Coach Guide
The manual for coaches who use Golfly.
By Sjoerd Ligtvoet, Founder, GolflyUpdated
Welcome to the Coach Guide
Here you find everything you need to run Golfly. One short article per topic, with the steps that go with your day-to-day coaching business. Can't find your question? Email support@golfly.nl.
Getting started
- The activation checklist on your home screen: the four steps that get your site ready for bookings
- Publishing your first lesson: from welcome email to bookable lesson
- What does your client see in My Account?: a tour of the client portal
- What does your client see under Recurring lesson?: status, renewing, pausing and stopping from the client portal
- Help your students complete their profile: more hooks to serve your students personally
Calendar and prices
- Setting up availability: weekly pattern, exceptions, blocks
- Working with multiple locations: adding clubs, primary location, schedule per location
- Creating and managing lesson types: duration, price, EN translation
- Setting quiet-hours rates: a discount for quiet times
- Book for a client (booking from the admin): schedule it yourself and send a Mollie link via WhatsApp
- At the club today: releasing last-minute bookings without WhatsApp confirmation
- Managing a booking: payment status, actions, rescheduling, cancelling, refunding
Payments
- Setting up Mollie Connect: connecting, troubleshooting
- Issuing refunds and handling disputes: refunds and chargebacks
- Payouts and Mollie fees: how lesson fees reach you
- Taking payment in cash or by card: recording one-off payments without a Mollie link
- Connecting ProAgenda and importing clients: moving existing clients and credits over
- Connecting iGolfInstructor: automatically blocking busy times for clients
- Connecting Google Calendar: your Golfly lessons automatically in your Google Calendar
Subscription and billing
- Your Golfly Pro subscription: activating, trial period, statuses, restoring your site, invoices and cancelling
- What Golfly earned you: the value card on your dashboard explained
- The monthly summary in your inbox: the same figures by email on the first of every month, without logging in
Selling
- Managing gift cards: creating, sending, redeeming, automatic credits
- Setting up lesson packages: bundles of credits with a validity period
- Recurring lessons: subscriptions for repeating lessons: planning, candidates, creating and managing subscriptions
- Organising group lessons and courses: one-off events and multi-day courses
- Group requests: request form for group outings, partner, status and status link
- Managing discount vouchers: creating, sharing by link or QR code, tracking redemptions
- Printing business cards: ordering QR code business cards for your Golfly page
- Downloading the app flyer: a printable A5 flyer or shareable image that helps students install the app
Your site and international
- Bilingual content with the AI translate button: NL/EN and the International Unlock
- Your link page (link in bio): one shareable link with your socials and buttons for your Instagram bio
Settings and notifications
- Push notifications and installing the app: Golfly on your home screen, instant notifications per event and channel
- Customising emails to clients: adjust the tone and text of your booking emails in your own words
Clients and lessons
- Managing clients: the client list, searching and filtering, adding clients and deleting them permanently
- Requesting the WhatsApp assistant: what it does, what it costs, what you handle yourself and how to sign up
- The WhatsApp inbox: reading along with your assistant, the statuses, the attention badge and replying yourself
- Keeping lesson notes: notes per lesson, visible to the student in My Account
- Creating report cards: a structured lesson report with focus points and drills to share with your student
- Drills: your video library: uploading practice videos and assigning them to clients, via report cards or separately per client
- Live coaching (beta): a remote private lesson and discussing swing clips; only available after activation by Golfly
- Notifications for your client: what your student sees and sets on the notifications page
- The app installation guide and the email reminder: how students install the app via /app, and when Golfly reminds them about it by email
Swing Check
- Using Swing Check: public lead funnel, inbox, reviewing and sending a review video
Growing
- Reactivation: bring back old clients and leads: ready-made personal messages for clients you are about to lose
- Messages: sending an update to all your clients: audiences, test email, sending limits and unsubscribing
- Your marketplace profile: being found by people searching on golfly.nl
- Friends programme: let your clients invite friends for a reward
- Referral programme: a free month for every coach you refer
- Founding Coach programme: first coach of a club and your Founding Coach seal
- Golfly vs ProAgenda: an honest comparison
- Your Google Business Profile: being found in Google Maps and collecting reviews
Can't find your question? Email support@golfly.nl.
Today: the front desk's morning briefing
The screen to start the day with: who is coming, which courses are on, what is still open from earlier days and who is ready for a follow-up.
The activation checklist on your home screen
Which four steps are on your dashboard until your site is ready, what exactly turns a step green (and what does not), and what you see when everything is done.