The first steps
Hendrik Maat, owner of the computing company “OCIS” in Längenfeld recognized the need for a simple booking solution in a customer meeting.
20061 becomes 2
After a year of the tiring search to get a system up and running himself, Hendrik Maat sought out the support of Gerhard Vorster.
2007The first easybooking employee
In addition to a previously trained apprentice, the first employee with focus on “easybooking” was hired at OCIS.
turn of 2007/ 2008easybooking GmbH
The establishment of easybooking GmbH based in Längenfeld arose from the cooperation between Gerhard Vorster and Hendrik Maat.
April 2008Over 100 customers, but still too few
120 customers were already working with easybooking, but this was not enough to independently finance easybooking. easybooking continued to be carried by OCIS
Support by the ERV
The Europäische Reiseversicherung (ERV - European Travel Insurance Company) financed the integration of the ERV into the easybooking booking mask and enabled guests to take out travel insurance.
December 2008facebook as an online shop
Jürgen Rohrer, owner of the Apfelhof family guesthouse triggered a change in thinking at easybooking with his question about the option of online booking in facebook.
end 2009Worldwide attention
JULIA was integrated into Facebook, and thus achieved worldwide attention as we were the first company commercializing Facebook in this way.
January 2010Creathor Venture
Creathor Venture, a venture capital company, showed interest in the solutions and invested in the company which at that point already had 10 employees.
January 2010Rolling Stones, Vin Diesel and many more
With the iframe Wrapper and the product Shopshare, the company was recognized thanks to customers such as Nena, Rolling Stones, Redcoon and KissFM.
March 2010500 installations per day
The company's IT department was put to the test with 500 installations per day, and successfully proved its scalability.
June 2010zadego GmbH
The company name easybooking was changed to zadego GmbH to bring together the solutions iframe Wrapper, Shopshare and easybooking. The company was focusing on social media solutions with Hendrik Maat as the social media guru.
June 2010120,000 customers
The then 120,000 customers using the zadego GmbH solutions, shrank to 1000 customers when a fee of EUR 5 per month started to be charged for the product. At the same time, trust in facebook dwindled.
2011 - 2012Sales cooperation
At the same time, interest in easybooking grew, and Herold looked for a solution for their travel platform UrlaubUrlaub.at, starting a sales cooperation, which ended after the test phase due to “irreconcilable differences”.
End 2012The end of social media
zadego GmbH stopped programming social media solutions and concentrated on the growing demand for easybooking. A dedicated sales team was established.
Mit 2013Feratel
With the strategic partner “Feratel", a close partnership was established which has since been a successful cooperation and enables mutual products for tourism.
February 2014New office in Innsbruck
The office in Innsbruck, where we had moved a year before, was enlarged due to the growth of the company.
January 2015easybooking Germany
In addition to the existing locations in Innsbruck and Eisenstadt, zadego Deutschland GmbH was established with a head office in Berlin.
February 2015Largest PMS provider
easybooking becomes the largest PMS provider in the region, with 2500 Austrian customers.
End 2015Training network for everyone
The easybooking Academy provides weekly training opportunities (instructions, video tutorials, webinars and workshops) for easybooking customers.
Start 2016easybooking in the classroom
The Bludenz Tourism School is the first educational institution to integrate JULIA into its curriculum.
June 2016easybooking expands the product palette
In addition to the existing JULIA product range, new offerings are introduced; the Deskline websites, Deskline Channel Manager, Tourism Statistics and the SARA app.
March 2017