GoCheckin?

GoCheckin exports its customer list behind a one-time code and appointments from the month view. Bookodile does not yet import either. Customers are created the first time they book, so your list rebuilds as regulars return, and your team can add anyone by hand. Run the two calendars side by side until the GoCheckin one empties, then switch the link.

Does Bookodile take deposits or a card on file like Go Booking?

No. Bookodile does not process payments, take deposits or hold a card. Payment stays between you and your customer, however you handle it today, and the payment-tracking add-on records what arrived. If a deposit is what stops your no-shows, that is a real difference: Bookodile records a no-show on the customer rather than charging one.

Which languages can my customers book in?

GoCheckin's booking page is in English, with no language switch; the bilingual English–Vietnamese display it documents is in the staff point-of-sale app. Bookodile's booking page is in English, Slovak, Czech or Vietnamese, set per business and separately from the language you read your dashboard in.

What replaces the check-in tablet and the review texts?

Nothing directly. Bookodile has no kiosk and sends no texts: a walk-in is a booking your team adds from the calendar, and a review is requested by email after each visit, with a Google-review ask in the same message. If most of your customers walk in without booking and you want them checked in at the door, Go Check In does something Bookodile does not.

How does the price compare for a team of five?

On GoCheckin, Go Booking's Basic plan covers five team members for $20 a month plus a $100 setup fee, and Go Check In is a separate $59 a month plus $100 if you want the kiosk. On Bookodile the bill is per location plus per booking spot that took a booking that month, and five people are five spots only if all five work at the same time; the figure for your country is on the pricing page.

Comparison

Bookodile vs GoCheckin

GoCheckin is a walk-in check-in kiosk with text marketing and review requests, sold beside a separate online-booking product and a point of sale, all priced in US dollars. Bookodile is one booking system with every feature included, in four languages, billed per location and per booking spot.

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Why businesses switch from GoCheckin#

Your customers book in their own language, with their own phone number#

GoCheckin's booking page is in English with no language switch, its phone field takes a ten-digit North American number, and every price it publishes is in US dollars. Bookodile's booking page is in English, Slovak, Czech or Vietnamese, set per business and separately from the language you read your dashboard in, and every time is shown in your business's own zone.

One product and one bill, with nothing to buy on top#

GoCheckin is three subscriptions — check-in, online booking and point of sale — each with a setup fee, plus text bundles when a plan's quota runs out and extra team members in blocks of five. Bookodile is one subscription per location plus the booking spots that actually took a booking that month; every add-on is included, there is no setup fee and no per-booking charge, and one location with up to two active spots and 40 bookings a month is free.

A price and a time per person, rooms with a capacity, and a buffer — written down#

GoCheckin's help centre holds three articles on its booking product, and its product page says 'per-staff calendars, services with durations'; it publishes nothing on a different price or duration per team member, on buffer time, or on rooms and equipment as bookable resources. Bookodile prices and times a service per team member or per category, books rooms and equipment with a capacity and their own hours, and blocks a buffer after every service.

A waiting list that fills a cancellation by itself#

Go Check In's queue is for people already at the door: they check in on a tablet, a ticket prints, and the point of sale shows who is waiting. Nothing published offers a cancelled appointment to someone who wanted that slot. Bookodile offers a cancellation automatically to whoever has waited longest for that service, with a three-hour countdown, and confirming books them straight in.

Reminders that are included, not metered#

Go Booking's confirmations and reminders draw on a monthly text quota — 1,000 on Basic, 2,000 on Deluxe — and extra texts are bought in bundles. Bookodile sends confirmations, reminders the day before and two hours before, cancellations and follow-ups by email at every price, in your business's language; text messages are built but not switched on.

Roles you define, not passcodes you hand out#

GoCheckin documents per-person toggles, staff codes and passcodes for the cash drawer, gift cards, promotions and customer look-up, most of them in the point of sale, and no custom role. Bookodile has Owner, Manager, Employee and Receptionist ready-made, or a role you build permission by permission — including whether someone sees only their own bookings, customers and figures.

