UK Activity Booking Fee Tracker

Q: What does Bookwhen charge?

As at 2026-08-01, Bookwhen publishes its plan prices and takes no cut of payments — "We don’t take a cut of your payments." — but served EUR to one UK origin and USD to another on the same day, and we could not find a price in pounds sterling on any public page. Evidence grade: vendor-published. Source: https://bookwhen.com/pricing

Q: What does Class Manager charge?

As at 2026-08-01, Class Manager publishes a UK per-transaction service charge of 2.7% + 20p on its UK landing page and states there is no monthly subscription; its canonical pricing page states no figure at all, and whether the charge includes the payment processor’s own fee is not stated. Evidence grade: vendor-published. Source: https://classmanager.com/prices

Q: What does ClassForKids charge?

As at 2026-08-01, ClassForKids publishes plan licence prices from £34.99/month and shows a transaction-fee line on every plan, but states in its own words that the fee a club actually pays is confirmed by an Account Manager and is not published. Evidence grade: vendor-gated. Source: https://www.classforkids.com/pricing/

Q: What does SeshDesk charge?

As at 2026-08-01, SeshDesk charges 2.5% on chargeable bookings with no monthly fee, no setup cost and no minimum term; free, HAF-funded and grant-covered sessions cost nothing; Stripe payment processing is charged separately on top. Evidence grade: vendor-published. Source: https://seshdesk.co.uk/pricing/

A dated, source-quoted record of what UK activity-booking platforms charge, and — where no rate is published — evidence of that absence. Every figure carries its source URL, capture date, the vendor's own words, and an evidence grade.

This index is published by SeshDesk. SeshDesk is one of the platforms listed. Every figure, including our own, is sourced to a public page with a capture date.

Of 4 UK activity-booking platforms tracked, 3 publish a headline rate on their own crawlable pages, 1 state the binding figure only after a sales conversation, and 0 publish no figure we could find. Platforms are listed alphabetically. The index reaches no conclusion and ranks nothing; the grades are the output.

Last updated: 1 August 2026.

What the evidence grades mean

A grade describes where a figure came from, not whether a platform is good value. Two further categories exist in our research and are never published as figures: statements by customers or operators, and statements by third parties such as other vendors, marketplaces and software directories. Neither can be verified against the vendor's own published material, so neither appears here.

Published

Stated on the vendor's own public, crawlable page, reachable with no signup, demo or sales call. Currently applied to 17 figures.

Gated

The vendor states the figure only after signup, a demo, or a sales call. Currently applied to 3 figures.

Not published

No figure was discoverable on any public vendor page we checked. The absence is the finding, and it is evidenced by the list of pages we checked and what each returned. Currently applied to 6 figures.

Bookwhen — Published

Bookwhen publishes its plan prices and takes no cut of payments — "We don’t take a cut of your payments." — but served EUR to one UK origin and USD to another on the same day, and we could not find a price in pounds sterling on any public page.

Plan prices and a 0% transaction fee are stated on the vendor's own public pricing page, reachable with no signup; no GBP price was found.

