Cooking class software
for the school where dinner is the homework
A six-week junior series, adult date nights sold by the pack, and a Saturday party whose RSVP count writes the ingredient order. Cadence keeps the money and the allergy flags straighter than the aprons.
Last night at your cooking school
The party hit twelve yeses on Friday
Saturday's ingredient order was already written by then
A date-night pack burned its third evening
Beside a kids series on the same family account, cleanly
The substitute read two allergy flags, then said yes
The flags travel in the offer, before the claim
Family night went virtual with a prep list attached
Right link, right groceries, marked like any class
Kids on tuition, adults on packs, one clean book
A junior series bills by the term, a date-night pack burns evening by evening, and a party settles at RSVP close. Three rhythms, one ledger, every card accounted for.
Her series split in half, the date nights on one card
Most systems attach the money to one household account. Cadence attaches it to each child's enrollment instead, so the adults who pay for her can be billed separately. Each parent gets their own invoice for their own share, pays with their own card, and does not need the other one’s login.
- ✓Series tuition splits by the household's percentages
- ✓An adult pack lives on the card that bought it
- ✓A scoped gift feeds one line and no other
- ✓Every payer's page holds their lines alone
Declines cleared before the first preheat
When a payment fails overnight, Cadence tries the backup card on file. If the other parent has agreed to cover a missed payment, their card is next in line. Everyone is told what happened before the doors open.
- ✓A failed charge is a dated entry within minutes
- ✓Retries and backup cards run strictly on consent
- ✓The desk starts its day with answers
School-year series run steady; date nights carry the summer while the kids are at camp.
Do the series keep the burners lit?
Answered on the screen, not rebuilt in a spreadsheet every quarter.
- ✓This month against the same month last year, so seasonality doesn’t fool you
- ✓Party guests who joined a junior series, counted as a rate
- ✓“Email me revenue every Monday at 8 a.m.” and it just shows up
- ✓Ask in plain English: “who dropped after their first month this year?”
The month, burner by burner
Six programs, from first whisk to teen kitchen.
Demo figures, not a real cooking school.
Classes that stream, packs that sit beside tuition
Family night, streamed from the teaching kitchen
When family night runs virtual, two things travel together: the class link and the prep list, both riding the enrollment so every household opens the right stream with the right groceries already on the counter. The instructor cooks from the teaching kitchen, marks attendance as usual, and twenty dinners happen in twenty homes.
- ✓The link and the prep list travel as one
- ✓Virtual nights keep the roster and the marks
- ✓Families shop before, not during
Date nights by the pack, kids by the term
The Ferraro account carries both shapes at once: Gia's junior series bills by the term on the family split, while the adults' four-evening pack burns one punch per date night on the card that bought it. Two billing rhythms, one household, and neither ever leaks into the other's math.
- ✓Term billing and pack billing coexist on one account
- ✓Each shape keeps its own arithmetic
- ✓The family reads both from one login
Evenings that settle their own tabs
A date night is two seats and three add-ons. The school prices it once, couples book from the couch, and the kitchen preps to the real count.
Two seats on Friday, one clean receipt
Friday's pasta night sells by the seat: two spots, aprons rented at the door, recipe cards to take home, and the extra dessert course they talked each other into. One checkout, one receipt, and the kitchen's Friday prep sheet counted them before the garlic hit the pan.
- ✓Seats and add-ons share one checkout
- ✓The prep sheet reads the paid count
- ✓Refunds follow the posted policy
Sunday brunch class returns every month
The family brunch class reopens itself monthly with the price, the cap, and the waiver already standing, and regulars book before the previous one's dishes are dry. The cap tracks the station count, the waitlist forms past it, and the kitchen preps for the number on the screen.
- ✓Recurring classes reopen on their own
- ✓Caps follow the station count
- ✓The kitchen preps to the screen, not a hunch
Flags that travel, calendars that turn over
In a teaching kitchen the allergy list is safety equipment. Coverage offers carry it up front, and the calendar belongs to the person who plans the turnovers.
The sub said yes after reading the allergy flags
When Thursday's instructor called out, the coverage offer led with what mattered: two allergy flags on the roster, tree nut and egg, visible before anyone tapped accept. The substitute who claimed it reworked one recipe on the drive over, and the class cooked without a single close call.
- ✓Allergy flags ride the offer, not the handoff
- ✓A claim is informed before it is made
- ✓Families hear about the sub, not the scramble
The kitchen manager's calendar, the guest chef's class
The kitchen manager owns the calendar because she owns the turnovers, the cleaning blocks, and the oven schedule between classes. The Thursday guest chef sees her own class, her roster, and her allergy flags, and nothing else, and her request to swap weeks routed to the manager instead of shuffling the kitchen by surprise.
