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This guide shows you how to map your dive school with anny. You combine resources, booking options, communities, and subscription plans, so your customers can book and pay for courses and dives online on their own.

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Thinking dive schools the anny way

For a dive school, anny digitally maps your entire course offering. The central principle: every bookable offer is a resource, and you define the booking conditions (duration, price, number of participants) through a booking option. Your customers book through the booking area (booking page, Discover page). You manage everything in the admin area (resources, bookings, invoices, dashboard).

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Decision guides: When do I use what?

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When a booking series and when individual appointments?

Rule of thumb: If your offer consists of multiple appointments that build on each other and should be booked together, use a booking series. For standalone individual events, regular individual appointments are enough.
Activate the following features in advance under Settings → Features to be able to use all building blocks of this guide:
  • Activate Payment processing & invoicing to accept online payments and create invoices automatically.
  • Activate Communities to set up protected member areas with their own booking page.
  • Activate Subscriptions and memberships to offer recurring membership plans.

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Step-by-step setup

1

Create resources

From the menu bar, open Resources and click New+. Create a separate resource for each bookable offer, e.g.:
  • “Open Water Diver course”
  • “Try dive”
  • “Pool training”
  • “Advanced Open Water course”
Give it a meaningful name, add a description and an image. Via Groups & categories, you can sort your resources thematically (e.g. “Courses”, “Experiences”, “Training”).
2

Configure booking options

Open a resource and switch to Booking options. Click New+ and define:
  • Duration: Fixed duration (e.g. 2 hours for a try dive) or flexible
  • Price: Fixed price per booking (e.g. 79 € for a try dive)
  • Capacity: Maximum number of participants per appointment (e.g. 6 people)
  • Mode: Choose “Series” for multi-day courses or “Standard” for individual appointments
For courses with multiple consecutive appointments, use the “Series” mode. You then manage the individual appointments centrally in the resource availability, and customers book all appointments as a package.
3

Set up schedules and appointments

Open the resource and switch to Availability → Schedules. Define when your courses and dives take place:
  • For regular offers (e.g. pool training every Wednesday): Create a recurring schedule.
  • For individual course appointments: Create individual available appointments in the availability.
  • For series: Create the individual appointments and assign them to a series (e.g. “OWD course August 2026”).
4

Set up payment processing

Open Settings → Payment processing and connect your Stripe account via Stripe Connect. After verification, your customers can pay online directly during booking. You can define per booking option whether online payment, on-site payment, or payment by invoice is possible.
5

Set up communities and subscription plans (optional)

If you offer memberships:
  1. Open Settings → Features and activate Communities and Subscriptions and memberships.
  2. Create a community (e.g. “Dive club members”) and assign exclusive resources or discounted booking options to it.
  3. Create a subscription plan (e.g. “Silver membership: 29 €/month”) and link it to the community. When customers subscribe, they are automatically assigned to the community.
You can also invite members to the community manually by email address.
6

Publish the booking page

Your booking page is automatically available at your anny URL. Under Settings → Booking page, you can adjust the layout, upload your logo, and configure colors. Share the link with your customers or embed the booking page in your website.

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Typical examples

1

Create resources

Create three resources: “Open Water Diver course”, “Try dive”, and “Pool training”. Sort them into the categories “Courses” and “Experiences”.
2

Define booking options

  • OWD course: Mode “Series”, 4 appointments, 399 €, max. 6 participants
  • Try dive: Mode “Standard”, fixed duration 2h, 79 €, max. 4 participants
  • Pool training: Mode “Standard”, fixed duration 1.5h, 25 € (15 € for members)
3

Create appointments

  • OWD course: Create 4 appointments (Sat + Sun, two weekends) and assign them to the series “OWD August 2026”.
  • Try dive: Recurring schedule every Saturday 10:00 to 12:00.
  • Pool training: Recurring schedule every Wednesday 18:00 to 19:30.
4

Set up the member area

Create the community “Dive club” and the subscription plan “Dive club membership” (29 €/month). Link the subscription plan to the community. Create a separate booking option for pool training at 15 € and restrict it to the community “Dive club”.
5

Payment and publishing

Connect Stripe Connect. Activate online payment for all booking options. Publish the booking page and share the link.
1

Create a resource

Create the resource “Try dive” with one booking option: fixed duration 2.5h, 89 €, max. 4 participants per trainer.
2

Add a second trainer as an on-demand resource

Create a second resource for your additional trainer (e.g. “Trainer 2”). Activate the Dynamic capacity planning feature and link the second trainer as an on-demand resource to “Try dive”.
3

Set up a schedule

Set up a recurring schedule (e.g. every Saturday and Sunday at 9:00). As soon as the 4 slots with the first trainer are booked, anny automatically provides 4 more slots via the second trainer.
4

Activate payment

Connect Stripe Connect and activate online payment for the booking option. Customers pay directly during booking.

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Additional settings & options

Booking packages

Offer discounted multi-tickets such as a 10-session card. Customers buy a quota and redeem it as credit with every single booking.Learn more

Dynamic capacity planning

Automatically adjust the capacity of your appointments to demand. When utilization is high, anny provides additional resources for you.Learn more

Certificates

Automatically create certificates after a passed course. The dive certificate is sent by email, including participant data, right away.Learn more

Embed the booking page

Embed your anny booking page directly into your own website. Customers book courses and dives without leaving your site at all.Learn more

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FAQ

Yes. Create a community for your members and, per resource, add a separate booking option with the discounted member price. Restrict this booking option to the community. Non-members only see the regular price.
Use the “Series” mode in the booking option. Create the individual course appointments in the resource availability and assign them to a series. Customers then book all appointments as a total package.
In principle, series are booked as a total package. If you want to offer individual remaining spots, create additional individual appointments as a separate resource or booking option alongside the series.
Create a subscription plan with the desired price and interval (monthly, yearly, etc.) and link it to a community. Customers can subscribe on your booking page themselves and automatically get access to the community with all member benefits.
Both are possible. You can define per booking option whether online payment (Stripe), payment by invoice, or on-site payment is accepted. For memberships with automatic billing, online payment is recommended.
Good luck with the setup! 🥳