What each one costs#

GoCheckin

Three products, three subscriptions, each with monthly tiers and a one-time setup fee, all in US dollars with no other currency or region published. Go Check In, the kiosk, is $59, $99 or $199 a month by email and text quota, plus a $100 setup fee. Go Booking, the online-booking product, is $20, $40 or $99 a month by team size — five, twenty or unlimited, with extra team members at $10 per block of five — plus its own $100 setup fee; its tiers are on gocheckin.net/booking. Go POS is $50, $99 or $149 a month plus $200 to set up, on fastboy.com. Texts beyond a plan's quota are sold in bundles. There is no free plan. The vendor's pages disagree on the trial — gocheckin.net offers Go Booking for 14 days without a card, fastboy.com offers Go Booking and Go Check In for 30 days — and fastboy.com's Go Check In page says 'Everything for $99/month. No per-SMS fees, no limits' directly above a table of three tiers with text quotas and paid text bundles. The old gocheckin.net/pricing address now returns a 404; the check-in prices sit on the home page.

Go Check In BasicPer month; 'unlimited members'; plus the $100 setup fee: $59
Go Check In StandardPer month; 5,000 emails and 2,000 texts each for birthday and return reminders, promotions, and review requests: $99
Go Check In AdvancedPer month, shown with $249 struck through; unlimited texts for surveys, birthdays and return reminders; 10,000 emails and 5,000 texts each for promotions and review requests: $199
Go Check In setupOne-time; account creation and an onboarding walkthrough: $100
Go Booking BasicPer month; up to 5 team members; reminders from 2,000 emails and 1,000 texts a month; deposits included: $20
Go Booking DeluxePer month; up to 20 team members; 5,000 emails and 2,000 texts: $40
Go Booking PremiumPer month; unlimited team members and reminders; sold through sales: $99
Go Booking setupOne-time; account creation and an onboarding walkthrough: $100
Go Booking extra team membersPer block of five: $10
Text bundles2,500 / 5,000 / 10,000 texts, for Go Check In and Go Booking; emails and texts for promotions and review requests count together: $62.50 / $100 / $180
Go POS BasicPer month; up to 5 team members: $50
Go POS DeluxePer month; up to 20 team members; payroll and time keeping start here: $99
Go POS PremiumPer month; unlimited team members: $149
Go POS setupOne-time; half price for active Go Check In customers: $200

From GoCheckin's published pricing, seen 9 September 2026. Prices change and vary by region — check their page before you decide. Their pricing page

Bookodile

A base rate per location plus a rate per booking spot that actually took a booking that month, in country bands. Nothing else — no commission, no per-booking fee, no feature sold separately.

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One location with three booking spots costs $68 a month.
Free at 1 location, up to 2 booking spots and 40 bookings a month — every add-on included.

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Feature by feature#

Bookodile's column is checked against the product on 13 September 2026. GoCheckin's is read from what it publishes, on 9 September 2026 — never inferred.

Pricing#

Bookodile

GoCheckin

A free plan that stays free#

Not a trial: a plan a small business can stay on.

Bookodile

Yes

Free at one location with up to two active booking spots and 40 bookings a month, every add-on included. Not a trial — a plan a small business stays on. More

GoCheckin

No free plan on gocheckin.net or fastboy.com. The cheapest way in is Go Booking Basic at $20 a month plus a $100 setup fee; Go Check In starts at $59 a month plus $100. Source

No commission on bookings#

No cut of a booking, no new-client fee, no per-booking charge.

Bookodile

Yes

No commission, no new-client fee, no per-booking charge. The bill is the subscription and nothing else. More

GoCheckin

Yes

'No per-booking fees, no hidden charges', and every Go Booking plan includes unlimited bookings. There is no marketplace, so no new-client fee. Source

Every feature included#

Nothing sold separately — text bundles, marketing, forms, a branded app, extra locations.

Bookodile

Yes

Every add-on is free and included — reminders, reviews, vouchers, the waiting list, multi-location, forecasting. Nothing is sold separately. More

GoCheckin

Check-in, online booking and point of sale are three subscriptions with three setup fees. Texts beyond a plan's quota are sold in bundles, extra team members on Go Booking in blocks of five, and the ticket printer and digital signage are bought separately. Source

The same features on every plan#

No capability reserved for a higher tier.

