Art class software that books the session and the party
It is Sunday, 9:47 PM. The laptop is open. Three DMs from a bachelorette party. A private-party email from Thursday you still have not answered. Tuesday's wheel session is short two painters. The website said Friday's sip-and-paint was full at 4 PM and you walked past four empty easels at 7. Last Tuesday three students did not show — the clay was wedged for eighteen, the instructor was paid in full, ninety-five dollars of margin evaporated on the drive home. You have promised yourself for seventy-eight weekends to fix the booking thing. Appointible holds each session as a bookable service, the party slot, the instructor schedule, the SMS reminders and the studio's customer history — and the data is yours. You do not open a tutorial. You keep teaching that week.
Built for the single-location studio with three formats and one owner who is tired.
Drop-in sip-and-paint on Friday. Wheel session every Tuesday. Kids' party on Saturday morning. Corporate canvas event on Thursday night. One owner. Two to six instructors. One brain holding the whole calendar together at 11 PM. The category was built for hobbyists at the bottom or franchise chains at the top. Appointible is the booking tool for the studio in the middle — per-session booking through services and rooms, party booking with custom fields, instructor scheduling on the team calendar, SMS reminders to stop the three-no-show Tuesday. Your customer list is yours, exportable on demand. Free import and export of your data, free onboarding with Pro.
Online Booking
A real seat grid for the sip-and-paint, the wheel course and the Saturday party.
Per-session booking for the Friday class that fills at 4 PM
Right now customers cannot see real-time availability — so the front desk calls you at 6:15 PM saying the website said full but there are fourteen people here. Appointible gives every class — sip-and-paint, wheel throwing, hand-building, watercolor, paint-your-own-pottery drop-in — its own service on the booking page with the canvas image, the supply note and the BYOB rule. A painter taps, sees Friday 7 PM open, books and gets an email confirmation in three seconds on the phone the bachelorette is holding at dinner. The moment customer trust visibly breaks stops landing on your shift.
Weekly session booking through the team calendar
Your wheel session runs every Tuesday — a wedge of clay per painter, bisque firing schedule, glaze pickup the following week. A new student wants to start next Tuesday; right now you are pulling out a calculator and re-doing the math the platform could not. Appointible holds each Tuesday as a bookable session against the wheel-room calendar, with appointment custom fields capturing skill level and supply needs. The team calendar shows every session on one screen, and client segmentation surfaces the returning painters before the next round opens.
Private parties and corporate events captured before the inquiry goes cold
The Saturday birthday is eight kids, two parents, the unicorn mug, an hour of painting plus thirty for cake. The Thursday corporate team-build is sixteen people, two bottles of wine, the abstract pour. Right now the inquiry sits in your inbox for four days because you were teaching, the customer books a competitor, and you find the email after the seat is gone. Appointible holds your party services — kids' pottery party, adult pour-and-sip, baby-shower handprint, corporate canvas event — each with from–to, fixed, or varies pricing. Appointment custom fields capture the headcount and theme.
Student Communication
Reminders, two-way SMS and the win-back to the painter you have not seen since spring.
Reminders that stop the three-no-show Tuesday
Last Tuesday three students did not show. The clay was wedged for eighteen. The instructor was paid for a full class. You did ninety-five dollars of margin math on the drive home, and you have done this math seven times this month. Appointible sends every painter an email confirmation the moment they book, an SMS reminder the morning of (Pro), and a custom scheduled notification an arrive-fifteen-minutes-early text with parking and the door code. The painter shows up on time, or cancels in time.
Two-way SMS so the studio number stops being your personal cell
The birthday-party mom wants to know if a four-year-old can paint a mug, whether you supply aprons, whether the cake can come in, whether the unicorn or the dinosaur is more popular this month. The corporate organizer wants to add two of fourteen people to canvas night. Right now those questions go to your Instagram DMs at 10 PM, and you answer them between glaze pours — the access you built is the bottleneck you now resent. Appointible's messages inbox (Pro) on a rented local or branded studio phone number puts every party host's question, every reschedule, every can-my-six-year-old-do-this thread in one place any instructor on shift can answer. The personal touch is your time in the studio, not the inbox triage at midnight.
SMS win-back to the painter who has not booked since spring
The mom who came to three sip-and-paints last spring with her sister has not booked since May. The wheel student who took the spring session said she loved it and disappeared. The corporate organizer whose team did the summer pour is overdue for the holiday version. Use client segmentation to find the painters who have not booked in 90 days, then fire an SMS campaign (Pro) with a one-tap link to the new fall canvas night or the holiday ornament workshop. Your customer list is yours, exportable day one. We do not email them about other studios.
