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Read eSoft Planner’s expert advice, tips, and tricks on how to utilize lesson scheduling software to grow your business. Lesson scheduling, whether for independent instructors or larger sports facilities, is important in keeping organized and making sure your schedule is easy to navigate.

Manage Lessons (Like This Guitar Lesson) With Music Lesson Scheduling Software

From Solo Teachers to Large Studios: How Scheduling Software Scales With Your Music Business

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Whether you’re a solo teacher offering one-on-one lessons or a large studio managing multiple instructors and hundreds of students, managing schedules efficiently is crucial. As your business grows, the complexity of scheduling increases significantly. This requires a solution that can scale with your needs. Music lesson scheduling software not only simplifies the scheduling process but also provides a customized platform that can grow with your business. 

Managing Smaller Studios With Music Lesson Scheduling Software

For independent instructors,  scheduling software provides the flexibility to automate many tasks that can take up valuable time. It can also help increase your revenue; local businesses found an increase of 120% after adding online booking systems. 

  • Online Booking: By allowing students to book their own schedules, you free up time previously spent messaging back and forth to find a time that works for both of you. 
  • Automated Reminders: The software can automatically send confirmation and reminder emails to students, reducing the number of no-shows. The instructor no longer needs to send reminders manually to each student every time. 
  • Payments: Collect payments when students schedule their lessons, allowing for more cash flow. Students can also book pay later – but studios can restrict who can book pay later. 

Coordinating Growing Studios With Music Lesson Scheduling Software

As your studio grows, adding more instructors, students, and lesson types can lead to more complexity. Scheduling software can help you easily manage all these different pieces. 

  • Instructor Management: Each instructor can customize their own availability, including special hours. The system tracks when an instructor is unavailable, so they cannot be scheduled during those times. This limits the risk of potential scheduling conflicts. In addition, you can set up commissions for instructors to earn from lessons. 
  • Lesson Management: Your studio can select which staff members provide which services, ensuring no one gets booked for a lesson type they aren’t supposed to manage. Also, add lesson types of different durations. Keep track of your schedules with an up-to-date, centralized calendar.  There’s no need to worry about double bookings. The system will check before booking to make sure nothing is already scheduled by that instructor or in that space. 
  • Student Access: Larger studios need a way to easily manage clients without doing everything manually. Each client should have their own account to schedule their lessons as needed. Their client profiles can track their schedules, as well as other important information, such as waivers or stored payment methods. 
  • Advanced Analytics: Track your business performance, from which types of lessons get the most revenue to how many client accounts you have.

Conclusion

Music lesson scheduling software is a powerful tool that can both simplify your organization and enhance your business growth. It provides a friendly customer experience to clients, while it also frees up time for you to spend on teaching music. The right solution can scale with your business easily, allowing you the freedom to grow without worry. To learn more about how our music lesson scheduling software can help your business grow, request a custom demo of our software. 

Use Advanced Software Features To Enhance Your Group Lessons (just like this equestrian riding lesson).

Maximizing Growth: Software Features To Enhance Your Sports Facility’s Group Lessons

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Group lessons are an essential piece of many sports facilities, offering an engaging way to foster a strong sense of community. Also, they are highly profitable, allowing facilities to generate more income by accommodating multiple players in one session. However, managing these group sessions can be challenging without the right tools. The right scheduling software can streamline operations, enhance efficiency, and drive revenue growth. In this article, we will dive into the software features that can help your sports facility maximize its potential. 

Scheduling Features For Group Lessons

Group lessons work well when you build groups with similar skill sets and age ranges. Adults and younger kids shouldn’t be put together. Also, do not put experienced players and beginners together. If everyone in your group matches, you can then focus on one area to work on without worrying about having to catch others up. With your scheduling software, you can add these requirements to your lesson title or description. 

We recommend a limit of 6 registrants for a group lesson. With a smaller group, the instructor can spend more time with each person while still being within the group environment. Good software should be able to restrict clients from booking more than the set number of attendees for a lesson. 

