Pottery & art studio booking software,
minus the marketplace cut
GoodKeen is a New Zealand booking system for pottery, ceramics and art studios. Sell multi-week courses at a flat rate, cap taster sessions by the number of wheels, bake materials and firing into your prices, and issue NZ-law-compliant gift vouchers — for a flat monthly price, with 0% booking fees on every plan.
All prices in NZD. Built in New Zealand.
Four ways a studio sells — one system that fits all of them
A ceramics studio isn’t one product. It’s a course calendar, a taster pipeline and a sip-and-paint side hustle running on the same eight wheels.
The multi-week course, sold as one line
An eight-week wheel-throwing course isn’t eight sales — it’s one. List the course as its own activity with a flat price for the whole block. A student books once, pays once, and the whole course counts as a single booking against your monthly allowance.
The taster, capped at the wheels you own
A wheel only fits one pair of hands. Set the taster’s capacity to match — six wheels, six seats — put it on a recurring weekly schedule, and GoodKeen stops selling the moment it’s full. No apologetic phone calls to the seventh booker.
Materials and firing, baked into the price
Nobody wants a surcharge conversation at pickup. Use pricing tiers to build clay, glazes and both firings into the per-person price — NZ$95 all-in reads better than NZ$70 plus mystery extras. Flat-rate pricing is there too, for sessions you sell as a whole.
The checkout that won’t double-sell wheel six
When your Friday sip-and-paint gets popular, two people will want the last seat at the same moment. GoodKeen holds a seat for 15 minutes while its buyer pays, with a visible countdown — and unpaid bookings expire automatically, putting the seat straight back on sale.
What a marketplace order really costs a studio
ClassBento charges by where the order came from. Each order pays one rate or the other — they’re alternatives, not a stack. Here’s how each channel compares.
ClassBento — its website
20%
of payments on orders that come from classbento.co.nz — the discovery channel, priced accordingly.
ClassBento — your widget
3.9% + 30c
3.9% + NZ$0.30 per order booked through its widget on your own site — your channel, still clipped per order.
GoodKeen — your channel
0%
flat NZ$0–79/mo. The only card cost is Stripe’s standard processing fee, which goes to Stripe, not to us.
Use both, deliberately. A marketplace is good at one thing: being found by people who’ve never heard of you. Keep it for spare seats. But when a regular books her fourth Tuesday-night hand-building session, that’s a relationship you built — point regulars at your own booking page and keep the lot.
ClassBento rates per classbento.co.nz/teach, checked Aug 2026 — each order pays one rate, by order source; check each provider for current rates. Card processing (Stripe) is charged separately by your payment provider.
- You issue a card from your admin in under a minute — counter sales, phone orders, email requests — and the giftee redeems it online at checkout.
- Partial redemption is tracked per card — a NZ$150 card covers a NZ$95 taster and keeps the NZ$55 balance for next time.
- If a voucher-paid booking is refunded, the money goes back to the card first — the value stays with your studio.
- Every card carries the NZ-law minimum 3-year expiry automatically — it’s hard-coded, so a busy December can’t break it.
December is a voucher business
Ask any studio owner what sells in the fortnight before Christmas: not January seats — vouchers. “A pottery class for the person who has everything” is the reliable number-one line of the year, and most of it redeems across the quiet months that follow.
Since 16 March 2026, vouchers sold in New Zealand need a minimum 3-year expiry under the Fair Trading Act amendment, with penalties up to NZ$10,000 for an individual and NZ$30,000 for an organisation. GoodKeen enforces the floor on every card, so your Christmas rush is compliant by default.
And for the weeks that vouchers don’t fill? Promo codes do — percentage or fixed-amount, limited to specific activities and date windows, with usage caps. A code that only works on Tuesday-morning hand-building, capped at ten uses, is a quiet-week fix you can set up in two minutes.
The front-desk work, off your plate
You’d rather be glazing. The admin that eats studio evenings is exactly the part software should carry.
A customer list that remembers
Notes and tags on every customer — “prefers hand-building”, “pieces awaiting glaze firing”. Moving from a spreadsheet? CSV import, template included.
Reschedules that respect capacity
Kiln playing up? Drag the session to next week on the calendar — GoodKeen re-checks capacity as you drop it, and cancellation emails go out when you cancel.
Class-night front desk
Print the Daily Manifest — guest counts, phone numbers, notes, a check-in column — or scan guests’ QR tickets from any phone’s browser. Nothing to install.
Adult sessions by design
GoodKeen checks every participant’s date of birth at checkout and the over-18 rule is enforced by the system — a clean fit for adult classes, sip-and-paint and BYO evenings.
Your website, your bookings
Add booking to your own website with the embeddable widget, or use the hosted booking page if you don’t have a site yet. Either way, the channel is yours.
Paid straight to you
Payments land in your own Stripe account — we never hold your money. Full or partial refunds happen in-app, with PDF receipts for every booking.
Run cooking, craft or barista workshops alongside the clay? The classes & workshops page covers the wider timetable.
Frequently asked questions
Fill every wheel — and keep what you charge
Free forever up to 25 bookings a month, every feature included. No credit card, 0% booking fees on every plan.