Workshop Booking Software for Small Classes

Choose SocialLoop for ticketed workshops with a guest list, door check-in, repeat invitations and supported agentic setup. Each workshop gets its own capacity and admission records, so the purchase and the list at the door agree. You can keep your Instagram audience while sending it to one checkout.

Ticket Tailor is worth comparing when ticketing price and a lightweight booking flow dominate. Acuity and Bookwhen deserve a closer look when you need a studio timetable, instructor resources, self-service rescheduling or redeemable class packs. Those are specific workflows to demonstrate, not features to infer from the word “booking.”

We would choose SocialLoop Premium for the two dates. Set a $65 ticket and a 12-person capacity for each session, with materials and the intended skill level explained before checkout. Premium is $19.99 per month and includes up to 5 events, 500 community members, 3 ticket types and 3 staff per event. Free allows 1 event per month and 50 community members. Choose for your actual usage; upgrading does not lower the ticket percentage.

Put the relevant date link in your Instagram bio or post. Keep one authoritative inventory: a seat promised in a DM must also be recorded before you promise it to someone else. Explain the Chicago neighborhood, arrival time, accessibility information and what guests take home. SocialLoop already has people searching for events in Chicago and other cities. Keep the public event useful to that audience, while measuring the registrations it actually brings. No Chicago audience size or guaranteed turnout is implied.

A capacity limit, an approval queue and an automatic waitlist are different things. SocialLoop supports capacity and approval-gated tickets: a card is authorized on application and charged when you approve. Do not promise that a cancellation automatically promotes the next person, reserves their seat exclusively or sends a timed purchase offer; those steps have not been established for this workflow.

Write the cancellation deadline first. When a guest cancels, reconcile the ticket and refund, confirm the actual remaining inventory, then offer the released seat to a waiting guest using a process you can administer. Test that process before launch. Acuity documents a waitlist, and Ticket Tailor documents both waitlists and limits on self-service order changes; compare the exact behavior if automatic handling is essential.

24 separate one-ticket orders at $65.00 bring in $1560.00. With fees absorbed, transaction fees are $138.24. Add $19.99 for the monthly plan: $158.23 in software and transaction costs, leaving $1401.77 before event expenses. These US card examples use SocialLoop’s shared checkout calculation, with one ticket per order. Taxes, refunds, disputes, optional purchases and operating costs are excluded. Multi-ticket orders change the per-order processing calculation. Passing fees changes the buyer’s checkout total; compare it in the calculator before publishing a price.

Prepare two dates, one ticket type per date, the materials list, a refund contact and the reminder. Give those details to a connected assistant, review the output and test one registration. Export the final attendee list and record check-ins. Invite guests to the next suitable workshop with permission; the practical value is less repeated administration and a continuing audience, not a claim that SocialLoop is the cheapest scheduler.