Go on, book a lesson.
Explore a working model of the booking system we built for the studio. Start as a student: choose a day, select an available lesson and make a booking. Then try booking the same slot twice. Finally, step behind the desk to explore the teacher’s private diary, where you can manage availability and block off individual hours, afternoons or entire days.
Step one
Choose your time
Wednesday10 of 10 lessons open
Step two
Pick a lesson above.
Forty-five minutes · for A. Visitor
Seven days a week, ten lessons a day. Pick one.
The diary
One week, as the system sees it
- Open
- Booked
- Yours
- Closed by the studio
Programme notes
The studio deserved a website as distinctive as the work happening inside it. Every detail was carefully designed to capture its character, with a custom-built booking system that makes life easier for students and gives the teacher control over a busy, ever-changing schedule.
I.
The brief
Songbird Voice Studio teaches classical singing at The Note House in Durbanville. Arranging lessons meant exchanging messages, comparing available times and managing a diary by hand. The challenge was to make booking a lesson effortless, while creating a digital home as welcoming and distinctive as the studio itself.
II.
The system
Students choose a day, find an available 45-minute lesson and enter their details. Their booking is confirmed instantly, the teacher is notified immediately, and the calendar updates in real time, ready for the next student to find their own slot.
Behind the scenes, a private studio diary keeps everything in sync. Block an hour, an afternoon or an entire week, and the public calendar follows suit.
III.
The dress
The visual language comes from the concert hall: Cormorant italics, gold rules, an arched portrait, a songbird on a stave.
The calendar wears the same clothes. That was the point of building it rather than embedding one: the practical part never feels like a different website.
The real thing
Three gestures on the live site: a day, a time, a name.
A distinctive home for the studio. A booking system to match.
- Client
- Songbird Voice Studio at The Note House
- Scope
- Web Design · Booking Systems · Digital Experience
- Earns
- No double bookings. No diary ping-pong. A week the teacher controls.