Best Class Registration Software 2026

It is 9:47 pm on a Tuesday. Registration opened this morning, and you are still cross-checking a spreadsheet against your inbox, wondering which families paid, which forms are missing, and why two students are enrolled in a class that conflicts with their other class.

If that sounds familiar, the problem is not you. It is the tooling. Good class registration software takes the registration-season chaos - forms, payments, rosters, reminders - and runs it for you, so enrollment happens while you sleep instead of because you did not.

In this guide, we compare nine class registration software platforms on the things that actually decide whether you get your evenings back: forms that adapt to each student, payment plans that collect themselves, total cost of ownership, and how cleanly the money lands in your accounting system.

A note on sourcing: every competitor fact below was verified directly against that vendor's own pricing page, help center, or a current third-party listing as of July 2026. When a vendor doesn’t publish pricing or a feature isn’t confirmed anywhere, we say so rather than guessing. Pricing and features change often, so always confirm current numbers on the vendor's own site before you buy.

What Actually Matters in Class Registration Software

Most platforms can take a name and a credit card. The differences show up three weeks into the term, when a parent wants to switch sections, your bookkeeper asks why the deposits do not match the bank statement, and you need a roster filtered by allergy. Before you book demos, score every platform on six things:

• Conditional registration forms: can the form show different questions to a returning adult student than to a parent enrolling three kids, without you building five separate forms?
• Payment plans and recurring billing: can families pay a deposit now and installments automatically, or are you the payment plan (chasing checks by email)?
• Total cost of ownership: the subscription is only part of it; add per-registration fees, payment processing rates, and paid add-ons before comparing
• Accounting integration: does revenue flow into QuickBooks (or your system) natively, through Zapier, or through you re-typing it at month-end?
• Reporting and rosters: can front-desk staff filter live data by any form field, or does every question become an export?
• Admin seats and limits: some platforms cap admins, forms, or active accounts by tier; growing programs hit those caps at the worst time

Money-minded directors should pay special attention to the third point. Per-registration fees look small until you multiply them by a year of enrollment, and processing rates across platforms can differ by more than 2 percentage points.

The 9 Platforms at a Glance

Regpack

Built around registration logic first. Forms branch based on who's filling them out and what they've already answered, so families see relevant questions instead of a static generic form. Billing runs on the same principle: deposits, installments, and recurring charges collect automatically against whatever schedule you set. Pricing is a tiered annual plan with no per-registration fee and processing as low as 1.5%. Regpack also integrates natively with QuickBooks, connects to Stripe for payment processing, and offers a full REST API and webhooks, so it plugs into an existing accounting setup instead of asking you to build around it.

CourseStorm

Runs on tiered subscription pricing from Starter to All Access, roughly $99 to $499 per month, depending on the level and whether you pay monthly or annually. Every plan, regardless of tier, carries a $2.49 per-registration fee on top of standard Stripe processing, confirmed directly on CourseStorm's own pricing page. Payment plans aren't available until the Pro tier and up, so a program on Starter or Core that needs installment billing has to upgrade to get it. A solid fit for arts, community education, and workforce training programs that want a clean class catalog and don't mind the added per-registration fee.

Jumbula

Tiered subscription pricing, with Pay-As-You-Go, Rise, and Ascend plans running roughly $15 to $285 a month, plus a 20% discount for paying annually. Nonprofits get additional discounts on top of that. Recurring billing and payment plans are supported. Payment processing isn't published as a flat rate; it runs through whichever processor you connect (Stripe, PayPal, or similar), so the actual fee depends on your setup. A reasonable fit for small- to mid-class, camp, and after-school providers who want low entry pricing, though conditional or branching enrollment forms aren't a confirmed feature here.

ACTIVE Camp & Class Manager

Pricing isn't published anywhere; it's a demo-led sales process from the start. That makes it hard to compare total cost against platforms with public pricing until you're already in a sales conversation. If your program is large enough to need the broader ACTIVE ecosystem, that conversation may be worth having, but budget for a longer evaluation timeline than the platforms above.

