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A tutor guides makers using sewing machines in an active dressmaking class in the UK

Sewing and dressmaking booking software for the UK.

Sell a place per machine rather than a vague number of seats, and let a six-week course hold the same Tuesday evening from toile to finished hem.

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  • Booking tied to sewing machines
  • The overlocker is shared, not doubled
  • Groups book places together
  • Tutor hours stay accurate
  • Email reminders before class

Online booking

People book the right machine place

Someone picks the Tuesday evening class, takes one machine and sees the number left fall. Once the last machine goes, that class quietly closes.

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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

The six-week course holds its evening

Each class, the tutor taking it and every claimed machine sit on one timetable, so a course and a one-off workshop never want the same bench.

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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 · Chorlton
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 has threaded a machine before, and two of them will need it done for them. Cap it at the machines you can set up beforehand.

Dressmaking courses

One garment across six weeks. A weekly standing booking keeps the same eight people on the same evening from the toile to the final fitting.

Pattern cutting

A pattern layout wants table space rather than a machine. Cap the class at the layouts the cutting table honestly takes side by side.

Alteration workshops

Everyone arrives with a garment that nearly fits. One machine each, a short evening, and the count on the page matches the room.

Machine introductions

An hour on threading, tension and a straight seam. One person to a machine, and booking shuts as the last one is claimed.

Private groups

A hen party or an office group takes the whole studio for an afternoon. Quote it first, then hold every machine under a single booking.

School-holiday sewing

A half-term week of teenagers making something they will wear out. Dated sessions, capped at the machines, with a reminder the day before.

Open studio sessions

Regulars bring their own project and take a machine for two hours. Those places count down exactly as a taught class does.

Dressmaking: built for evening classes.

The cap is the number of machines you can thread, not an optimistic round number. A full class simply stops selling places.

  • Options, with Pro

    A one-off Saturday workshop, a weekly place for a regular and a whole term course as a standing booking can all sit on one timetable. A quote covers a private group asking for the studio to itself.

A private course for a small group, priced before it starts.
Estimate #1042
Gemma Whitfield
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 · Chorlton
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
Gemma Whitfield
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

Who is at which machine tonight

The day lists each class, the tutor taking it, the machines still free and the places already paid for, in one place.

  • The cap is already countedConfirmed places have come off the machine count, so nobody is walking the benches at ten to seven working out whether one more will fit.
  • The right tutor is on itWorking hours and taught classes decide who can be on, so a Tuesday evening never opens for booking with nobody free to run it.
  • Regulars are already thereA standing booking carries the same eight people into every remaining evening of the course, so nobody types the register out a second time.

The last machine closes the class

Customers see the real number of machine places left. When that reaches nothing, the class stops taking bookings online.

  • One public numberEveryone sees the same count, including the two places one person took together for themselves and a friend inside a single booking.
  • No hopeful extra placeA full class stays full. Nobody is doubled up on a bench, and there is no queue behind the single overlocker everyone wants at the end.
  • Quieter times stay visibleThe thin Thursday sits beside the full Tuesday, so somebody turned away from one evening can see the one that still has machines free.

The whole course paid in one go

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

  • Paid when the place is chosenOn Pro the card is taken as the machine place is claimed, so the register and the money arrive together rather than being reconciled afterwards.
  • Desk payments still countAnyone handing over 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 tutor time, the machines, patterns and the cutting table for a private group. Once accepted, the agreed amount stays with the booking.

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Online booking

Someone chooses a class, takes one machine place and either pays or settles later. The machines left on the public page drop by one at once.

Scheduling

Classes, tutors and claimed machines share a single timetable, so a heaving Tuesday and a thin Thursday are both apparent without ringing anybody.

Capacity that holds

The class is set to the machines you can actually thread. Every confirmed place takes one off, and the final machine closes booking rather than stretching it.

Email reminders

Switch on a confirmation and a reminder before the class so everyone has the time and the fabric list, rather than half of them turning up empty-handed.

Customers

One record per maker holds the classes they have sat, the payments taken and the garment they were halfway through the last time they were in.

Estimates

Draw up a quote for a private group covering tutor time, machine use, patterns and cutting-table space. They accept it online by typing their name.

Team

Give each tutor genuine working hours and the classes they can take, so an evening only opens for booking when both tutor and machines are free.

Payments

Cash and bank transfer are recorded by hand on Free. With Pro the full class fee goes on a card as the machine place is claimed, and shows as paid.

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Common questions.

Yes. Capacity is a number you set, each confirmed place counts against it, and booking closes on the last machine instead of one hopeful place beyond it.

Yes. One booking can take more than one machine place, and each of those places comes off the same capacity, so the public number stays accurate.

Yes. A weekly or monthly standing booking ends never, ends on a date, or ends after a chosen number of sessions, and it is on the Free plan.

The place returns to the machine count, so the class shows one more free bench and the next person to look sees the corrected number.

Yes. Enable the confirmation and the reminder and everyone receives the time and the practical details. Both are off until you switch them on.

With Pro they pay the full class fee by card as they book. On Free you record cash and bank transfer by hand against the same booking.

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