Bookodile

Yes

There are no plans and no tiers. Every account, including a free one, has every feature. More

GoCheckin

Go Booking caps team members at five on Basic and twenty on Deluxe, and reminder texts at 1,000 and 2,000 a month; only Premium is unlimited. On Go Check In, unlimited survey, birthday and return-reminder texts come only with Advanced at $199, and Go POS keeps payroll and time keeping off its Basic plan. Source

No minimum term or cancellation fee#

Bookodile

Yes

Monthly, no minimum term, no cancellation fee. Paying yearly is optional and costs ten months. More

GoCheckin

Partly

Monthly, 'cancel anytime', with no minimum term stated for the software. Monthly fees are non-refundable, returned hardware carries a restocking fee of 20 to 50 percent, and the card-processing programmes sold alongside have 12- or 24-month minimums with a 30 percent early-cancellation charge. Source

Processes your customers' card payments#

Takes the customer's money at booking or at the till.

Bookodile

Bookodile does not take your customers' money. The payment-tracking add-on records what you were paid; payment stays between you and the customer. More

GoCheckin

Yes

Deposits, partial or full payment at booking, and cards on file through Stripe or Bamboo Pay on Go Booking; payment at the till through Go POS. No card rate is published on any vendor page. Source

Taking bookings#

Bookodile

GoCheckin

A hosted booking page#

Bookodile

Yes

bookodile.com/book/your-business, with your logo, colour, services and hours. One page per location. More

GoCheckin

Yes

Each business has a page on booking.gocheckin.net, reached by store number, and since 2023 a hosted landing page with name, address, hours, service menu and photos for a business without a website. Source

Booking on your own website#

An embedded widget or button, not just a link.

Bookodile

Yes

One snippet embeds the whole flow in any site — WordPress, Wix, Squarespace or hand-built — inline or behind a Book-now button. A QR code is generated for print. More

GoCheckin

Partly

The product page promises a 'Book Now' button for your own website. The help centre publishes no embed instructions — no iframe, no script — so how the button is placed, and whether the flow can sit inside your page, is not published. Source

Customers book without an account or an app#

Bookodile

Yes

A name plus an email or a phone number. No account, no app, no password. A web portal shows customers every booking they hold, if they want it. More

GoCheckin

Yes

The booking page is a public web page: the customer picks a service and a time, then leaves a name and a phone number. No account and no app. The phone field takes a ten-digit North American number. Source

Several services in one booking#

Bookodile

Partly

Combo services chain stages into one booking, and the extras you configure are offered during booking, in more than one round. Customers do not pick arbitrary pairs from the catalogue — you decide which combinations exist. More

GoCheckin

Not published

The public booking page has a services step. Whether more than one service can go into a single booking is stated neither on the product page nor in the help centre's three Go Booking articles.

Back-to-back services with different team members#

Each person is blocked only for their own part, not for the whole visit.

Bookodile

Yes

Each stage of a combo can have its own team member, its own duration and its own room, booked back to back. Each person is blocked only for their own stage, never for the whole visit. Staff move the whole visit in one step, at times that fit every person in it. More

GoCheckin

Not published

Nothing published describes how a booking with two team members is scheduled — whether the services run back to back and whether each person is blocked only for their own part. The product page says 'per-staff calendars, services with durations' and 'auto-assign staff', and stops there.

Rooms, chairs and equipment as bookable resources#

With a capacity, and bookable without a person.

Bookodile

Yes

Rooms, chairs and equipment with a capacity and their own hours. A service can need a resource alone, a person alone, or both, and capacity is enforced when the booking is made. More

GoCheckin

Not published

The booking product page lists 'multi-resource (rooms, tables, staff)' in a section written for hotels and restaurants. No help-centre article covers rooms or equipment, capacity, or booking a resource without a person.

