How to price play cafe memberships: sibling rates, visit caps and founding-member locks
A practical way to set membership prices for a play cafe, including sibling rates, visit caps and what a founding-member lock costs you later.
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Notes from running a play cafe, written for people who run one.
Party deposits, balances and no-shows: the policy set that protects your weekends
The deposit, balance and cancellation policies that keep weekend party slots from going empty, and how to enforce them without arguments at the desk.
Off-peak sessions: filling Tuesday mornings without discounting Saturdays
How to fill quiet weekday sessions at a play space using pass types, timed promotions and memberships, without training families to wait for a discount.
See it run a real weekday
Thirty minutes with someone who has worked the desk. We will book a session as a parent, check the family in, add thirty minutes, ring up socks and read the day off the command center, using your session times and pricing.
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