Online booking for music teachers
Set teaching hours that suit your practice space and allow breaks between lessons. Students can book from the times you make available.
Thirty minutes for children and sixty for adults as separate event types, a five-minute gap between them, paid online, with your hours set to when you can actually make noise.
Two constraints that fight each other#
Students are free after school and in the evening. Your building is tolerant until about eight. The overlap is narrow, and every lesson has to fit in it.
On top of that, recital season doubles your lesson count for six weeks twice a year, and thirty-minute children’s lessons and hour-long adult ones do not fit neatly against each other.
Suggested booking settings#
Thirty and sixty minute lessons on a fixed weekly slot, mostly after school and at weekends, with a recital season that upends the timetable twice a year.
| Duration | 30 minutes for children, 60 for adults |
|---|---|
| Booking notice required | 24 hours |
| Time between appointments | 5 minutes between lessons |
| Max bookings per day | Eight short lessons in an afternoon |
| Location | In person at your studio, at the student’s home, or video |
| Payment | Paid online |
| Cancellation policy | Full refund 24 hours before, none inside — the slot cannot be resold |
Suggested booking questions: Instrument and level · Age of the student · Do you have an instrument at home?
Teaching at home in an apartment brings noise limits that decide your hours more than demand does. Set the availability schedule to the hours you can actually play, and it will never offer 21:00 by accident.
Set the hours you can play#
Weekdays 15:30–20:00, Saturdays 10:00–18:00, or whatever your building actually tolerates. It is one setting and it removes the whole problem.
Two lengths, five minutes apart#
Thirty minutes for children, sixty for adults, with a five-minute buffer so one family leaving does not overlap the next arriving in a small entrance hall.
Payment before, not after#
Paid online means no envelopes, no forgotten cash, and a cancellation policy that applies itself. For a teacher whose slot cannot be resold at short notice, that is the whole point.
Getting started#
- Sign in at app.marubox.jp with Google or Microsoft. There is no credit card required and no time limit on the free plan.
- Create an event type with the settings above. Event types explained
- Connect your calendar so your studio hours never gets double booked. Google · Outlook
- Set your working hours, and close Japanese public holidays in one setting. Availability
- Put the link in your bio, or the widget on your site. Adding it to your website
Common questions
How do I stop lessons being booked late in the evening?
Set your availability schedule to end when your building is happy — 20:00 for instance. Nothing later is offered, and you never have to decline.
Can I teach some students online?
Yes — a second event type with a Google Meet or Teams location. The link is created with the calendar entry and reaches the student automatically.
How do I handle the recital rush?
Raise the daily cap and open extra days with date overrides for those weeks, then set them back. Your ordinary weekly hours are untouched.
Start taking bookings online
The Free plan includes booking pages, Google Calendar and Outlook connections, working hours, Japanese holiday settings and booking on your website. No credit card is required, and there is no time limit. The Paid plan is ¥1,200 per month including tax and adds online card payments, team bookings and LINE integration. Business Box charges no booking commission; Stripe processing fees apply separately.
Last reviewed 16 October 2026.