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Peter S.
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What do you like best about Xola?

Love how easy it is for customers to use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Xola?

We offer kids camps. These camps are a week long. There is nowhere to identify the camp is a week long. When people go to book, they think it's a one-day program. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Xola solving and how is that benefiting you?

A few years ago, they updated the equipment feature. We have over 100 kayaks and paddle boards. We run multiple programs each day. Using the equipment management system, we have never overbooked. It's automatic, and that's the best part. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Michele Karr of Xola

Hey Peter! Glad to hear you are enjoying the software.

You can set a Customer Facing Duration time in the listing description. This time frame will display in the checkout and can transfer to your customers' calendars once they've made a reservation. Feel free to check out the link below for more information, and I'll also have your Customer Success Manager reach out to discuss this in more detail.

Thanks!

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Xola Overview

What is Xola?

Xola is the only unified booking, sales, and marketing platform for tour operators and attractions. ① Manage bookings anywhere (online, over the phone, in person, or from a reseller) with real-time availability. ② Sell through your own website and the world's largest marketplaces in a few clicks. ③ Increase online revenue with our powerful abandoned booking remarketing features and track your marketing success in Google Analytics. As a winner of Capterra’s Ease of Use award, grow and run your business with a booking platform designed specifically for businesses like yours. Credit card rates as low as 1.99% + 30 cents.

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Xola builds modern, easy-to-use, booking and marketing software for tour and activity businesses. Save time, grow your business, and boost your competitive edge with the industry's leading reservation system. Manage every kind of booking (online, over the phone, in person, or from a reseller) with real-time availability. Enjoy a lightning-quick interface: make a reservation in less than 30 seconds and update a booking in 3 clicks or less. Gain a trustworthy and dedicated partner with Xola.


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Xola
Year Founded
2011
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San Francisco, CA
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Kasandra E.
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Kasandra E.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Great software that helps you get everything in one side"
Cannot recommend it enough. Out of the many software services we use as a business, Xola is the one we are most impressed by, is useful for us to c...
Jennifer N.
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Jennifer N.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Easy to use, instant updates, and live help"
Xola easy to use, integration w/OTAs, live help chat, instant updates.
Peter S.
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Peter S.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Xola is easy to use for customers and staff. The booking process is the best we have used hands down"
Love how easy it is for customers to use

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Emma M.
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What do you like best about Xola?

I appreciate how detailed you can get when creating listings. From how the customers interact with the booking experience to the specific settings you can set surrounding more complex settings (i.e., split payment option, waitlist, listing customizations, etc.) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Xola?

There are some minor adjustments from a user perspective that I think would improve the app a lot. For example, I would appreciate the ability to look at purchases in their order of when they were purchased as it seems sort of random. I would also appreciate the ability to type the number of guests instead of having to click the increase/decrease button. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Xola solving and how is that benefiting you?

You can be very specific about the listings you offer and the way that you can customize each. That has been very helpful as we continue to expand our business and offerings. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kristen M.
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What do you like best about Xola?

Anytime I need help they have a live chat support that answers my questions within minutes! I never have to wait long and usually receive immediate assistance. Easy to change listings too! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Xola?

I would like it to automatically notify the assigned guide when a game is booked. That would help a lot with on-call shifts. Also would like to have a "Call to Book" listing that I don't have to assign a time to for it to be shown at the top of the page. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Xola solving and how is that benefiting you?

So easy to have guests book and alter bookings as needed. Plus it is visually nice to look at and not overwhelming or confusing like other software I have seen. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kasandra E.
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What do you like best about Xola?

Good experience, great relationship with them and they are responsive to our needs and support. product is good but would like to see some basic feature improvements that make our lives and employees' lives easier vs more workaround. Overall I would highly recommend the product, especially knowing a revamped and improved version is on the horizon. Plus fairharbor is just annoying so out of principle, we will not work with them.

Ease of use, we have been using this for some time now and have a great understanding of how to use the tool and get a lot of value from it. It has some great integrations, great text, email reminders for our guests and xola has invested in a lot of great improvements over the past 2 years that made our business better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Xola?

Lack of POS integration, our business is moving to sell more onsite with our guests, pre gratuity is huge in our space and XOLA lacks features for pre gratuity except to do an ADD on which auto charges taxes and the booking fee on gratuity. reporting is still lacking, and dashboards, for performance, are also lacking. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Xola:

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What problems is Xola solving and how is that benefiting you?

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Response from Jessica Fewell of Xola

Hi Kasandra,

Thanks for the review! Glad to see you are loving Xola. Also, we have some great things coming soon, which will address most of your feedback!

Erik S.
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What do you like best about Xola?

Xola is more than an online reservation system. It can track payments, create reports so you can see what trips sell better, which affiliate channels (Expedia, and other hotel concierges or that bartender that sends you all that business!) are better, helps reconcile month end billing, sends out reminders and after the event thank yous, prints out the daily manifests at the press of button, constantly improving the product...all that but the cherry on the top is their customer service. Always ready to help and always accessible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Xola?