RegFox

Charges per registrant on its lower tiers rather than a flat monthly fee: Standard runs $0.99 plus 1% per registrant capped at $4.99, Premium runs $1.99 plus 1% capped at $5.99, and Professional is a flat $499 a month with VIP support and API access. Standard credit card processing runs 2.9% plus $0.30 per transaction through Webconnex Payments on top of those fees, confirmed directly on RegFox's pricing page. One detail worth knowing before you commit: free events still carry the $0.99 to $1.99 per-registrant fee; it isn't waived just because the event itself doesn't charge. Payment plans are available on Premium and Professional. Built more for one-off events and event-style registration than ongoing term-based class billing.

CampDoc

Custom pricing based on camp size, with monthly subscription plans reported to start around $340 a month. CampDoc was built by doctors, nurses, and youth program professionals, and its positioning leans heavily on health and safety management rather than general registration flexibility. If health compliance is your main concern, it's worth evaluating that strength specifically rather than comparing it feature-for-feature against general registration platforms.

CampBrain

Pricing isn't published anywhere; both G2 and Capterra point you to contact the vendor directly. Reviewers frequently mention long customer tenures and describe support as responsive, though specific feature claims aren't confirmed on CampBrain's own marketing pages, so verify these details directly if they matter to your decision.

CampMinder

Custom, per-camper pricing with no flat dollar figures published for the core registration and billing platform. Capterra lists a starting price around $24 per user per month, though real camp deployments typically run as a custom annual license rather than a simple per-seat rate, so treat that number as a directional floor rather than what you'd actually pay. Best suited to medium-to-large residential camps that need registration, billing, health management, and staff tools handled in one system.

Amilia

Published pricing starts around $99 a month for smaller organizations, with custom, growth-based pricing for larger recreation businesses, cities, and nonprofits. Recurring billing and payment plans are supported, and Amilia includes automated payment recovery for failed charges, a feature not called out on most of the other platforms here. Best suited to programs that want a public activity marketplace and facility-booking tools alongside class registration, rather than a standalone registration tool.

Platform-by-Platform: What Each One Actually Does

In this guide, we compare nine class registration software platforms on the things that actually decide whether you get your evenings back: forms that adapt to each student, payment plans that collect themselves, total cost of ownership, and how cleanly the money lands in your accounting system.

A note on sourcing: every competitor fact below was verified directly against that vendor's own pricing page, help center, or a current third-party listing as of July 2026. When a vendor doesn’t publish pricing or a feature isn’t confirmed anywhere, we say so rather than guessing. Pricing and features change often, so always confirm current numbers on the vendor's own site before you buy.

1. Regpack

Pricing: tiered annual plans by organization size, with unlimited forms, admins, and reports on every tier, no per-registration fee. Payment processing runs as low as 1.5%, confirmed directly from Regpack's own pricing page.

Regpack is built around registration logic first. Forms branch based on who's filling them out and what they've already answered, so a returning family sees different questions than a new one, and health, emergency, or custom info live in the same form instead of a separate system. Billing follows the same principle: deposits, installments, and recurring charges are automatically collected according to the schedule you set, and rosters can be filtered by any field in real time.

On the accounting side, Regpack integrates natively with QuickBooks and HubSpot, connects to Stripe for payment processing, and offers a full REST API, confirmed directly from Regpack's own site. Security is handled at the platform level: Regpack is PCI DSS Level 2 certified, SOC 2 Type II audited, and GDPR compliant, all confirmed directly by the vendor.

