Setting up lesson types

Everything about lessons starts with a lesson type. Create them on the Lessons tab, under the Lesson types card - select New Lesson Type (just New on a phone). Existing types are edited in place with Edit. A lesson type is a facility service, so it also appears under Settings → Services with the rest of what you bill for.

What you fill in

• Lesson type name - what you call it, like “Group Lesson” or “Private Jumping”.
• Kind of lesson - Riding Lessons or Horse Training. These are the only two categories that get lesson settings; a service in any other category is billed like a normal service and is never asked how many riders fit.
• Price per rider - each rider is charged this when the lesson is completed.
• Length (min) - between 5 and 480 minutes. A lesson you schedule gets this length automatically.
• Max riders - between 1 and 100. One rider is a private lesson; more than one makes it a group.
• Who brings the horse - Rider brings a horse, The barn provides a horse, or Either.
• Clients can book this online - puts this type on your public page.
• Booking rules - appears once “Clients can book this online” is on. Leave it alone to follow your barn’s settings, or open it to give this type its own approval, payment options, booking window and Free cancel (hrs). See Taking lesson bookings online.

Each type’s row summarizes itself the same way everywhere: “45 min · up to 5 riders · $45.00”, with a badge reading Bookable or Staff only.

A few more details live on the full service form: go to Settings → Services and select Edit on the lesson type for a default instructor, Gap after (min), and What clients see (optional), the description on your booking page. The default instructor is the one your booking page names for this type; it doesn’t fill in the instructor when you schedule a lesson. In the app, What clients see (optional) is on the lesson type form itself.

Who brings the horse

This decides what the booking form asks. “Rider brings a horse” requires a horse’s name before a booking can go through. “The barn provides a horse” asks nothing: you assign one of your horses on the roster afterwards. “Either” asks but doesn’t insist, and you can still give a rider one of your horses on the roster. New lesson types start on Either.

Once any lesson type is set to “The barn provides a horse” or “Either”, a Lesson horses card appears on the Lessons tab. Select Choose lesson horses to pick the horses that go in lessons, your own or a boarder’s, and optionally set Lessons a day for each. The card then shows each horse’s day, and Mark off takes a horse out of lessons for a day it shouldn’t work.

With a type in place, you can put it on the calendar - see Scheduling a lesson.