For UK bookings businesses

Get Booked.
Get paid.

Your data UK-hosted, isolated per business ·  Payments through your own Stripe account ·  HMRC 7-year retention built in  ·  DBS & working-time compliance ready

Stripe · Cloudflare · UK-hosted

Two ways in.

Already have a site?

It’s just a link.

book.saltmarsh.co.uk
No pluginNo codeWorks anywhere you can paste a link

No site? No worries.

we build & host it
Home, About & bookingYour own domainWe build it from your details

Flip the hosted switch on any plan — your whole site, hosted, for +£40/month.

Run your bookings today.

Run your whole team when you’re ready.

Bookings

The complete back-office

Courses, sessions, online booking, payments, invoices and certificates — the complete back-office plus your public booking page.

admin dashboard — sessions, bookings & payments
Notification panel listing training sessions at risk of low signups, with days remaining to each
Revenue dashboard showing monthly collected and outstanding payments, plus a breakdown by course
UpgradeHR Hub — add-on

Add an HR system when you're ready

Add a person. That’s it.

Staff recordsHoliday & sicknessExpensesOrg chartDBS trackingDocuments

Choose a look — or let us host it.

Every page starts finished. You pick between compositions and voices we’ve already designed — nothing you choose can look wrong.

Every plan — your identity

Their confirmation email: You’re booked in, Priya. Tuesday 14 May, 9:30 — we’ll be ready for you.

Colour

Every colour auto-adjusts to stay readable.

Logo
Font
Voice

Four complete voices, written by hand — money facts read the same in all four.

Device
Every plan — your character

Three pages, already designed.

Your identity tells people what you do. Your character shows them.

Web templates tailored to get you sales

HOSTED — YOUR WHOLE SITE

No website? No worries.

Your whole website, hosted on your own domain.

Flip the hosted switch on any plan and we host your whole site — Home, About and your booking page, all three shown below — dressed by one of three finished site designs. Ten photographs across your site. £0 booking fees, ever.

Device
Saltmarsh Sailing School
Three courses running on the Fal this month.
What we offer
Day Skipper — PracticalFive days aboard, skippering real passages on the Fal.
Competent CrewThree days learning the ropes — literally.
What clients say

Dave knows this water better than the forecast does — best week of the year.

Priya M.

Went from nervous beginner to confident crew in five days flat.

Tom R.

Small groups make all the difference. Never felt like a tourist.

Jess K.

About

Twenty years on this water.

We started Saltmarsh with one boat and a borrowed mooring — now we run RYA courses for sailors of every level, taught by instructors who sail the Fal every day.

Small groups, real passages, no shortcuts.

Courses
  • Day Skipper — PracticalFive days aboard, skippering real passages on the Fal.Next: Mon 7 Sep
    £645
  • Competent CrewThree days learning the ropes — literally.Next: Mon 14 Sep
    £395
Saltmarsh Sailing School
Three courses running on the Fal this month.
What we offer
Day Skipper — PracticalFive days aboard, skippering real passages on the Fal.
Competent CrewThree days learning the ropes — literally.
What clients say

Dave knows this water better than the forecast does — best week of the year.

Priya M.

Went from nervous beginner to confident crew in five days flat.

Tom R.

Small groups make all the difference. Never felt like a tourist.

Jess K.

About

Twenty years on this water.

We started Saltmarsh with one boat and a borrowed mooring — now we run RYA courses for sailors of every level, taught by instructors who sail the Fal every day.

Small groups, real passages, no shortcuts.

Courses
  • Day Skipper — PracticalFive days aboard, skippering real passages on the Fal.Next: Mon 7 Sep
    £645
  • Competent CrewThree days learning the ropes — literally.Next: Mon 14 Sep
    £395
Saltmarsh Sailing School, hosted by Lili Pod — Home, About & Book

The worst part of running courses isn't teaching them.

It's the admin around them — deposits you might have to refund, half-full courses you've already charged for, certificates and rebookings chased by hand. It's the part that keeps owners at their desk long after the last learner has gone home.

A course owner's hands at the potter's wheel — the work they'd rather be doing than admin

Charge cards only when the course is confirmed to run.

We authorise your customers’ cards the moment they book, but only charge them once you confirm the course is running. If it doesn’t fill, nobody pays — and there’s nothing to refund.

① Booked

customer pays online, card authorised, seat held.

② Confirmed

course hits minimum attendees, you confirm.

③ Charged

all cards captured at once. Only now does money move.

admin — confirm run & capture all cards

This one change removes the single biggest admin headache in the training business — and it's built in, not bolted on.

