Start with the disqualifier, because it will save you an afternoon: Bookafy is not class booking software. There is no timetable, no memberships, no class packs. If that is what you came for, we will tell you what to buy instead.
People arrive at this page meaning two very different things, and the software you need is completely different depending on which one you are.
| What you mean by “class” | What you need |
|---|---|
| A recurring timetable — 6am spin, 7am yoga, every week, 20 mats, a waitlist, memberships and 10-class packs | A class management platform. Mindbody, Momence, Punchpass, WellnessLiving, Glofox. Bookafy does none of this and will frustrate you. |
| A one-off session with several attendees — a workshop, an intro seminar, an open house, a training session, a group demo | Bookafy will do this. Group Event Scheduling books as many people as you like into a single slot. |
| One-to-one appointments that you happen to call classes — a private lesson, a 1:1 PT session, a tutoring hour | Bookafy, comfortably. That is an appointment, and it is what the product is for. |
These are the features Bookafy genuinely does not have. If any one of them is load-bearing for your business, stop here and buy a proper class system — no amount of configuration will fake them:
Class businesses live and die on the billing, not the calendar. That is why class platforms cost what they cost, and it is why a general booking tool is not a substitute.
Bookafy supports Group Event Scheduling: many customers booked into a single event. That covers a surprising amount of ground — a free intro webinar, a monthly open evening, a workshop, a new-client orientation, an investor Q&A, a group demo. One slot, many bookings, one set of reminders, and everyone lands on the same calendar entry.
Almost every class business also sells one-to-one time, and that is usually the part their class platform handles worst: the intro consultation, the assessment, the private lesson, the sales call with a prospective member. Those are appointments. Bookafy will publish them, route them to the right instructor by skill, sync to that instructor’s own calendar, remind by SMS and take the card — for $7 per user per month billed yearly.
Running a class platform for the timetable and Bookafy for the one-to-ones is a perfectly sane setup, and it is cheaper than upgrading your class platform’s tier to get decent 1:1 booking.
Bookafy also does multi-user appointments (one customer, several of your staff) and round-robin routing (the booking goes to whoever is next up). Neither is a class — but both are what people often actually need when they go looking for “group booking”.
We would rather lose the sale than have you spend a month discovering that list one item at a time.
| Plan | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | One user, unlimited appointments, email confirmations. No calendar sync, no SMS, no payments. |
| Pro | $7/user/mo billed yearly | Unlimited instructors, two-way calendar sync, SMS reminders, payments via Stripe or Authorize.net, group events. |
| Pro+ | $11/user/mo | HIPAA, second SMS reminder, custom API, optional white-label. |
No. There is no recurring class schedule, no memberships, no class packs and no waitlist. If you run a weekly timetable, a class platform such as Mindbody, Momence or Punchpass is the right purchase.
Yes. Group Event Scheduling lets you book as many customers as you like into a single event, which covers workshops, seminars, open evenings, orientations and group demos. What it does not do is regenerate a weekly timetable or track memberships.
No. Bookafy takes single payments at booking through Stripe or Authorize.net. It has no credit packs, no memberships, no credit deduction and no expiry logic.
No. Bookafy has no automatic waitlist and will not promote someone from a waitlist when a booking is cancelled.
Yes, and many businesses do. Keep the timetable, memberships and check-in in the class platform, and use Bookafy for the one-to-one work around it – intro consultations, assessments, private lessons and sales calls – with its own calendar sync, SMS reminders and payments.
Try it on your own calendar. Bookafy is free for one user with unlimited appointments, and Pro is $7 per user per month billed yearly.
If you are still working out which tool you need, start with the overview: appointment scheduling software — what it does, what it costs, and when you should buy something else.
Also useful: every Bookafy integration, in three honest lists — what is native, what needs Zapier, and what we simply do not do. And the pricing page, where the feature matrix is the real answer to “is that on the free plan”.
