Woodworking class booking software for New Zealand.
One planer, one bandsaw and a row of vices decide how big a class can be, so sell the bench rather than a seat and let the machines set the number.
Start with Google- Sell the bench, not the seat
- Bench and vice count sets the cap
- One booking can hold two benches
- Tutor hours open the machine time
- Reminders by email before a sitting
Online booking
The bench is the thing being booked
Learners pick a live class, claim one vice-fitted bench each, and see the free benches drop away as the last of them are taken.
Learn moreOne shared timetable
Machine time and bench time in one view
Each class, tutor and claimed bench on one week, so an induction sitting and a long wet-Saturday build never both want the planer.
Learn moreBuilt for you
Built for every kind of woodworking class business
The machine induction
The table saw and bandsaw walk-through runs as its own short sitting with a low cap, so nobody first meets a blade inside a full class.
Hand-tool basics
No machines and no extractor to share, so the number is simply how many vices the bench run holds. Planes and chisels, nothing louder.
The wet-Saturday intensive
A long day when the forecast rules out everything else. Timber gets dimensioned per head once the booked count settles on the Thursday.
Small furniture
A stool across three sittings, with glue-ups left to cure from one week to the next. A standing booking keeps the same bench free throughout.
Wood carving
Gouges, a mallet and a holdfast, drawing nothing off the extractor, so more people fit than a class working on machines would allow.
Joinery courses
Six weeks of dovetails and mortice work sold as one run, ending on a date or after a chosen number of sittings, bench included.
After-work sittings
Two hours from six, short enough that finishes stay off the bench and every machine is shut down well before anybody heads home.
Private group builds
A work crew or a family books the whole shop out. Instruction, timber and machine hours go on a quote before a date is held.
Finishing sittings
Oil and wax on pieces that cured since the week before. Barely a machine running, so a full bench list still gets through easily.
Woodworking: sized by vices, not by hope.
Your cap is the vices along the bench run, and nothing lets an extra pair of hands turn up at the bandsaw once a class has filled.
Options, with Pro
Sell drop-in sittings, weekly bench places, private builds and six-week courses alongside each other. A machine induction goes up as its own sitting, capped lower. A quote covers anything past a bench.
- Build course · 6 eveningsTuition$840
- Tasmanian oak · docked stockTimber$190
- Finish & hardwareMaterials$70
See it in action
Every booking, in one app.
Schedule
Two ceilings on one day
A hand-tool class of ten and a machine night of four sit on the same day at their own honest numbers, so the supervision you need at each hour is plain before the week starts.
Instant booking
The machine night stops at four
Places are set to what one instructor can safely stand behind at a table saw. The class closes itself at the last place, so it cannot be overbooked online.
- Build course · 6 eveningsTuition$840
- Tasmanian oak · docked stockTimber$190
- Finish & hardwareMaterials$70
Get paid
Stock docked against paid places
The fee is charged as the place is taken, so timber is bought and docked for people who have committed. A six-week build is quoted with the stock and finish itemised.
Less admin, more bookings
Made for woodworking class businesses
Who is on the bandsaw, and when
The day shows each sitting, the tutor running it, the benches not yet claimed and which of them have already been paid for.
- The number is already rightConfirmed benches leave availability the moment they are taken, so nobody is counting vices while a class waits by the door.
- A tutor who is actually freeReal working hours and class assignments mean a sitting never lands on someone who is teaching elsewhere, even when the run moves a day.
- The regulars are in alreadyWeekly and monthly bookings appear in the future timetable by themselves, so the same bench never has to be entered twice.
Every vice taken, booking closed
Learners see the benches genuinely left, and the class shuts online the moment the last vice goes rather than squeezing in a name.
- The same number for everyoneWhoever opens the class page sees one count, including the two benches a pair claimed together on a single booking.
- Nobody stands and watchesA full class stays full, because an extra body with no vice spends the sitting waiting for the bandsaw instead of building.
- The thin nights stay openFree benches midweek sit next to the packed Saturday, which is how somebody finds a sitting that suits them without ringing you.
The bench fee sits on the booking
The fee goes on a card with Pro, or cash and bank transfer are recorded on Free, and either way it is attached to that bench.
- Paid at the moment of claimingWith Pro the card is taken as the bench is claimed, so the class list and its paid column are never a day out of step.
- The desk still worksSomebody who pays cash on the way in is recorded by hand on Free, and the booking carries that just as clearly as a card would.
- Group builds get a quoteInstruction, bench time, timber and machine hours are itemised for a private group, then the agreed figure stays on the booking.
Start taking woodworking class bookings today
Set up in minutes. 200 bookings a month free, no card needed.
One app for every booking
Everything you need to run your woodworking class business.
Capacity that holds
Size the class to the vices the bench run genuinely holds. Each confirmed booking lowers that number and booking stops at the final bench.
Email reminders
Turn confirmations and reminders on, and each learner is emailed the start time, the timber list and what to wear around the extractor.
Common questions.
Set the capacity to your usable benches. Each confirmed booking takes one off the number left, and booking stops at the final bench.
Yes. A single booking can hold more than one bench, and each bench it holds counts against the same class capacity.
Yes. A weekly or monthly standing booking holds it, ending never, on a date, or after a chosen number of sittings.
It returns to the class immediately, so the number left and the timetable stay right without anyone going in to correct them.
Yes. Turn on confirmation and reminder emails, and everyone booked receives the time, the bench details and what to bring.
Paying by card at the point of booking comes with Pro. On Free, cash and bank transfer are recorded by hand on the booking.