ClassForKids charges from £34.99/month — and doesn't publish its booking fee rate. SeshDesk charges 2.5%, no monthly fee, nothing on free sessions.
SeshDesk costs 2.5% per booking — plus Stripe fees only — with no monthly fee and nothing on free or funded sessions. ClassForKids costs From £34.99/month + a per-booking fee, and there is no free tier. ClassForKids is a well-established platform used by 4,500+ providers. It offers comprehensive features but comes with higher costs including a per-booking fee on top of monthly pricing. SeshDesk is purpose-built for activity clubs: no monthly subscription, a free public Activities directory listing, and built-in funded-places tracking and a funder evidence export with a HAF (DfE baseline) preset you adapt.
SeshDesk charges a flat 2.5% on paid bookings — plus Stripe's standard processing fee — with no monthly fee, no setup cost, and no charge on free or funded sessions. ClassForKids costs From £34.99/month + a per-booking fee. For a club with variable or seasonal delivery, SeshDesk's no-monthly-fee model means you pay nothing in a month with no paid bookings.
| Feature | SeshDesk | ClassForKids |
|---|---|---|
| BOOKING FEATURES | ||
| Recurring sessions | Yes | Yes |
| Block/term bookings | Yes | Yes |
| Capacity management | Yes | Yes |
| Drop-in sessions | Yes | Yes |
| Natural language session creation | Yes | No |
| PAYMENTS | ||
| Stripe integration | Yes | Yes |
| Apple Pay / Google Pay | Yes | Yes |
| Open-ended subscriptions (attendance-billed, no fixed term) | Yes | No |
| Invoicing | Yes | Yes |
| Discount codes | Yes | Yes |
| OPERATIONS | ||
| Digital attendance | Yes | Yes |
| Staff/coach management | Yes | Yes |
| Email notifications | Yes | Yes |
| Custom booking questions | Yes | Yes |
| Schema markup for Google | Yes | No |
| PRICING | ||
| No monthly fees | Yes | No |
| Low 2.5% booking fee | Yes | No |
| Transparent pricing | Yes | No |
| No long-term contracts | Yes | Yes |
| Free sessions cost nothing | Yes | No |
| FUNDING & GRANT REPORTING | ||
| Funded places management | Yes | No |
| Funder evidence export | Yes | No |
| Grant readiness scoring | Yes | No |
| At-risk funded place detection | Yes | No |
| MEL funder reporting | Yes | No |
| Free sessions at zero platform cost | Yes | No |
ClassForKids has a directory — but it only lists ClassForKids customers. SeshDesk's Activities directory aggregates 93,664+ activities from every major booking platform in the UK: ClassForKids, Bookwhen, Gladstone, Legend, and more. When a customer searches for football classes in Leeds, they find your club whether it runs on SeshDesk or not. Switch to SeshDesk and your listing gets upgraded to show live availability and real-time booking.
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