Pembee charges £30–£70/month regardless of whether you run sessions. SeshDesk charges 2.5% only when bookings come in — zero when they don't.
SeshDesk costs 2.5% per booking — plus Stripe fees only — with no monthly fee and nothing on free or funded sessions. Pembee costs £30-70/month + 0.59% fee, and there is no free tier. Pembee offers two tiers: Standard at £30/month and Premium at £70/month. Includes modern features like Klarna payments and Zapier integration on the premium tier. 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. Pembee costs £30-70/month + 0.59% 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 | Pembee |
|---|---|---|
| BOOKING FEATURES | ||
| Recurring sessions | Yes | Yes |
| Block bookings | Yes | Yes |
| Capacity management | Yes | Yes |
| Multi-participant bookings | Yes | Yes |
| Email notifications | Yes | Yes |
| PAYMENTS | ||
| Stripe integration | Yes | Yes |
| Apple Pay / Google Pay | Yes | Yes |
| Klarna support | No | Yes |
| Discount codes | Yes | Yes |
| Account credits | Yes | Yes |
| OPERATIONS | ||
| Digital attendance | Yes | Yes |
| Custom booking questions | Yes | Yes |
| Website embed | Yes | Yes |
| Zapier integration | No | Yes |
| Schema markup for Google | Yes | No |
| PRICING | ||
| No monthly fees | Yes | No |
| Low 2.5% transaction fee | Yes | No |
| Lower starting price | Yes | No |
| 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 |
Pembee has no public directory. Customers can only find your club if they already have your direct link. SeshDesk's Activities directory puts your club in front of 93,664+ monthly searchers who don't know you exist yet. Zero extra cost — it's included in every SeshDesk plan, including the free tier.
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