An important aspect to consider is that not all instructors will do well coaching group lessons. They may be great at private lessons but struggle with group lessons. In our software, you can choose which instructors offer which lessons. That way, an instructor cannot be booked for something that you do not want them booked for. Here’s a guide on how to evaluate trainers when you are hiring them for these services at your facility.

Pricing Features For Group Lessons

If you’re using scheduling software, it should not display to clients how many spots are left for a group lesson. Some clients may try and take advantage by only scheduling sessions with fewer or no spots filled. They then might end up with what is a private lesson but for a far cheaper price than what you offer them. 

Another potential problem is if your session doesn’t fill up. For example, a session might sell for $25/person. If you plan for four people to show up, and only two attend, you will have lost money. The back-to-back availability feature that we have implemented into our app fixes this problem. The system makes it so a session must be filled up by clients before they can book sessions directly before or after. 

Conclusion

Group lessons can be very beneficial to any sports facility, no matter what sport they offer. With these software features, you can maximize your profitability and enhance operational efficiency. Are you looking to more successfully manage your group lessons? Request a custom demo of our software to learn more. 

Use Our Gun Range App to Manage Your Range's Operations With Ease

Aiming For Success: Inside A Case Study For Our Innovative Gun Range App

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The ability to streamline your business operations can be critical to the success of your business, and gun ranges are no exception. With many unique business needs, finding software that can perfectly fit a shooting range is important. Today, we unravel the story behind how our gun range app transformed our client’s business. 

Promote Your Programming With Our Gun Range App

One of our clients, Justin, owns a gun range. Justin offers bay rentals based on different client groups. He also offers private lessons for archery, long-gun, and short-range. His beginner clients typically started with private lessons before working their way up to group lessons. All of his clients start with an evaluation at his range. This is critical in ensuring that all his clients have the proper licenses. 

Justin’s biggest revenue was his programming. Since it was the biggest source of revenue, he prioritized his programming over other services. Some of the programming he offered included conceal carry classes, social nights, and ladies’ nights. Conceal carry classes involved a lot of space management for Justin. Their classes spent a mix of time both in the classroom and on the range. Having an app that could easily manage all of Justin’s spaces made managing his programming way easier. 

Fit Your Gun Range App Features To Your Business

The most common or outdated scheduling software tends to be a poor fit for gun ranges, for one main reason: they typically require clients to sign waivers. These waivers need to come with a digital signature for liability reasons. Unfortunately, that is not a common feature for most scheduling software. Luckily, eSoft Planner’s software contains a waiver that you can require all clients to sign before they attend any of the programming. 

Another important feature is being able to track custom fields. These custom fields can be anything you want them to be, but many gun ranges use them to track license numbers. They can also track whether their clients have gotten certified. Justin’s model focused on helping clients get certified as well as getting them to come in and practice their shooting. With these custom fields, Justin can easily manage his clients and prioritize organization without doing everything himself. 

Conclusion

From streamlining scheduling to managing waivers, a gun range app can help your business aim for success. The innovative features go beyond what a typical scheduling software can handle. For insights into how our app can help your business grow, request a demo of our software. Make sure to join our community on Facebook and LinkedIn. 

A Batting Cage Used For Scheduling With A Batting Cage Scheduling Software

Batting Cage Scheduling Software: A Case Study On Streamlining Operations

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A big question that everyone wants to know is how do people easily manage larger sports facilities, like a baseball facility with multiple services? In this post, we’ll walk you through how one of our customers, MVP, did it at their facility with the help of eSoft Planner’s batting cage scheduling software. 

MVP Case Study

MVP started their business several years ago with nine batting cages. They focused mainly on scheduling batting cages. Customers could book their cages or a group of their cages (for example, book cages 1 through 3). Since they used sublocations at their facility, facility management was incredibly important to them. They started using eSoft Planner’s software to more easily manage their facility. 

With eSoft Planner’s help, MVP started branching out into more services for their customers. Their first step was adding instructors. With their new instructors, they could dedicate certain cages specifically for lessons. Adding lessons to their list of services helped grow their business. Their next steps involved adding camps, packages, and memberships to build their offerings even more. Finally, they added point of sale to sell apparel, drinks, and snacks to their clients.