Classes and events with a capacity#

Bookodile

Yes

Events with a capacity and a registration list for one-off things; a recurring class is a service on a resource with a capacity, so it fills up and stops. More

GoCheckin

Not published

'Recurring sessions, packages, member sign-in' appears on the product page in a line aimed at studios. No article documents a class with a capacity or an event.

A different price per team member#

Bookodile

Yes

A service can be priced per team member, or per category such as Junior and Senior, and the customer sees which is which. More

GoCheckin

Not published

Not mentioned on any vendor page or help-centre article. What is documented per team member is a commission and supply share in Go POS, which is payroll, not the customer's price.

A different duration per team member#

Bookodile

Yes

A service can take a different time per team member. Leave someone blank and they use the service's own duration. More

GoCheckin

Not published

The product page says 'services with durations', and the copy-appointment article lets staff edit the duration of one appointment. A duration per team member is not mentioned anywhere.

Buffer time that blocks the calendar#

Bookodile

Yes

A buffer after every service blocks the person and any resource it used. Enforced on the booking page and in the booking API. More

GoCheckin

Not published

Not mentioned on any vendor page or in the help centre.

A waiting list with automatic offers#

A cancellation is offered to whoever is waiting, without you doing anything.

Bookodile

Yes

A cancellation is offered automatically to whoever has waited longest for that service, with a three-hour countdown. Confirming books them straight in. More

GoCheckin

Partly

Go Check In is a walk-in queue, not a waiting list for appointments: customers check in on a tablet by phone number or QR code, a ticket prints, and the point of sale shows who is waiting. No automatic offer of a cancelled appointment to a waiting customer is published. Source

Recurring bookings#

Bookodile

Partly

Your team can create a repeating series from the calendar — weekly, every two weeks or monthly, up to 52 visits. Customers cannot book a recurring appointment themselves. More

GoCheckin

Partly

What is documented is a copy tool: staff duplicate an existing appointment and change its date, time, service, duration or team member, one visit at a time. A repeating series set once is not documented beyond a 'recurring sessions' line aimed at studios. Source

Booking rules#

Minimum notice, how far ahead, approval, cancellation window, slot spacing.

Bookodile

Yes

Minimum notice, maximum advance days, slot interval, auto-confirm or approval, and a cancellation window — one set of rules per business. More

GoCheckin

Partly

Auto-confirm or approval from the business's app, blocking specific time slots, blocking a named customer from booking online, and start times set to the minute. Minimum notice, maximum advance and the slot interval are not published. Source

Customers cancel or reschedule themselves#

Bookodile

Partly

Customers cancel from the confirmation email, outside your cancellation window. Rescheduling is cancel and book again; there is no one-step move. More

GoCheckin

Partly

Customers 'confirm or cancel directly from the text'. Rescheduling by the customer is not described; the product page puts rescheduling in the business's app. Source

Deposits and no-show protection#

Bookodile

No card on file and no deposits, because Bookodile does not process payments. A no-show is recorded on the customer, not charged. More

GoCheckin

Yes

'Bookings with deposit' on every Go Booking plan: the customer's card is taken at booking, the owner charges the deposit from the dashboard, ticks a no-show box, and refunds in full, in part or more than once. The vendor's product page adds 'charge cancellation fees automatically'. Source

Extras offered while booking#

Bookodile

Yes

Extras are offered while booking, per service or per category, in up to several rounds, with an optional discount for adding them. More

GoCheckin

Not published

No add-on or suggested-service step is documented for the booking page. Go POS has a discount item at checkout, which is a different thing.

What customers see#

Bookodile

GoCheckin

Listed in a consumer marketplace#

A directory where customers find you — and your competitors beside you.

Bookodile

No marketplace. Your booking page carries only your business, and no competitor is shown beside you — which also means it sends you no new customers.

GoCheckin

No consumer directory. booking.gocheckin.net asks for a store number; each business has its own page, and nothing lists businesses side by side. Source

An app for customers#

Bookodile

No consumer app. Customers book in the browser, and a web portal lists every booking they hold with any Bookodile business. More

GoCheckin

The vendor's App Store and Google Play catalogues hold business apps only — GCI Business, GCI App Platform, CRM by Fastboy. The 'native mobile app' on the booking product page is for the business: 'approve, reschedule, and message guests from your phone'. Source

Booking page languages#

What your customers read.

