Every pupil takes their own half hour from your page, on the evening you actually teach, rather than arranging it again with you every Sunday. What the lesson costs is paid as it is booked, and the half hour somebody gives up goes back onto the evening while there is still time to sell it.
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A peripatetic teacher sells the same evening every week to the same families, so all of this is about holding a half hour and being paid for it without asking.
A thirty-minute beginner lesson and an hour of grade five preparation are different things with different prices. A parent picks the right one rather than describing it and waiting for a reply.
On the free plan a pupil takes that same Tuesday from your page themselves, week by week, and never has to ask you for it. On the paid plans one booking holds it for ten weeks with a last date on it, and the slot comes back on its own when the term ends.
Take what a lesson costs through PayPal as the pupil books it, so nobody is chasing eight pounds in March for a Tuesday in January. Selling the run instead (a term or a block of ten, with the count coming down each week) is on the paid plans.
A pupil who moved away, a Saturday theory lesson, the week somebody is ill. The joining link is generated with the booking, and on the paid plans the page shows slots in the pupil’s own local time.
Every confirmation carries a link the parent can use to move or cancel, and reminders before the lesson are on the paid plans, so a school concert on Tuesday becomes a Thursday rather than a message that arrives after the lesson has already not happened. The slot goes back onto that evening’s availability where the pupil who has been asking for something earlier can take it, and you decide how much notice is needed before the link stops working, which is what makes the difference between a lesson moved and a lesson lost.
A peripatetic teacher is in a primary school on Monday, a secondary on Wednesday and their own front room on Thursday and Friday, and each of those has different hours, a different room and often a different way of being paid. Set each one up as its own location with its own hours, and the booking page only ever offers the slots that exist at the place you will actually be. A parent booking a Thursday sees the front room; a school booking Monday sees Monday. Everything still lands in one calendar.
Five to five on a Tuesday. The four o’clock has gone, the five thirty is in the car park, and the five o’clock is not coming: their mother sent a message on Sunday that is somewhere above eleven others. You find out by sitting in an empty room for half an hour.
It is the same half hour that three people have asked about since September, because everybody wants a slot before six and there are only four of them. The lesson is not paid for, it is not rescheduled, and nothing anywhere records that Tuesday at five was available on Sunday night to anyone who had been told.
Picktime gives every family a link. They book the instrument and the slot themselves, they move their own lessons, and the half hour somebody gives up goes onto the page the moment it is given, where the family that has been waiting for a five o’clock can take it.
List each lesson you give as its own bookable thing with its price, including thirty minutes of beginner guitar, an hour of grade five piano and a theory session. Set the evenings and hours you actually teach at each place.
Charge for each lesson as it is booked, take a deposit, or take nothing. On the paid plans, sell the whole term or a block of ten up front. Say how much notice a family must give to move a lesson, so a cancellation on the night is still a lesson you have been paid for.
Put it in your email signature, on your listing, in the school newsletter or behind a QR code on a card in the music room. The next parent who asks whether you have anything before six can see the answer.
A first lesson goes better when you already know the instrument is a three-quarter size, that they did two years with somebody else, that the exam is in March and that the piano at home is out of tune. On the paid plans the booking form asks whatever you write into it, including the grade they are working towards, the board, what they have at home and whether a parent is staying, and the answers arrive attached to the lesson. On the free plan it goes onto their record instead of into a message thread you have to go looking for. Ten minutes of the first half hour stops being a conversation about logistics, which on a thirty-minute lesson is a third of it.
The free plan is a plan, not a trial. There is no date at which it stops, no card to add, and nothing that quietly turns off in a fortnight.
A lesson lands in the calendar you already have open, and the paid plans sync it both ways, which is what stops a Thursday being given away twice. On the same plans an online lesson gets a Zoom or Meet link generated with the booking and sent on the confirmation, and a term is paid through the provider you already use.
Picktime runs in a browser on a phone as well as a laptop, and there are iOS and Android apps, so a teacher between two schools can see who is at five o’clock without opening anything.
It depends whether you want scheduling or a whole studio system. Picktime does the scheduling (a booking page per instrument and length, and pupil records) free for one teacher, with the same weekly slot held for a term on the paid plans. If you also need lesson notes, practice logs and family billing statements, that is a music studio platform.
Yes. Picktime’s free plan gives one teacher a booking page, pupils booking and moving their own lessons, pupil records and email notifications, with no card and no end date. Recurring weekly lessons and booking fields you write yourself are on the paid plans. Pupils and parents need nothing installed: the page opens in any browser.
Yes, on the paid plans, as one recurring booking with a last date on it rather than ten separate ones. They hold Tuesday at five for the term, and the slot returns to the page when the term ends without you clearing it.
The parent moves or cancels it themselves from the link on their confirmation, and the half hour goes straight back onto that evening for somebody else. You set how much notice is required before that link stops working, so a cancellation on the night is still a lesson you have been paid for.
Yes, on the paid plans. Sell the run as a pack, take the money through a payment provider you connect, and the count comes down as lessons are taken. Nobody is working out in March what is owed for January.
Yes, on the paid plans. Connect Zoom or Google Meet and a joining link is generated with each booking and sent on the confirmation. The page also shows slots in the pupil’s own local time, which matters the moment one of them moves abroad.
Yes. Each teaching place is set up as its own location with its own hours, and the booking page only offers the slots that exist where you will actually be. All of them still show in one calendar.
Nothing is best at all of it, and for teaching the question narrows quickly. Can a pupil take a half hour rather than an hour? Can one slot be held every week until the end of term? Does a lesson somebody drops go back on sale without you doing anything? Picktime does the first on the free plan and the second on the paid ones. A tool built around one-to-one meetings usually stops at the first and leaves you arranging the rest by message.
Their own pricing page is the only figure worth having, and we will not reprint one we have not checked today. The more useful comparison is what each price buys: a studio platform charges for the whole system, lesson notes and family billing included, whether or not you use them, while the free plan here covers one teacher taking bookings and being paid for them. Decide first whether you want the notes and the diary in the same product, because that, rather than the monthly figure, is what you are choosing between.
It splits by who is holding the phone. For the pupil, the good ones are for practice, tuning and ear training, and none of them books a lesson. For the teacher, the app that matters is whatever a parent opens at nine at night to move Thursday, and it needs to be a booking page rather than a message you answer between pupils.
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Subjects and levels The same weekly hour, sold as a term and paid for once.
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