For Sailing Schools
Use caseTIDEFORCE is the Commerce & Operations Platform for Outdoor Sports Schools
Operational effectone checkout for courses, camps, and accommodation, plus boat capacity, day planning, and crew allocation in one place.
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A sailing school is not a single product. You sell beginner and advanced courses, certification tracks, multi-day courses and camps, taster sessions, and private lessons — across dinghies, keelboats, and catamarans, each of which is a limited resource with its own capacity. Add accommodation, a partner marina, weather that moves your schedule, and crew you have to allocate by level and language, and a generic booking calendar stops being enough.
TIDEFORCE is built for exactly this reality. It treats your boats as bookable resources, your courses and camps as multi-day products, your instructors as a crew you allocate, and your partners as accounts that manage their own bookings — all behind a single checkout and a single source of truth.
What sailing schools struggle with
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How TIDEFORCE runs it
One checkout for courses, camps, and accommodation
Sell a beginner keelboat course, a week-long sailing camp, accommodation, a transfer shuttle, and a life-vest rental in a single cartTIDEFORCE's checkout handles up to twelve booking typesRead moreRead less→
Sell a beginner keelboat course, a week-long sailing camp, accommodation, a transfer shuttle, and a life-vest rental in a single cart. TIDEFORCE's checkout handles up to twelve booking types — courses, lessons, rentals, tours, events, camps, shuttles, accommodation, camping, lockers, and add-ons — so a multi-day package is one transaction, not five. Certification courses run as multi-day products with the right number of sessions, and customers get email confirmations and reminders automatically.
Boats as bookable resources, with real capacity
Define capacity per slot, per activity, per day, and per season so a dinghy fleet, your keelboats, and a catamaran each fill to their real limit and never oversellSeasonal pricing applies per activity and per location, and Pricing Modes let you share consistent price tables across your courses.Read moreRead less→
Define capacity per slot, per activity, per day, and per season so a dinghy fleet, your keelboats, and a catamaran each fill to their real limit and never oversell. Seasonal pricing (high, mid, and low ranges by date) applies per activity and per location, and Pricing Modes let you share consistent price tables across your courses.
Day planning, grouping, and crew allocation
A real-time whiteboard and timetable give you the board you've been keeping on a wallAllocate instructors, assign boats and equipment, and group students by language, level, age, and skill with drag-and-dropRead moreRead less→
A real-time whiteboard and timetable give you the board you've been keeping on a wall. Allocate instructors, assign boats and equipment, and group students by language, level, age, and skill with drag-and-drop — then check them in. When the wind changes and you need to reshuffle the day, you move people and boats on a shared board everyone can see, instead of a chain of phone calls. Wind and conditions are entered manually today; there is no weather-station integration.
Equipment and material intelligence
Track your boats, life vests, wetsuits, and trapeze gear as material you assign to sessionsMaterial intelligenceRead moreRead less→
Track your boats, life vests, wetsuits, and trapeze gear as material you assign to sessions. Material intelligence — usage hours, condition, and location — gives you a clearer picture of what's on the water and what needs attention. (Material intelligence is in Beta.) Your shop can sell equipment linked to inventory, including used or demo school gear.
Providers and partners with their own accounts
Give your marina, accommodation partner, or freelance instructors a provider role with their own account and access levelthey can place and manage their own bookingsRead moreRead less→
Give your marina, accommodation partner, or freelance instructors a provider role with their own account and access level, so they can place and manage their own bookings. B2B partner invoicing is built in, so commercial relationships are settled cleanly rather than reconciled by email.
Invoicing and bookkeeping that stay connected
Create invoices directly from a booking or a paymentconnected data and multi-rate VAT for mixed packagesRead moreRead less→
Create invoices directly from a booking or a payment, with connected data and multi-rate VAT for mixed packages — you confirm each invoice before it goes out. Instructor session reports feed payroll bookkeeping, taking sessions through periods to payouts, so the teaching that happened on the water is the teaching that gets paid.
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Multiple locations, one view
If you run a lake base and a coastal base, you get multi-location operational visibility from one platformcapacity, crew, and bookings per locationRead moreRead less→
If you run a lake base and a coastal base, you get multi-location operational visibility from one platform — capacity, crew, and bookings per location, without separate systems to reconcile.
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Generic booking tool vs. TIDEFORCE
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| A sailing school needs to… | TIDEFORCE |
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| Sell a course, camp, and accommodation in one transaction | One checkout across 12 booking types |
| Cap bookings per boat, per slot, per day, per season | Capacity per slot / activity / day / season |
| Group students by level, language, age, and skill | Manual drag-and-drop grouping on the whiteboard |
| Reshuffle the day when the weather window moves | Real-time whiteboard for crew, boats, and groups |
| Let a marina or freelance instructor manage their own bookings | Provider accounts + B2B partner invoicing |
| Invoice mixed packages with multiple VAT rates | Invoices from a booking or payment, multi-rate VAT (you confirm) |
Bring it together
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From the first taster session to a full certification track, TIDEFORCE keeps your courses, boats, camps, crew, partners, and invoices on one platform — so the work of running a sailing school happens in one place instead of six. Import your customers and equipment yourself by CSV, or let us handle a full migration from your previous system with you. You go live with your core offer fast, with guided onboarding.
Pricing is a simple take rate of 6.9% per processed transaction — payment fees included, with no setup or monthly fee. Hosting is in the EU on Google Cloud and GDPR-compliant, and your data stays yours.
Frequently asked questions
01Can TIDEFORCE handle multi-day sailing courses and certification tracks?
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Yes. Courses and certification tracks run as multi-day products with the right number of sessions, and a full course, camp, accommodation, and add-ons go through one checkout as a single transaction.
02How does TIDEFORCE treat boats — can I cap bookings per boat?
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Boats are bookable resources with capacity defined per slot, per activity, per day, and per season, so your dinghies, keelboats, and catamarans each fill to their real limit and never oversell.
03Does TIDEFORCE integrate with weather stations or forecast data?
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Not today. Wind and conditions are entered manually, and weather-station integration is on the roadmap. What TIDEFORCE gives you now is a real-time whiteboard to reshuffle groups, boats, and instructors quickly when a weather window moves.
04Can a marina or freelance instructor manage their own bookings?
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Yes. You can give partners and instructors a provider role with their own account and access level, so they place and manage their own bookings, and B2B partner invoicing is built in.
05How does grouping students by level and language work?
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Grouping is manual: you drag and drop students into groups by language, level, age, and skill on the whiteboard, then assign boats and instructors and check them in. Automatic matching is on the roadmap, not available today.
06What does TIDEFORCE cost, and where is my data hosted?
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Pricing is a take rate of 6.9% per processed transaction with payment fees included and no setup or monthly fee. Hosting is in the EU on Google Cloud, GDPR-compliant, and your data stays yours.
See how TIDEFORCE fits your school
In a short demo, we'll walk through your real workflows: services, booking, planning, team, guests, inventory, guidebook and shop.
We map your real school day first, then show only where TIDEFORCE actually fits.