Bookodile

Yes

English, Slovak, Czech and Vietnamese, set per business. What your customers read and what you read in the dashboard are separate settings. More

GoCheckin

Partly

The customer's booking page is in English, with no language switch. The only other language documented is a bilingual English–Vietnamese display in the staff-facing Go POS app. No other booking-page language is published. Source

Your business's time zone, shown correctly#

Bookodile

Yes

Every time is shown in the business's own zone, including on your dashboard. A customer in another zone sees both clocks before they confirm. More

GoCheckin

Partly

Times on the booking page are shown with the business's zone — a store page labels a slot 'US Central'. Nothing is published about zones outside North America, and the phone field takes a ten-digit North American number. Source

Branding#

Logo, colour, custom CSS, custom domain.

Bookodile

Partly

Your logo, a second logo for dark backgrounds, a logo that links back to your own website, your brand colour with a contrast check, and a banner strip. No custom CSS and no custom domain. More

GoCheckin

Not published

The hosted landing page takes a name, address, phone, hours, menu and photos. A logo, colours, custom CSS, a custom domain and removing the vendor's name are not documented.

Dark mode on the booking page#

Bookodile

Yes

The hosted page follows the customer's device. The embedded widget stays light on purpose, so it matches the website it sits in. More

GoCheckin

Not published

Not mentioned on any vendor page or in the help centre.

Running the business#

Bookodile

GoCheckin

Calendar#

Day, week and month; drag to move; blockers.

Bookodile

Yes

Day, week and month. Drag a booking to a new time or a different person, block out time, add a walk-in, filter by person or service. A visit with several services moves as one — dragged in the calendar, or from the booking dialog, which offers only the times that fit everyone in it. More

GoCheckin

Yes

Day, three-day, week and month views, drag and drop to reschedule with conflicts flagged in red, a calendar per team member, colour by booking channel, hidden inactive team members, blocked time slots, and print or export to PDF and CSV. Source

A native app for your team#

Bookodile

No native app. The dashboard is a web app that installs to a phone's home screen and works there. More

GoCheckin

Yes

GCI Business on iOS and Android, for approving, rescheduling and messaging from a phone. The store listing notes it is for the vendor's clients only. Source

Several locations in one account#

Bookodile

Yes

Any number of locations in one account, each with its own team, hours, services and booking page, and a group dashboard that totals them. More

GoCheckin

Partly

Go POS lists 'multi-location support', and the vendor quotes a customer running Go Check In in four locations. Whether the check-in and booking products are priced per location, and how locations are grouped, is not published. Source

Roles and permissions#

Custom roles, per-permission control.

Bookodile

Yes

Owner, Manager, Employee and Receptionist ready-made, or build a role and set each permission by hand — including whether someone sees only their own bookings, customers and figures. More

GoCheckin

Partly

Per-person permission toggles such as the cash drawer, staff codes, an admin passcode, passcodes for gift cards, promotions and customer look-up, and a one-time code to export or delete customers. No custom role builder is documented, and the toggles that are sit in the point of sale. Source

Reports#

Bookodile

Yes

Revenue, bookings, average value and cancellation rate; twelve months charted; top services; team ranked by revenue; per location or across all. Forecasting and revenue split are included add-ons. More

GoCheckin

Yes

Go Booking reports 'utilization, no-shows, channel ROI, and lifetime value'; Go Check In reports daily visits, retention, campaign open rates, review performance and loyalty engagement; Go POS adds income per team member and payroll. No forecast is published. Source

A leaderboard for the team#

Team members see where they rank on bookings or sales, with a winner. A report only managers can open is partly.

