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Booking Pattern
Daytime departures around retail and market opening hours
For shopping tour operators
Booking software for shopping tours
Sell boutique-trail and market-walk places, arrange retailer discounts and VIP access, take private personal-shopper bookings, and upsell a champagne stop.
At a glance
How Shopping Tours businesses operate
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Capacity Type
Per-person places kept modest for boutique-sized shops
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Resources
Style-savvy hosts and a network of partner retailers
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Weather Dependent
Low — most of the route is indoors or covered
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Waivers
Not required
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Checkin
Host gathers the group at a central meeting point
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Seasonality
Peaks in sale seasons, festive shopping and tourist summer
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Party Type
Fashion lovers, hen parties, tourists and gift-experience buyers
The challenges
What gets in the way
The operational friction we hear about most — and what Experiqo does about it.
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The challenge
Boutiques can't absorb a big group
A small independent shop can't take twenty browsers at once. Modest caps keep the group at a size each partner boutique can welcome without shutting out its regulars.
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The challenge
Retailers offer perks that need coordinating
Partner shops give your guests a discount or a private preview, but only if they know who is coming. Sharing the head count keeps those perks in place and the retailers happy.
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The challenge
Hen parties and private groups want exclusivity
A hen party or a friends' celebration wants the whole experience to themselves. Taken privately from the back office with a deposit, the date and the group are secured together.
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The challenge
A champagne or lunch stop lifts the day
A glass of fizz mid-trail or a boutique lunch turns a shopping walk into an occasion. Offered as an add-on at checkout, it captures the spend before the day begins.
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The challenge
Gift experiences peak at Christmas
A shopping tour makes a popular present, and vouchers bought in December redeem for months. Selling and tracking them saves the festive spreadsheet.
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The challenge
Style and access earn the review
Guests judge a shopping tour on the host's eye and the doors it opens. A review prompt afterwards turns a great day into the feedback that fills the next.
The platform
Features built for Shopping Tours
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Deposits & part-payments
Let guests secure a place with a deposit now and pay the balance automatically later, so higher-value trips are easier to say yes to.
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Gift vouchers
Sell gift vouchers on your website and redeem them at checkout, with balances tracked so partly used vouchers keep working.
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Add-ons & extras
Offer extras like equipment hire, photos or refreshments at checkout, priced per person or per booking, to lift the value of every order.
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Availability rules
Set recurring schedules once and let Experiqo generate every departure, so your calendar fills itself instead of you building it by hand.
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Capacity control
Cap the number of places by date, time, guide, vehicle or equipment, so you sell exactly what you can deliver and never oversell.
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Manifests
View or print a complete guest list for every departure, with the details your team needs to run the trip, always up to date.
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Check-in
Check guests in from a phone or tablet, so your team knows who has arrived and who is still to come, without a printed list.
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Review collection
Ask guests for a review automatically after their trip, with a rating gate and a delay you control, target the whole business or an individual guide, and sync approved reviews to Google, Trustpilot and TripAdvisor.
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A day with Experiqo
How Shopping Tours runs on Experiqo
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Step 1
Set trail and market departures
Publish the boutique fashion trail and the artisan market walk around opening hours, capped modestly for the smaller shops.
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Step 2
A guest books with a champagne stop
A visitor books the Saturday boutique trail, adds a mid-tour champagne stop, and receives the meeting point and the list of partner shops.
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Step 3
Retailers get the numbers
Each partner boutique receives the group size and timing, so the promised discount is ready and a preview room is held.
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Step 4
The host gathers the group
At the meeting point the host checks the group in, confirms the champagne stop, and leads a modest party the partners can welcome.
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Step 5
A review request follows
That evening guests are asked to review, and their delight in the finds and access draws the next fashion lovers to book.
One connected system
One connected system, from booking to check-in
Every part of a shopping tours booking flows through one platform — no re-keying, no disconnected tools.
01 · Sell
Turn demand into paid bookings
Products
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Availability
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Bookings
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02 · Operate
Keep guests and teams moving
Customers
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Payments
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Staff
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03 · Understand
Use one live picture to grow
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Communications
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Reporting
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No re-keying. No disconnected tools. A change in one workspace updates everywhere.
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FAQs
Questions from operators like you
Set a modest per-tour cap so each partner shop can welcome the group without turning away its own regular customers.
Share the head count and timing with each partner so the promised discount is ready and any preview room is held when the group arrives.
Take the whole party as a back-office booking with a deposit and one contact, giving them the exclusive experience they want.
Offer a mid-tour champagne stop or a boutique lunch as a per-person add-on at checkout, lifting the value of the day before it begins.
Sell admission vouchers and redeem them at checkout with the balance tracked, which suits the heavy festive gifting season.
Guests can move their booking to another date from a self-service link, subject to your notice rules, without phoning the office.