What Bookwhen publishes, as published, with the evidence grade and source for each figure.
What	As published	Evidence	Source and date
Plan prices as served to a UK consumer-ISP origin	Free €0 forever · Lite €12 + €2.52 VAT per month · Standard €19 + €3.99 VAT per month · Plus €39 + €8.19 VAT per month · Enterprise Contact Us (EUR, as printed) Payment processing charged separately.	Published	https://bookwhen.com/pricing (HTTP 200), captured 1 August 2026.
“Free €0 forever · Lite €12 + €2.52 VAT per month · Standard €19 + €3.99 VAT per month · Plus €39 + €8.19 VAT per month” (assembled from separate elements on the page, not a single sentence)
Plan prices as served to a second UK origin	Free $0 forever · Lite $16 per month · Standard $29 per month · Plus $59 per month · Enterprise Contact Us (USD, as printed) Payment processing charged separately.	Published	https://bookwhen.com/pricing (HTTP 200), captured 1 August 2026.
“Free $0 forever · Lite $16 per month · Standard $29 per month · Plus $59 per month” (assembled from separate elements on the page, not a single sentence)
Per-booking transaction fee	0% — Bookwhen takes no cut of payments; the payment gateway charges its own fee Payment processing charged separately.	Published	https://bookwhen.com/pricing (HTTP 200), captured 1 August 2026.
“We don't take a cut of your payments. If you use a payment gateway (e.g. PayPal or Stripe) then they will charge you a small fee for online payments.”
Whether payment processing is included	Charged separately by the gateway; Bookwhen adds nothing on top Payment processing charged separately.	Published	https://bookwhen.com/pricing (HTTP 200), captured 1 August 2026.
“Bookwhen only charges your subscription fee and does not add any extra costs.”
VAT treatment	Charged in addition to the fees, per the terms Whether payment processing is included is not stated.	Published	https://bookwhen.com/terms (HTTP 200), captured 1 August 2026.
“All amounts payable by You under the Agreement exclude value added tax (“VAT”) legally payable on the date of each invoice and You shall pay all VAT (or other applicable sales tax) in addition to the Fees, where applicable.”
Changing the subscription currency	Routed to the support team Whether payment processing is included is not stated.	Gated	https://support.bookwhen.com/en/articles/2593906-how-to-view-and-change-your-account-plan (HTTP 200), captured 1 August 2026.
“Please note: Changing your account currency in Bookwhen updates the prices on your schedule(s) and public page(s) only, and does not affect existing memberships in Stripe. Please contact our support team to update the subscription currency.”
Price stated in pounds sterling	No published rate Whether payment processing is included is not stated.	Not published	https://bookwhen.com/pricing (HTTP 200), captured 1 August 2026.

What we could not find for Bookwhen

We could not find a GBP price stated on any public page of Bookwhen as at 2 August 2026. Three fetches from three origins, including one in London, returned USD or EUR and never pounds sterling. This does not establish what currency a UK club is billed in — the vendor's own help centre states that the subscription currency is changed by contacting support.

We checked:

https://bookwhen.com/pricing — HTTP 200, checked 1 August 2026. Served EUR to one Great-Britain origin and USD to another on the same day. No GBP figure and no currency selector.
https://bookwhen.com/pricing?currency=GBP — HTTP 200, checked 1 August 2026. The explicit currency parameter changed nothing; EUR was served.
https://bookwhen.com/en-gb/pricing — HTTP 404, checked 1 August 2026. Page does not exist.
https://bookwhen.com/uk/pricing — HTTP 404, checked 1 August 2026. Page does not exist.
https://bookwhen.com/gb/pricing — HTTP 404, checked 1 August 2026. Page does not exist.
https://bookwhen.com/terms — HTTP 200, checked 1 August 2026. The fee clause names no currency; it defers to the price published on the website at the time of ordering.
https://bookwhen.com/pricing — HTTP 200, checked 2 August 2026. Fetched from a third origin — a London, England, GB host (IP 35.214.36.229) — with a desktop browser user-agent and Accept-Language en-GB. Served USD, not GBP and not EUR. The plan names and the words "per month" are in the served HTML; the currency symbol and the amount sit in SEPARATE elements (a span with class currency_symbol, then the digits), which is why a plain text scrape of the page finds no price at all.

We searched those pages for: GBP, £, sterling, pounds, currency.

Bookwhen may publish this elsewhere, or provide it on request. This records what we could find on that date. It is not a statement about what Bookwhen charges.

Bookwhen's pricing page served different currencies to two requests made from Great Britain on the same day: EUR to one, USD to the other. Neither is a GBP price. The page carries no currency selector and an explicit currency=GBP parameter changed nothing. Both observations are recorded below with their own currency labels. No figure has been converted.

