One class. Ten Saturdays. Eight seats each.

Yes. Publishing your classes, running one as a weekly series, capping the seats with free registration, sorting strands into sub-schedules, emailing the students who follow you and syncing two ways with Google, Outlook or CalDAV are all free forever. So is selling, up to 25 paid spots a month, and so is scanning the QR at the door on every plan. Lifting that ceiling, plus multi-class cards, custom questions at checkout and the live check-in screen, is the Pro plan at $5 a month, and Event Schedule charges zero platform fees on what you sell.

Yes. Sub-schedules keep cooking, pottery, photography and craft strands apart on one link, each with its own colour, and every class carries its own description, images, capacity and prices. To be straight about what a sub-schedule is: it sorts and colours, it does not hide. A class you have not announced yet is a draft, and drafts are what keep it off the public page until you say so.

Two ways, and they are not the same list. Somebody who leaves an email address on your page and confirms it is sent a short digest on its own when you put new classes up, batched so a whole term posted in one sitting is one message, and it costs nothing from your allowance. Somebody signed in who pressed Follow is on the other list, and that one only ever hears from a newsletter you write and send, with open and click rates afterwards. The allowance counts recipients rather than sends, at 10 a month on Free, 100 on Pro and 1,000 on Enterprise. A student who would rather not give an address at all can subscribe to your schedule as a live calendar from its page, and it keeps up as you add and move sessions. Alongside that, share your one link, embed the calendar on the studio site you already have, and download your schedule's QR code to tape to the bench.

Yes, free on every plan. On a session that is not on sale yet, a student can press "Tell me when tickets go on sale" and leave just an email address, with no account. They get one email when spots go on sale, one if you cancel, and a reminder 48 hours before the session, plus any change notice you choose to send. On a session that is already selling, the same list sits beside the buy button as "Tell me if anything changes". Each date keeps its own list, you see how many people are waiting on the event's Tickets panel, and it does not touch your newsletter allowance. It is not the waitlist, which is for a session that has already filled.

Yes. Sell spots with named ticket types, each with its own price, quantity and sales window, and take the money through your own Stripe or PayPal account, or as cash, a payment link, Invoice Ninja, or Payfast if you charge in rand, on every plan. The free plan sells 25 paid spots a month and Pro lifts the ceiling; free classes can use registration with a seat limit instead, unlimited on every plan. Either way the count is kept per session date, so a full Saturday does not close the next one, and students see the number of spots left rather than who is on the sheet.

Yes, on every plan, from the Sales page, for a student who drops out or a class you call off. A Stripe or PayPal payment goes back through the provider, in full or in part, and a partial refund leaves the spot booked. A spot paid in cash, through a payment link, Payfast or Invoice Ninja is marked as refunded instead, which records it without moving any money. Event Schedule does not email the student about a refund, so that message is yours to send.

A card is one purchase valid across the series, on the Pro plan. The holder gets a private link and books the session they want, and you can set how many people the card admits at each session. Give it a cancellation cutoff in hours before a session starts: cancel earlier than that and the seat goes back to the class, cancel later and the card's policy decides whether the visit is forfeited or the cancellation is blocked outright. Usage is tracked per session, so you can see which weeks a card holder actually turned up.

That is two events. One recurring event carries one start time, so a 10am beginners bench and a 2pm intermediate bench are two series, each with its own seat count and its own tickets. It is a little more setup and it keeps the two benches, and their money, properly apart.