- ✓Owning the calendar and teaching a class are different keys
- ✓Guests see their roster, not the kitchen's week
- ✓Swaps route to the person who plans turnovers
From the fridge list to the final bill, one app
A parent checks the series invoice, a couple books Friday, a substitute reads the flags before saying yes.
Parents and cooks
Series, packs, and party plans together.
- ✓Series weeks and date nights on one calendar
- ✓The pack balance, burned evening by evening
- ✓Party invites answered in one tap
- ✓Prep lists arriving with the virtual link
- ✓Split payers, private pages, same kid
Marked at the counter, synced at the desk
Instructors and the desk
Rosters, flags, and the prep sheet.
- ✓Tonight's classes with allergy flags first
- ✓Prep sheets that read the paid count
- ✓Coverage offers that lead with the flags
- ✓Calendar keys the kitchen manager holds
RSVPs that buy groceries, kits that follow the split
Twelve yeses by Friday, twelve aprons Saturday
The birthday family sent invitations from the booking, and the count did the shopping: twelve yeses by Friday's close, one guest allergy noted by the guest's own parent, and the ingredient order placed against the real number. Saturday morning, twelve stations stood ready and none stood wasted.
- ✓Invites and RSVPs live on the booking
- ✓Guest flags arrive from guest parents
- ✓The grocery order reads the yes column
Her own knife kit, on the family split
Gia graduated from the loaner drawer, and her knife kit went on the family account the way the family splits everything: half and half, no side conversation. Aprons and spice tins ring at the counter, stock counts itself down, and the kit's arrival pinged the parent who ordered it.
- ✓Gear purchases follow the family split
- ✓Arrivals notify the buyer, not the whole list
- ✓The shelf knows what left it
Italian on the account, from booking to leftovers
Language is chosen once on the account, and every screen, invoice, and prep list holds to it afterward.
Every line read before the signature
Cadence translates its own screens and buttons, but not your waivers and forms. That is why Cadence has a multi-lingual form generator, so you can create your waivers in any language you need, because a parent who signs a document she couldn’t read is a document you may not be able to enforce.
- ✓She signs the Italian waiver you created, not one a computer produced
- ✓Medical forms and photo permissions work the same way
- ✓Your terms of service stay in English, which is how they stay enforceable
Chosen at the start, kept at every step
Her aunt pays for the date nights and reads every receipt in Italian. The desk reads the same account in English. One account, two readers, and each screen keeps faith with whoever opened it.
- ✓Every notice you send arrives in the reader’s language, from one message you wrote once
- ✓Right to left languages are laid out properly, not bolted on
- ✓The account names its language, so the desk speaks it back
Cadence has the languages cooking schools actually need. Nineteen and counting at launch.
Party guests come back hungry
Every party and date night leaves the school a list of people who licked the spoon. The nudge toward a series sends itself.
Invoices skip the marketing mute
A parent off the newsletter still gets invoices, series renewals, and schedule changes. Money mail keeps its own burner.
Worth checking: one unsubscribe over both is how a family misses a renewal.The Monday after a party
Guest families get one note with junior series times and the apron answer, written once, sent every time.
Segments read live rosters
Message every series family, every date-night couple, or every party guest since January, no exports.
A first solo dish is worth a note
A finished series, a first knife kit, a family that hit a year, each can trigger the message written once.
Ask for reviews while it still smells good
The link goes out the morning after a date night, not beside an invoice.
Date nights feed the day classes
Couples from Friday land on the list the next adult series announces to.
The whole school moves without dropping a dish
Your families, enrollments, balances, and history come with you. Do it yourself with our tools, or hand it to us and we’ll do it for you.
Families and cooks
Households, splits, and payer setups arrive exactly as they stand.
Packs and balances
A pack with two evenings left arrives with two evenings left. Credits hold.
Series and standing nights
Class grids, recurring brunches, and party bookings come over conflict-checked.
Flags and history
Allergy flags, payment history, and signed waivers land searchable on day one.
Staging before live
The import waits in a staging copy until you read it and pick the cutover date.
Or hand us the recipe box
Export from the old system, send the file, and the migration team carries it in with you.
Cooking class questions, answered plainly
Bring your menu to the demo
Come with the series calendar and the station count, and the demo cooks with your school's numbers instead of a stock pantry.