The three Monday-morning headaches we optimize away. If you run a cooking classes business, you've probably had all three this quarter.
A vegan booking that reaches the kitchen the morning-of. TripStub surfaces dietary notes at booking, aggregated per class — your mise-en-place station sees them before prep starts.
Corporate events and bachelorette parties want a custom menu and a fixed price. TripStub handles quotes: email a price, one-click book, invoice after.
A $95 class becomes $76 after commission. TripStub keeps all $95 on your own site — no plan takes a cut — and the Growth plan's channel manager lets you optionally route through Viator/GetYourGuide for discoverability, not distribution-of-last-resort.
"Dietary restrictions surfaced before prep, not the morning of. Private-group quoting that isn't email ping-pong. OTA commission that doesn't eat the wine pairing. That's the cooking-class brief."
— Composite cooking-class operator, Recurring theme from our operator interviews
The core toolbox is free for everyone on the Starter plan. Where a feature belongs to Growth or Scale, we say so below — and it's always a flat monthly rate, never a per-booking fee, never a commission.
Per-station capacity
Eight cooking stations, twelve seats at the tasting bar — different capacity for different parts of the same class.
Dietary & allergy notes
Collected at booking, aggregated per class, surfaced to the chef the day before — not the hour of.
Recipe / materials PDF
Attach a takeaway recipe PDF per class. Auto-sent post-event, stored in the customer's booking history for lifetime access.
Private group quoting (Growth plan)
Custom price per party + min guaranteed guests. Quote link is one-click bookable, or becomes a deposit-based invoice.
Add-ons without rebuilding the class
Wine pairing, knife-skills intro, recipe-printed-on-apron souvenir — optional line items at checkout with their own inventory and taxes.
Gift vouchers for the holidays
A booking platform that actually handles vouchers: buy → code emailed → redeem on any open class. No-expiry, partial-redemption, reissue on request.
Push inventory once. Let availability fan out to the channel managers and OTAs your travelers already use. Channel-manager distribution is a flat-rate Growth module — no plan takes a per-booking cut.
Viator
GetYourGuide
Airbnb Experiences
Peek
Own-site booking
Google Things to Do
Use TripStub's weekly export to run 'packet night' — one CSV → aggregated dietary list → prep shopping list → aggregate wine pairing count. Most operators we work with run this Monday evening for the coming week.
Run the numbers on your actual volume. Most operators we talk to save $8k–$35k/year just by skipping the per-booking fee.