More reasons providers switch

admin — certificates & expiry reminders

Certificates & refresher reminders — on autopilot

Issue certificates automatically when a course completes, and let the system remind past learners when their qualification is due to expire. Your compliance admin becomes a repeat-revenue engine.

A guest booking a first-aid course on a phone, entering their name, email and attendee details without creating an account

Guest checkout — book in under a minute

The public can book and pay with just an email — no account, no friction. Fewer abandoned bookings, more filled seats.

Hard hats and hi-vis vests hanging ready on wall hooks

UK compliance, built in

7-year HMRC-grade retention on invoices and certificates. DBS tracking, National Insurance details, and working-time rules handled in the HR module. The answers to buyer due-diligence, ready out of the box.

Simple, honest pricing. No booking fees, ever.

Sign up and you’re live today — pick a look, connect Stripe, take your first booking. Plans scale with how many people run your business; flip the hosted switch on any of them to have us host your whole website too.

SoloOne pair of hands.You and your calendar — nothing to manage but the work itself.
£19/ month
Hosted — your whole website, +£40/month
  • 1 staff calendar
  • Your booking page & payments
  • 2 photographs on your page
  • Certificates & compliance tooling — for the businesses that need them
  • Email support
Most popular
Team2–10 staff.Split bookings across your team, by role.
£99/ month
Hosted — your whole website, +£40/month
  • Up to 10 staff calendars, split by role
  • Your booking page & payments
  • 2 photographs on your page
  • Certificates & compliance tooling — for the businesses that need them
  • Priority support
Large TeamBigger — multi-trainer, multi-room.Unlimited staff calendars, built for scale.
£179/ month
Hosted — your whole website, +£40/month
  • Unlimited staff calendars
  • Your booking page & payments
  • 2 photographs on your page
  • Certificates & compliance tooling — for the businesses that need them
  • Priority support

Every plan includes your branded booking page and customer portal, Stripe with minimum-attendee payment capture, and the voice presets — and you choose who books with you: individuals, companies, or both. £0 booking fees, ever — your Stripe, your money.

No website? No worries.

Flip the hosted switch on any plan and we host your whole site — Home, About and your booking page — on your own domain, dressed by one of three finished site designs. £0 booking fees, ever.

+ HR add-on

Add your team’s HR whenever you’re ready

Staff records, leave, sickness & TOIL, DBS tracking — a bonus role you switch on for any plan. It bills per person, per month: a seat is a person. No banded tiers, no cliffs.

Freeyour own record, always — full HR, no teaser
£3.50/moeach person you add — flat, never banded

Checkout happens right inside the app: you see the exact price before you confirm, it charges the card you’ve already saved, and the new person shows up immediately. No calls, no invoices, no surprises.

Start on any plan — you can move up, down, or leave whenever you like.

Book a 15-minute demo

Live today. Helped whenever you want it.

  1. Sign up

    pick your plan, pick a look — your page exists before the kettle boils.

  2. Connect Stripe

    your own account; the money never passes through us.

  3. Take bookings

    share one link. Individuals, companies, or both.

Prefer a human? Book a 15-minute demo — every plan includes us loading your courses, staff and templates with you, free.

Objection-handling FAQ

We’re not very technical. Is it hard to set up?

No — you sign up and you’re live the same day. Pick a look, connect Stripe, add your first course. If you’d rather we did it with you, book a call and we will.

What if a course doesn’t fill?

Nobody is charged. Cards are only captured when you confirm the course runs. That’s the whole idea.

Can I use it just for bookings and add HR later?

Yes. Start with Bookings; switch on the HR Hub whenever you’re ready.

Is my data safe, and separate from other businesses?

Yes. Payments run through your own Stripe account — we never see or hold card details. Your data lives in a UK-hosted database with strict per-business isolation enforced at the database layer, and it’s always yours to export.

Why I built Lili Pod

I built this for a training provider to end the monotony of managing spreadsheets and Word documents. Every feature solves a practical problem, and because I run the system myself, when you need help, you get me.

— Laurence

What providers say

Built with, not just for, the businesses running it.

“Booking confirmations used to be a spreadsheet and a prayer. Now it just happens.”
— First-aid training provider
“Cards only get charged when a course actually runs — that alone paid for itself in month one.”
— Outdoor activity centre
“Switching on the HR side meant we stopped keeping certificates in three different folders.”
— Compliance trainer, team of 8

Illustrative for now — real customer quotes replace these as providers come on board (see 07-CaseStudy.astro's own note on the same doctrine).

See it work on your courses in 15 minutes.

No slides, no hard sell — just a quick look at the booking → confirmation → payment → certificate flow, on courses like yours.

Book a demo