Online booking and scheduling software for swim instructors and swim schools. Let parents book private lessons, group classes, packages, plans, and makeups while Swum handles payments, reminders, waivers, instructors, and locations.
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Families can book lessons when they are ready, not only when your front desk or phone is available.
Swum is built around real swim lesson businesses: private instructors, mobile teams, and growing lesson schools.
Scheduling, waivers, packages, plans, payments, messaging, and instructor operations stay connected.
Swum supports single lessons, recurring private lessons, semi-private lessons, group classes, class series, packages, plans, invoices, and manual bookings in one workflow.
Families can choose the right swimmer, lesson type, time, package, waiver, and payment path without calling your desk or waiting for a text back.
Manage instructor calendars, school-wide rules, lesson buffers, locations, blocked dates, and booking windows with controls made for swim operations.
Give families a clear booking path for private lessons, group classes, packages, plans, and semi-private options without back-and-forth texts.
Coordinate instructor availability, lesson types, clients, and school-level workflows from one scheduling layer.
Support lessons at facilities, homes, HOAs, rented lanes, and mobile service areas without treating every location like the same appointment.
Reduce the admin mess around missed lessons with clear policies, credit rules, rescheduling windows, and parent self-service options.
Collect payment when families book and support one-time lessons, prepaid packages, recurring plans, invoices, balances, and deposits.
Collect what your swim business needs before the swimmer gets in the water: waivers, intake questions, participant limits, and booking rules.
Keep parents, instructors, and admins aligned with confirmations, notifications, schedule updates, and message workflows.
Track revenue, bookings, customers, instructor activity, and school performance without rebuilding the week in spreadsheets.
Generic schedulers can show open time. Swim lesson businesses need booking rules, swimmer records, packages, makeups, payments, instructors, pools, and parent self-service to work together.
| Workflow | Swum | Generic scheduling tools | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lesson products | Private lessons, recurring lessons, semi-private lessons, group classes, packages, plans, class series, invoices, and manual lessons. | One appointment type or a generic class event that needs workarounds for swim-specific offers. | You can sell the way your swim business actually runs instead of forcing every offer into one calendar shape. |
| Parent booking | Booking links, participant selection, waivers, intake questions, payments, confirmations, and booking controls in one flow. | A scheduling link plus separate forms, waivers, payment requests, and manual follow-up. | Fewer abandoned bookings and fewer admin touches before the first lesson. |
| Makeups and policies | Cancellation windows, rescheduling settings, time credits, participant switching, and makeup workflows. | Staff manually decide what to do after a missed lesson or cancellation. | Parents get clarity and your team avoids rebuilding policies by hand. |
| Pools and instructors | Instructor availability, multiple locations, client-location lessons, travel buffers, service areas, and school-level visibility. | Open time slots that do not understand who teaches where or how travel affects the calendar. | The schedule respects the instructor, pool, parent, and operational constraints behind the booking. |
| Money flow | Card payments, saved cards, deposits, invoices, packages, plans, balances, refunds, and instructor payout workflows. | A booking happens first, then payments and staff pay are handled somewhere else. | Revenue, credits, and instructor money stay tied to the lesson record. |
Discover how Swum can transform every aspect of your swim instruction business
Set availability, booking windows, blocked dates, buffers, seasonal schedules, and recurring lesson options.
Manage approvals, cancellation rules, rescheduling, participant groups, intake questions, and parent booking settings.
Sell weekly lesson plans with recurring schedules, automated billing, and participant access rules.
Manage groups, classes, waitlists, schedules, instructors, participants, and group booking rules.
See how Swum supports staff, locations, students, finances, reporting, and day-to-day school operations.
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Swim lesson scheduling software helps instructors and swim schools manage online booking, instructor availability, parent self-service, payments, reminders, makeups, waivers, packages, group lessons, and school operations from one system.
Yes. Swum supports private lessons, recurring lessons, semi-private lessons, group lessons, packages, plans, class series, manual bookings, invoices, and parent self-booking workflows.
Yes. Swum supports multiple teaching locations, client-location lessons, location-specific availability, travel buffers, service areas, and mobile-friendly management for instructors who teach away from one fixed pool.
Yes. Families can use a booking link to choose a lesson option, select participants, sign waivers, answer booking questions, pay, and receive confirmations without a manual scheduling conversation.
Generic schedulers focus on open time slots. Swum connects the swim-specific pieces around those time slots: swimmers, families, lesson products, packages, waivers, makeups, payments, instructors, locations, and school controls.
Yes. Swum supports school workflows for coordinating instructors, schedules, customers, payments, waivers, messaging, reporting, and role-based operations.
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