Where do you want to do business?
Best booking system for creative experiences
We've spent a decade growing and fine-tuning our platform, to help thousands of teachers and makers like you to earn more and save time
Get more orders, through our marketplace
Effortlessly attract and manage private group events
Our automated emails and SMS will keep your customers informed
Capture bookings on your website and socials, with our widgets
We can work with your systems
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Get started with ClassBento in New Zealand
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Where do you want to do business?
Our booking engine was built specifically for artisan classes, and offers best-in-class functionality you won't find elsewhere.
We power the bookings for Hobbycraft (Europe's biggest art retailer with 100+ brick and mortar stores), all the way to artists and small businesses who are just starting out.
More about how we can help you
Teach the way you like
Teach in person or online, and/or sell products and craft kits
Wow your customers with video and imagery
Booking a class is an emotionally-driven decision. Make your class shine and excite your customers, with a beautiful photo and video gallery. We'll also help you automatically capture and share/show your customers' photos.
Custom branding
Our widget is easily embedded in your website page(s), and displays and captures bookings for your experiences. Our widget can be easily customised, so that it reflects your branding. We can even host your website for you.
Easily capture group bookings
Attract and secure large group booking requests easily, with our market-leading Requests and Invites features, which capture the right info upfront and automates the booking process. Say goodbye to cumbersome contact forms and tiring back-and-forth conversations.
Smart waitlists
If your dates don’t suit a customer, they can easily add themselves to your class waitlist. They'll be automatically emailed as soon as you add new dates with a link to book, ensuring you don’t miss out on these sales. And we'll collect data on their preferences, so you create new sessions at the right times.
Powerful bookings management
Easily reschedule, cancel, refund, and more, and we'll take care of associated notifications and session adjustments. You can even let your customers cancel and reschedule themselves (within your policy), saving you even more time.
Get more reviews
Our automated emails help you to capture 40%+ more reviews compared to other platforms. This will help you build trust and increase your conversion rates.
Access our audience
By default, we'll list your classes on classbento.co.nz, our fast-growing marketplace, to deliver you more customers.
Extension of your team
Our local support team is available via phone or email, to offer you customer and technical support.
You'll get all this, and more
Class Schedule
View, search and manage your upcoming sessions, and even push your sessions to your external calendar automatically or vice versa. See colour-coded heatmaps to easily identify sessions with low vs high number of bookings. You can also easily import bookings from other sources.
Transactional Emails
We'll automatically send transactional emails, including order confirmations, class reminders, review requests, abandoned cart reminders, and more. On average, these emails add an extra 10% to a teacher's earnings, and you can also include custom attachments.
QR Codes
Capture last minute in-person bookings - just get customers to scan your unique class QR code
Host your website
When you use our widget, we can host your website, for free. Use your own domain or use one of our subdomains
Gift Cards
Sell your gift cards through our booking widget. Customers can then redeem these across any of your experiences or kits.
Discount Options
Create voucher codes for discounts, individually or via bulk upload
Reporting
Easily track and analyse your performance. We'll provide automatic tips on data-driven improvement opportunities.
Payments
Take customer payments via credit cards, PayPal, Apple Pay, Google Pay
Popular integrations
We're proud winners of eCommerce and social impact awards
Pricing
No lock in contracts, no monthly fee, no setup fee, no transactional fees.
Our fee for all bookings through your website's widget is 3.9% + $0.30 per order.
Our platform makes it easy to also list your classes, experiences and products on classbento.co.nz, to get additional orders from our large and growing audience.
Orders that come via classbento.co.nz attract a 20% fee (to reflect our marketing investments there).
See details on inclusions
Easy to set up
Register
Complete our simple sign-up form. If you already have a teacher account with ClassBento, skip to step 3
Create your experience listing(s)
Use our simple form set up your experience listings. If you have lots of them on another website, we can pull them over for you.
Add the booking widget to your site
In your ClassBento dashboard, you can access and customise your widget. Copy a single line of code into your website, and your widget will appear immediately there. If you need help, we're here for you. No setup fees.
