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title: "Surf — Palaestral"
description: "For surf instructors: call a flat morning off in one press, offer each client another time or a refund on your terms, and keep notes through the off-season."
canonical: "https://palaestral.com/for/surf"
---

# For mornings the ocean decides.

Palaestral is booking, payments and client-record software for an independent instructor who sells their own time — surf, yoga, running, strength. Surf lessons start at dawn, run on a forecast and come back with the summer. Call a flat morning off in one press, offer each client another time or a refund on your terms, and keep what you noted about them through the off-season.

1. Tue 06:30 Dawn patrol 2 of 3 booked
2. Thu 06:30 Paddle drills 2 of 3 booked
3. Fri 06:30 Dawn patrol Called off
4. Sat 08:00 Beginners 2 of 3 booked
5. Sat 10:00 Improvers 3 of 3 booked
6. Sun 07:45 Second peak 2 of 3 booked

A call-off, as the client sees it

from Sample Coach

Called off at 5:40 AM

Dawn patrol

Fri, Jun 11 at 6:30 AM · North beach meeting point

Choose one

- Move to Sat, Jun 12 at 8:00 AM Beginners · your seat is held
- Refund $55.00 to the card you paid with

Answer by Sat, Jun 12 at 8:00 AM No answer, and you are refunded.

- **Called off**: One press calls the morning off and emails everyone booked on it.
- **Another time**: You can offer each booking a later time instead, with its seat there held until the client answers.
- **The deadline**: Up to 48 hours, or until the new time stops taking bookings. Silence never moves a booking: no answer is refunded on your terms for conditions.

Sample data. Not a real instructor or client.

- 48 hours, at most, a seat on another time is held
- 24 months your notes are kept, past an off-season
- 14 days' notice before a client's lessons expire

## What suits surf

- [Booking](https://palaestral.com/product/booking)

  Set a lesson's days and hour once. Its times are kept in the lesson's own time zone, so a dawn session at 6:30 am is still at 6:30 am after the clocks change.
- [Waivers](https://palaestral.com/product/waivers)

  A booking with a child on it confirms only once their parent or guardian has signed for them, and the waiver is kept for 5 years, or until they are 20 if that is later.
- [Clients](https://palaestral.com/product/clients)

  What you noted about a client last summer is there when they book again: notes are kept 24 months from the day you write them, and only you see them.
- [Packs & memberships](https://palaestral.com/product/memberships)

  Sell lessons by the pack for a season of forecasts. Whoever holds lessons that expire is told 14 days before they do, since a week of flat water is ordinary.

## Read further

- [Cancellation terms](https://palaestral.com/learn/cancellation-terms)

  How much comes back when a client cancels, when you call a lesson off, or when conditions do: the terms you set, copied onto each booking when it is sold.
- [Waivers and minors](https://palaestral.com/learn/waivers-and-minors)

  What a client signs, who signs for a child, how long a signed waiver is kept and why nobody can delete it early: the rules a booking holds to.
- [Moving your clients](https://palaestral.com/learn/moving-your-clients)

  Upload the people you already teach with your notes and the lessons they have left, check what will be written, and decide whether anybody is told.

Five steps from a link in your inbox to a page your clients book from.

- [Get started](https://palaestral.com/start)
- [How it works](https://palaestral.com/how-it-works)