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A tutor guides makers using sewing machines in an active dressmaking class in New Zealand

Sewing and dressmaking booking software for New Zealand.

One place per machine, sold online. A wet Saturday fills the studio, and the count on the page never promises a bench you do not have.

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  • Booking tied to sewing machines
  • Places capped at the machines you own
  • Groups book places together
  • Tutor hours stay accurate
  • Email reminders before class

Online booking

People book the right machine place

A learner chooses the Thursday evening class, claims one machine and sees the number left drop. Nothing can be booked past the last machine.

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The last machine on the beginners night, booked and paid.
New bookingAvailable
ClassBeginners · studio machine
WhenTue 12 Aug · 6:30pm
Places left1 of 8
Priced instantly$45

One shared timetable

Every threaded machine has a name on it

One timetable holds each class, the tutor taking it and the machines already claimed, so an open studio hour never overlaps a taught session.

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A day on the schedule's calendar, with three jobs placed on a vertical time grid at the times they run.
Wednesday1 Jul
3 bookings
08:00
09:00
10:00
11:00
12:00
13:00
14:00
09:00 · 8 of 8 booked
Bench · Absolute beginners
11:30 · Mount Eden
Bench · Garment course wk 3
14:00 · 2 places left
Bench · Overlocker night

Built for you

Built for every kind of sewing & dressmaking business

Beginner sewing

Nobody in the room has wound a bobbin before. Cap the class at the machines you can thread first thing, so no learner starts on a dud.

Dressmaking courses

One dress, eight weeks. A weekly standing booking keeps the same learners on the same Thursday night from the toile through to the hem.

Pattern cutting

Laying out a pattern needs table space, not a treadle. Cap the class at the layouts the cutting table takes, rather than the machines along the wall.

Alteration workshops

Everyone brings something that almost fits. One machine each, a short class, and the count on the page is the count in the studio.

Machine introductions

Threading, tension, a straight seam and a buttonhole. Strictly one learner per machine, with booking closing on the last free one.

Private groups

A hen group or a work team takes the studio for an afternoon. Quote it, then hold every machine in the room under one booking.

School-holiday sewing

A week in the July break for teenagers making something wearable. Dated sessions, capped at the machines, with a reminder the night before.

Open studio sessions

Regulars bring their own project and take a machine for a couple of hours. Places count down exactly as they do in a taught class.

Dressmaking: built for wet weekends.

Rain fills the studio. The cap you set is the number of machines you own, so the wet Saturday never sells a bench twice.

  • Options, with Pro

    Sell a one-off class, a weekly place for a regular and a whole dressmaking course as a standing booking, side by side on the same timetable. A quote covers a private group that wants every machine at once.

A private course for a small group, priced before it starts.
Estimate #1042
Hemi Walker
Sent
  • Garment course · 6 evenings, 4 placesTuition$1,080
  • Pattern & calico packsMaterials$160
  • Overlocker night · add-onSession$180
Total$1,420

See it in action

Every booking, in one app.

bookables.ai/schedule
A day on the schedule's calendar, with three jobs placed on a vertical time grid at the times they run.
Wednesday1 Jul
3 bookings
08:00
09:00
10:00
11:00
12:00
13:00
14:00
09:00 · 8 of 8 booked
Bench · Absolute beginners
11:30 · Mount Eden
Bench · Garment course wk 3
14:00 · 2 places left
Bench · Overlocker night

Schedule

Which machines are spoken for, and when

The beginners night at eight of eight, the garment course mid-run and the overlocker night still two short all read off one view, so you can see where the bench is idle before the week starts.

The last machine on the beginners night, booked and paid.
New bookingAvailable
ClassBeginners · studio machine
WhenTue 12 Aug · 6:30pm
Places left1 of 8
Priced instantly$45

Instant booking

One machine left, and the page says so

Places are set to the machines that class uses, and the count drops as bookings land. The eighth booking closes the night, so nobody arrives to share a machine and finish nothing.

A private course for a small group, priced before it starts.
Estimate #1042
Hemi Walker
Sent
  • Garment course · 6 evenings, 4 placesTuition$1,080
  • Pattern & calico packsMaterials$160
  • Overlocker night · add-onSession$180
Total$1,420

Get paid

Fabric packs paid for at booking

The class fee is charged as the place is taken, so pattern and calico packs are bought against money already in. A private group course goes out as an itemised quote instead.

Less admin, more bookings

Made for sewing & dressmaking businesses

Know who needs a machine threaded

The day shows each class, the tutor on it, how many machines are still free and which places are already paid for.

  • The cap is already countedConfirmed places have already come off the machine count, so nobody is counting benches while the first learners are hanging up wet coats.
  • The right tutor is on itHours and taught classes decide who can be on, so an evening class never opens for booking when the tutor who takes it is not working that night.
  • Regulars are already thereA standing booking carries the same learners into every future Thursday of the course, so the list is never retyped between one week and the next.

One machine each, then the class is shut

The number on the page is the number of machines still free. When it reaches nothing, online booking for that class stops.

  • One public numberEverybody sees the same count, including the pair of places someone took together in a single booking for themselves and a friend.
  • No hopeful extra placeFull means full. Nobody is squeezed onto a shared bench, and there is no queue forming behind the one overlocker at the end of the room.
  • Quieter times stay visibleThe quiet Wednesday sits next to the full Saturday, so a learner shut out of one weekend can see the night that still has machines going spare.

Money and machine place on one record

With Pro the card is taken as they book. On Free, cash and bank transfer are recorded by hand. The place shows as paid either way.

  • Paid when the place is chosenThe card is taken at the moment the machine place is claimed on Pro, so the class list and the payment land together instead of in two passes.
  • Desk payments still countA learner who pays cash on the way in is recorded by hand on Free, and their place reads as paid beside the ones settled online.
  • Private work gets a quoteItemise the tutor time, the machines, the patterns and the cutting table for a private group. What they accept stays attached to the booking.

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Online booking

A learner picks the class, takes a single machine place and pays now or later. The machines still free on the public page fall by one immediately.

Scheduling

Classes, tutors and claimed machines share one timetable, so a full Saturday and a half-empty Wednesday evening are both plain without asking anyone.

Capacity that holds

The class is set to the machines you can genuinely run. Each confirmed place takes one off, and the last machine closes booking rather than stretching it.

Email reminders

Turn on a confirmation and a reminder ahead of the class so every learner has the time and the fabric list, without anyone being rung the night before.

Customers

One record per maker, holding the classes they have sat, the payments taken and the project they were partway through the last time they came in.

Estimates

Put a quote together for a private group: tutor time, machines, patterns and cutting-table space. They accept it online by typing their full name.

Team

Set each tutor’s real hours and the classes they teach, so an evening only opens for booking when both a tutor and their machines are actually free.

Payments

Cash and bank transfer are written down by hand on Free. With Pro the learner pays the whole class fee by card as they claim the machine place.

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Common questions.

Yes. Capacity is a number you set, and each confirmed place counts against it. The last machine closes booking, so no learner arrives to find no bench.

Yes. A single booking can take more than one machine place, and every one of those places comes off the same capacity, so the public count stays right.

Yes. A weekly or monthly standing booking can end never, end on a chosen date, or end after a set number of sessions. It is on the Free plan.

The machine place returns to the count, so the class shows one more free bench and everyone looking at the page sees the same corrected number.

Yes. Enable the confirmation and the reminder and each learner is emailed the time and the practical details. Both start switched off until you enable them.

On Pro, the full class fee is taken by card as the place is booked. On Free, cash and bank transfer are recorded by hand against the same booking.

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