Two machines. A full week. Nothing double-booked.

• Coach booked, machine free — or the other way round.

  Tools built for either appointments or resources can't hold both at once. You end up checking two calendars.

• Setup time isn't on the calendar.

  Binding changes and a size swap take ten minutes that a back-to-back schedule doesn't have.

• Open practice and lessons fight for the same machine.

  A member books practice at 5; a lesson was sold for 5. Somebody waits.

• School groups are a phone call.

  Twelve kids, two machines, ninety minutes, three coaches — booked by email and remembered by one person.

• ✓Clients book themselves. They pick a service, a person or 'anyone', a time, and leave their details — from any phone, no account needed.
• ✓Day and week calendar. Every appointment on one calendar, a column per instructor, and a week view for any one person. Drag an appointment to move it.
• ✓Rooms, bays and equipment. Tell MainLodge what a session physically needs — a reformer, a simulator, a room — and it books whichever one is free.
• ✓Set-up time and working hours. Add clean-up or set-up time around a service, and grey out the hours each person doesn't work.
• ✓Prepaid sessions and packs. Sell packs of sessions in advance, online or at the desk. Decide which services a pack covers and when it expires.
• ✓Memberships. Recurring plans that give clients sessions every period, billed to their card automatically, with pauses your staff can grant.
• ✓Take payment at the desk. Check out a visit at the desk, sell a pack, take payment and refund it when you need to.
• ✓Waivers that are actually signed. Clients sign your waiver on their phone right after they book; you see who is covered for the visit, and renewals are requested before they lapse.
• ✓Reminders that go out on their own. Booking confirmations, reminders before the visit and cancellation notices by email and text — plus follow-ups that run themselves: a review request after a visit, a check-in after a cancellation, a waiver reminder before the first session.
• ✓Text clients back and forth. Text a client from their page with your own business number; their replies land in the same place.
• ✓Book from your own website. A booking button for your own site, plus a direct link to any service.
• ✓Your name on it, not ours. Your logo, colours and photo on the booking page and every message clients receive.

The full list, including what's on the roadmap: MainLodge features.

Can a booking require both a coach and a machine?

Yes — that is the case we built first. A lesson holds both; open practice holds only the machine.

How do setup buffers work?

Each machine has a buffer after each use. The next booking starts after it, automatically.

Do you handle seasonal passes?

Yes: credits every period billed to the member's card, pauses your staff can grant, and packs that expire when you decide. Home Mountain runs on exactly this.

Can we book school groups and clinics?

Today a group is booked as a service that holds the machines and coaches it needs. Group classes with per-person spots are on our roadmap.

Is this only for SkyTechSport simulators?

No. Any machine, any brand — a machine is a resource with a buffer.

Who runs a studio on this?

We do. Home Mountain Ski Club in Los Angeles is our own studio and the first customer; the software is built there.

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