Principle 01
Soft signals, not hard gates
Reservations tell you who's coming. They aren't contracts. We warn when a slot is busy instead of turning people away.
Butterbook helps art museums, community studios, and solo practitioners understand who's coming and when, without making a warm welcome feel transactional.
Reservations tell you who's coming. They aren't contracts. We warn when a slot is busy instead of turning people away.
No per-visitor fees, no ticketing cut. Pricing you can put in a grant application.
Visitor data leaves as clean CSV anytime. No lock-in, no renegotiations.
Open changelog, open roadmap. You can see what we shipped this week.
One page, one day. Who's arriving, in what size group, with what notes. The information a thoughtful front desk person would want at the start of their shift.
The audit log is append-only. PII is redactable per field. Every mutation carries an actor and a reason.
A running, tagged record of who visited and when. Yours to export, always.
The same page works on a shared tablet at the door or linked from your website.
Limit access by role, so a front desk volunteer sees what they need and nothing more.
Ask only what matters: name, group size, school, consent.
Your colors, your language, your org's name for things.
Every mutation is logged, append-only, with the actor and reason attached.
Tap your reservation or add your name to join the register.
The same page that lives on your website works on a shared tablet at the door. Tape a QR code to the wall. Visitors fill in their name and go, without accounts or app installs.
Start your trialNever. Booking and check-in are open. Visitors fill in the fields you’ve chosen and that’s it.
Butterbook shows a soft warning when a slot is getting full and suggests quieter times nearby. No one gets locked out.
Yes. Each org configures its own language: visits, appointments, sessions, reservations. The UI follows.
Yes. Clean CSV for your records, and a full JSON export of your org’s data anytime. No support tickets, no waiting.
PII is redactable per field. The audit log is append-only. Your data lives in the region you choose.
The booking page lives at your Butterbook subdomain and can be linked or embedded from anywhere. A WordPress plugin is on the roadmap.
No, by design. Butterbook is a record-keeping and scheduling tool. Nothing in it tries to predict your visitors or optimize your capacity.