Booking system for theatre and drama schools
A booking page for your theatre school's classes, holiday workshops and productions
Macadamia gives your theatre or drama school a booking page where parents can book weekly classes, whole terms, holiday workshops and one-to-one lessons, and buy tickets for your productions. Card payments are made through Stripe and paid into your own account. For each class, term or workshop, you decide whether parents pay the full amount, spread it in instalments, pay a deposit or pay on the day.
Free to start. No card needed until you choose a paid plan.
Classes, terms and workshops
Each kind of session is set up to match the way you run it
Weekly classes for each age group repeat automatically, and each one has its own price, number of places and venue. A term is a set of dates that parents book and pay for together, and you can run it again with new dates the following term. Holiday workshops have their own date, price and places. One-to-one lessons in acting, singing or audition technique are appointments booked from the hours you set, and a student's regular weekly slot can be kept for them.
- Weekly classes by age group
- Terms, booked and paid together
- Holiday workshops and summer schools
- Acting, singing and audition lessons
Booking a class or term
A booking page parents can use on a phone
Your booking page has its own web address, which you can share as a link or add to the website you already have. It lists the next few dates first, then this week day by day, with the time, price and places left for each class. Parents can book several children in one go, with a name for each, and they don't need an app or a password to do it. You can add your own booking questions, such as each child's age, and parents can tick a photo consent agreement before they book, with the wording they agreed to kept with the booking.
- Several children, each with their own name
- Photo consent ticked at booking
- Places left for each class
- A waitlist when a class fills up
Productions and tickets
Tickets for your productions are sold from the same page as your classes
Each production is set up as a performance with its own date, venue and number of tickets, and it appears on your booking page next to your classes and workshops. You can sell different ticket types for the same performance, such as adult, child and concession, each at its own price. A family can buy several tickets in a single booking, and confirmations and reminders are sent to them by email.
- Adult, child and concession prices
- A set number of tickets for each performance
- Several tickets in one booking
- Email confirmations and reminders
Paying
How parents pay
You set the payment options separately for each class, term, workshop and lesson. Card payments go through Stripe and land in your own account.
Refunds can go back to the parent's card or be kept as credit for another booking.
Also included
The smaller things that help with running your school week to week.
- Changes emailed
- When you move or cancel a class, everyone booked on it gets an email.
- Automatic refunds
- Cancel a single class and online payments are refunded automatically.
- Cancellations
- Parents cancel from their login, within the notice period you set.
- Discount codes
- A percentage or a fixed amount off, with a limit on how many times each code can be used.
- Free taster classes
- A ticket type priced at £0, so new students can try a class.
- Student records
- Each student's bookings and attendance, with who booked their place, and each parent's passes and payments.
- Financial reports
- Income broken down by period, class or payment type.
- Venues and teachers
- Run classes at more than one venue, and bring in other teachers on the Team plan.
Plans and prices
Core costs £15 a month and Team costs £25
The main booking features come with every plan, including Free, so it's a sensible place to begin. On a paid plan, Macadamia doesn't take a commission on your bookings, your booking page can sit on your own domain, and the Macadamia credit is removed. If several teachers give one-to-one lessons, Team gives each of them their own hours and lesson types.
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 families of the cast get a discount on show tickets?
Yes. You can create a discount code for them, with a limit on how many times it's used, and they enter it when they book their tickets.
Can a summer school be booked as one course across several days?
Yes. A summer school can be set up as a course, a set of dates that parents book and pay for together.
Can audition coaching sessions be longer than our singing lessons?
Yes. Each type of lesson has its own length and price, so audition coaching and singing lessons can be set up separately.
Can I keep notes on a student's progress in their one-to-one lessons?
Yes. Each lesson has space for notes, and you can also keep ongoing notes on the student's record.
Macadamia for other kinds of teaching
The same booking page, set up for how other people work.