Uniform shops without the chaos
Parents book a fitting time that suits their family, your shop sees a steady flow of appointments, and everyone walks out with what they needed. Parent Events has scheduled fittings for hundreds of schools since 2013, and it handles the rush so your team can focus on the families in front of them.
How it works
Open the schedule
Set your fitting hours, decide how many families can book each slot, and choose how long an appointment should take. Run one day or a whole week, whatever your shop needs.
Families book their time
Parents pick a slot online and answer the sizing or special requirement questions you care about. Everything you need is captured before they arrive at the shop.
Serve without the rush
With demand spread across the day, your team keeps a steady pace and families move through without a long wait.
Spread demand across the day
Instead of every family arriving in the first hour of the first morning, bookings are spaced across your opening hours. Set slot lengths that match the pace of a real fitting, allow multiple families per slot during busier periods, or stay one-on-one when the service calls for it.
As many fitting stations as you have staff, as many slots as you are willing to open, and your schedule fills itself according to the limits you set.
Sizing ready before they arrive
Custom booking forms let you ask for sizing estimates, existing uniform pieces to reuse, house colours, or payment preferences. By the time the family walks in, the team already knows what the appointment is for and can have the right items ready.
If you only need an order form without an appointment, run the event in registration-only mode. Families submit their sizes and requirements and your shop processes the orders on its own schedule.
Siblings in a single appointment
Families with more than one child at your school do not want to book two appointments and turn up twice. A single booking can cover several students, with the booking form collecting sizing per child in the one visit.
Your team sees all the siblings together on the timetable, families get a single confirmation, and nobody has to work out which appointment belongs to which child.
Built to support your school
Email Reminders
Automatic confirmation and reminder emails go out to parents and staff the moment a booking is made, the day before the event, and on the morning of the event itself. Families turn up at the right time and know what to bring, and no-shows drop off.
Fewer no-shows on the dayTimetables
Every staff member has a clear timetable that is ready to print, sync to their calendar, or pull up on their phone. Times, attendee names, notes, and meeting links are all on one screen, so nobody spends the night asking "who's next?".
Printable, syncable, mobile-readyCustomizable Forms
Custom registration, booking, and feedback forms collect exactly the information you need, whether that's dietary requirements, document uploads, or free-text reflections. Responses appear alongside the booking so staff never have to hunt for them.
Questions, uploads, and conditional logicStaff Access
Every staff member has their own login with access scoped to their role. Teachers see their own bookings. Event managers run the event. Finance managers see the billing. Admins run the whole account. Nobody sees more than they need to.
Roles, permissions, and audit logsReporting
Export attendance, booking lists, name tags, room signage, and event posters in one click. Every event has printable assets ready to hand to the team that is running it.
Name tags, posters, and attendance listsVideo Meetings
Online conferences run inside your event portal, so parents click their booking link and join a face-to-face meeting straight away without anything to download or any extra account to set up. Staff manage the conversation from the same timetable they use for in-person bookings, with the call window appearing alongside the schedule for the day.
No downloads, no third-party accountsStatistics
Live dashboards show booking pace, utilisation, no-show rates, and feedback responses. At the end of the year, every event rolls up into a single insights report that pulls attendance, feedback trends, and growth across the whole calendar into one place, ready to hand to the board, PTA, or leadership team.
Utilisation, pace, and feedback all in one view