1.9% fee per bookinginstead of 2.5%, for as long as you're a customer
Free to get up and running, and you only pay when you get paid. Sewing Club listeners get our lowest rate on every booking, permanently.
Set up your studio →- No monthly fees
- No credit card to start
- No lock-in contract
your rate
1.9%
24% below the standard rate, for life
The CourseSpot fee on each booking, for the life of your account. Everyone else pays 2.5%.
Plus standard Stripe merchant fees, charged by Stripe and the same on any rate.
No monthly fee, no setup fee, and no card needed to start. You only pay when you get paid.
the headaches
What you're dealing with now
- A shop platform doing a job it was never built for, because a course is not a product
- No easy way to see who is on which course, when they are coming, and what they are working on
- Two systems running side by side, and the work of keeping both straight
- A monthly fee in the months you run nothing
with coursespot
What you get instead
- Classes, bookings and payments in one place, built for courses rather than products
- See what is coming up, who is booked on, and what each student is working on
- The same view on your phone, so you can check the next class from anywhere
- A site built from what you already have, your Facebook page included
- A percentage of each booking, and nothing at all in a quiet month
Not running classes yet? That is a fine place to start. CourseSpot builds your booking site from whatever you already have, a Facebook page is plenty, and most studios are taking bookings within a day.
See CourseSpot in action
A closer look at what makes managing your studio effortless.
AI-Powered Setup from Your Existing Website
Paste your website URL and CourseSpot scans it automatically, extracting your logo, colours, contact details, and hero image. Your booking site arrives pre-configured.
- Auto-extract logo and brand colours
- Pull in your social links
- Hero image downloaded and ready
- Your details and branding, filled in for you
Complete Bookings Dashboard
A full view of every booking across all your courses. Filter, sort, export, and take action without digging through spreadsheets.
- Filter by status, course, class or session, active or past
- Export any view to CSV
- Add bookings taken over the phone
- Move, cancel or refund from the booking
Your Money, Your Bank Account
CourseSpot uses Stripe Connect so every payment goes directly to your bank account, not ours. View payments, payouts, and balances from your embedded Stripe dashboard, and process full, partial, or custom refunds without leaving CourseSpot.
- Payments deposited directly to your bank account
- Embedded Stripe dashboard for payments, payouts, and balances
- Full, partial, or custom refund processing
- Transparent payout timing and transaction history
Analytics Dashboard
Track what's growing and what needs attention. Revenue, fill rates, and student acquisition in one clean view.
- Revenue trends over time
- Class fill percentage by course
- New students each month and your repeat-student rate
- All in one dashboard
Course Add-Ons
Upsell materials kits, equipment hire, or recordings directly on your course page. Students add extras at checkout without leaving the flow.
- Single-variant add-ons in a lightbox
- Multi-variant add-ons with full detail page
- No extra checkout steps
- Included in booking confirmation
AI Writing Assistant
AI writing help is built into the forms you use most. Write better course descriptions, bios, and materials lists in seconds, or let AI improve what you've already written.
- Drafts based on your business context
- Available on descriptions, materials, bios, booking notices, policies and emails
- Improve existing text with one click
- Saves time across every course
AI Chatbots for You and Your Students
Your admin panel includes an AI assistant that can look up bookings, check class availability, and answer questions about your business. Your public booking website gets its own chatbot too, so students can ask about courses, schedules, and pricing without waiting for a reply.
- Admin AI assistant with access to your business data
- Public chatbot on your booking website for students
- Configurable personality and daily message budgets
- Answers questions about courses, schedules, and availability
Interactive Schedule Calendar
Students tap any day on your schedule page to see a pop-up with full class details, availability, and a Book button. No page navigation required.
- Tap to see class details and times
- Availability shown in real time
- Direct Book button in the pop-up
- Mobile-friendly
All of it, at 1.9%
Every feature below is included. There are no tiers to choose between and nothing held back for a bigger plan.
Set up your studio →AI & Automation
AI-Powered Setup
Paste your existing website URL and CourseSpot auto-extracts your name, logo, colours, contact info, and hero image. Start pre-filled, not from scratch.
AI Writing Assistant
AI writing help on course descriptions, materials lists, team bios, booking notices, policies and emails. Draft from scratch or improve what you've already written.
AI Image Generation
No photographer needed. Describe the vibe and AI generates a professional course image instantly, ready to use on your course page.
