Founding partner: the first 5 bookings commission-free
You only pay when a booking actually happens.
On Bildungszeit, employees find recognised Bildungsurlaub courses and take care of the employer application at the same time. Listing courses and enquiries cost nothing. For every enquiry, you decide whether to confirm it. Costs only arise once a confirmed enquiry actually becomes a booking with you.
- Enquiries are free
- No listing fee
- No annual fee
Your bookings
Example- Yoga & stress managementDates 12 to 16 OctBooked
- Resilience compactDates 26 to 30 OctNot booked
- Mindfulness by the seaDates 03 to 07 NovBooked
- Yoga & stress managementDates 23 to 27 NovNot booked? Let us knowBooked
You don't pay for anything you report as not booked.
We want the same thing you do
Anyone who wants to take Bildungsurlaub should be able to do so simply and without much effort, from finding the course to the application to their employer. So we clear away what educational leave so often fails on today. The easier the path to your course, the more often it ends in a booking with you.
Endrik Reimer, founder
The overview
How it works for you and your courses
In under two minutes, from listing your course to the booking with you.
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The process
The path your participants take
Millions of employees are entitled to Bildungsurlaub, and only a few use it. It often fails before anyone even enquires: at the hesitation to ask the employer, and at the uncertainty about whether a course is recognised and how exactly the application works. That is exactly where Bildungszeit comes in, in five stations.
01
Finding the right course
Participants search by what matters to them: topic, location, timing, budget, work relevance. With the state their employer is in, they see which courses are recognised there.
Your course shows up where someone is searching for exactly that.
SeaMindfulness by the sea
Sylt (Germany)
02
Everything that matters before the enquiry
The course page shows what counts before an enquiry: recognition in their own state, dates, the course price with the accommodation alongside it, plus details such as accessibility or catering. Anyone interested sends a non-binding request.
What is clear beforehand gets asked about less afterwards.
Yoga & stress managementLa Gomera, Canary Islands (Spain)
Recognised in BerlinDateMon 12 to Fri 16 Oct
Course price€450
Accommodation is part of the course, you book it yourself
Double roomfrom €420
per person for the whole course, on top of the course price
03
The finished application
Participants receive the application to their employer fully prepared: matched to the law of their state, with the right wording and the documents for your course attached. The application deadline stays in front of them.
Your course reaches the employer complete and professional.
Anerkennungsbescheid
Recognised in Berlin
Kursprogramm
- Mon
- Tue
- Wed
- Thu
- Fri
In Berlin, for example, the application counts as approved if the employer does not respond within 2 weeks after the application arrives. That is in the letter too.
04
Submitting digitally
In 9 of the 14 states with a Bildungsurlaub law, the application goes to the employer digitally: by email via the platform, decided on a page of its own, without signing in. Where applications run through an HR portal or the law requires written form, participants download the finished application package: cover letter and attachments in one file, ready to upload or to sign.
A short path to the employer is a short path to your course.
Application transmitted electronically to the employer17 Aug, 09:41
Antrag auf Bildungszeit von Lena Hoffmann
- Course
- Yoga & stress management
- Period
- 12 to 16 Oct (5 working days)
Application package as PDFCover letter and attachments in one file
05
Status in view, booking with you
In the dashboard participants can see at any time where the enquiry and the application stand. From there one click leads to booking with you.
Booking and payment happen with you.
Yoga & stress managementMon 12 to Fri 16 Oct
Approved- You requested participation
- The provider confirmed participation
- Application transmitted to the employer
- The employer approved
Anyone who books with you through Bildungszeit knows the dates and the costs and has settled the leave with their employer.
We clear the path, from the first idea to the booking with you.
Your portal
What reaches you
Requests
ExampleProspect 109:36
Yoga & stress management
Participation confirmed
Prospect 2Yesterday
Mindfulness by the sea
Awaiting response
Prospect 3Mon
Resilience compact
Message only
Prospect 1 · Yoga & stress management
Today
Hi! Is the course suitable for beginners too? I have barely done any yoga so far.
Prospect 1 · 09:14Yes, absolutely. We start every morning with the fundamentals, and every exercise goes at your own pace.
You · 09:31You confirmed the spot on the course from 12 to 16 Oct · 09:33
Perfect, then I'll submit the application to my employer.
Prospect 1 · 09:36Informed enquiries
Anyone who enquires has already seen whether your course is recognised in their state, when it takes place and what it costs. How the application to the employer works is something the platform shows them step by step.
Every enquiry and message in one place
In the portal you see every enquiry with its status and all the messages that belong to it. You confirm or decline a spot: in the portal with one click, or via the link in the email. Every enquiry also reaches you by email.
Personal where it counts
In the chat you sort out what only you can answer: content, travel, particulars. On the application, deadlines and approval the platform keeps participants informed the whole way, so those questions come up less often.
The booking itself happens with you: your booking process, your payment, your terms.
Listing courses is free, enquiries are free.
Pricing
We moved the price from the enquiry to the booking
On lead portals you pay for every enquiry, whether anything comes of it or not. With us, you decide for every enquiry whether to confirm it. Costs only arise once it actually becomes a booking with you.
€0
for enquiries that do not book
However many. You never pay for interest, only for outcome.
€0
in months without a booking
Off season, ramp-up phase: no fixed-cost risk, no base fee.
