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# Creative Workshop Booking Software: Public Seats and Private Groups

Creative workshop booking software should support the way you sell the studio's time and prepare each session. Public bookings reserve individual places; private groups need an agreed scope, headcount and payment schedule for the whole booking. Both affect the space available to your team.

A studio selling Tuesday's class by the place and Thursday's workshop to a company needs those differences to reach the people preparing the room. Compare how booking details become a usable staff brief.

## What a workshop studio needs

**Public classes.** A fixed number of seats, a price, a waitlist when it sells out, and a way to collect a choice at booking when the choice changes preparation: which scent, which glaze, which vessel.

**Multi-week courses.** Six or eight sessions sold as one enrollment, with a payment plan and a cap per cohort.

**Private buyouts.** A date held while the buyer decides, a price for the headcount, a deposit to confirm, add-ons like drinks or extra materials, a final headcount a few days before, and the balance charged before the event.

**Retail.** The candles you teach are also for sale. People who took the class buy them.

## Where studios lose time

The public class lives on a ticketing tool, the buyout lives in email with a PDF invoice, the course lives on a third platform, and the material list for Saturday gets typed by hand from all three. The studio owner does the reconciliation on Sunday.

## Set up the public session and the group separately

Gomry separates the buyer from individual ticket holders and collects participant details and registration answers per ticket. That helps a workshop prepare for a group purchase without treating the buyer as every attendee. It does not create parent-child accounts or a family tuition ledger.

For a fixed course, distinguish buying visits from reserving every date. Gomry Experiences require customers to book individual sessions. A Bundle can fund those bookings but does not enroll the buyer in all dates automatically. A single Event can represent admission to an entire program, with the dates and attendance arrangements stated clearly.

Private groups need an agreed date, scope and price before checkout. Gomry does not generate quotes, place temporary calendar holds or administer deposits and balances. Coordinate those steps separately, then use the agreed Event and participant records to prepare the workshop.

Keep materials and production stock in the appropriate tool. Retail checkout, gift vouchers and member discounts require separate verification. The [candle workshop guide](/blog/candle-workshop-booking-software/) shows how participant choices affect preparation.

## Questions workshop studios ask

**Should private events be bookable instantly?**
Use instant booking when availability, price and scope are fixed. Otherwise review the request and demonstrate the payment sequence.

**Can guest choices feed the prep list?**
Test a multi-guest order and inspect the export or staff view. Each choice needs to stay linked to the right attendee.

**Can members get a discount on retail?**
Verify retail availability and the discount rule separately. Class credit and recurring billing do not establish a retail discount.

Use a public class and a private group sharing the same room. Check availability, guest choices and the final preparation list before making both bookable.