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Soft warnings, not hard gates
Your staff decides who comes in. Busy slots show a warning, not a stop sign.
Butterbook runs bookings, events, payments, and visitor records for art museums, community studios, and solo practitioners. One tool for the whole day and the whole season.
Your staff decides who comes in. Busy slots show a warning, not a stop sign.
One rate per organization. The bill stays the same on a slow Tuesday and a packed Saturday.
CSV and JSON exports anytime. No support ticket.
Open repo, open roadmap. Self-host if you want.
One page, one day. Who's arriving, in what size group, with what notes. What a front-desk person needs at the start of a shift.
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 booking page runs on your website, on a tablet by the door, or behind a taped-up QR code. Visitors add their name and go. No accounts, no app installs.
Start freeNever. 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. It’s a record-keeping and scheduling tool, not a recommender.