Live payments — real cards will be charged. Test cards will be declined.

Features

A class booking system and course management software built for evening & community education

Evening Class Connect handles the whole term: publishing courses, taking bookings and payments, marking attendance, keeping tutors organised and producing the reports your management and funders ask for.

Class booking system

A public course catalogue with live seat counts, a mobile-friendly application form, and instant confirmation emails. Full classes roll learners onto a wait list, and places are offered automatically when a seat frees up.

  • Live availability per course run, not per course
  • Automatic wait list offers with expiry
  • Multi-language public site (English, Irish, Polish, Ukrainian)
  • Public timetable with calendar (.ics) export

Course & run management

Courses are defined once and delivered as runs — a start date, day, time, venue, tutor and capacity. Editing a run never touches the course description learners read.

  • Day and time shown as headings across admin lists
  • Categories, fee types and instalment plans per run
  • Custom application forms per course where QQI data is needed
  • Bulk import and Excel export of the course catalogue

Payments & instalments

Card payments are taken at the point of booking, so a place is only held once money has moved. Instalment plans, sponsor bookings and CE-scheme debtors are all tracked against the booking.

  • Card payments with receipts and payment links learners can reuse
  • Instalment plans with balance tracking
  • Refunds processed from the booking screen
  • Debtors report for CE schemes and unpaid balances

Attendance tracking

Every run gets a class list and a printable A4 register. Tutors can mark attendance on a phone, or learners can check themselves in from a QR poster on the classroom door.

  • Class lists and session-by-session registers
  • Print-ready A4 landscape registers with date columns
  • QR check-in poster, no learner login required
  • Self check-in by mobile digits with surname fallback

Tutor management

Tutor profiles power the public 'Meet your tutor' section and the check-in poster. Tutors can be given a restricted login that shows only their own sessions.

  • Bios and photos published on course pages
  • Lead tutor plus co-tutors per run
  • Tutor role with a scoped dashboard
  • Historic runs preserved when a tutor becomes inactive

Automated reporting

A live dashboard shows enrolments, revenue and capacity, with a top-ten chart of the busiest runs. Management reports are generated as branded PDFs, and any view can be exported to Excel.

  • Capacity-led dashboard: seats sold against seats offered
  • Professional management report as a PDF
  • Attendance, debtors and catalogue reports
  • Ask-a-question panel for plain-English data queries

Communications

Email and SMS to one learner, a whole class or a filtered group, with attachments for brochures and certificates. Every message is logged against the booking.

  • Templates with merge fields and payment links
  • Attachments up to 10MB per send
  • Delivery tracking and full communications history
  • Prepaid SMS credit wallet per college

Security & compliance

Role-based access, mandatory two-step sign-in and per-college data separation. Nightly encrypted backups with documented restore drills.

  • Email one-time codes for staff, authenticator app for platform admins
  • Granular roles and permissions, no shared logins
  • GDPR-aware consent, DPIA summary and audit log
  • 30-day backup retention with rehearsed restores

Also included

Term rollover

Duplicate a whole September or January term in a few clicks.

Excel everywhere

Export any list for finance, funders or ETB returns.

Printables

Registers, class lists and QR posters formatted for A4.

Your own public site

Each college gets a branded booking site on its own address.

See it with your own courses

Set up your college in under a day. No card required for the 30-day trial.