Class Booking Software for Tutors, Coaches and Instructors
Teaching Businesses Rarely Sell Just One Thing
An independent Spanish tutor, a music teacher, or a coach might run a structured beginner course, a drop-in conversation or practice group, and one-to-one lessons — often in the same week, sometimes in the same room. Managing that across a booking link for one thing and a spreadsheet or DM thread for everything else is where availability starts to go wrong.
What This Kind of Business Needs from Booking Software
Courses With a Fixed Group and a Fixed Length
A six-week beginner course needs every student booked onto every session as a set, not booked week by week. Software built for classes should let a course be published once, with capacity for the whole run, rather than recreating the class six separate times.
Drop-In Sessions With Real Capacity
A weekly conversation group or open practice session needs a simple capacity limit and a booking page students can use without an account or an app download — three clicks, choose the date, done.
Private Lessons on the Same Calendar
One-to-one lessons need standard appointment booking, ideally on the same calendar as the group sessions, so a tutor isn't checking two systems to see if a time is genuinely free.
Payment Taken Upfront
Courses and one-off private lessons both benefit from payment or a deposit at the point of booking — it protects a tutor's time from last-minute cancellations, and for a multi-week course, it confirms the commitment before the course starts.
A Booking Link, Not a Booking Conversation
Many independent tutors currently run bookings through Instagram or WhatsApp messages. That works at a small scale but doesn't scale past a handful of regular students. A public booking page removes the back-and-forth entirely. See our related guide on moving from Instagram DMs to online bookings.
One System for Courses, Drop-Ins and Private Lessons
Slotivo's class booking software supports capacity-limited group sessions and courses alongside standard one-to-one appointments, with a branded booking page and no percentage commission on what you charge. Get started for free — it's free forever for a one or two-person teaching business.