Studio Operations
Instructor scheduling, seat capacity and a supply order that is not a guess on Monday morning.
Instructor scheduling without the group text you manage between firings
Saturday needs two instructors — one for the 11 AM kids' pottery party, one for the 7 PM canvas night. The wheel teacher only does adult sessions on Tuesdays. The kids' after-school instructor cannot do Fridays. Right now this is a group chat you manage between firings, and you have scheduled instructors for days they specifically asked off because the policy lived in your head. Appointible holds every instructor's service-provider work schedule, vacation time, and service assignments (which classes they teach). The Saturday team calendar gets built from one screen. The schedule your instructors deserve, shipped a week in advance.
Room booking the next session actually respects
The wheel room is its own room on the rooms calendar. The canvas studio is another. The kids' party room is a third. Right now you cannot see your own availability without clicking through every class. Appointible's rooms calendar holds each room's availability, and the booking page only offers slots when the right room is free. Block the wheel for the Tuesday session against drop-ins. The walk-past-the-wheel-station moment stops being yours to carry alone.
Bookings per class per week, visible before the supply order
Every canvas seat is a stretched canvas, paint, a brush set, one palette. Every wheel seat is a wedge of clay, a glaze pull, kiln gas, the bisqueware the studio fronts. Every pottery-party seat is a unicorn mug or a dinosaur bank, paint, glaze and a firing slot a week out. Right now you guess the Monday supply order against the weekend sales you half-remember, and you have run out of bisqueware on a Saturday morning. Appointible's analytics show bookings per service per week and revenue per class — turn the paint-clay-glaze order into a number you can read before you open the supplier tab. The supply waste stops being the cost of doing business.
Get your studio off the spreadsheet in three steps.
Open the studio for online booking this week. Free import and export of your client data, plus free onboarding with Pro.
Create your account
Sign up to the Free plan in a few minutes — no credit card, no demo form to sit through. List your first sip-and-paint and you are taking bookings the same afternoon.
Bring your data across
Free import of your clients, past bookings and party host records into Appointible — with a thirty-minute onboarding call (Pro) when you want a human walking you through the export. Export anytime. You keep teaching that week.
Share and get booked
Drop the link on Instagram, Google Business, your website and the front-counter QR code — real-time service availability works from the first booking forward. Your customer list is yours, exportable on demand.
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Built for the studio with a sip-and-paint Friday, a multi-week wheel course on Tuesdays, a kiln in the back and an owner-artist who is done being the booking system. Not for the chain. Not for the spreadsheet.
SMS marketing to the painters who already painted with you
Two-line texts to the sip-and-paint regulars about the new fall canvas line, the wheel-course graduates about the next session, the birthday families about the holiday ornament workshop. Over ninety percent open rate, in their pocket, in your voice. Your customer list belongs to you — we do not email them about other studios, ever.
Explore SMS Marketing SoftwareClass and party insights on one screen
Bookings per class per week. Revenue per service. Busiest hours and days. New vs. returning painter mix. Retention. The Monday-morning roster-check stops being five clicks per class times twenty classes per week — it is one screen, small enough to face on a Sunday.
Explore Business Insights SoftwareReminders that fill the easels you wedged clay for
Email booking confirmation. SMS reminder the morning of (Pro) with BYOB and what-to-wear notes. Custom scheduled notification two hours out with parking and door code. The painter shows up on time or cancels in time.
Explore Appointment Reminders SoftwareInstructor scheduling app for the 5:40 PM scramble
Every instructor's working hours, vacation, service assignments and room assignments on file. The iOS and Android apps put the team calendar in their pocket. The Saturday party-plus-canvas-night shift gets built from one screen instead of a four-day group chat between firings.
Explore Employee Scheduling AppInstructor management without the spreadsheet
Track instructor working hours, vacation, service assignments and team-profile permission levels in one place. The instructor whose sip-and-paint nights stay booked two weeks ahead becomes visible in analytics, not assumed. The schedule your team deserves, shipped a week in advance, not at 10 PM the night before.
Explore Employee Management SoftwareStudent records and party history
Every painter has a client profile holding their booking history, custom fields for allergy and age notes, labels for the party host they came with, and before/after photos of the canvas or pottery piece they took home. Free import and export of the data you fear losing — before you cancel the old account.
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