Free to start · paid plan from £9.99/mo billed yearly
For swimming instructors

A deposit holds the lesson

A lesson booked and then dropped is a slot you cannot sell again. Soopaspace takes a deposit by card when a family books, so the lessons you plan for happen.

Free to start with your booking page, bookings and clients. Everything else is one paid plan: £9.99/month billed yearly, or £12.99 monthly.

A swimming instructor kneeling at the edge of a pool talking to a smiling child in the water

How it looks

Swimming lesson, 30 min£18.00

A £5.00 deposit is taken now by card. The remaining £13.00 is paid on the day.

Pay £5.00 deposit
Deposits at booking: the client pays the deposit by card to secure the slot, and the rest on the day.

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Your booking page: clients pick a day, see only the times you are free, and book in a couple of taps.

Illustrations of the product. Names and amounts are examples.

A deposit when they book

Ask for a deposit by card the moment a family books, with the rest settled your usual way. It is most useful for a trial or a one-off, and you choose which lessons ask for one.

  • A card deposit taken at booking
  • Set it where a dropped lesson costs most
  • The balance settled your usual way
  • The family sees exactly what is left
A swimming instructor supporting a young child learning to swim in a pool, calm and encouraging

The slot you held is the slot that happens

A family who has paid toward the lesson turns up, and the ones who cannot make it tell you in time to use the slot. A reminder goes out before each lesson with a link to move it inside your notice.

  • Money toward the lesson means fewer drop-outs
  • A reminder before every lesson
  • Families move a lesson inside your notice
  • A freed slot is known in time to fill it

Try it on your own business

Start free with your booking page, bookings and clients. No card, no time limit.

Common questions

Do I have to take a deposit on every lesson?
No. Deposits are set per service, so you can hold a trial or an out-of-the-ordinary lesson with one and leave your regular lessons as a straightforward booking.
What if a family needs to move a paid lesson?
As long as they move it within the notice period you set, the lesson and its deposit carry over to the new time rather than being lost.

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One paid plan, one price

One app for the whole of it

£9.99/month, billed yearly

or £12.99 a month. Cancel any time.

  • A booking page you edit on the page itself
  • Fixed-price appointments, quoted jobs, or both
  • Group events, courses & waiting lists
  • Bundles, offers, discount codes & gift vouchers
  • On-demand services: paid now, delivered later
  • Reminders, two-way calendar sync & self-service rescheduling
  • Quotes & invoices, with overdue ones chased politely for you
  • Money, P&L, expenses & mileage

Free plan: your booking page, bookings and clients, with no card and no time limit.