Bookodile

Yes

A monthly competition on bookings or revenue that the whole team sees, with a winner per category if you want one, results frozen and emailed on the 1st, and a Hall of fame. Revenue amounts stay hidden from the team unless you show them. An included add-on. More

GoCheckin

Partly

Go POS, a separate subscription, offers performance reports by team member to see who brings in the most revenue, and lists a 'Staff Rating' feature from its Deluxe plan. It is written for the owner; nothing says team members see a ranking. Turn counting orders walk-ins rather than ranking anyone. Source

Point of sale, stock and payroll#

Bookodile

No point of sale, no stock, no payroll. A walk-in is a booking. More

GoCheckin

Extra cost

Go POS is a separate subscription at $50, $99 or $149 a month plus a $200 setup fee: QR-ticket checkout, inventory with low-stock alerts, commission splits, turn counting, tips, gift cards and PAX or Bamboo terminals. Payroll and time keeping start on the $99 Deluxe plan. Source

Confirmations and reminders#

Email and text; included or charged.

Bookodile

Partly

Email confirmations, reminders the day before and two hours before, cancellations and follow-ups — all included, in your business's language. Text messages are built but not switched on. More

GoCheckin

Partly

A confirmation by text and email at booking, then reminders 24 hours and one hour before — the fastboy.com page says two hours — drawn from the plan's monthly quota of 1,000, 2,000 or unlimited texts. Extra texts cost $62.50 per 2,500, $100 per 5,000 or $180 per 10,000. Source

Email and text campaigns#

Bookodile

Partly

No bulk email or text campaigns. An automated win-back sequence for customers who drift away, and promotions shown on the booking page, are included add-ons. More

GoCheckin

Extra cost

Campaigns live in Go Check In, a separate subscription from the booking product: segments (VIP, new, regular, at risk), automatic return reminders after 30, 60 and 90 days, birthday texts and promotions. The Standard plan at $99 includes 5,000 emails and 2,000 texts for promotions, Advanced 10,000 and 5,000; beyond that, bundles. Source

Reviews#

Collect, publish, and ask for Google reviews.

Bookodile

Yes

Collect a review after each visit, publish on your booking page when you choose, reply in public or privately, and ask happy customers for a Google review in the same email. More

GoCheckin

Extra cost

In Go Check In, a separate subscription from the booking product: after a visit a text survey asks for feedback, happy customers are sent to Google and bad reviews are 'handled privately'; a Review Assistant holds reply templates, auto-replies to Google reviews and alerts on a bad one. Standard includes 5,000 emails and 2,000 texts for it, Advanced 10,000 and 5,000. Source

Gift vouchers, discount codes and promotions#

Also packages and memberships.

Bookodile

Partly

Gift vouchers, discount codes, promotions and upsell discounts, all included. No packages or memberships, and vouchers are issued by you rather than sold online. More

GoCheckin

Partly

Loyalty points with redemption on every Go Check In plan, promotions by segment, and gift cards sold and redeemed in Go POS. Discount codes, packages and memberships are not documented, and fastboy.com lists its gift-card programme as 'coming soon' while a gift-card site is live. Source

Google or Outlook calendar sync#

Bookodile

Partly

Bookings are pushed into Google Calendar as they are made, moved or cancelled. One direction only — Google events do not block your availability — and no Outlook. More

GoCheckin

Not published

No Google, Outlook or iCal sync for the business is documented. Nothing on the product page or in the help centre mentions it.

Intake and consent forms#

Bookodile

Partly

A consent checkbox in your own wording, invoice details that can be optional or required, and a notes field. No custom intake forms and no e-signatures. More

GoCheckin

Not published

No intake or consent form, custom field or e-signature is documented on any vendor page.

Your data: export, import, API#

Bookodile

Partly

Export bookings and customers to CSV whenever you like — the list is yours. No import tool yet, and no public API. More

GoCheckin

Partly

Appointments export from the month view, the calendar prints or exports to PDF and CSV, and the customer list exports behind a one-time code. No import from another tool, no public API and no webhooks are documented. Source

Support#

Channels and hours; whether onboarding costs extra.

Bookodile

Yes

Email support, included, with the documentation at bookodile.com/docs behind it. No phone line. More

GoCheckin

Yes

Phone and email, 9am to 6pm Central on weekdays and 10am to 4pm on Saturday, with a stated reply 'within 24 hours'; a help centre of short articles and video tutorials, both mostly in Vietnamese. Onboarding is the $100 setup fee; no migration service is mentioned. Source

Where GoCheckin is stronger#

Being straight about this is what makes the rest of the page worth reading.

