Keep teaching. We hold the rest.

One link takes the booking, collects the waiver and charges the card. What it leaves you is a record of every client you teach — what they booked, what they signed and what they paid.

This week

The ordinary case

North Park Studio: Monday, 5:30 pm
On the calendar since: your Monday rule, every week
Marcus Bell: 41 · eleventh lesson with you
Priya Raman: 36 · fourth lesson
Plan attached: the one you wrote in March
Seats left: 1 of 3
Paid by card: $90.00
Card processing: −$2.91
In your account Wednesday: $87.09

Nothing happened here, and that is the point. The rule put it on the calendar, the plan was already attached, and both of them booked days ago — so the whole of Monday asked you for a session and nothing else.

Taken overnight

Blacks Beach: Tuesday, 6:30 am
Dana Whitfield: 34 · sixth lesson with you
Nick Ramsey: 29 · first lesson
Waivers: signed by both, 10:41 pm
Seats left: 1 of 3
Paid by card: $120.00
Card processing: −$3.78
In your account Thursday: $116.22

None of it needed you, and what it leaves behind is the part that keeps working — who you taught, what they signed and what they paid, still here next season when Dana books again.

Called off at 5:40 am

Blacks Beach: Friday, 6:30 am
Told: all 3 clients, within the minute
Refunded: in full · your notice periods do not apply
Back on their cards: $180.00
Card processing: −$6.12, which a refund does not return
Seats: all three back on your page
What the morning cost you: $6.12

You called it off from the sand. Everyone was told before they left home, the money went back to the cards it came from, and the morning stays on your record as called off rather than disappearing.

Signed by a parent

North Park Studio: Sunday, 9:30 am
Ellie Ward: 9 · first lesson
Guardian: Sarah Ward, signed 8:12 pm
Her waiver is kept until: March 2037
Seats left: 1 of 3
Paid by card: $50.00
Card processing: −$1.75
In your account Thursday: $48.25

A nine-year-old cannot sign for herself, so the booking asked for a parent and would not finish without one. California pauses the clock until she is eighteen, so her waiver is kept until she is twenty — and you cannot delete it by accident.

Instructor sign-in

What it does

One link, sent however you already talk to people. What comes back is a booking, a signature and the money — and a record of all three that outlives the season.

Takes the booking

Your page shows the times you actually teach, generated from the rules you set once. Someone picks one and the seat is held while they pay.

Collects the waiver

Every attendee signs before the booking completes, and a minor cannot finish without a guardian. Signatures are kept as long as they are evidence, which is longer than you would guess.

Charges the card

You are the merchant. The money goes to your account, Stripe bills its fee to you, and the 1099-K has your name on it — we never hold it on the way through.

Remembers the client

What they booked, what they signed, what they paid, and what you wrote after the session. Still there when they book again next summer.

Writes the plan

A plan per session, in blocks you arrange. Written in your words because it is built from what you said about how you teach.

Handles the exceptions

A morning called off, a cancellation inside your own terms, a refund that has to reach somebody. Each one has an answer that does not need you at 5am.

What it costs

A share of what you take, and nothing when you take nothing. No monthly fee, because a quiet February should not cost you anything.

What a client pays

the price you set

Card processing

Stripe’s, and billed to you

palaestral

a share of that price

What lands in your account

everything else

Stripe’s own processing fee is separate and goes to Stripe. It is the line on every receipt above marked “card processing”, so you have seen it before you sign up.

Who it is for

One instructor, teaching whatever they teach. The catalogue is a list you add to, not a set we chose for you.

Surf

Yoga

Running

Strength

Climbing

Pickleball

It works with nobody else on the platform. There is no marketplace, no feed and no ranking: your page is yours, and the people who book it are people you already told about it.