Class Manager — Published

Class Manager publishes a UK per-transaction service charge of 2.7% + 20p on its UK landing page and states there is no monthly subscription; its canonical pricing page states no figure at all, and whether the charge includes the payment processor’s own fee is not stated.

The UK per-transaction service charge and the nil monthly subscription are both stated on public, crawlable pages reachable with no signup.

What Class Manager publishes, as published, with the evidence grade and source for each figure.
What	As published	Evidence	Source and date
UK per-transaction service charge	a 2.7% + 20p service charge for all online payments processed (GBP, as printed) Whether payment processing is included is not stated.	Published	https://classmanager.com/gb (HTTP 200), captured 1 August 2026.
“Charging only a 2.7% + 20p service charge for all online payments processed”
Monthly subscription	Zero monthly subscription fee (GBP, as printed) Whether payment processing is included is not stated.	Published	https://classmanager.com/prices (HTTP 200), captured 1 August 2026.
“Zero monthly subscription fee. Just a flat service charge for any payments processed online.” (assembled from separate elements on the page, not a single sentence)
High-volume pricing	Tailored, on contact Whether payment processing is included is not stated.	Gated	https://classmanager.com/prices (HTTP 200), captured 1 August 2026.
“Processing high volumes? Contact us for tailored pricing”
Any figure on the canonical pricing path	No published rate Whether payment processing is included is not stated.	Not published	https://classmanager.com/prices (HTTP 200), captured 1 August 2026.
Whether payment processing is included	No published rate Whether payment processing is included is not stated.	Not published	https://classmanager.com/gb (HTTP 200), captured 1 August 2026.
VAT treatment	No published rate Whether payment processing is included is not stated.	Not published	https://classmanager.com/gb (HTTP 200), captured 1 August 2026.

What we could not find for Class Manager

We could not find any percentage or currency figure stated on Class Manager's canonical pricing path as at 1 August 2026. The figure is published, on the vendor's UK landing page — recorded separately above. This records what we could find on that date. It is not a statement about what Class Manager charges.

We checked:

https://classmanager.com/prices — HTTP 200, checked 1 August 2026. Zero occurrences of any currency symbol or percentage token in the page text.
https://classmanager.com/pricing — HTTP 200, checked 1 August 2026. Redirects to /prices; same result.
https://classmanager.com/ — HTTP 200, checked 1 August 2026. No redirect to any regional page and no rate sentence present.
https://classmanager.com/features/automated-billing — HTTP 200, checked 1 August 2026. Restates the service charge without a figure.

We searched those pages for: %, £, $, service charge, per transaction.

Class Manager may publish this elsewhere, or provide it on request. This records what we could find on that date. It is not a statement about what Class Manager charges.

What we could not find for Class Manager

We could not find a statement of whether Class Manager's service charge includes the payment processor's own fee, on any public page, as at 1 August 2026. This absence is load-bearing: a transaction-fee figure whose inclusion set is unknown cannot share a comparison row with any other platform's.

We checked:

https://classmanager.com/gb — HTTP 200, checked 1 August 2026. No statement of whether the service charge is inclusive of, or in addition to, the payment processor's own fee.
https://classmanager.com/prices — HTTP 200, checked 1 August 2026. Same — no inclusion statement.
https://classmanager.com/terms — HTTP 200, checked 1 August 2026. Names Stripe as the processor but states no inclusion set for the service charge.

We searched those pages for: inclusive, includes Stripe, inc Stripe, on top of, in addition to.

Class Manager may publish this elsewhere, or provide it on request. This records what we could find on that date. It is not a statement about what Class Manager charges.

What we could not find for Class Manager

We could not find a VAT treatment stated adjacent to the published service charge on any public Class Manager page as at 1 August 2026. The only VAT reference on the public surface is a reserved right in the terms.