What Regpack does well

• No per-registration fee; one predictable annual cost instead of a per-head charge that grows with enrollment
• Conditional forms that branch by family and prior answers, with health and custom info built in
• Native QuickBooks and HubSpot integrations, plus a full REST API
• PCI-DSS Level 2, SOC 2 Type II, and GDPR compliant

Watch out for

• Built for programs with real registration logic; if your forms are simple and static, you may be paying for more flexibility than you need
• Annual plan structure means less flexibility than a pure pay-as-you-go model if your enrollment volume is unpredictable season to season

2. CourseStorm

Pricing: Starter $99, Core $169, Pro $269, All Access $399 per month (confirmed directly on CourseStorm’s pricing page and Capterra), plus standard Stripe processing and a $2.49 per-registration fee on every plan (also confirmed directly on CourseStorm’s site).

CourseStorm is purpose-built for class registration and is aimed at arts and culture programs, community education, and workforce training. It earns real credit for publishing its pricing in full and for a clean, catalog-first experience: a catalog website, family accounts, rosters, and waitlists are included from the entry tier.

The trade-off is how the bill grows. The $2.49 per-registration fee applies to every plan, in addition to the subscription and Stripe's processing costs. Capabilities are also gated by tier: payment plans are available only at the Pro tier and up, and integrations are gated to the All Access tier.

What CourseStorm does well

• Fully transparent, published pricing
• Catalog website, family accounts, rosters, and waitlists out of the box, even on the entry tier
• Offers a published API

Watch out for

• $2.49 per registration on every plan; a program with 2,000 annual enrollments pays roughly $4,980 in per-registration fees before subscription and processing are even added
• Payment plans locked to Pro and integrations locked to All Access
• No confirmed QuickBooks integration; the vendor lists WordPress, Google Calendar, Spektrix, and Little Green Light instead

3. Amilia

Pricing: Standard $99/month; Advanced $499/month; custom pricing for large organizations, confirmed directly on Amilia's pricing page. Implementation fees start at $899 for Standard and $2,999 for Advanced, confirmed via a third-party pricing breakdown.

Amilia (the SmartRec platform) is a strong operator's choice for facility-centric organizations: parks and recreation departments, YMCAs, JCCs, and community centers. Facility booking, memberships, and a self-serve marketplace, alongside registration, are genuine differentiators in that world. Amilia is PCI DSS compliant, confirmed directly on its own pricing page.

For a class-first program, the accounting connection is worth knowing before you sign: QuickBooks is not offered as a direct integration; you'd need to connect through Amilia's own app store or API instead.

What Amilia does well

• Published pricing and implementation fees
• Facility booking, memberships, and a self-serve marketplace alongside registration
• Recurring installments and payment recovery tools
• PCI DSS compliant

Watch out for

• Implementation fees of $899 to $2,999 on top of the monthly plan
• QuickBooks not offered as a direct integration
• Card processing carries an additional service fee on top of standard rates; get the exact current rate in writing before comparing totals

4. Jumbula

Pricing: Pay As You Go $15/month, Rise $150/month, Ascend $285/month, confirmed directly from Capterra's current listing and Jumbula's own pricing page. An annual billing discount is available; nonprofits receive additional pricing.

Jumbula covers a broad set of verticals: classes, camps, after-school programs, sports, and more, and the $15/month entry point is the lowest published starting price in this comparison. It supports recurring billing and payment plans, including automated recurring charges.

Payment processing rates are not published; Jumbula connects to external processors including Stripe, PayPal, and Authorize.net, so the actual card-processing cost depends on which one you use.

What Jumbula does well

• Low published entry pricing
• Payment plans and automated recurring billing
• Connects to Stripe, PayPal, Authorize.net, and Zapier

Watch out for

• Processing rates aren't disclosed upfront; get them in writing before comparing totals
• No confirmed QuickBooks integration
• Conditional or branching enrollment forms aren't a confirmed feature

5. ACTIVE Camp & Class Manager

Pricing: not published anywhere; the sales process is demo-led from the start.

