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Kitesurf school booking system

Sell more sessions, reschedule fast when the wind shifts.

Generic tools do not get wind windows, last-minute reshuffles, or multi-session courses. RidgeHQ gives you online sales, wind-aware scheduling, kites tracked by size, and forms that adapt.

  • 0% commission on direct bookings
  • Wind speed and direction against your limits
  • Kites and harnesses tracked by size

See it on your operation

A short walkthrough of RidgeHQ mapped to how kitesurf schools actually run the day — bookings, schedule, resources, and the close.

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The operational reality

Kite lessons only run inside a wind window, so schools lose the morning to "wind is on" messages and then a hunt for a kite in the right size. The booking tool, the gear board, and the progression cards sit in three places, and none of them read the forecast.

What your day has to balance

  • Wind window with both a minimum and a maximum safe speed
  • Wind direction suitable for the teaching zone
  • Kite size and harness matched to student weight and live wind
  • Radio helmet and safety-boat availability per lesson
  • Pre-paid instruction hours tracked per student

How RidgeHQ helps

Sessions show the wind forecast for your spot against minimum, maximum, and direction limits you set — and kites, boards, and harnesses are tracked by size against each student's stored weight — so the wind call and the kit call are made from one screen.

From booking to day close:

1

Book the course. A student books online, pays up front or a deposit, and gives their weight and experience.

2

Confirm on payment. The order confirms once the payment succeeds.

3

Collect the waiver. The student signs the waiver and health questions before the first session.

4

Make the wind call. Sessions outside your wind and direction limits are flagged; you confirm, move, or reschedule them.

5

Pick the kit. The instructor chooses kite and harness size against the student's stored weight, from gear tracked by size.

6

Close the day. Walk-in hire settles at the register and the day's revenue lands in reporting.

Kitesurf Schools: Sell lessons and courses across every channel

Sell lessons and courses across every channel

Website bookings, front-desk sales, and hotel or agent referrals all draw from the same sessions, so the team sees a course sold online immediately.

  • Booking widget on your own website with live availability, deposit or full payment, and promo codes
  • Front-desk POS for walk-ins, rentals, and retail on one basket, with register open and close
  • Agent and partner bookings recorded with their commission for settlement
  • 0% platform commission on direct bookings
  • Products can require a minimum skill level; the booking form asks for it only where needed
Kitesurf Schools: Wind-aware scheduling

Wind-aware scheduling

Each session shows the forecast wind speed and direction for your spot next to the roster. Thresholds per activity cover both a minimum and a maximum wind and a usable direction range, so a lesson is flagged when it is too light, too strong, or blowing the wrong way.

  • Wind speed, direction, wave, and swell context from your spot's forecast
  • Per-activity minimum and maximum wind, plus a wind-direction range
  • Optionally stop new bookings for a session when the forecast breaches your limits
  • Move, reschedule, or bulk-update sessions when the window changes
  • Email everyone booked on a session from the planner
Kitesurf Schools: Expensive kit, tracked by unit and size

Expensive kit, tracked by unit and size

Kites, boards, harnesses, and radio helmets are tracked as individual units with sizes. Each student's weight and sizes live on their profile, so choosing the right kit is a lookup, not a guess — and gear out for repair leaves availability the moment it's logged.

  • Kites, boards, harnesses, and helmets tracked as units with sizes
  • Student weight and sizes stored on the profile
  • Maintenance records remove gear from availability until it is returned
  • Safety boats tracked as fleet assets with inspection, licence, and insurance dates
  • Per-participant waivers with typed signature and conditional health questions

What changes when the operation is connected

The wind call in one view

Forecast, limits, and roster sit together instead of in three places.

Expensive gear stays tracked

Kites and boards are tracked by unit, size, and service state.

No double-booked instructors

Overlapping instructor assignments are refused when they're made.

Paperwork before the beach

Waivers and health answers are signed before arrival.

Built around the work

Stop acting as the manual API between your booking engine and your team.

Kitesurf Schools operations in RidgeHQ

Common Questions

How RidgeHQ handles kitesurf schools edge cases.

Yes. Lessons, courses, and taster sessions sell through your own booking widget with a deposit or full payment and land on the same sessions as front-desk bookings.

Each session shows the forecast wind speed and direction for your spot. You set a minimum and maximum wind and a usable direction range per activity, and sessions outside them are flagged. The decision to run, move, or cancel stays with you.

No. It tracks kites and harnesses by size and stores each student's weight on their profile, so the instructor can choose quickly — the choice itself, which depends on the wind on the day, stays with the instructor.

Not as an hours balance today. Customers can hold a credit balance, and courses are sold as products with their own sessions, but RidgeHQ doesn't yet draw down a block of instruction hours automatically.

Yes, as fleet assets with capacity, crew, inspection log, and alerts for licences or insurance expiring within 30 days. Linking a specific boat to a lesson's availability isn't automatic.

Each student signs your waiver with a typed signature, attached to their booking. You can add a medical questionnaire and conditional questions that only appear when an earlier answer requires them. Waivers are part of the platform, not a paid add-on.

No. Direct bookings through your own website carry 0% RidgeHQ commission. You pay your payment provider's normal processing fee and a flat subscription.

The paid order is never silently rewritten. A change or cancellation produces a credit note against it, so your daily close and your accounts still reconcile.

It reads your day — sessions, bookings, conditions — and answers questions about it. It can carry out actions such as rescheduling a session or moving a participant, each behind a confirm step, and reversible scheduling actions can be undone. Higher-risk actions — creating or cancelling a booking, or refunding a payment — are limited to managers and always need explicit confirmation; assistants connected over MCP cannot use them at all.

Platform capabilities behind this

Scheduling & DispatchGear & Fleet Management

Run the numbers for your kitesurf schools

Free calculators with the formulas shown, plus how RidgeHQ is priced and how it compares.

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