Riding instructors: booking lessons by level and horse

A riding lesson depends on two things: the rider's level and the horses fit to work that day. Run both in your booking calendar: one service per level, places set to the number of suitable horses, and the rider's height, weight and experience asked for in the booking note, so you allocate horses before anyone arrives. Riders book the right group, no lesson takes more riders than you have horses for, and moving someone up is a two-second change.

On Book, each service has a name, a price and an optional description shown on your public page, and each slot belongs to one service, sits within one day and has its own capacity. Describe each level by what riders can already do, such as "can trot rising unaided".

Durations, places and prices are examples: set your own.

Set each slot's places to the horses suitable for that level. Each online booking takes one place, and when the lesson is full it leaves your page. If a horse goes lame, lower the places for the coming lessons from your settings rather than turning a rider away at the gate.

The booking form takes first name, last name, email and phone, plus an optional note that reaches you in the new booking email. Ask in the description for the rider's height, weight range and recent riding experience. With that in hand, you assign horses the evening before and tack up in time.

Riders who keep the same weekly lesson can have their next weeks booked from your bookings list; first and last name are enough, and if you enter their email, they get a confirmation with a calendar file for each lesson. Slots repeat each week on the weekdays you choose until an end date.

When a rider is ready, move their booking from your list to the next level's service; rescheduling works across services. Tell them yourself, since Book doesn't email clients about changes, and say which horse and time they'll have.

Say in each description what happens in bad weather. If a lesson can't run, cancel or move the bookings and tell each rider yourself. Riders can't move or cancel online: they contact you. Book doesn't take payments or lesson cards. Book costs €5/month, everything included: unlimited services and bookings, no commission, no contract.