Solutions / Surf Schools
Run lessons, rentals, and waivers from one system. Students reserve a slot and sign a legally-binding release in a single step, payouts land in your own processor, and every signer can become a marketing contact you own. No booking fees, no cut of your revenue, no juggling three separate tools.
What's slowing your surf school down
Clipboards, soggy forms, and a folder you swear you'll file later. An instructor rigging boards in an offshore breeze shouldn't be chasing signatures. Then your insurer asks for last summer's releases and half of them are illegible or just gone.
Booking sites and OTAs take 10 to 30% of every group lesson and rental, then keep the customer too. On thin margins and a short season, that per-booking cut can be the difference between a profitable summer and breaking even.
Onshore winds flatten the swell and your whole day falls apart. Without your own contact list, you can't text students about the dawn-patrol window or fill the cancellations, because the emails are locked inside someone else's platform.
How Simplo helps surf schools
Beginner group lesson, private coaching session, multi-day camp, or a board-and-wetsuit rental: the student picks a time and signs the release in the same flow. Parents sign for minors, and you can hold checkout until the waiver's done, so nobody paddles out unsigned.
Every signature is hashed, chained to the one before it, IP-stamped, time-stamped, and saved as a PDF. After a bad wipeout or a shoulder injury in the impact zone, that tamper-evident audit trail is exactly what an insurer or attorney wants. Real legal weight, not a photo of a paper form.
Cap a group lesson at the number of boards and instructors you actually have, set the party size for a family booking, and let availability update live across your site. Sessions sell out on their own, so you never overbook the lineup or stretch one coach across ten students.
Sell wetsuit and board rental, GoPro footage, rash guards, or extra water time as paid add-ons at checkout. Custom fields capture skill level, weight and height for board sizing, swim ability, and emergency contact before the student ever shows up.
Connect your own Stripe, Square, or Shopify Payments account and money flows straight to you. Simplo never sits in the middle and takes no cut of bookings. It's a flat monthly price, so a busy July doesn't cost you a dime more in platform fees than a slow one.
Every waiver signer can opt in to marketing with an explicit, TCPA-compliant checkbox kept separate from the liability release. Pull up "signed but never booked" or "last surfed 90+ days ago," text the crew when the conditions line up, and export the whole list to CSV whenever you want. It's yours.
FAQ
No. It's a flat monthly price with zero booking fees and 0% of your lesson and rental revenue. Bring your own payment processor — Stripe, Square, or Shopify Payments — and the money lands straight in your account, so refunds, weather credits, and payouts all stay under your control.
Yes. The waiver rides along with the booking, so when a student reserves a group lesson, private session, or board rental, they read and sign a legally-binding e-signature release in the same step. Parents sign for minors, and you can require the waiver before checkout so nobody turns up at the water's edge unsigned.
Each signed waiver carries a tamper-evident audit trail: cryptographically hashed and chained, IP-stamped, time-stamped, and saved as a PDF. When your insurer or an attorney asks who agreed to what and when, you've got a defensible record instead of a soggy clipboard.
Yes. Paste one JavaScript snippet on your existing site to show live lesson availability, and install the first-party Simplo apps from the Shopify App Store and the Square Marketplace. The same schedule and waiver flow runs behind all three, so you never oversell a session.
Simplo puts a booking tool, a waiver app, and a marketing platform into one place, instead of stacking Peek Pro on top of Smartwaiver and a third email tool. See everything it does on the features page, check the flat pricing with no per-booking cut, and look up terms like e-signature and audit trail in the glossary. Curious who's behind it? Read about Simplo. Run a different kind of venue? We also build for ski & snowboard schools, ATV & off-road tours, and climbing gyms.
Set up your surf school, build a lesson schedule, and take a real booking with a signed waiver in minutes. No booking fees, your own payment processor, your own customer list.