In detail
Swimming lessons booked from a link while you’re in the water.
Swim teachers spend hours in the pool, where a phone cannot follow. Parents text from the changing rooms, adults call on their lunch break, and replies only go out at the end of your shift. Here is how to let lessons book themselves, from water confidence for toddlers to polishing a stroke.
Forty-five minutes for adults, thirty for kids
The starting list has two items: a forty-five minute private lesson and a thirty minute kids’ lesson. Change them and add more: water confidence for nervous swimmers, front crawl technique, tumble turns, getting ready for a swimming badge. Every item has its own length, and anyone booking only finds times where it fits without running into the next lesson. If you would rather not publish rates, prices stay hidden; if you show them, Saturday mornings can carry a different price from weekday afternoons.
For kids, the parent books
For the little ones the person opening the link is mom or dad: they book under their own name and number, and in the note they write the child’s name and maybe that it is a first time in the pool. There is no separate profile for minors, so the note holds only what you need to welcome them. The parent gets reminders if they turned them on, by default the day before and two hours before; everyone else gets them from you on WhatsApp with one tap, message ready, from your number. Online each parent holds at most two active bookings: with two children, you add the extra lesson from the diary.
Pool, lanes and delays
SeeYouNext keeps your diary, not the pool’s: you agree the lane with the facility as you already do, and block the hours in your diary when there is no water for you. If several instructors work together, each has their own days and lessons, up to 12 people in one account. When a lesson runs over or the changing room is packed, mark the delay and the next family reads it before leaving home. If a time is full, the student joins the waiting list and is alerted as soon as it opens up, if they have notifications on. Your page shows the pool address with a map and, in the notice at the top, what to bring: cap, goggles, flip-flops.
What it does not do, plainly
Group courses with set spots, the kind with ten children in a lane, are not available for this kind of business: each time slot is one booking. A lesson for two siblings is booked once by the parent, who writes in the note who is coming. The app sells no lesson bundles and takes no payments: you collect fees as you do now. You choose the cancellation limit, from zero to forty-eight hours, and anyone who skips without a word you mark as a no-show: from then on their requests wait for your approval before reaching the diary.