Since cash flow problems are the biggest reason why sports facilities fail, diversifying your services like MVP did by adding multiple different offerings can be essential. New programming like camps and lessons can also generate more revenue. The business can receive payment for each person involved in the camp/lesson, versus a flat rate for a rental. Also, MVP could easily manage all of these services with eSoft Planner’s system; they didn’t need to spend a lot of time managing these services. 

Conclusion 

MVP grew with the help of our software. Each new service they added was easily managed by our software, allowing them to grow their business while saving them both time and money. To learn more about how eSoft Planner’s batting cage scheduling software, request a demo with one of our experts. 

Use Our Tennis Scheduling App to Manage Your Tennis Lessons

Tennis Scheduling App That Prioritizes Your Lessons

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Are you an instructor that does tennis lessons? One of the new and important aspects that come with running tennis lessons is the ability for clients to book and pay for these lessons via a tennis scheduling mobile app. Within this mobile app, the software should be able to do multiple things for both clients and instructors.

Tennis Lesson Scheduling & Management 

First, the software should allow you to manage multiple instructors and their schedules with real-time updates and reminders. As explained below, the tennis scheduling app should also customize any scheduling issues, from pricing to notices. It should also make it possible for you to create family accounts for your clients. 

With our software, you can also build the instructor schedule. First, you can easily make sure that instructors and courts are not double booked. At the same time, make sure there are no open time slots – use our back-to-back feature! With this feature, clients will not be able to book time slots that leave gaps in an instructor’s schedule. 

App Customization Features

An important feature of any software that tennis facilities utilize is that it can customize the software to what you need it to do. This software should allow you to customize the software to your business, from the app colors and name to images.

Also, you should be able to allow clients to schedule individual or group lessons. For special VIP customers, you can give discounts on lessons that will automatically apply when the clients schedule a lesson. Instructors can give priority to certain groups, and specify a certain amount of notice for scheduling. 

Tennis Lesson Scheduling Reminders

Keep your instructors up to date with their schedules. Our app will notify instructors of lessons via text or email, as well as send a daily itinerary of their lessons. With a quick look at their email or the app, instructors can easily check their schedule for the day. 

You can also automate your reminders to send to clients via text and email! They can get notified when they book a lesson, reschedule, or cancel. This can be beneficial to the facility as well; with automated reminders, the percentage of no-shows gets reduced by 29%. 

Conclusion

 A tennis scheduling app can be incredibly important in improving your scheduling and management. With our powerful customization and real-time updates and reminders, you can easily manage your tennis lessons. Schedule a demo to see how our software can benefit you. 

Use Cheerleading Management Software to Easily Manage Your Private or Small Group Lessons

Cheerleading Management Software: Top Features To Look For Regarding Private Lessons

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When you think of cheerleading, you might think of group sessions. However, to get better, your facility should also be doing small groups (like 2 on 1) or private sessions. This is the only way that cheerleaders can hone in on their skills, like tumbling, stunts, or stretching. Management of these lessons is critical for the success of the cheer facility and the success of the team. With cheerleading management software, you can easily and successfully manage these private lessons. 

Top Instructor Features To Look For 

Can you see if the instructors are available? Prevent double bookings with software that knows when instructors are busy and won’t let clients schedule those times. 

Do the instructors get notified of a booked session or get reminders? With daily itineraries and reminders, the instructor can easily keep track of their schedule. 

Is there accurate reporting on an instructor’s revenue? Keep track of their commissions earned, as well as what clients and what type of lessons are being booked. 

Does it allow in-store credit for last-minute cancellations? By offering in-store credit instead of a full refund, you won’t lose that revenue. It will also make it likely that they will return to use that credit. 

Top Client Features to Look For

Is it easy for the client to schedule via a mobile app? They should be able to book on the facility’s app with the touch of their fingers, at any time of day. 

Can the client store their payment method? With clients not needing to type in their information, they can book far easier than normal. 

Can clients get reminders of their sessions via text and email? Receive them at different times. 

