Seats and materials
Cap each session at the easels, tables or kits you’ve prepared, so nobody arrives to an empty place.
Sell every seat at the easel
A Tuesday watercolour course, a Saturday life-drawing session, a candle-making evening booked as a gift. Groopla puts your classes and workshops on one booking page, caps each one at the seats and materials you have, and takes a deposit or the full price when people book.
Multi-week courses
Run a six-week course as a weekly session with an end date, and sell a matching course pack.
One-off workshops
Add a workshop whenever you plan one, with its own price, next to your regular classes.
Deposits or full price
Ask for a deposit to hold the seat and take the rest on the day, or take the full price up front.
Waitlists for sold-out sessions
When a workshop is full, people join the waitlist and get the next free seat with a text.
Reminders before the day
Workshops are often booked weeks ahead, so Groopla texts the day before and again before it starts.
Materials are bought before anyone arrives
You buy the paper, paint, wax or ingredients in advance. An empty seat wastes them and the fee, and an extra person you can’t seat is worse. Groopla stops bookings at the number you set and takes payment as people book, so your list matches what you prepared.
Your late-cancellation rule is shown where people book: cancel in time and the deposit goes back, cancel late and the seat goes to the waitlist.
For every kind of class
Studios and teachers use it for:
- Painting, drawing and life-drawing sessions.
- Crafts such as candle making, embroidery, jewellery and printmaking.
- Cooking, baking and wine classes.
- Photography walks and other one-off workshops.
Questions
Can people book a whole course at once?
Each week is booked as its own session. Sell a course pack, and ask people to book all the weeks when they buy it.
Can I sell gift vouchers?
Not as vouchers yet. Take the payment yourself and add a pass to the recipient’s record by hand.
Can someone book two seats?
Each person books their own seat with their own phone number, which also means both get the reminder.
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Sell every seat
Add your classes and workshops today and share one link to book them.