Lesson booking
Golfers book their own lessons without calling the shop.
A golfer picks an instructor, a lesson length and a time, then pays online or on the day. The booking, the payment and the golfer record are one record rather than three that have to be matched up later. One screen for your staff to learn, and U.S. based people to call when they have a question.
The problem
Where this usually falls apart.
Not because anyone is doing it wrong, but because the pieces were never designed to share a database.
- The lesson calendar lives somewhere your tee sheet cannot see, usually a paper book behind the counter or a spreadsheet on one laptop, so nobody can answer a question about it unless they are standing in the shop.
- Golfers book lessons by calling, because calling is the only way. The person picking up is also checking in a foursome and ringing up a sleeve of balls.
- Lesson money gets collected on the side, in cash or on whatever reader is handy, then reconciled against the rest of the day from memory.
- The golfer taking six lessons a year and the golfer playing sixty rounds are stored as two different customers, so nobody can see they are the same person.
- At close, lesson revenue is a number somebody remembers rather than a line that already agrees with everything else.
Capabilities
What lesson booking includes.
The golfer picks the instructor
Which pro they want is part of the booking itself, not a note in a comment box for somebody to sort out in the morning.
The golfer picks the length
Duration is one of the three choices in the flow, so a half hour and a full hour are different bookings rather than the same booking wearing a different label.
The golfer picks the time
Instructor, duration and time are chosen in one pass. The lesson is booked when the golfer finishes, not after somebody calls them back.
Pay online, or pay on the day
Both are available. A course that wants lessons paid for up front can take the money up front. A course that would rather settle at the counter can do that instead.
Payment is part of TeeWire
The card runs inside the same system that holds the booking, so a lesson payment and the lesson it paid for are one record.
One record, not three
The booking, the payment and the golfer record are the same record, rather than three records that have to be matched up later by whoever is free.
The same system as the sheet and the register
Lesson booking is not a second calendar parked next to TeeWire. It runs in the system your staff are already in all day.
Lesson revenue already has an account
The golf chart of accounts that comes with TeeWire carries lesson revenue alongside green fee, cart and event revenue, so the money has somewhere correct to land before you sell the first one.
An add-on, posted on the rate card
Lesson Scheduler is an optional module on top of the base tee sheet plan, and it is $25 a month, posted on the pricing page like everything else.
How it works
A day of lesson booking in TeeWire.
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They pick a pro
The golfer starts with the instructor, which is usually the reason they are booking in the first place.
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They pick a length and a time
Duration and time come next, in the same flow. Three choices, one booking, no call to the shop.
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They pay, or they choose to pay later
Payment happens online at the time of booking or on the day of the lesson. Either way it runs through TeeWire rather than through something else you have to reconcile against.
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It lands on the golfer record
The booking, the payment and the golfer are one record. The revenue posts against the lesson revenue account that is already sitting in your chart of accounts.
Connected by design
Lesson Booking does not run on its own.
Every module writes to the same database, so none of these hand copies to each other.
Common questions
Straight answers.
How does a golfer actually book a lesson?
Do golfers have to pay for the lesson when they book it?
Where does lesson revenue show up in my numbers?
Is lesson booking included in my tee sheet plan?
See lesson booking on your own tee sheet.
Thirty minutes, your instructors, your lesson lengths, and a straight number for what Lesson Scheduler costs at a course your size. If you switch, we do the migration ourselves at no charge.