Can clients manage multiple family members under one account? It will be easier to manage with one account versus several for each cheerleader. 

Conclusion

It’s critical to your success that you implement cheerleading lesson management in your facility. With all these features, you can easily grow your cheerleaders’ skillset and the strength of the team. Take advantage of eSoft Planner’s cheerleading management software now and request a demo to see how all these features can work to benefit you. 

Send Automated Communications through Email or Text Message

Sports Facility Operations: Automated Communications

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Did you know that you can reduce no-shows by 29% with automated reminders? Automated communications via text and email can benefit your facility in many ways, including reducing no-shows. Our software utilizes these to send a variety of messages for your customers and staff. 

Features For Automated Communications

Here are some features of our software that will make your facility more streamlined:

Client Communications

  • Confirm any order or scheduled event via email
  • Send reminders by text or email for scheduled events
  • Remind your client of your cancellation policy
  • Confirm all reschedules and cancellations

Staff Communications

  • Confirm lessons or camps booked
  • Send reminders (itinerary) of their day
  • Notify them of all reschedules and cancellations

Benefits For the Facility

  1. Improves customer services: Now, you don’t have to miss any communications. All reminders and confirmations will be sent easily. With personalized messages, it will improve the relationship between you and your customers. 
  2. Reduces administrative costs: The services can do all the automated text and email communications. You don’t have to pay someone just to send out messages to your customers. Also, no need to show someone how to send all those communications themselves – it will just send automatically! 
  3. Improves staff communication: Staff can easily check their schedules and plan for the day. They don’t have to worry about missing any appointments or messages.

Conclusion

Automated communications can be very beneficial for your facility. Not only will it save you time and money, but it will also improve your communication and your customers’ impressions. 

To take advantage of our software’s automated communications, request a demo. 

Person Scheduling Appointment using Lesson Scheduling Software

Lesson Scheduling Software Benefits

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Introduction

Instructors with strong followings and clientele often have issues with booking clients. By making use of a instructor lesson scheduling software, it can help with client scheduling and lesson tracking. Read more below to find out all the ways it can help you and your business!

1. Lesson Scheduling Software Saves You Time. 

Lesson scheduling software makes it easier for clients to schedule. They can go to a system to schedule or reschedule their own bookings, without having to text or call instructors to ask them to change it every time. It also allows you to automate texts and emails to clients to remind them about appointments. Overall, it saves instructors and business owners a lot of time previously spent organizing client appointments on their own. 

2. Lesson Scheduling Software Saves You Money.

Lesson scheduling software can reduce the risk of cancellations by requiring upfront payment. It also lets you offer different priorities and pricing to different clients based on their “Client Grouping.” Something else it takes off your workload is it allows clients to safely tokenize their payment method to be stored on their client account. This will streamline payments and will also make booking streamlined for your users. 

3. Lesson Scheduling Software Allows For More Customization. 

Anyone who uses lesson scheduling can use this software! Instructors who teach sports, arts, music, and more will find advantages in adding this software to their business. This software is also fully customizable! Each feature can be turned on or off. It has categories you can edit to the types of lessons you offer. You can also change pricing based on season or time of day. Also, you have detailed lesson and financial reports that you can look at and filter by several categories. 

4. Lesson Scheduling Software Helps Instructors. 

eSoft has special features that can be turned on to help instructors manage scheduling and notifications. You can use back-to-back availability, so instructors never have to wait hours between sessions. They can go straight from one lesson to another. It also lets you turn on location consistency, so instructors don’t have to change locations from session to session. They can stay in the same spot! 

Conclusion

Many robust software programs offer systems that are expensive and include extra features that you would never use that they charge you for. That is why we created an individual instructor program at eSoft Planner to be able to offer instructors an affordable scheduling app that can be branded to help launch their own businesses. 

If you are on the lookout for a lesson scheduling app with a web-based app that fits all of your needs, learn more about eSoft Planner.

eSoft Planner is flexible, affordable, simple, and perfect for small businesses and instructors. Request your free demo today. See how we can help you consolidate effort, save time, and increase revenue.

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