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Getting Started

Learn the basics and get up and running quickly

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Best Practices

Learn industry best practices, or tips and tricks using our software.

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Reporting

Generate detailed analytics and downloadable .csv files on your sales, booking trends, and game performance to help you track your business's health.

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Schedules

The core of your business' availability, from setting up booking time slots and holiday exceptions to managing staff and room capacity with Resource Schedules.

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Bookings

Your central hub for viewing the game schedule, managing all customer reservations, and manually creating new appointments.

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Purchases

Manage all financial elements, including processing transactions , creating promo codes , selling and managing gift cards , and tracking retail inventory.

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Events

Configure all your escape room details, manage the integrated hint system, and use the Game Tracker to monitor live games and submit data to Game History.

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Checklists

Curate digital task lists to ensure operational consistency for daily procedures like game resets, cleaning, or opening duties.

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Project Management

Create and manage projects; track work items using customizable tickets, and accurately monitor effort with integrated Time Tracking.

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Photos

Learn how we upload team photos , apply custom overlays with dynamic variables, and send the final image directly to the group.

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Surveys

This section allows you to create custom post-game surveys, automate them to send after a game, and view all collected customer feedback in one place.

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Emails And Messaging

Our hub for creating, customizing, and enabling all automated communications, including booking confirmations.

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Customers

View your player database, allowing you to manage customer profiles, see their game history, and add internal-facing tags to note important details.

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Waivers

The Waivers system provides a fully digital solution for managing liability forms and participant agreements. It allows you to create custom, mobile-friendly waiver templates that are signed electronically by customers before their arrival or upon check-in.

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Settings

Where you manage 'My Profile' information, configure company-wide settings like timezones and integrations (e.g., GA4, Calendar API), and handle billing for your OTC subscription.

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Integrations

Connect your account with third-party tools and services to extend your workflow.

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Support and Roadmap

The Support and Roadmap section is where you can submit feature requests and bug reports, and vote on tickets to help prioritize new features. The best place to track the development status upcoming features for our software.

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Settings

Billing

Your billing and subscription settings control which features you have access to and how you're charged for using the platform. Understanding these settings helps you optimize costs and ensure you have the features your business needs.

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Settings

Company Settings

Manage your company's core information, including your business name, logo, contact details, and address.

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Events

Advanced Event Tracker

Walk through a live event step by step. Confirm players, track puzzles, capture photos, and record results, all with auto-saved drafts so you never lose progress.

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Events

Simple Event Tracker

A streamlined version of the event tracker focused on quick data entry. Record booking details, player info, and results without timers or in-room display controls.

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Events

Event Tracker Settings

Configure how the event tracker works for your team. Choose between simple and advanced mode, set up timers and in-room displays, and pick which data fields your hosts collect.

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Project Management

Time Tracker

Track how your team spends their time across projects and tasks. View daily, weekly, and monthly summaries at a glance, and export everything to CSV for payroll or reporting.

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Bookings

Customizable Booking Slot Status Colors

Customize the colors for all booking statuses—including defaults like "Available," "Booked," and "Checked in"—so your calendar views match your preferences.

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Bookings

Custom Booking Statuses

Create custom statuses like with your own colors to organize time slots and filter bookings across all calendar views.

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Bookings

Resource Calendar View

View all your daily bookings by resource, spot scheduling conflicts instantly, and manage staff assignments from a single screen. Click any time slot to create bookings, process payments, or reassign resources.

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Purchases

Stored Payment Methods

Save payment methods for faster checkout with Square or Stripe. Built with PCI compliance and data privacy regulations in mind, this feature lets customers save cards for future use while maintaining full control over their stored payment data.

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