We checked:

https://classmanager.com/gb — HTTP 200, checked 1 August 2026. The string VAT does not appear.
https://classmanager.com/prices — HTTP 200, checked 1 August 2026. The string VAT does not appear.
https://classmanager.com/features/automated-billing — HTTP 200, checked 1 August 2026. The string VAT does not appear.

We searched those pages for: VAT, value added tax, inc VAT, plus VAT.

Class Manager may publish this elsewhere, or provide it on request. This records what we could find on that date. It is not a statement about what Class Manager charges.

Class Manager publishes one landing page per market, each stating its own rate in its own currency. The GBP figure is on the UK landing page, which is a first-class entry in the vendor's own published sitemap. The canonical pricing path states no figure at all, and the site root does not redirect to the UK page. Both facts are recorded; neither is characterised. No non-GBP figure is transcribed here, because it could not be converted and has no place in a UK index.

ClassForKids — Gated

ClassForKids publishes plan licence prices from £34.99/month and shows a transaction-fee line on every plan, but states in its own words that the fee a club actually pays is confirmed by an Account Manager and is not published.

Plan licence prices are published; the transaction rate a club actually pays is stated only after a conversation with an Account Manager.

What ClassForKids publishes, as published, with the evidence grade and source for each figure.
What	As published	Evidence	Source and date
Year-Round plan licence	From £34.99 /month (GBP, as printed) Whether payment processing is included is not stated.	Published	https://www.classforkids.com/pricing/ (HTTP 200), captured 1 August 2026.
“Year-Round · Best for: Growing activity clubs · From · £ 34.99 · /month” (assembled from separate elements on the page, not a single sentence)
Transaction fee actually payable	Not published — confirmed by an Account Manager Whether payment processing is included is not stated.	Gated	https://www.classforkids.com/pricing/ (HTTP 200), captured 1 August 2026.
“The transaction fees displayed above are estimates only. Final fees are calculated based on your revenue and the volume of online payments processed through the platform and will be confirmed by your Account Manager.”
Is a transaction fee shown on the pricing page?	Yes — every plan displays a transaction-fee line, hedged "from", qualified as including the payment processor's fee, and asterisked to the disclaimer. The value of those lines is not recorded in this index. Stated as including payment processing.	Published	https://www.classforkids.com/pricing/ (HTTP 200), captured 1 August 2026.
“How are final transaction fees calculated?*”
Market the published prices apply to	UK clubs Whether payment processing is included is not stated.	Published	https://www.classforkids.com/pricing/ (HTTP 200), captured 1 August 2026.
“Our prices below are for UK clubs.”
What the pricing FAQ says about fees	No hidden fees – just one simple platform Whether payment processing is included is not stated.	Published	https://www.classforkids.com/pricing/ (HTTP 200), captured 1 August 2026.
“No hidden fees – just one simple platform”
Minimum term	The pricing FAQ answers "no" under the heading "Do I need to sign a long-term contract?" Whether payment processing is included is not stated.	Published	https://www.classforkids.com/pricing/ (HTTP 200), captured 1 August 2026.
“Do I need to sign a long-term contract?”
Club-facing terms of service or merchant agreement	No published rate Whether payment processing is included is not stated.	Not published	https://www.classforkids.com/pricing/ (HTTP 200), captured 1 August 2026.

What we could not find for ClassForKids

We could not find a club-facing terms of service or merchant agreement stated on any public page of ClassForKids as at 1 August 2026, having checked 27 candidate URLs plus the published sitemap and the pricing page's own outbound links.

We checked:

https://www.classforkids.com/legal/ — HTTP 200, checked 1 August 2026. Redirects to the cookie policy. No terms of service or merchant agreement.
https://www.classforkids.com/legal/privacy-policy/ — HTTP 200, checked 1 August 2026. Privacy policy only.
https://www.classforkids.com/legal/terms/ — HTTP 404, checked 1 August 2026. Page does not exist.
https://www.classforkids.com/terms-and-conditions/ — HTTP 404, checked 1 August 2026. Page does not exist.
https://www.classforkids.com/merchant-agreement/ — HTTP 404, checked 1 August 2026. Page does not exist.
https://www.classforkids.com/xml-sitemap/ — HTTP 200, checked 1 August 2026. The published sitemap contains no legal, terms or agreement URL of any kind.

