Booking system for meditation teachers
A booking page for your meditation sits, courses, retreats and one-to-one guidance
Macadamia gives you a booking page where students can book weekly sits, whole courses, day and residential retreats and one-to-one guidance with you. Card payments go through Stripe into your own account, and you decide for each thing you run whether students pay in full, in instalments, with a deposit or on the day, and you can offer free places too.
Free to start. No card needed until you choose a paid plan.
Sits, courses and guidance
Set up each sit, course and session the way you run it
Weekly sits and classes repeat on their own, and each one has its own price, number of places and venue. A course, such as an eight-week course, is a set of dates that students book and pay for as a whole, and you can run it again later with new dates. A free community sit can have a ticket type priced at £0. One-to-one guidance is an appointment for a single student, booked from the hours you make available, and it can be held in person or online with your own meeting link.
- Weekly sits and classes
- Courses, booked and paid as a whole
- Free community sits
- One-to-one guidance, in person or online
Retreats
Take a deposit for a retreat, or let students pay in instalments
A retreat has its own dates, price and number of places, whether it's a single day or several days in residence. For each retreat you choose how students pay, so it can be the full amount at booking, a deposit with the balance paid later, or instalments taken from a saved card every month or week, as you choose. Students can pay any balance from their own login, and they're reminded by email before it's due. Ticket types let you offer a concession price alongside the standard one.
- Day and residential retreats
- A deposit, then the balance
- Instalments at regular intervals
- Standard and concession prices
Your booking page
One page for everything you teach, and it works well on a phone
Your booking page has its own web address, which you can share as a link or add to a website you already have. It shows the next few dates first, then this week day by day, with the time, price and places left for each sit or class. Students book without an app or a password, choose a standard, concession or free place, or pay what they can on a sliding scale, and answer any questions you've added. When a sit is full, students can join a waitlist, and if a place comes free, the first person in line is emailed and has it held for them, for 24 hours by default.
- Standard, concession and free places
- Your own booking questions
- A waitlist for full sits
- Confirmations and reminders by email
Paying
Fees and payment options
You choose how students pay for each sit, course, retreat and type of guidance session. Card payments go through Stripe and into your own account.
Refunds can go back to the student's card or be given as credit towards a later booking.
On Macadamia
Will Evans Meditation
Will Evans Meditation offers meditation teaching, guided practices, retreats, courses, workshops and 1:1 guidance, in person in Devon and online. It all runs from its own Macadamia site.
Visit willevansmeditation.co.uk →Also included
The smaller things that help with running your sits, courses and retreats.
- Changes emailed
- If you move a sit or change its venue, everyone booked gets an email.
- Automatic refunds
- Cancel a single sit and online payments are refunded automatically.
- Cancellations
- Students can cancel from their login within the notice period you set.
- Google Calendar
- Guidance sessions appear in your calendar, and busy times from the calendars you choose can't be booked.
- Online sessions
- Your meeting link, access code and joining notes go in the confirmation email.
- Student records
- Each student's bookings, attendance, passes, memberships and payments in one place.
- Financial reports
- Income by period, by sit or course, or by payment type.
- Venues and teachers
- Teach in more than one place, and add other teachers on the Team plan.
Plans and prices
Core is £15 a month, and Team is £25
Every plan includes the main booking features, so Free is a good place to start. The paid plans take no commission on your bookings and let you use your own domain without the Macadamia credit, and Team is there for centres with several teachers offering guidance.
Free
£0 a month
4% of online payments, and a small Macadamia credit on your page.
Core
£15 a month
No commission, your own domain and no credit. For one teacher.
Team
£25 a month
Everything in Core, for several teachers.
At around £375 a month in online bookings, Core costs less than Free. Paid plans start with a 30-day trial, and there's no charge until you go live, or 30 days, whichever comes first. Stripe's own card fees apply on every plan.
Compare the plans →Questions
The main FAQ covers payments, your data and your domain in more detail.
Can I ask about dietary needs and health before a retreat?
Yes. A retreat can ask your own questions as students book, such as dietary needs. If you're asking about health too, the questions can be sent as a questionnaire after booking instead, with the answers kept out of notification emails.
Are my notes from guidance sessions kept private?
Yes, if you turn on sensitive client records. Your notes are then encrypted and can only be read by you, your admins and the teachers who see that student.
Can a student keep the same weekly time for guidance?
Yes. You can hold a regular weekly slot for a student, so that time is kept for them each week.
Can a student book a retreat place for a friend?
Yes. One booking can include several places, with a name for each person attending.
Macadamia for other kinds of teaching
The same booking page, set up for how other people work.