ACTIVE Network's Camp & Class Manager serves camps, classes, continuing education, and parks and recreation departments. Beyond that, we couldn't independently confirm specific feature claims (payment automation details, compliance certifications, or integration options) on ACTIVE's own marketing pages, so anything specific should be confirmed directly in a demo rather than assumed.

Watch out for

• No published pricing or processing rates; budgeting requires a sales conversation
• No integrations, API, or accounting connections confirmed on public product pages

6. RegFox

Pricing: pay-per-registrant. Standard: $0.99 + 1% per registrant (capped at $4.99), no monthly fee. Premium: $1.99 + 1% (capped at $5.99). Professional: $499/month. All confirmed directly from RegFox's own pricing page. Processing runs 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction through Webconnex Payments, also confirmed directly from the vendor.

RegFox is built for event registration. One detail confirmed directly through RegFox's help center: free events still carry the $0.99 to $1.99 per-registrant fee; it isn't waived just because the event doesn't charge anything.

Recurring billing for term-based or membership programs isn't something we could confirm on RegFox's product pages; the platform is oriented toward event-style registration rather than ongoing class billing.

What RegFox does well

• Zero monthly fee on Standard; you pay only when people register
• Fee caps mean the per-registrant cost never runs away, unlike some uncapped competitors
• Payment plans available on Premium and Professional

Watch out for

• Per-registrant fees on every registration, including free events
• No confirmed recurring billing for term or membership-style programs
• No confirmed QuickBooks, Xero, or accounting integration

7. CampDoc

Pricing: custom by size and complexity, with monthly plans reported to start around $340/month, according to an independent camp-software comparison.

CampDoc's positioning leans heavily on health and safety management for camps and youth programs rather than general registration flexibility. Beyond the pricing figure, we could not independently confirm specific feature claims (compliance certifications, integration partners, or API access model) on CampDoc's own site, so those are worth confirming directly if health compliance is your deciding factor.

Watch out for

• Starting price around $340/month, with custom pricing beyond that
• No integrations confirmed publicly; ask directly what CampDoc connects to

8. CampBrain

Pricing: not published anywhere; confirmed via both G2 and Capterra, which both point you to contact the vendor directly.

CampBrain serves a range of camp-adjacent programs. Specific feature claims around reporting, support philosophy, or integrations aren't confirmed on a live, current source, so if those details matter to your decision, ask directly in a demo rather than relying on secondhand claims.

Watch out for

• No published pricing
• No confirmed API, webhooks, or accounting integrations
• Conditional logic and payment plan capabilities aren't described publicly; verify directly

9. CampMinder

Pricing: custom, per-camper pricing, with no flat-dollar figures published for the core platform. Capterra lists a starting price around $24 per user per month, though real camp deployments typically run as a custom annual license rather than a simple per-seat rate.

CampMinder is built for day and overnight camps. If your class program runs inside a camp organization, it's worth a look; if you run standalone classes with no camp attached, it's likely more platform than you need. Beyond the pricing data, we could not independently confirm specific feature claims (SMS bundle sizes, background-check tooling, or integration partners) on a current source, so verify those directly before deciding.

Watch out for

• No flat pricing published; budget for a custom quote process
• Feature specifics beyond core registration and billing should be confirmed directly, not assumed from secondhand listings

Watch out for

• Camps-only - not built for standalone class programs
• No published pricing; per-camper custom quotes only
• QuickBooks is not advertised natively

The Pricing Transparency Problem

Here is a pattern worth naming. Of the nine platforms in this comparison, three publish no pricing at all (ACTIVE Camp & Class Manager, CampBrain, and CampMinder), and a fourth publishes only a starting point (CampDoc's $340/month floor). Two more, Amilia and Jumbula, publish a subscription price but not a confirmed processing rate, so the number on the pricing page isn't the number you'll actually pay. Regpack, CourseStorm, and RegFox are the exceptions here: all three publish their full fee structure, including per-transaction or per-registration costs, up front.

