Switch from Squarespace + Acuity
Your booking software doesn’t know you run a kiln.Claybench does.
Squarespace gives you a website with a calendar bolted on. Claybench is built for the studio behind it — class booking that respects your kiln capacity, a shop that lists your work the moment you make it, and production planning no website builder will ever have.
Keep your Squarespace site. Move the part that runs your studio.
You’re not switching websites. You’re switching the brains.
Keep your Squarespace site exactly as it is — your brand, your gallery, your front door. Claybench slots in behind it and takes over the two things Squarespace was never built to understand: your classes and your production. One link from your site, and your studio runs somewhere that actually knows what a bisque firing is.
And when you’re ready to stop paying for the brochure too: your website is included — a complete studio site on your own domain.
The math
It costs you less than what you pay now.
| Squarespace + Acuity | Claybench | |
|---|---|---|
| Store sales fee | 0% + processing | 0% + processing |
| Class booking fee (to you) | 0% + processing | 0% + processing — students pay a flat 3% Claybench fee, or you absorb it |
| Monthly cost | Commerce plan + Acuity (~$50–60/mo) | One plan, ~$49/mo |
| Knows your kiln capacity | ✗ | ✓ |
| Shop lists itself from production | ✗ | ✓ |
| Production & firing planning | ✗ | ✓ |
Same fee structure on sales — zero platform take on your own traffic, just like Squarespace. One subscription instead of two. And everything your current stack can’t do.
The three things only Claybench does
01
Class booking that respects your kiln
Acuity books a seat with no idea that twelve students' mugs all need a bisque slot next week. Claybench gates capacity on the throughput you actually have — wheels, seats, and kiln — so you stop overbooking the real bottleneck.
02
A shop that builds itself
On Squarespace you hand-build every product page. In Claybench, the pieces you're already tracking become listings with a tap. The store is the payoff of the planning you're doing anyway.
03
Production planning Squarespace can't dream of
Drying times, shrinkage, cone compatibility, firing schedules, materials forecasting — the physics of ceramics, built in. It's why your store and classes finally talk to your actual studio.
Honest answers
No fine print.
Do my students suddenly pay a fee they didn't before?
On Acuity your students pay $0, so yes — Claybench's booking adds a flat 3% fee, labeled as Claybench's and disclosed before checkout (far below Eventbrite; card processing is never charged to students). You choose: pass it to students, or flip one toggle to absorb it and your students see only your listed prices.
What does the booking fee actually fund?
It's how Claybench earns money instead of charging you a fat platform fee on every sale. Your store stays 0%. We'd rather earn a flat 3% on class bookings — where it's normal — than take a cut of the work you sell.
Do I have to leave Squarespace?
No. Keep your site. Claybench replaces Acuity and, optionally, your Squarespace store — the operational layer — not your web presence. That said, every Claybench studio also gets a complete website with booking built in, so when you're ready to stop paying for the brochure too, the whole site can move.
Is my data locked in?
No. Full export in JSON and CSV, any time. You should never lose your data.
See it with your own studio.
Bring your real class schedule and your kiln. In sixty seconds we’ll show you where Squarespace would have let you overbook — and what your shop looks like when it lists itself.