For SA music teachers & studios

Your students book and pay online. You stop chasing 30 EFTs a month.

A booking page for piano, guitar, voice — any instrument. Recurring lesson slots, a deposit captured at booking via PayFast or EFT, and an automatic reminder before every lesson. Priced in Rand, 0% commission.

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If this sounds familiar

You've been working around the lack of a system.

! 30 students means 30 monthly EFTs to match against your bank statement by hand — every single month
! A student cancels by WhatsApp an hour before the lesson and there's no deposit protecting the slot
! Reschedules pile up in chat threads until two students arrive for the same 4pm slot
! New-student intake is a different conversation every time — instrument, level and availability collected ad hoc
! Concert, exam and workshop signups come in as WhatsApp DMs you have to tally up yourself

How ReserveMe fixes it

Built for the way SA Music Teachers & Studios actually work.

Your pain	ReserveMe
Monthly EFT chaos	Each lesson is booked through your page and paid at booking — the money lands tied to the student, so there's nothing to match by hand
Last-minute cancels	Require a deposit at booking. A self-cancel link lets the student free the slot in time for someone else to take it
Double-booked slots	Published slots can only be booked once. Your calendar view lets you drag, search, filter and export — no more clashes
Inconsistent intake	A custom intake form captures instrument, level, age, availability and parent contact the same way every time
Concert signups	Spin up an event registration form with payment per performer for recitals, exams and workshops
Lesson packs	Sell a term or a 10-lesson pack as a single upfront payment, or one lesson at a time — your call, your pricing

The toolkit

How ReserveMe works for Music Teachers & Studios

Real features doing real jobs — not a list of buzzwords.

Recurring lesson slots

Publish your weekly availability once — Tuesday 3–5pm, Saturday mornings — and students book the open slots themselves. No back-and-forth.

Pay at booking

A deposit or the full lesson fee is captured when the student books, via PayFast (card/instant EFT) or manual EFT with a PoP upload.

Calendar you control

Every booking lands in a calendar view you can drag to reschedule, search, filter and export. One place, not five WhatsApp groups.

Automatic reminders

A reminder goes out 24 hours before each lesson — fewer no-shows, fewer "are we still on?" texts.

Student intake form

New students fill in instrument, level (incl. UNISA grades), age and availability up front, so the first lesson starts on time.

Term & pack payments

Charge per lesson, per term, or as a 10-lesson pack. Upfront payment for packs means you're not invoicing every week.

Functions in action

What it looks like on a normal week

A Cape Town piano teacher with 28 students publishes Tuesday-to-Saturday slots — students rebook themselves and the monthly EFT-matching ritual disappears.

A student cancels Saturday's 9am via the self-cancel link on Friday night; the slot reopens and another parent grabs it by morning.

For the end-of-year recital, the teacher shares one event form — 22 performers register and pay the R80 entry without a single DM.

Typical flow

What a student (or parent) sees

One link. No app to download. Done in under two minutes.

1 Opens your booking link from your bio, email signature or WhatsApp status
2 Picks an open lesson slot from your published times
3 Enters student details (and parent contact if under 18)
4 Pays the deposit or lesson fee by PayFast or EFT
5 Gets a confirmation with a calendar invite and a self-cancel link

Suggested setup

Music lesson booking form

Fields the template ships with — change anything before you publish.

1 Student full name + age
2 Parent/guardian (if under 18)
3 Contact email + phone
4 Instrument (piano / guitar / violin / voice / theory)
5 Current level (beginner / intermediate / advanced / UNISA Grade 1-8)
6 Preferred day + time
7 Deposit payment (PayFast or EFT)
8 Studio T&Cs checkbox

What it costs

Free forever. Or R199 / month when you grow.

No commission, no per-customer fees, no card required to start. Your Music Teachers & Studios business keeps 100% of every booking.

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Questions, answered

Music Teachers & Studios FAQ

Yes. You publish your weekly availability and students book the open slots themselves. You manage the whole term from one calendar view.

Require a deposit at booking. If a student cancels via their self-cancel link, the slot reopens for someone else — and your no-show deposit policy is clear up front.

Yes. Charge per lesson, per term, or as a 10-lesson pack collected in one upfront payment via PayFast or EFT.

Never. ReserveMe takes 0% commission. You pay a flat monthly fee (free on Starter) and keep 100% of every lesson fee.

Yes. Larger studios use a paid plan to run multiple teachers and unlimited bookings — think of it as replacing your admin assistant's EFT spreadsheet for R199/month.

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