A check-in kiosk for people who walk in#

Go Check In is a tablet at the door: customers check in by phone number or QR code, a ticket prints, turns are counted, and the point of sale shows who is waiting — with the vendor's own check-in devices and printers. Bookodile has no kiosk; a walk-in is a booking your team adds from the calendar.

Review requests by text, with bad reviews kept private#

After a visit a text survey asks how it went; happy customers are sent to Google, unhappy ones are handled privately, and a Review Assistant auto-replies to Google reviews and alerts you to a bad one. Bookodile asks for a review by email after each visit, publishes it on your booking page when you choose, lets you reply in public or privately, and asks happy customers for a Google review in the same email — it does not post to Google for you.

Deposits, cards on file and cancellation fees#

Go Booking takes a deposit or full payment at booking through Stripe or Bamboo Pay, keeps the card, and lets the owner charge a no-show or refund from the dashboard. Bookodile does not process payments or hold a card; it records what you were paid.

Text marketing and a point of sale, from one vendor#

Automatic return reminders after 30, 60 and 90 days, birthday texts and promotions by segment on a US and Canadian short code, plus Go POS with payroll, inventory, turn counting, tips and gift cards. Bookodile has no text campaigns and no point of sale; its automated win-back sequence goes by email, promotions appear on the booking page, and a walk-in is a booking.

A native app for the team, and a Vietnamese-speaking vendor#

GCI Business is a native iOS and Android app for approving, rescheduling and messaging, and the help centre, tutorials and point-of-sale display are in Vietnamese as well as English. Bookodile's dashboard is a web app that installs to a phone's home screen; its booking page and dashboard are available in Vietnamese, and its documentation is English only.

Who GoCheckin is for

GoCheckin is built around the door, not the calendar. Its flagship, Go Check In, is a tablet where a walk-in customer checks in by phone number or QR code; a ticket prints, turns are counted, and the visit feeds a text survey, a Google-review request and a text database the vendor puts at more than thirty million members. Online booking is a second product, Go Booking, sold and priced separately, and a point of sale with payroll is a third. The vendor, Fastboy Marketing of Houston, is a marketing agency first — websites, search and ads — with software as a product line, and its help centre and tutorials are largely in Vietnamese. Everything is priced in US dollars, and its text short codes are for the United States and Canada.

Bookodile is a booking system and nothing else. It is for a business whose customers book ahead, where the people are priced or timed differently, where a room or a piece of equipment limits what can be taken, and where one visit can involve two people. Those rows are where the two products differ most — and the check-in kiosk is where GoCheckin does something Bookodile does not attempt.

The pricing model, in practice

GoCheckin is three subscriptions. Go Check In is $59, $99 or $199 a month, the tiers differing by how many emails and texts the plan includes for birthday messages, return reminders, promotions and review requests, plus a $100 setup fee. Go Booking is $20, $40 or $99 a month by team size — five, twenty or unlimited — with extra team members at $10 per block of five, reminder texts capped at 1,000 or 2,000 a month on the two lower tiers, and its own $100 setup fee. Go POS is $50, $99 or $149 a month plus $200 to set up. Texts beyond a quota are sold in bundles. There is no free plan; there is a trial, of 14 days or 30 depending on which of the vendor's pages you read.

In the table on this page, "extra cost" means outside Go Booking's Basic plan — a higher tier, or one of the other two products.

Bookodile charges per location plus per booking spot that actually took a booking that month, in country bands. A spot is one appointment you can run at the same time as another, so it follows your rooms and equipment rather than your headcount, and anyone who takes no bookings costs nothing. Every add-on is included, there is no setup fee, and one location with up to two active spots and 40 bookings a month is free. The figures for your country are on the pricing page and the model is explained in What Bookodile costs.

Be honest about what you are comparing. If your customers mostly walk in and you want them checked in at the door, Go Check In is a kiosk and Bookodile is not; the booking product is the part of GoCheckin this page compares.