We searched those pages for: terms, terms of service, terms and conditions, merchant agreement, software agreement, legal.

ClassForKids may publish this elsewhere, or provide it on request. This records what we could find on that date. It is not a statement about what ClassForKids charges.

Every plan on the pricing page displays a transaction-fee line. Each of those lines is hedged "from", is qualified as including the payment processor's fee, and is asterisked to the disclaimer quoted below. The value of those lines is deliberately not recorded in this index.

SeshDesk — Published

SeshDesk charges 2.5% on chargeable bookings with no monthly fee, no setup cost and no minimum term; free, HAF-funded and grant-covered sessions cost nothing; Stripe payment processing is charged separately on top.

Every figure is stated on SeshDesk's own public pricing page, reachable with no signup.

What SeshDesk publishes, as published, with the evidence grade and source for each figure.
What	As published	Evidence	Source and date
Fee on bookings processed through the platform	a flat 2.5% on bookings processed through the platform (GBP, as printed) Payment processing charged separately.	Published	https://seshdesk.co.uk/pricing/ (HTTP 200), captured 1 August 2026.
“SeshDesk charges a flat 2.5% on bookings processed through the platform.”
Fee on free, HAF-funded and grant-covered sessions	Free sessions cost nothing to run through SeshDesk (GBP, as printed) Payment processing charged separately.	Published	https://seshdesk.co.uk/pricing/ (HTTP 200), captured 1 August 2026.
“Free sessions cost nothing to run through SeshDesk: HAF-funded, grant-covered, and community access sessions are all zero cost.”
Monthly platform fee	no monthly fees (GBP, as printed) Whether payment processing is included is not stated.	Published	https://seshdesk.co.uk/pricing/ (HTTP 200), captured 1 August 2026.
“There are no monthly fees, no setup costs, no per-user charges, and no minimum commitments.”
Setup or onboarding fee	no setup costs (GBP, as printed) Whether payment processing is included is not stated.	Published	https://seshdesk.co.uk/pricing/ (HTTP 200), captured 1 August 2026.
“There are no hidden fees, no add-on charges, and no annual contracts.”
Whether payment processing is included	Charged separately by Stripe, on top of SeshDesk's fee Payment processing charged separately.	Published	https://seshdesk.co.uk/pricing/ (HTTP 200), captured 1 August 2026.
“Stripe's standard payment-processing fee (1.5% + 20p in the UK) applies on top, as it does on any platform.”
VAT treatment	No published VAT treatment Whether payment processing is included is not stated.	Not published	https://seshdesk.co.uk/pricing/ (HTTP 200), captured 1 August 2026.

What we could not find for SeshDesk

We could not find a VAT treatment stated on SeshDesk's own pricing page as at 1 August 2026. We record it because the same test is applied to every platform in this index, including ours.

We checked:

https://seshdesk.co.uk/pricing/ — HTTP 200, checked 1 August 2026. The page's rendered text carries no VAT statement of any kind; the only occurrence of the string in the source is inside a script block.

We searched those pages for: VAT, value added tax, plus VAT, inc VAT, ex VAT.

SeshDesk may publish this elsewhere, or provide it on request. This records what we could find on that date. It is not a statement about what SeshDesk charges.

This index is published by SeshDesk. SeshDesk is one of the platforms listed, and its entry is held to the same standard as every other: each figure carries a source URL, an HTTP status, a capture date and a verbatim quote, and where we could not find something on our own page we record that too.

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If you believe an entry is inaccurate or out of date, email hello@seshdesk.co.uk. We will re-check, correct where warranted, and re-date the entry within 5 working days.

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