When I get calls from their competitors and they try to explain to me why I should settle for less service and pay more by asking me to switch to something else (FareHarbor, PeekPro). Very annoying Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Xola:

Do it now, Using something else instead of Xola :Its the difference between dialup and broadband Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Xola solving and how is that benefiting you?

Scheduling guides is easy, Billing and tracking affiliate payments is easy, Time saved over other lame products or (heaven forbid) using old paper system. Everybody that needs access to schedule can see it by logging in. Cloud system beats old central system hands down. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Jessica Fewell of Xola

Thanks for the review, Erik! I love to hear the reasons you love Xola. :)

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What do you like best about Xola?

Their customer service is top notch. Whenever we have a concern or need assistance we can always depend on our xola team to respond quickly with a solution. No other company has ever had the customer service we experience with xola. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Xola?

When feature is missing request's for dev team can take some time. To be implemented. However a lot of the features we do or have requested have become useable features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Xola:

When choosing a booking software it can be a challenge selecting the right one. We had 2 others prior to Xola in the beginning each of which lasted about a month. We have been with Xola ever since. Their customer service for small business is enough to set them apart from the competition, and their software is an added perk. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Xola solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are an escape room, and we depend on our booking software to ensure an organized easy to use software for tracking all of our bookings. We are able to deep dive all the data collected, easily take payments, easily offer discounts, and a simplified way to have our customers sign their waivers. The reporting and data that we can gather makes our accounting and crm extremely valuable Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Jessica Fewell of Xola

Thank you for the review! Glad to see you love Xola and our support team! They are pretty amazing! :)

Michael S.
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What do you like best about Xola?

The missed booking feature allows us to collect possible client info and follow up to try and get the sale. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Xola?

The auto email response system needs to be built out better so that you can add photos. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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the support is amazing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Xola solving and how is that benefiting you?

They allow us to book clients for our Puzzle Room and Splatter Paint Room Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Jessica Fewell of Xola

Hi Michael, thank you for the review and the feedback! I will be sure to add this to our product team meeting to discuss. If you think of anything else please feel free to reach out to our support team 24/7.

Scott G.
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What do you like best about Xola?

XOLA is easy to learn and use. Also, Xola has a dedicated staff 24-hours a day that is always available and helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Xola?

Although we dont pay for it, the customers do, and we have been asked by customers why they have to pay for our registration (operating) costs. Perhaps a cheaper cost to customers would alleviate this opinion. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Xola solving and how is that benefiting you?

So many- just basic registration, organization, client info, client contact and LOVE the quick way to message all clients on a trip at once within XOLA. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Katie D.
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What do you like best about Xola?

The on demand, 24/7 live customer service chat is INCREDIBLE. Every problem is solved very quickly. In addition, we have a very complex business to book for - Xola was the only one who utilized equipment the way we needed to book. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Xola?

The apps are terribly glitchy. There's no admin override for booking. No ability to create receipts after the fact. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Xola solving and how is that benefiting you?

With our unique situation. Xola handles our bookings with ease. After two years we are very happy with them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kasandra E.
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What do you like best about Xola?

Cannot recommend it enough. Out of the many software services we use as a business, Xola is the one we are most impressed by, is useful for us to collect and manage all bookings from a single platform with really low commision rates. So far we enjoy it a lot. It is great to manage all our events at one place and accept bookings from all online distribution channels that we are present Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Xola?

Smartwaiver is an outdated unreliable software that we are forced to use. Anyone who took a little time would out them out of business. App on Android can be a bit buggy and frustrating - not a deal breaker. Sometimes you may have to click buttons a bunch before it responds or have to shut it down and reload it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Xola solving and how is that benefiting you?

Unrecognized charges Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Jessica Fewell of Xola

Hi Kasandra! Thank you for the review and I am glad to see you enjoy using Xola! We do have a feature called Xola Waivers, that is similar to SmartWaiver, it may be something to look into when you have the chance. Also, I am going to report the clicking the button a bunch of times on the mobile app to our team. Please feel free to reach out to our support team 24/7 if you would like to get started or learn more about Xola Waivers.

Juanita S.
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Tour Operator
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What do you like best about Xola?

The level of attention to detail was impressive. I am a low tech, and the communication on technical matters was perfect. The coordination and communication were seamless. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Xola?

I did not dislike anything. However, I would have liked a bit more on how to get reviews. How does that work? I would have liked the Xola platform to send an email to the guests within 24 hours following the event/experience prompting them to leave a review/pictures. I do not think such an essential component of what fuels bookings (the reviews) should be left to me ( I do not have the technical skills to do it). I did get instructions from the support centre; however, I am unsure if I implemented the instructions correctly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Xola solving and how is that benefiting you?

I was looking for a website /booking platform, and Xola delivered. It is so professionally done, intuitive, eye-appealing, and alive. The Xola team helped me showcase Toronto Waterfront Ecotours’ offering in a way that makes me proud Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Jessica Fewell of Xola

Hi Juanita!

Thank you for the review! Love to see you think we are great! I reached out to your CSM, and they will be in touch soon to get the reviews set up.