Two services, two people

Read what GoCheckin publishes here, because it is short. The help centre's Go Booking topic holds three articles — taking a deposit, exporting a month of appointments, and copying an appointment to a new date. The product page says "per-staff calendars, services with durations" and "auto-assign staff", and the vendor's own site says customers can book with the team member they prefer. None of it says whether a customer can put two services into one booking, whether those services can go to two different people, whether they run back to back, or how each person's time is blocked when they do. This page does not guess.

In Bookodile the same thing is a combo service: one stage with one person and a second with another, as parts 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 GoCheckin

Customers. GoCheckin exports its customer list behind a one-time code. Bookodile has no import tool yet; customers are created the first time they book, and your team can add anyone by hand.
Bookings. GoCheckin exports appointments from the month view, to PDF or CSV. Bookodile does not import bookings; run the two side by side until the old calendar empties, then switch the link.
Your booking link. The GoCheckin page sits on booking.gocheckin.net under a store number, or on its hosted landing page. Every place that link lives — Google profile, Facebook page, website — gets the new one. Bookodile generates a QR code for print.
Google and Facebook buttons. GoCheckin says its Book Now button sits on your Google profile and Facebook page. Bookodile has no such integration; your Google profile carries the booking link as its appointment link.
The kiosk and the texts. There is no equivalent. A walk-in becomes a booking your team adds from the calendar, reviews are requested by email after the visit, and the win-back sequence for customers who drift away goes by email too.
Deposits and the point of sale. If you take deposits through Go Booking or ring up sales in Go POS, you will need a separate way to do both. Bookodile records payments; it does not take them.

Where each one fits

Choose GoCheckin if your customers walk in and you want a kiosk at the door, if review requests and win-back messages by text are what fill your week, if you want deposits and a card on file at booking, or if you want a point of sale with payroll from the same vendor — and your business, your customers and their phone numbers are in North America.

Choose Bookodile if your customers book ahead in Slovak, Czech, Vietnamese or English, 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, if you want a waiting list that fills a cancellation by itself, or if you want one bill with nothing sold on top.

Common questions#

Is GoCheckin free?#: No. Its own pages list no free plan: Go Booking starts at $20 a month for up to five team members plus a $100 setup fee, and Go Check In at $59 a month plus $100. Both are offered on a trial — 14 days on gocheckin.net, 30 on fastboy.com. Bookodile is free at one location with up to two active booking spots and 40 bookings a month, every add-on included, and stays free.
Can I move my customers and bookings from GoCheckin?#: GoCheckin exports its customer list behind a one-time code and appointments from the month view. Bookodile does not yet import either. Customers are created the first time they book, so your list rebuilds as regulars return, and your team can add anyone by hand. Run the two calendars side by side until the GoCheckin one empties, then switch the link.
Does Bookodile take deposits or a card on file like Go Booking?#: No. Bookodile does not process payments, take deposits or hold a card. Payment stays between you and your customer, however you handle it today, and the payment-tracking add-on records what arrived. If a deposit is what stops your no-shows, that is a real difference: Bookodile records a no-show on the customer rather than charging one.
Which languages can my customers book in?#: GoCheckin's booking page is in English, with no language switch; the bilingual English–Vietnamese display it documents is in the staff point-of-sale app. Bookodile's booking page is in English, Slovak, Czech or Vietnamese, set per business and separately from the language you read your dashboard in.
What replaces the check-in tablet and the review texts?#: Nothing directly. Bookodile has no kiosk and sends no texts: a walk-in is a booking your team adds from the calendar, and a review is requested by email after each visit, with a Google-review ask in the same message. If most of your customers walk in without booking and you want them checked in at the door, Go Check In does something Bookodile does not.
How does the price compare for a team of five?#: On GoCheckin, Go Booking's Basic plan covers five team members for $20 a month plus a $100 setup fee, and Go Check In is a separate $59 a month plus $100 if you want the kiosk. On Bookodile the bill is per location plus per booking spot that took a booking that month, and five people are five spots only if all five work at the same time; the figure for your country is on the pricing page.

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