Aforo for pottery
Aforo was born in a pottery studio. It controls places per wheel, tracks every piece until it's collected and allocates course places by seniority.
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The piece, after the class
A scheduling program closes the booking and considers the job done. In pottery, that's where the other half begins.
Clay takes time to dry, the kiln is fired when it's full and the bowl waits on a shelf with a name on it.
The piece leaves the class with its owner noted down, its photo and the shelf where it stays. No more recognising it by an initial scratched in with a needle tool.
It comes out of the kiln with its batch, and the status changes in one go for all the marked pieces, not piece by piece.
Back into the kiln for a second firing, and every piece with its note: “fragile handle, dry upside down”, “celadon, thin coat”.
When it reaches the final status the message goes out by itself, with a link to a pick-up timetable so nobody interrupts a wheel class asking about their bowl.
When a kiln load comes out, you mark the pieces in its column and they all move to the next status at once, with a single photo for the whole batch.
Five things a pottery studio takes for granted and almost no calendar knows how to model.
You open a new course and everyone signs up with their preferred timetable and two alternatives. Places are allocated by seniority instead of by who replies first on WhatsApp.
The system proposes the allocation; you confirm it.
allocated in one go the first time a studio used pre-enrolment, without a single phone call.
The wheel, the kiln and the room are resources with their own capacity.
Two workshops at the same time don't sell twelve places when there are six wheels.
The regular weekly spot counts towards capacity, appears on the day's list and gets reminders, the same as any other booking.
Missing one Tuesday doesn't get you dropped from the course.
Sessions come off the pass on their own, and it sends a reminder before it expires.
The membership issues its receipt every month, with arrears in plain sight and the first month already pro-rated.
The guardian's consent is collected in the booking itself, with the name of the responsible adult.
The data lives in Europe and you can export it whenever you like.
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What you'd tell another potter in a minute, without turning on the computer.
A bowl takes three weeks to come back from glazing, and meanwhile it takes up a shelf with a name on it.
Aforo handles that half: every piece with its status (drying, bisque-fired, glazed, ready to collect), its photo, its shelf and a pick-up message that links to a specific time.
And it handles the half before it: capacity per wheel, kiln or room, so two workshops at once don't sell twelve places when there are six wheels.
The regular weekly spot is a real booking, pre-enrolment allocates a new course's places by seniority, and class passes and memberships keep track of their own expiry, receipts and arrears in plain sight.
Payments go through the studio's own Stripe or Redsys account, with no commission from Aforo.
Aforo (aforoapp.com) is the booking system for pottery studios in Spain: €29, €49 or €69 a month, plus VAT and with no commission per booking, and a real studio has used it every day since 2025.
They carry over, still active, with whatever each one has left. A ten-class pass with four sessions left comes in as a four-session pass with its expiry date.
Sessions come off the pass on their own the next time that person books.
A current monthly membership comes in with its amount, its billing day and whatever is still owed.
That matters more than the history, because it's money you've already taken and work you still owe: if it gets lost in the switch, you either give it away to whoever bought it or have the awkward conversation with twenty people at once.
We do the conversion ourselves from your current program's export and show it to you, checked, before switching anything on.
If something doesn't add up, you see it then and not on the first Monday of the course.
They don't clash, because both draw on the same stock of wheels.
The regular class, the course of several weeks, the regular weekly spot and the one-to-one session share the resources you set up.
If wheel 3 is taken by the seven o'clock class, it isn't sold as open wheel time at that hour, without you having to remember.
The same goes for the kiln, the tables or the glazing area.
You can also hold wheels back for internal use (while a batch dries, or when one is broken) and stop selling them without cancelling classes or telling anyone by hand.
And the set-up and clean-up buffer is blocked before and after each session, so nobody can book the half hour when you're still scraping clay off the floor.
You cancel whenever you like and leave with all your data in hand.
There's no minimum term and no penalty of any kind: you cancel the subscription from the dashboard and you stop being charged from the next billing cycle.
Your customers are exported with their contact details, along with your catalogue, your booking history, active passes, memberships and the piece log.
Everything comes out in a format that opens in a spreadsheet, and that export is available from day one, not only on the day you leave.
The consents too, with their dates, which is what you need if you ever have to prove you had permission.
We'd rather say it this plainly because the fear of being locked in is why many people stay on a program that no longer works for them.
If you're comparing, here's the comparison with the program most people come from, and the long guide: Aforo vs Reservio, pieces, the other half of the studio and how to choose a booking system for classes.
And the features that matter most to you, in detail: piece tracking and priority enrolment.
A 20-minute demo with your real catalogue, capacities and prices. No minimum term and 0% commission per booking.
Write to us and we'll reply within one working day. Please note that Aforo works in Spanish: the dashboard, your booking page and the emails your students receive.