User guide
Answers to the most common questions, for each role. The same articles are in the software, « Help » button.
Students
Student area
See my slots
- The Home page shows your next flight, your coach and the place.
- « My slots »: all your slots, with the coach and the discipline.
- « Add to my calendar » copies them into your phone’s calendar.
Request slots
- « Camps » tab: open a listed camp.
- Choose the free slots you want and send your request.
- The administrator accepts or declines it; your accepted slots appear in « My slots ».
Fill in my form
- « My form »: your level, measurements and an emergency contact.
- Read and accept the waiver and the consents.
- For a minor, give their two legal guardians. ⚠ stays visible as long as the form is incomplete.
My progress
- « My progress »: your flight time per discipline, camp after camp.
Coaches
Coach area
My schedule and my camps
- « My schedule »: your slots day by day, with the student and the discipline.
- « My camps »: the camps you take part in.
- Your students’ useful details (level, emergency contact, guardians of minors) can be reached from your schedule.
My hours
- « My hours »: the time you have coached, camp by camp.
My profile and liability insurance
- « My profile »: your contact details and disciplines.
- Add your liability insurance certificate and its end date; ⚠ appears when it is about to expire.
Administrators
Getting started
Get started in 4 steps
- Settings › My organization: name, logo, contact details and country.
- Settings › Tunnels: add the wind tunnels where you run your camps.
- Coaches › New coach: add the coaches who work with you.
- Camps › New camp: create your first camp, then fill in its schedule.
- The assistant on the Home page follows these steps and shows a video for each.
Practise with an example
- On the Home page, click « Load an example »: a camp with 6 fictitious students is created.
- Try the schedule, invoicing and messages freely: nothing is sent to the fictitious students.
- « Delete the example » removes everything that was created, in one click.
Camps and schedule
Create a camp
- Camps › « New camp ».
- Choose the tunnel, dates, opening hours, capacity and coaches.
- Name a lead coach if you wish: they will be able to manage this camp.
- Save, then open the camp’s schedule to place the students.
Fill in a camp’s schedule
- Open the camp, Schedule tab. Each row lasts 30 minutes, split into two cells.
- In « Students », add the camp’s students, then click a name and the cells to fill. You can also drag the name.
- Choose the coach and discipline in the « Coach(es) » and « Disciplines » panels before placing.
- Everything is saved automatically. Ctrl+Z undoes, Ctrl+Y redoes.
Slot length, copying and waiting list
- « Slots › Duration » changes how the 30 minutes are split: 15 / 15, 20 / 10, 25 / 5…
- « Copy slots » copies one day onto another.
- « Waiting list » keeps students without a slot: a freed place is offered to them.
Cancel a slot and give credit
- In the schedule, open « Cancellations ».
- Choose « Time carried over (credit) » or « Time cancelled », then click the student’s slot.
- Time carried over: the minutes are added to the student’s credit, deducted on a later invoice.
- « Redo » or Ctrl+Z puts the student back and takes back the credit.
Send confirmations and reminders
- Open the camp, « Confirmations and reminders » tab.
- Each student receives a message with all their slots, then a reminder the day before their first flight.
- Send by WhatsApp or email; for a minor, their guardians are notified too.
Students’ slot requests
- Students request free slots from a camp’s page.
- Requests arrive in « Today › Slot requests ».
- « Accept » places the student in the schedule; « Decline » dismisses the request.
Season planner
- On the Home page, « Season planner » shows all camps over the year.
- Click a camp to open it.
Students
Add students
- Students › « + New student »: name, phone, email, disciplines.
- « Import (Excel / CSV) » adds a whole list at once.
- Then add each student to a camp from the schedule (« Students » panel).
Safety records and minors
- The student’s record holds their level, measurements, an emergency contact, the waiver and the consents.
- For a minor, fill in their two legal guardians: they also receive the messages.
- Students can fill in their record themselves online (« My form »).
- ⚠ next to a name: their record is incomplete.
Invite students and coaches
- Settings › Access › « Invite someone »: email, role (student, coach…) and linked record, then « Invite ».
- They receive an email with a link; they sign in with that link or with their Google account.
- « Account to invite »: the record is linked to an account that is not yet a member of your space.
Coaches
Add a coach
- Coaches › « New coach »: name, country, disciplines, contact details.
- Record their professional liability certificate and its end date: a reminder appears before it expires.
- Your plan includes a number of coaches; « Add an extra coach » in Settings › Subscription.
Students
Write to students
- The « Messages » button at the top of the screen opens your messages.
- Write to a camp’s students or to one student; messages go out by WhatsApp or email.
- The language of the messages is chosen in the Display menu.
Invoicing
Products and services
- Management › Products and services: flight time, coaching, rental, accommodation…
- For each: price excl. VAT, VAT and unit (minute, hour, session, day).
- These products are used for quotes, invoices and camp invoicing.
Invoice a camp
- Open the camp, « Invoicing » tab: the time placed in the schedule is counted for each student.
- Tick the students, then « Prepare the invoices »: one draft per student.
- Check the drafts in Management › Sales, then issue them.
Invoices, credit notes and payments
- A draft can be edited freely; issuing it gives it its final number and locks it.
- A validated invoice can’t be deleted: issue a credit note to cancel or correct it.
- Record the payments received: the balance due updates, and the invoice becomes « Overdue » after its due date.
- A payment link lets the customer pay online.
Quote
- Management › Quote: prepare the quote as a draft, then « Issue and number ».
- Download the PDF and send it; mark it « Accepted » or « Declined » according to the reply.
- Accepted quote: « Create the invoice » reuses the same lines.
Purchases and receipts
- Management › Purchases: add your suppliers’ invoices (tunnel, equipment, travel…).
- Attach the photo or PDF of the receipt, and tick « Paid » once settled.
- Purchases feed the preliminary results and deductible VAT.
Dashboard, preliminary results and accountant
- Management › Dashboard: revenue, purchases, profit, cash, camp fill rates.
- Management › Preliminary results: estimated profit and VAT per quarter.
- Management › Sales › « Export for the accountant »: the file to send to your accountant.
Account and data
Subscription and plans
- Settings › Subscription: choose Solo, Team or Tunnel, and add extra coaches if needed.
- A founder code is entered when you choose the plan.
- « Manage my subscription »: bank card, invoices, change of plan or cancellation.
Backup, bin and GDPR
- Settings › Backup: download a full copy of your data.
- Settings › Bin: a deleted item can be restored from there.
- Settings › GDPR: record of processing, information notice and documents to have signed.
Legal pages (terms of sale, privacy)
- Settings › Legal pages: your terms of sale and privacy policy are prepared from « My organization ».
- Fields highlighted in yellow need to be completed; the highlight disappears once filled.
A question not answered? Write to assistance@tunnel-camp.com
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