AI Chatbots
An AI assistant in your admin panel that knows your business data, plus a public chatbot on your booking website so students can ask about courses and availability.
Bookings & Sales
Multi-Session Courses
Create single or multi-session courses with auto-generated lessons, recurring schedules and capacity limits. Choose when bookings open and close, mark absences on the class roster and book make-ups.
Bookings & Refunds
Filter by status, course, class or session, and export to CSV. Add bookings taken over the phone, move a student to another class with the price difference shown, and process full, partial or custom refunds.
Custom Booking Questions
Add per-course custom fields to your booking form, collecting dietary requirements, experience level, or anything you need.
Course Add-Ons
Sell optional extras (materials kits, equipment hire, recordings) directly on your course pages. Set stock limits per class, such as 2 hire machines.
Your Booking Website
Custom Domain & SEO
Your own booking website, hosted, on your own domain (e.g. book.yourstudio.com). Set your Google title, description and share image, with a preview of how you'll look in search.
Interactive Schedule
Students tap a day to see a pop-up with course details, availability, and a direct Book button. Call them classes, sessions, lessons, workshops or your own word, across your site and emails.
Pages, Policies & Analytics
About, Contact, FAQ and Policies pages with bold, italic, bullet points and links, plus AI help drafting your policies. Connect Google Analytics.
Home Studio Privacy
Teach from home? Show only your suburb publicly. Your street address goes to students once they've booked.
Business Tools
Analytics Dashboard
Track revenue trends, booking rates, class fill percentages, and student acquisition, all in one view.
Payments Dashboard
An embedded Stripe dashboard right inside CourseSpot. View payments, payouts, balances, and transaction history.
Flexible Pricing
Offer named prices like Adult, Concession or Parent + child, and choose how many spots each one takes. Charge a peak price at your busiest times, or set a different price for a single class.
Shop & Payment Requests
Turn on a Shop tab to sell kits and extras without a booking, and track pickups. Send any student a payment link for a one-off amount.
Admin & Team
Team & Student Import
Invite staff by email as Admin or Staff, and remove access at any time. Bring your student list across from a CSV or Excel file. AI suggests the column matches and you check them.
Email Automation
Automated emails for confirmations, reminders, cancellations, refunds, and more. Send reminders from 6 hours to 1 week ahead, with your before-you-arrive notes. Confirmations include an add-to-calendar file. On/off switches, custom sender name and delivery tracking.
Student Communication
Email a class, everyone who has booked a course, or your interest list. Keep notes on each student alongside their full booking history.
Secure & Compliant
SSL encryption and PCI compliance via Stripe for peace of mind.
where it came from
Built for a sewing school first
CourseSpot started as the booking system behind Sewing Gem, because running courses on a shop platform meant never quite seeing who was coming to what. It still runs that studio's classes every week.
Other teachers began asking what she was using, and there was no good answer to give them. So it became something anyone teaching classes can pick up, and this is that offer, for the people who heard about it first.
good questions
How the Sewing Club offer works
Do I need to enter a code?
No. The offer is attached to this page, so it follows you from here even if you have a read around first and come back to sign up later. You will see it named on the setup screen before you finish.
Is 1.9% really forever?
Yes. 1.9% is 24% below the 2.5% everyone else pays, and it is the rate for the life of your account, not an introductory period. There is no renewal date and nothing to remember.
What does Stripe charge on top?
Stripe takes its own processing fee of 1.65% + 30c on domestic Australian cards. That goes to Stripe, not to us, and it is the same whichever rate you are on.
Do I have to teach sewing?
No. CourseSpot runs pottery studios, language schools, yoga classes and anything else booked by the course or the session. It started in a sewing school, which is why it handles the details that matter there.
Do I need to be technical?
No. If you are starting out, it can build your booking site from what you already have, including your Facebook page, and set it up in your own branding.
Is there a monthly fee?
No. You only pay when you take a booking, so a quiet month costs you nothing.
Do I need a credit card to start?
No. There is nothing to pay up front and no card to enter. You connect Stripe when you are ready to take money.
Am I locked in?
No lock-in. You can stop whenever you like, and your students and bookings are yours to export.
I signed up already, without this page. Can I still get 1.9%?
Yes. Email hello@coursespot.app with your studio name and we will move you across.
1.9%, for the life of your account
A small Australian team, built out of the booking system behind a busy sewing studio. Set yours up in a few minutes, with nothing to pay until someone books.
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