Stop the booking back-and-forth

The hour a day you didn't know you were losing

Most instructors lose roughly an hour a day to scheduling messages. WhatsApp pings on the dash mid-lesson. A student asks what's free Thursday morning. You scroll your diary at a traffic light, send a list of slots, they pick one, you confirm, they ask if it can move by twenty minutes, you confirm again, and on it goes for the next eighteen students.

None of that scheduling-by-text is teaching. It's admin you do for free in the gaps between lessons and across the evenings you'd rather have to yourself. Multiplied across a week it costs you several hours and a real amount of brainspace.

YourADI takes the back-and-forth off your phone and puts it on a link. Every student you teach gets the same address — youradi.ie/your-name is the live demo — and books themselves in against your real-world availability. You stay out of the scheduling loop.

The four pieces that make it work

A YourADI booking link is four settings, set up once and then left to do the work. Read this section and you will have a clear mental model for how the platform fits together.

1. Your storefront

Your storefront is your public page on YourADI — the page a student lands on when they tap your chosen personalised storefront link. It has your photo, a short bio, your city or county, your average review rating, the lesson types you offer, and one big Book a lesson button.

You control the slug (the part after the slash), so the link can be your own name, your school name, or a memorable phrase like youradi.ie/dublin-drive. The youradi.ie/your-name demo storefront opens in a new tab so you can see exactly what a published storefront looks like. Once you turn public bookings on for your own slug, the page is live to the world — share it anywhere you'd normally share a phone number.

2. Your lesson catalogue

Your catalogue is the list of lesson types you offer. Each lesson type has a name, a duration and a price. A typical catalogue looks like this:

• 1-hour driving lesson — €60, 60 minutes
• 2-hour driving lesson — €110, 120 minutes
• EDT lesson — €60, 60 minutes
• Pre-test lesson and test-day rental — €180, 180 minutes

Whatever you put in the catalogue is what students see when they book. Prices are quoted up front and charged at the moment of booking, so there is never a difference between what the student thinks they're paying and what you receive.

3. Your availability rules

Your availability is the recurring weekly pattern of when you're free to teach. A standard pattern might be Tuesday to Saturday, 09:00 to 17:00, with a 30 minute buffer between lessons so you can travel between students.

That pattern is the baseline. On top of it, you can block out one-off dates — a holiday, a dentist or doctor appointment, your own test re-certification — from the calendar, and those blocks override the recurring rules.

4. Auto-confirm

Auto-confirm is the switch that decides what happens after a student pays for a slot, and it has two sensible modes depending on how you prefer to run your business.

With auto-confirm on, paid bookings confirm immediately. The student walks away with a confirmed lesson and you stay out of the loop. The trade-off is that you have committed your time to whoever paid first, so anything you do not want booked needs to be blocked out on the calendar in advance.

With auto-confirm off, every booking is held as provisional until you approve it from the dashboard. The student's card has been charged, but the slot is not locked into your diary until you accept it. You keep the right to decline a booking that does not suit you — for example, a long drive to an awkward pickup location, or a lesson type that wasn't a good fit — and the student is refunded automatically when you do.

Neither option is right or wrong. Many solo instructors with a steady book of regulars leave it on for the speed; others prefer the breathing room of a manual approval step, especially around test periods or when their week is unusual. Pick whichever fits how you actually work; you can change it in Settings any time.

Set it up in about twenty minutes

Here's the exact path from sign-up to your first paying student booking themselves in. Twenty minutes from start to share, less if you already have your photo and bio to hand.

1. Publish your storefront. In Settings → Storefront, pick your slug, upload a photo (the one off your own marketing materials is fine), write two to three sentences about who you are and where you teach, and turn public bookings on.
2. Add your lesson types. In Settings → Catalogue, create one entry per lesson type you actually sell — a 1-hour lesson, a 2-hour lesson, an EDT module, a pre-test, whatever you already advertise to your students. Start with the handful you sell most often; you can add more lesson types as the need comes up.
3. Set your weekly availability. In Settings → Availability, mark the recurring slots you work each week. Add a buffer between lessons for travel, and a minimum notice (e.g. four hours) so that last-minute bookings don't catch you mid-lesson.
4. Connect card payments. In Settings → Billing, finish the payout setup. Once it's connected, card payments at the time of booking arrive in your bank account on the usual payout schedule for your country.
5. Decide on your confirmation flow. Auto-confirm in Settings → Availability is a choice, not a mandatory step — leave it on for the fully self-serve experience, or turn it off if you would rather review every booking before it lands in your diary. Re-read the auto-confirm explainer above if you need a refresher on the trade-offs.
6. Share the link. Drop your youradi.ie/your-name link into your Instagram bio, WhatsApp status, business cards, car decal, email signature, and the next text a student sends asking about Thursday. They'll book themselves in within a minute.

What a student actually experiences

Once you share your link, here is what your students see when they tap it. Walking through the journey from their point of view is the best way to spot anything you want to tweak before the link goes wide.

1. They land on your storefront. They see your photo, your bio, what lessons you offer, and your reviews.
2. They tap Book a lesson and pick the lesson type from your catalogue.
3. They pick a date and time from the slots you have free that week. Booked-out slots are crossed out, not hidden, so they can see how full your week is.
4. They enter their name, email, phone and pick-up location, then pay with their card. The payment is taken at the moment of booking.
5. They get an instant email confirmation and a magic-link to their student portal. From the portal they can see all their upcoming lessons, their progress, their notes from you, and their invoices. No password needed.

Common questions

Do students have to sign up?

No. The booking flow takes the student's details and the payment in one go and creates their portal account behind the scenes. They sign in to that account with a magic-link from their email — there's never a password to create or forget.

What stops a student booking a slot I've already taken?

YourADI only ever offers slots that are actually free. The calendar is the single source of truth: your availability rules, your one-off blocks, and every confirmed booking all feed into the same picture. Double-bookings are not possible through the storefront.

What if a student wants to move their booking?

Your cancellation policy decides what happens when a student needs to move a lesson. The student is shown the same refund terms they agreed to when they originally booked, so there is no surprise either way, and any refund or rebooking that follows is handled inside the platform.

What if I forget to keep my calendar up to date?

Block out personal time and holidays from the calendar as soon as you know about them — those blocks override your recurring availability and the storefront will not offer those slots. For unavoidable day-of issues like a sick child or a flat tyre, you can cancel an upcoming booking from the dashboard and the student is notified so they know not to turn up.