Everything it does, no small print

Fifty-eight features, and all of them can be seen on this page without asking for a demo: the sixteen that most often decide a purchase are explained one by one, and the full catalogue opens at the bottom.

They fall into four blocks. The first is the calendar, with four ways of selling your time on the same capacity per resource: drop-in class, multi-session course, regular weekly spot and one-to-one session.

It includes pre-enrolment with places allocated by seniority and a waiting list that runs itself.

The second is money: full payment, a deposit or payment at the studio, through Stripe or Redsys and with no commission from Aforo.

It also covers class passes with an expiry date, monthly memberships with a receipt and arrears in plain sight, and company quotes that create the booking.

The third is pieces, each with its status, photo, shelf and pick-up message.

And the fourth is your people and your website: student records with history, team permissions and your own public page.

Yes, and that's the normal way to use it. Aforo is switched on add-on by add-on, and you choose which ones: class passes, monthly memberships, pieces, gift vouchers or company quotes.

If your studio doesn't work with pieces, you won't see a single pieces screen; if you don't run monthly memberships, that part doesn't exist for you.

A program showing options you don't need wastes your time every morning and looks complicated when it isn't.

The plan you choose decides which ones you get, not how many: Taller comes with memberships and your calendar inside your website.

Estudio adds pieces, class passes, gift vouchers, coupons, your own email address and enrolments, and Escuela adds quotes and conversations.

Changing which ones are active costs nothing and you don't have to tell anyone, so you can switch pieces on when you start glazing and off again if you stop.

Whatever you switch off isn't deleted: the data is still there if you switch it back on later.

Yes. Aforo was born inside a pottery studio, which is why it understands pieces, wheels and kiln loads, but what keeps the day-to-day going is the same in any creative studio: selling places, getting paid for them and letting people know.

Drop-in classes, courses, the regular weekly spot, appointments, class passes, memberships and gift vouchers work the same way in painting, jewellery, sewing, printmaking, bookbinding, candle-making, screen printing or paint and sip.

The only thing that changes from one craft to another is which resource limits capacity: six wheels, twelve easels, four sewing machines or a single large table.

That's set up when you start, not programmed. And the add-ons you don't need are switched off, so the screen you see every morning is your craft's, not a dashboard full of things you don't use.

In the demo we set it up with you.

No. You have two routes and both work from day one. The first is to touch nothing: Aforo gives you your own public page, with your classes, your photos and your colour, ready to link from your Instagram profile or wherever you like.

That page is included in all three plans and isn't billed separately.

The second is to put the calendar inside your current website, which you do by pasting a snippet of code wherever you want it to appear, without installing anything or changing provider.

If your website runs on WordPress, there's an integration that puts it in directly.

Either way, people book within your brand and the places come off capacity instantly, with no parallel lists and no exporting by hand.

And if you ever change websites, Aforo's public page keeps working the same and you don't lose your bookings.