RocketClass vs Class Manager
Class Manager is free until you take money. Then every payment carries its charge.
Class Manager: class administration software with no monthly fee, charging per online payment instead.
Class Manager inverts the usual model: no subscription, with its revenue taken as a service charge on every payment your parents make online. That can suit a club taking little money online; the catch is that the rate is the one number its pricing page does not print.
How RocketClass and Class Manager compare
| RocketClass | Class Manager | |
|---|---|---|
| What it costs | £29 or £59 a month, and 0% on payments | No monthly fee. A per-transaction service charge, rate not published |
| If you take few online payments | The subscription still applies | Close to nothing, which is genuinely hard to beat |
| As your bookings grow | Our price does not move | Grows with every online payment |
| Know your cost before signing up | Yes. Two numbers on a public page | Not from the pricing page; high volumes are quoted |
| Built for classes | Yes. Terms, camps, registers, waiting lists | Yes. Class businesses are its market |
| Where the money lands | Your own Stripe account, directly | Through the platform's payment processing |
Where these figures come from
- Class Manager's pricing page describes a zero monthly subscription with “just a flat service charge for any payments processed online”, a fee per transaction, and tailored pricing for high volumes on contact. Source
- Our own prices are on our pricing page, and they are the same prices you pay.
Checked 20 August 2026. Plans change, and we would rather be accurate than flattering: if anything here is wrong or out of date, tell us and we will correct it.
When to choose Class Manager instead
If you are brand new, cash-poor and taking most payments outside the platform, Class Manager's no-subscription model is a rational way to start; revisit the sums when online payments become your normal.
Questions people actually ask
Isn't free-until-you-earn the fairest model?
For a club taking very little money online, honestly, yes, and we say so in the table above. The model turns against you as online payments become most of your revenue, because the charge rides on every one, and you cannot model it in advance if the rate is not published.
What does Class Manager do better?
The starting cost. No subscription means a brand-new club risks nothing on software while it finds its feet.
What is a good Class Manager alternative with a published, flat cost?
We charge £29 or £59 a month, published, with no charge on your payments; only Stripe's standard card fee applies and it goes to Stripe, not us. You can put your cost in a spreadsheet before you sign up.
Built for clubs like yours
Try it against your own numbers.
14 days free, nothing charged until the trial ends, and your booking page is live in about five minutes. If it does not suit you, leave and take your data with you.