That matters because you are usually comparing platforms on a deadline, before a registration season, with a budget that needs board or director approval. A price you cannot see is a sales cycle you have to survive. Regpack publishes its pricing structure - tiered annual plans by organization size, unlimited forms, admins, and reports on every tier, and processing as low as 1.5% - on its pricing page, so you can qualify the fit before you ever talk to anyone.

Choose Them, Choose Regpack: An Honest Guide

No platform on this list is a bad product. They are different shapes, and the right answer depends on your program’s shape.

Choose another platform if

• You run one-off events with simple sign-up and want zero monthly cost: RegFox's pay-per-registrant model fits that exactly [VERIFY]
• You are a small arts or community-ed program that wants a turnkey catalog and accepts per-registration fees: CourseStorm [VERIFY]
• You manage facilities, memberships, and drop-ins as much as classes: Amilia [VERIFY]
• You need the lowest possible entry price and only a handful of enrollments: Jumbula's $15/month tier [VERIFY]
• Health compliance (HIPAA, eMAR) is your hardest requirement: CampDoc [VERIFY]
• You are a camp first and a class program second: CampMinder or CampBrain [VERIFY]

Choose Regpack if

• Your registration has real logic: prices, questions, and follow-ups that depend on who is registering and what they answered
• Families pay over time and you want deposits, installments, and recurring billing to collect automatically instead of by reminder email
• You want your total cost to be a known annual number with processing as low as 1.5%, not subscription plus per-head fees plus add-ons
• Your bookkeeper expects revenue in QuickBooks without re-typing, or your team wants a REST API and webhooks
• You need unlimited forms, admins, and reports without tier-shopping every time the program grows

Frequently Asked Questions

What is class registration software?

Class registration software lets students or families enroll in classes online, collects payment, and manages the operational follow-through: rosters, waitlists, schedules, reminders, and reporting. The stronger platforms also handle conditional registration forms and automated payment plans, which is where most of the admin time savings come from.

How much does class registration software cost?

Across the platforms in this comparison, published entry points range from $15/month (Jumbula) to $399+/month (CourseStorm All Access), and three vendors publish no pricing at all [VERIFY]. The subscription is only part of the cost: add per-registration fees (such as CourseStorm's $2.49 per registration [VERIFY] or RegFox's $0.99-$1.99 + 1% per registrant [VERIFY]), payment processing (from as low as 1.5% with Regpack to an effective ~3.85% + $0.30 with Amilia [VERIFY]), and paid add-ons. Always compare on total annual cost for your enrollment volume.

What is the best class registration software for small programs?

It depends on what 'small' means. A program running a few dozen enrollments a year may be best served by usage-priced tools like Jumbula's entry tier or RegFox's pay-per-registrant model [VERIFY]. A small program with growing enrollments, payment plans, or family registration usually outgrows usage pricing quickly - the per-head fees scale with success - and does better on a flat tiered plan like Regpack's, where forms, admins, and reports are unlimited.

Does Regpack integrate with QuickBooks?

Yes, natively - no Zapier middle layer. Regpack also offers a REST API and webhooks for custom integrations. Among the other platforms here, Jumbula lists a direct QuickBooks integration [VERIFY], while RegFox and CourseStorm route accounting through Zapier [VERIFY] and the camp-specific tools do not advertise QuickBooks at all [VERIFY].

Get Your Evenings Back Before Next Term

The honest summary: if your need is event tickets, simple catalogs, facilities, or health records, one of the specialized tools above may fit you perfectly. If your need is class registration with real logic and real payment plans - and you would like your total cost to be predictable while it happens - Regpack is the strongest fit on this list, which is why more than 6,000 organizations run over $1 billion a year through it.

See how Regpack handles course and class registration, check the pricing structure, or book a demo and bring your messiest registration scenario - the form that branches, the family that splits payment, the roster you can never quite filter. That is the test that separates these platforms.