The booking system for tastings, tours
and cellar doors — built adults-only.
GoodKeen is a New Zealand booking system for gin, whisky, beer and wine tastings. It collects and checks every participant’s date of birth at booking — server-side, so an under-18 can’t book a seat — runs timed sessions with per-session caps, and charges 0% booking fees on every plan, free up to 25 bookings a month.
All prices in NZD. Built in New Zealand.
Adults-only by design, not by tickbox
Most booking software handles age with an “I am over 18” checkbox that anyone can click. GoodKeen asks for a date of birth for every participant in the booking — not just the person paying — and the server rejects the booking if anyone is under 18.
For a distillery bench, a brewery tour or a winery pairing session, that means the Saturday 2pm list arrives with a date of birth recorded against every name. Your host isn’t discovering a seventeen-year-old in a group of six at the tasting bench.
One thing it isn’t: an ID check. GoodKeen records every participant’s date of birth before they arrive — it doesn’t verify documents, and it doesn’t stand in for any duty under your licence. Your team still sights ID at the door, exactly as before.
- A date of birth is collected for every participant, not just the booker.
- The check runs server-side — an under-18 can’t complete a booking, whatever the browser says.
- Every date of birth is on record before arrival, sitting on the booking your host can check in a tap.
- Still yours: checking ID at the door. Treat the gate as a pre-arrival record, not a compliance service — your licensing responsibilities don’t change.
From booking to first pour
How a Saturday tasting runs when the admin takes care of itself.
A guest picks a session
Your tastings run on a weekly schedule with a cap per session — eight seats at the gin bench, twelve on the brewery tour. While a guest pays, their seats are held for 15 minutes with a visible countdown, so two groups never buy the same spots. Unpaid bookings expire on their own after 30 minutes.
Confirmation, then a nudge
The confirmation email carries a QR ticket, and a reminder goes out 24 hours before the session — the single biggest fix for no-shows. Payment lands in your own Stripe account, not ours, and the guest gets a PDF receipt.
Morning of: print the manifest
One printout for the day: every session and booking, guest counts, phone numbers, booking notes (“anniversary”, “no gin, whisky flight instead”) and a check-in column — and every participant’s date of birth sits on the booking record if your host needs to check one. The whole day runs off one sheet of paper.
At the door: scan and pour
Guests show the QR ticket, you check them in from any phone in the browser — nothing to install on the tasting-room iPad or anyone’s pocket. Anyone who never turns up is marked a no-show automatically, so your numbers stay honest without bookwork.
Price a flight, a table, or a quiet Tuesday
Tastings don’t all sell the same way, so each one carries its own pricing.
Per seat
The standard flight, the cellar-door tasting, the tour on the hour — priced per person, with tiers if your paired flight costs more than your core range.
Flat rate for the table
A hosted group tasting sold as one price for the whole table, however many turn up within the cap. One booking, one payment, no per-head maths at the till.
Promo codes for midweek
Wednesday at 3pm doesn’t fill itself. Create a percentage or fixed-amount code, limit it to weekday sessions by date window, cap its uses, or make it first-booking-only for new locals.
Run blending workshops or a cheese-pairing masterclass alongside the tastings? The same setup covers them — see how GoodKeen handles classes & workshops.
What a platform fee does to a tasting margin
Take a group of four at NZ$65 a seat — a NZ$260 booking — and look at what each platform keeps.
| GoodKeen | Rezdy | ClassBento | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly price | Free–NZ$79, in NZD | $49/$99/$249 (region-detected currency, ex-GST in AU) | No monthly fee |
| Fee per online booking | 0% — to you and your guests, on every plan | 3% per online booking | 20% on orders from its website, or 3.9% + NZ$0.30 through your own widget |
| Platform fee on that NZ$260 table | NZ$0 | NZ$7.80 | NZ$52.00 or NZ$10.44, depending on where the order came from |
Every weekend, all season. Ten of those tables a month is NZ$78 in Rezdy fees before its subscription — and on GoodKeen’s Free plan, ten bookings a month costs nothing at all.
Rezdy $49/$99/$249 per month + 3% per online booking, per rezdy.com pricing (region-detected currency, ex-GST in AU). ClassBento rates per classbento.co.nz/teach — 20% and 3.9% + NZ$0.30 are alternative rates for different order sources, never charged together. FareHarbor, for reference, typically adds a 6–8% guest checkout fee — not published, set per agreement. All checked Aug 2026 — check each provider for current rates. Card processing (Stripe) is charged separately by your payment provider.
Vouchers carry the winter months
A tasting is the classic hard-to-buy-for gift, and voucher money in June becomes bench seats in December. When someone rings up or asks at the counter, you issue a voucher from your dashboard in under a minute — and the recipient redeems it online against any session, on any device.
The legal side is handled: New Zealand’s gift-card law changed on 16 March 2026, and every voucher now needs a minimum 3-year expiry. GoodKeen applies the 3-year floor automatically, so a voucher written at the cellar door on a busy Saturday is as compliant as one issued from the office.
Balances do the sensible thing, too. A NZ$150 voucher covers a NZ$90 tasting and keeps NZ$60 for next visit, and if a voucher-paid booking is refunded, the value goes back onto the voucher first. Switching systems with vouchers on the books? Talk to us — we’ll migrate them with you.
- Vouchers sold in NZ need a minimum 3-year expiry — a floor GoodKeen enforces on every voucher automatically.
- Penalties reach NZ$10,000 for an individual and NZ$30,000 for an organisation.
- Partial redemption built in — balances tracked per voucher, nothing on a spreadsheet.
General information, not legal advice.
Frequently asked questions
Fill the tasting bench. Keep the margin.
Timed sessions, the 18+ gate and NZ-law vouchers, free forever up to 25 bookings a month. No credit card, no commission — ever.