A lesson, from asking to squaring up
- AskedA member suggests up to six times they could play.
- AgreedThe coach picks one, and the member is told how to pay.
- TaughtUnless the coach or the member says not, within a week.
- PaidTo the coach, or on the member’s club tab.
- Squared up YouThe club and the coach settle the club’s share each month.
Your part is the last step, and three answers you give once before any of it.
Who may coach here
Open Coaching, then Coaches and money, and pick a name. They can take lessons from that moment.
Tick Visiting. They go on the member list, and the tick keeps them off your bill. They coach and take courts, and enter no competitions.
Take off the list keeps every lesson they gave. They move to Coached here before, and one press puts them back.
Coaches set their own prices. You can put some in when you add a coach who has none, and write the line under their name if they have not. After that the prices are theirs.
The job is coaching.manage, and your secretary holds it as well as you.
The money, and it is never ours
Three answers, and you give them once. The first is who takes the money.
The member pays the coach. The coach owes you your share.
The lesson goes on the member’s tab. You owe the coach the rest, once your share is off.
A percentage of each lesson. Nought is a real answer, and it is what a club starts on. It is written down when a lesson is agreed, so a change in March re-cuts nothing already taught.
Cash, bank transfer, card at the court, or the club tab where the club takes the money. Members read it before they book, when a lesson is agreed and on the morning before. A coach’s own answer beats yours.
Clayside never moves this money. It records what a lesson cost and your share of it. You settle with your coaches in your own bank, the way you always have.
What is owed
Work it out shows every lesson taught and not yet squared up, both ways round. It opens on the year you are in, with a row of years to go back through. Everything owed, at the end of that row, shows what is still outstanding from any year. When you have settled, press Squared up against that coach and give the date you squared up to: it records that you did, and no money moves.
The coaching year comes out as a spreadsheet with the rest of your data.
The courts
Coaching on the club diary is a block, the same as club night. Blocking courts out is where that is done, and nobody already booked is ever cancelled.
What this is not
It is not a coaching programme. No terms, no courses, no registers, no fees taken up front from forty parents. A group is a lesson with four names on it.