Course booking systemSell seats on your website. Or on ours.
A course booking system lets people find a date, book a place and pay without you touching it. Cademy’s runs on your own website or a branded booking page, and handles business bookings with purchase orders as well as individuals paying by card.
One snippet puts live dates, prices and checkout on your site. No site yet? Your branded Cademy booking site is ready on day one.
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Highlights
Dates All Locations & Online
Where it sells
- Embed on WordPress, Wix, Squarespace, Webflow
- Branded booking site, Cademy logos hidden
- Private dates for one client
- Group bookings with names added later
How they pay
- Card, PayPal, Klarna or bank transfer
- Invoice me with a PO number
- Multi-currency: £, $, €, AU$, NZ$ and more
- Receipt and VAT invoice sent on payment
What fills seats
- Early-bird and discount codes
- Vouchers and gift cards
- Memberships with recurring access
- Waitlists, emailed when a place opens
The most flexible course booking software I have seen on the market. Allows multiple course days to be booked as a cluster.
Your branded booking site. Or your own website. Both.
Every provider gets a Cademy booking site with your logo, colours and collections. Put the same courses on your own website with one snippet, or the Cademy plugin for WordPress, and choose what each listing shows.
Collections
All Courses
What would you like to embed?
Your Website
The area below is a live preview of the real embed.All Courses
The listing
- Grid, rows, dates list, date cards or calendar
- Choose the card details: dates, price, rating, CPD, duration, level
- Choose the filters: search, delivery, location, category, CPD
- Collections by department or subject, with a description
The checkout
- Several courses in one basket, one order, one invoice or one per course
- Deposits and monthly instalments, or pay by invoice with a PO
- Discounts that apply themselves on total, seats or tags; promo codes too
- Card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, PayPal, Klarna, bank transfer
After the booking
- Waitlist: when a place opens, people waiting are emailed in order
- Feedback form sent on completion; publish the reviews you choose
- Enquiry and application forms outside checkout, answers in Cademy
- Where the answers land
Booking tools take the booking.
Then what?
A booking tool stops at the confirmation email. Cademy takes the booking, runs the course, delivers the learning, issues the certificate and raises the invoice, from the same record.
| Cademy | Bookwhen | BookingLive | Eventbrite | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Built for | Professional training providers | Bookings for “Classes, Courses, Workshops, Activities or Events” | “Online booking software for businesses and government” | “All-in-one ticketing and discovery platform” |
| Entry price | Free plan. Pro £99 a month billed yearly, or £119 monthly | Free plan for free events. Paid plans from US$16 a month | “From £7,500 per year”, minimum two-year contract | No charge for free events |
| Fees on paid bookings | None on paid plans | Plan-based | None charged by BookingLive | 3.7% + US$1.79 service fee per ticket, plus 2.9% payment processing per order |
| Delivery formats | In person, live online, on demand, blended, on request | Events | Appointments and events | Events |
| LMS and eLearning | Included on every plan | No. Videos can be embedded on an event page | Not listed on their site | Not listed on their site |
| Certificates and CPD | Issued automatically, with expiry dates and CPD | Not listed on their site | Not listed on their site | Not listed on their site |
| Business bookings | PO numbers, pay by invoice, organisations on the record | Not listed on their site | Not listed on their site | Not listed on their site |
| Invoices and Xero | Invoices with PO numbers, synced to Xero | No native Xero integration, according to their help centre | Not listed on their site | Not listed on their site |
They do one job. Cademy does the whole week.
Every format, one course
- A course runs in person, live online, on demand or blended
- The booking page knows which, and sells it accordingly
The booking becomes the learning
- A paid place is an enrolled learner
- Attendance and completion issue the certificate
Companies, not just cards
- PO number at checkout, pay by invoice
- The organisation on the booking is the one on the invoice, posted to Xero
And a CRM underneath
- Every booking lands on the learner’s record
- Waitlists, reminders and follow-ups run themselves
Coming from a booking tool?
Their column comes from their own website. Yours moves with you: courses, dates, contacts and orders import from a spreadsheet.
From Bookwhen
- Bookings and a customer database, no LMS
- Bookwhen alternative
From BookingLive
- From £7,500 a year on a two-year contract
- BookingLive alternative
From Eventbrite
- Per-ticket fees on every paid booking
- Eventbrite alternative
Asked before every demo.
Anything else, ask a person.
What is a course booking system?
Software that publishes your course dates, takes bookings and payment, and sends the confirmations and reminders that follow. Cademy adds waitlists, business bookings and invoices.
Can I put it on my own website?
Yes. Cademy embeds work on WordPress, Wix, Squarespace, Webflow and any other site, and there is a Cademy plugin for WordPress. You can also use a Cademy-branded booking page.
Can companies book and pay by invoice?
Yes, from Pro. A buyer can book several people, enter a PO number and choose to pay by invoice. The invoice is raised and emailed for them.
Which payment methods are supported?
Card through Stripe, PayPal, Klarna and bank transfer. Cademy does not hold your money: payments go to your own accounts.
Is there a fee per booking?
On the Free plan there is a 5% platform fee on paid bookings. Paid plans have no platform fee. Your payment provider’s own fees always apply.
See it with your own courses.
A thirty-minute call, your courses, dates and learners on screen.
No card needed. Import a spreadsheet and run a course this week.