PalaestralEverything around the hour.
Palaestral is booking, payments and client-record software for an independent instructor who sells their own time — surf, yoga, running, strength. You teach the session. Palaestral takes the booking, collects the waiver, charges the card and handles what goes wrong — and keeps the record of every client you teach.
| Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mon 06:15planRunningTrack intervals2 of 312:00planYogaLunch flow1 of 317:30planStrengthBack squat2 of 3 | Tue 06:30planSurfDawn patrol2 of 312:00planStrengthPress1 of 218:00planStrengthBarbell basics3 of 3 | Wed 07:00planYogaSlow flow2 of 312:00planRunningLunch loop1 of 317:30planRunningTempo2 of 3 | Thu 06:30planSurfPaddle drills2 of 312:00planYogaMidday flow2 of 317:30planRunningTrack intervals3 of 3 | Fri 06:30planCalled offDawn patrol—12:30planStrengthDeadlift1 of 217:00planYogaWind down1 of 3 | Sat 08:00planSurfBeginners2 of 310:00planSurfImprovers3 of 316:00planStrengthDeadlift1 of 2 | Sun 07:00planRunningLong run1 of 207:45planSurfSecond peak2 of 309:30planYogaRecovery1 of 3 |
- Track intervals
- Lunch flow
- Back squat
What it does
Takes the booking
Your page shows the times you actually teach, generated from rules you set once. Someone picks one and the seat is held while they pay.
Also lesson packs a client buys once and books against, and a waitlist that offers a freed seat to the next person in line.
Collects the waiver
The person booking signs your waiver for each person coming, by name, before the booking completes, and unless you stop asking ages, anyone under 18 needs a guardian named.
Charges the card
You are the merchant. The money goes to your own account, Stripe bills its fee to you, and any 1099-K is issued in your name.
Remembers the client
What they booked, what they signed, what they paid and what you noted after the session — still there when they book again next summer.
Keeps the plan
A plan per session, in blocks you arrange, attached to the lesson it is for — and any plan you keep as a template can start the next one.
Handles the exceptions
A morning called off, a cancellation inside your own terms, a refund that has to reach somebody. Calling a morning off is one press; telling everyone and sending the money back follow on their own.
What stays with you
The booking is the smallest part of it. What builds up is the part worth having in one place: every client's history, the waivers they signed, the plans you wrote for them and the record of what you earned.
Waivers are kept for 5 years, or until a minor turns 20 if that is later — long enough to still be evidence. The periods are on the privacy page, stated from the same numbers the deletion job uses.
Who it's for
An instructor who sells their own time, and one instructor is a complete customer: surf, yoga, running, strength, climbing, pickleball.
There is no marketplace, no feed and no ranking. Your page is yours, and people reach it through your own links and through search — never through a Palaestral directory of instructors.