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Admissions tours for private schools: parents book online

Prospective parents choose a tour slot from a Calendly link instead of phoning the registrar. Free, or about $12£9€11A$17C$17 a month with reminders.

At a glance

  • What it costsFree–$12Free–£9Free–€11Free–A$17Free–C$17 a month

  • Worth, in extra profit or time saved in the worked example$106£80€95A$154C$150 a month

  • Pays for itselfIn a few days

  • Sign up and configure; no technical skills neededEasy to set up

Figures come from the worked example below, using its stated assumptions. Tool prices checked . How we check prices

The problem

Private tours are how most families decide, but arranging them eats the registrar's week. Fifteen tours a month at 20 minutes of phone and email each is 300 minutes, 5 hours, and a family left waiting for a call back may book a tour elsewhere first.

What the AI does

Calendly lets parents pick a free slot in a calendar from a link. The free plan has one event type and one calendar connection: make 'Visit the school', with the length of a tour and the slots when the head or registrar can show families round. Put the link on your admissions page and in every inquiry reply. Standard ($10, about $11£8€10A$15C$15 a seat a month billed yearly or $12, about $12£9€11A$17C$17 monthly) adds reminders, which cut no-shows on a busy morning.

A worked example

A small independent prep school in Hertfordshire gives about 15 private tours a month, led by the head, and arranges each by phone and email.

Before

15 tours at 20 minutes of arranging: 300 minutes, 5 hours a month

After

Parents book from a link; about 4 minutes each to prepare: 60 minutes

What it's worth

About $106£80€95A$154C$150 a month of the registrar's time saved. That's 4 hours at an assumed $27£20€24A$38C$38 an hour. The free plan does the booking; Standard, about $12£9€11A$17C$17 a month billed monthly for one seat, adds reminders.

How to set it up

  1. Connect Calendly to the calendar of whoever leads tours and block out assemblies, events and holidays.
  2. Create one event type, 'Visit the school', with the tour length and meeting point.
  3. Ask for the parent's name, email, phone and the year of entry; nothing about the child yet.
  4. Add the link to your admissions page, inquiry replies and email signatures.
  5. Make a test booking and read what a parent sees.

What goes wrong

  • The free plan has no reminders, so some families won't turn up; Standard adds them.
  • Visitors on site during the school day must follow your safeguarding and visitor procedures; the booking is only the first step.
  • If tours are shared between the head and registrar, one free event type on one calendar won't cover both; that needs a paid plan.

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Last updated October 17, 2026.