€0
for bookings via your own link
If you share the link to your course, you pay nothing for bookings that come through it.
The one price. Fixed, per booking, the same for everyone.
Founding partner · the first 30 providers
Your first 5 bookings
Commission-free, with no expiry date.
€0
From the 6th booking
Per brokered booking
of the course price without accommodation, plus VAT
4%
Example: for a course at €450, that is €18 plus VAT.
Your costs are predictable: you know in advance what each booking costs you, however many enquiries come in.
Billing
No leap of faith required
Anyone who clicks “Book now” on Bildungszeit has settled everything important beforehand: course, dates, costs and the leave from their employer. That is why billing starts at exactly this click, and the booking appears on your monthly statement. If for whatever reason it did not happen after all, you strike it off with one click and pay nothing for it. No discussion, no forms. Only what you leave standing is billed.
- 14 days to object, on every single line
- Free cancellation? Then you get a credit. Commission only if you keep money for the booking.
- Your participants keep paying you directly. We only invoice the commission.
Your monthly statement · October
ExampleAt launch
For the first 30 providers
Bildungszeit is new. That is why the first 30 providers start on founding terms. Making participants aware of your courses is our job.
Founding partner · the first 30 providers
Your first 5 bookings: entirely commission-free
Your place is reserved for 14 days after registration and becomes fixed as soon as your first course is submitted. The commission-free bookings do not expire, no matter when they come in.
Your founding place is reserved for 14 days from registration.
Getting started
Ready to go in three steps
- 1
Register
Four details, no payment information. Your account is set up in about two minutes.
- 2
List your courses
Paste the link to your course page: we read out title, description, images, location, dates and price, and you check everything before anything is saved. Or you create the course yourself, step by step. You specify once which states your course is recognised in. Then you submit it, we look it over, and your course is visible.
- 3
Answer enquiries
Confirm or decline a spot. The platform informs participants about the application, documents and deadlines. What remains for you is mainly what only you can answer: questions about your course.
Contact
Rather talk first?
I am Endrik, founder of Bildungszeit. If you have questions before you start or want to know who is behind the platform, let's talk. Pick a time, or write to me.
Or write to me: hallo@bildungszeit.app
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Quick answers
Frequently asked questions
What does Bildungszeit cost me?
Nothing until someone books with you. Listing courses and enquiries cost nothing, and there is no annual fee. For every enquiry, you decide whether to confirm it: costs can only arise from an enquiry you have confirmed. If it becomes a brokered booking, you pay 4% of the course price without accommodation, plus VAT. As a founding partner, your first 5 bookings are commission-free.
What exactly counts as a booking?
You have confirmed the enquiry, and the leave from the employer is settled: then the participant deliberately clicks “Book now” and is forwarded to you. That booking appears on your monthly statement. If it did not happen after all, you flag it with one click within 14 days and pay nothing.
What happens with a cancellation?
One simple rule applies: commission only if you keep money for the booking. If a participant cancels free of charge, you get the commission as a credit. If you keep a fee under your own cancellation terms, the commission stands.
Does participant payment run through you?
No. Booking and payment happen directly with you, as before. We only invoice you the commission for bookings we brokered, once a month.
Am I tied into a contract?
No. No subscription, no term, no annual fee. You can take your courses offline at any time.
I am already listed on other portals. Does that work in parallel?
Yes. We do not ask for exclusivity: you list your courses with us as well and change nothing else. The only price rule: a course does not cost more with us than when booked directly with you; on other portals your prices are up to you. As long as nobody books with you through Bildungszeit, it costs you nothing.
Do I have to hold a spot while the employer application is in progress?
No. With your confirmation you only say that a spot is currently free. You don't have to hold it. If you like, you can reserve it for one to four weeks when you confirm.
What is different about you compared with the existing portals?
Two things. You only pay for bookings, not for enquiries: on a lead portal, how many enquiries book varies, so what a booking cost you is only clear afterwards. With us it is clear beforehand, so you can plan. And participants get the application to their employer fully prepared on the platform.
Which courses can I list?
Courses that are recognised as Bildungsurlaub. For each course you record in which states the recognition applies or has been applied for. Before publication we check the details and the supporting documents.
How do participants find Bildungszeit?
Bildungszeit is new, and building demand is our job, not yours. We start focused rather than everywhere at once: with targeted visibility where most people search for Bildungsurlaub today. And you only pay once it reaches you.
Become one of the first 30.
Listing free, enquiries free, the first 5 bookings commission-free. Your founding place is reserved for 14 days from registration.
Get started as a provider
Rather talk first? Book a call or write to me.
Our Provider Terms apply.
Who is behind Bildungszeit
Endrik Reimer
Founder of Bildungszeit
I come from the Palatinate and studied industrial engineering in Nuremberg, California and Berlin. Most recently I ran the special transport service for people with disabilities provided by the State of Berlin. It takes people who cannot use buses and trains to their families, to friends or to the theatre, so that they can take part in public life. There I saw that an entitlement only helps if the way to it works in everyday life.
It is similar with Bildungsurlaub. Many people around me know they are entitled to it and still do not take it, worried that it will not go down well at work. Those who did take it usually tell the opposite story. Their employer took it better than expected, and many have taken it again and again since. I think a week of further training should not fail because of this hesitation. That is why I founded Bildungszeit, with the aim of making the way from entitlement to course easier for employees, for their employers and for everyone who offers courses.