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As of 13 August 2026, AI can only partly draft booking terms for your UK business.

This still needs a person who signs their name to it.

Can you do it?

5 minutesto a draft.

n/ait cannot be self-verified.

Cost, all in£0

Skill neededchat-fluent

Who has to check ita professional

What the alternative costsA solicitor's review is the professional alternative; no price is stated here.

If this goes wrong: a customer disputes a booking or refund and your terms do not support your position, while your business remains responsible for the wording.

What to actually do

  1. Hand it to a person

    The route this page recommends

    Someone with a licence or accountable authority has to sign this before it counts.

  2. Use a tool built for this

    Second choice
  3. Do it yourself

    The distant third

    A chat interface gets you a draft, but you cannot verify it yourself. That is the catch.

    How to actually do it

    1. Open your current price list, booking page, cancellation policy, privacy notice and customer communications, and gather the exact wording and facts that the prompt requests.
    2. Paste the prompt into an AI chat and replace every bracketed slot with your business information, leaving a slot marked [NEEDS BUSINESS DECISION] where you have no settled policy.
    3. Ask the model to produce the draft, missing-information list, solicitor-check list and clause-to-source table in one response.
    4. Compare every price, payment rule, cancellation period, refund promise, contact detail and service description in the draft against your current business documents.
    5. Resolve every [NEEDS BUSINESS DECISION] item and ask the model to revise the draft without adding any facts or legal conclusions.
    6. Send the revised terms and the source documents to a UK solicitor for review of consumer rights, unfair terms, liability, refunds, data protection and any sector-specific requirements.
    7. Apply the solicitor's changes, then compare the final version against your live booking process before publishing it on the booking page and sending it to customers.

    Prompt

    Draft booking terms for a UK business using the information below. This is a drafting exercise, not professional advice. Do not invent facts, legal rights, prices, deadlines or policies. Where information is missing, write [NEEDS BUSINESS DECISION] and explain what decision is needed.
    
    Business name and legal form: [INSERT]
    Business location and customer location: [INSERT]
    What customers book: [DESCRIBE THE SERVICE]
    Who can book: [CONSUMERS, BUSINESSES OR BOTH]
    How bookings are made: [WEBSITE, EMAIL, PHONE OR OTHER]
    When a booking becomes binding: [INSERT]
    Prices and when payment is due: [INSERT]
    Deposits or pre-authorisation: [INSERT]
    Your cancellation and customer cancellation rules: [INSERT]
    Refund rules: [INSERT]
    Rules for rescheduling, lateness, no-shows and non-attendance: [INSERT]
    When you may cancel or change a booking: [INSERT]
    Complaints process and contact details: [INSERT]
    Any age, eligibility, safety or access requirements: [INSERT]
    Any third parties, subcontractors or venues involved: [INSERT]
    Relevant insurance or liability limits already used by the business: [INSERT]
    How customer data is handled and where the privacy notice is found: [INSERT]
    Governing law and business address for notices: [INSERT]
    
    Produce:
    1. A plain-English draft booking terms document with headings and numbered clauses.
    2. A short list of every fact or policy you still need from me.
    3. A separate list of clauses that need a UK solicitor to check, including consumer cancellation rights, unfair terms, refunds, liability limits, data protection and any sector-specific rules.
    4. A table mapping each clause to the business information used to write it.
    
    Do not claim that the terms are legally compliant or ready to publish. Keep the draft consistent with the supplied policies and flag any contradiction instead of resolving it silently.

    Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.

What it gets wrong

  • AI cannot decide which cancellation, refund or liability position your business should adopt when the commercial trade-off is unclear.
  • AI cannot confirm that the wording complies with UK consumer law, unfair-terms rules or sector-specific requirements.
  • AI cannot take responsibility for a clause that damages your business or misleads a customer.
  • AI cannot know whether your live booking process contradicts the written terms unless you provide and maintain all the relevant details.
  • AI cannot replace a solicitor's judgement on unusual services, high-value bookings, vulnerable customers or disputed liability.

What caps this at PARTLY: legal accountability, verification cost and judgement under ambiguity.

How we scored this

Five axes, each scored nought to two by hand: ten means AI carries the task cleanly, and the thresholds that turn a total into YES, PARTLY or NO are published in the methodology. Each axis name links to its definition.

AxisScore (0–2)
Output2
Inputs2
Verification0
Liability1
Effort delta2
Total7 / 10

FAQ

Can ChatGPT write booking terms for my business?
It can produce a useful first draft from your booking process, prices and policies. It cannot confirm that the draft complies with UK law, so a solicitor should check serious or unusual cases before you publish it.
Are AI-generated booking terms legally binding in the UK?
AI authorship does not make terms binding or enforceable. Whether they work depends on how they are presented and accepted, what they say, and whether any clause is unfair or conflicts with UK consumer law.
What should booking terms include in the UK?
They usually need clear rules for the service, price, payment, booking acceptance, cancellation, refunds, changes, lateness, complaints, liability and contact details. The correct content depends on your business and customers, so the draft needs to reflect your actual process and receive appropriate legal review.
Do I need a solicitor to check AI-drafted booking terms?
For a business-facing document with legal consequences, yes, especially where consumer bookings, deposits, refunds, liability limits or unusual services are involved. This is not professional advice, and a solicitor carries the appropriate responsibility for a serious legal review.

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Assessed by gpt-5.6-luna (gpt-5.6-luna) on 2026-08-13, second-checked by an independent model. Wrong somewhere? Email [email protected] and it gets re-checked.

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