Your desk
You'll see three kinds of time. A hold is a time someone is keeping while they pay the deposit. Confirmed means the deposit is in and anything you asked for is in. Blocked is a time you closed yourself.
Space on Hold
Booking software for a space you already rent out.
People already ask to rent your barn, hall, studio, loft or meeting room. Space on Hold gives you a page to send them to. They pick an open time and pay you a deposit to hold it.
One account can hold several spaces, each with its own calendar. Plans start at $59 a month. 30-day free trial, no card needed. Commission is 0%.
Start free Sign in The trial is 30 days, no card needed.
Founders get 35% off monthly billing for as long as they stay subscribed. 50 spots, until Dec 15, 2026, or until they're gone. See offer details
You're only charged if you add a card and choose a plan.
The address
That page can be your website.
You pick the address, like northroom.spaceonhold.com. If you already own a domain, you can use an address like bookings.yourdomain.com instead. Settings shows you two records to add where you bought the domain: one points the address at your page, and the other is a short code that has to match before the domain goes live. Or keep your current site and link to this page from it.
Spaces people already rent out
The property plan covers up to eight spaces. One space covers one, and A few spaces covers up to three. The spaces can share a street address, or each one can show its own. A door code never appears on the page people see.
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Photo, video, podcast, and recording
People book by the hour. You leave a gap so you can reset the space, and you ask for a certificate only if you want one.
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Lofts and flexible rooms
People bring a lot in and take it all out, so the deposit starts higher.
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Party and event rooms
Signed house rules start on. Regulars still book each date on its own.
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Weddings, barns, and event halls
Someone asks for a date, pays the deposit and sends any files you require.
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The desk you keep
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When the date is actually confirmed
The date is confirmed when the deposit is in and anything you asked for is in. If you don't ask for anything else, the deposit is enough.
A photo studio, loft or barn starts out asking for a certificate of insurance and signed house rules. A hall, meeting room or rehearsal room starts with the rules only. You can change this for each space.
You're the only one who signs in. The person who booked gets a private link for that date. Two people can't take the same hour. The gap you set stays empty before the booking and after it, so you have time to reset the space.
What you might be using now
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Peerspace
Peerspace is a marketplace. It finds renters for a listing and keeps a host fee. Space on Hold doesn't find renters. You still bring them in, and this is the page they book on.
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Acuity and Calendly
A calendar can take a payment. It doesn't wait for the file you asked for before the date is confirmed.
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Texts and a spreadsheet
Keep texting them. When they're ready to pick a time, send them this page.
A booking link
A lot of booking links just take a payment for a time slot. Space on Hold holds the date until the deposit is paid and the guest has sent anything else you asked for.
What you pay for the software
One space: $59 a month, $601.80 for the year. Up to 1 space.
A few spaces: $99 a month, $1,009.80 for the year. Up to 3 spaces.
The property: $149 a month, $1,519.80 for the year. Up to 8 spaces.
The plan is the whole product for the spaces it covers. There's no feature menu, and commission is 0%.
Fees
Guests pay you directly for the space. Space on Hold charges no booking fees and takes 0% commission. Stripe's processing fee comes out of your payout, and Stripe keeps that fee when you refund a guest. Stripe lists its current US card rate on its pricing page.
Card deposits go to your own Stripe account. You connect an existing Stripe account, or create one, from settings after signup.
Founding rate
50 founder spots. Founders get 35% off monthly billing for as long as they stay subscribed. The offer is open until Dec 15, 2026, 11:59 PM Central, or until all 50 spots are taken, whichever comes first. You claim your spot when your first monthly payment goes through. The free trial doesn't count. One spot per person, monthly billing only. If you change plans, your founding host rate carries over as 35% off the new plan's monthly price, as long as you stay on monthly billing and stay subscribed. Switching to yearly billing ends your founding host rate, whether it's active or reserved. It can't be restored.
Billing and cancelling
Plans renew automatically, each month for a monthly plan or each year for a yearly plan, until you cancel. To stop the next charge, cancel online anytime before your next renewal, from the Billing page in your desk. Your plan stays active until the end of the period you've already paid for. We don't give prorated refunds for time already paid for unless the law requires it.
A year is 15% off.
If a deposit doesn't cover the full price, the guest owes the rest before the booking date. The balance is due 14 days before by default, and you can change that. A booking can be confirmed while a balance is still open.
You set the cancellation policy for each space. See the terms.
Answers
Deposit
The guest pays you a deposit. The date stays on hold until the deposit and anything else you asked for are in.
Approval
An unanswered request holds the time for 48 hours by default. You can change that for each space. The choices are 12, 24, 48 or 72 hours.
Cancellation
You set the cancellation policy for each space.
Certificate of insurance
A certificate of insurance is only required if that space asks for one. You can turn it on or off for each space.
Door code
Door codes never show on the public page. Once a booking is confirmed, the guest gets your access notes 24 hours before the start, or right away if they booked later than that.
Your own domain
You can use a domain you already own. Settings shows the two records to add where you bought it. Once the short code matches, the domain goes live.
Who's behind this
Space on Hold is built and run in Missouri by Dustin Dasal.
Dustin builds software for one kind of work at a time, and he keeps running it after it ships. He's been in IT for more than thirty years. These days he builds for the people big software tends to overlook, like churches, small trade shops, small rental spaces and the IT teams who keep networks running.
The page
Send people a page they can book on.
Start the 30-day trial, put in your hours and your rates, and send them the page. Use the address you picked, or a domain you already own.