Enjoy
That's it! You can then manage all your listings and bookings via the ClassBento website
FAQs
Yes, ClassBento is one of the few booking platforms that is an approved partner for Google's Things To Do program.
Our booking platform integrates with Google's Operator Booking Module, which means that if you offer experiences in Google's supported categories (e.g. pottery or cooking classes, tours, etc), and use ClassBento, your Google Business Profile listing will automatically offer these experiences for customers to easily see and book.
We also integrate with Google's Experiences Booking Module, so your experiences will automatically appear as a result on relevant Google searches, that people can then click on to book.
We sync with the Google Things To Do system automatically, which means that when you add or remove experiences, update prices or make other changes, these will be reflected automatically in Google's Operator Booking Module and Experiences Booking Module.
This can help you to get more bookings, easily, at no extra cost.
Hear what our teachers have to say
Get started with ClassBento in New Zealand
Phone verification
It's important that you have a working mobile number that you can be contacted on.
To verify this, we've just sent you a 4 digit code via SMS, to your number.
Please enter it here to continue:
Or change your phone number and try again
Have questions or want a demo?
We'd love to hear from you. Send us a message, or call us on (09) 888 0460
How our widgets look
"Listings" widget
Show your listings via a series of image tiles. Clicking a tile will take the user to the corresponding ClassBento page (with your branding).
Example website open_in_new
"Calendar" widget
If you offer lots of instantly bookable dates, you can use our calendar widget to show it in a format that customers will be familiar with (similar in functionality to the listings widget).
Example website open_in_new
"Bookings-only" widget
If you have existing catalog and listing detail pages on your website, you can just capture the bookings (and handle dates and waitlists) with our widget.
Example website 1 open_in_new
Example website 2 open_in_new
Gift card / voucher widget
You can also sell gift cards with our widget, that can be automatically redeemed only on your listings.
Example website open_in_new
Teachers and hosts who recently joined ClassBento
More details
With ClassBento, you can easily make your classes and experiences stand out, capture and manage individual and group bookings.
We specialise only in classes and experiences, so our functionality and user experience is very intuitive and yet powerful, moreso than other 'general' order capture/management providers who try to cover all types of goods and/or services.
Come join our community of lots of teachers.
Whether you're a huge franchise or restaurant business, or an individual artist, our platform will help you save time and grow your revenue. We power the bookings for the whole range, from solo artists all the way up to the UK's biggest arts and crafts retailer, Hobbycraft.
Just copy one line of code to your website, and you'll instantly be able to display our widget, and capture orders through our online booking system. You can get a short link to use on social media too. Check out some of our partners' websites to see how our widget works:
With ClassBento's online booking and ticketing system, you can easily attract more bookings, capture them easily, and then manage them easily with our class scheduling software.
We're the perfect partner for anyone who teachers art, craft, and cooking classes, workshops or courses.
No other platform has all the features that we have - we are the specialist provider for providers of classes. We are built by teachers, for teachers.
You can easily capture bookings online via open public dates, as well as custom private group events, like corporates, hens, birthdays and other celebrations.
Once you've got that booking, you can easily reschedule, refund, or even charge students.
If you list your classes across multiple platforms, you can easily add any students from those sources, to your ClassBento classes, so that ClassBento can be your one source of truth.
There are way too many other useful features to mention, e.g. you can easily include custom attachments to your pre/post-purchase emails, take advantage of easy waitlisting, custom invoicing, automatically collect reviews, analyse your class and sales data, and much, much more.
Our goal is to eliminate all the unnecessary admin work for you, so that you can focus on your art and/or your business. We even have algorithms to help you with frequently asked questions, to automatically help enquirers and reduce the number of repetitive questions that you may get.
Life is complex enough, so we keep our fees super simple. We just take a percentage of successful bookings. There are no other fees. That's right - no setup, maintenance, integration, listing etc fees.
