The operating system for modern swim schools.
OctoSwim AdminToday
18 April 2026 · Your Swim School
21
Sessions today
15
Swimmers booked
3
Teachers in pool
0
Cancellations
0
No shows
5
Need attention
🕐 Today's Schedule
1:1 Class · Emma W.
Ms Cooper · Pool A
1:1 Class · Oliver T.
Mr Davies · Pool B
1:1 Class · Sophie L.
Ms Ali · Pool A
Needs Attention
Sound familiar?
If any of these hit close to home, keep reading. This is the work we took off swim schools.
WhatsApp is your booking system
Parents message at 10pm. You reply at 6am. Half of them have already rung somewhere else.
Paper registers. Every session.
Printed on Sunday night, lost by Tuesday. You have no idea who actually turned up last week.
Chasing payments is eating your evenings
'Sorry, forgot again!' Fifteen parents. Every month. Without fail.
Running on ClassForKids or LoveAdmin? They take three percent of every payment on top of the monthly fee. That is twelve hundred pounds a year at forty thousand revenue. Gone, quietly.
Three portals. One platform.
Admin runs the numbers. Teachers get poolside tools. Parents book and watch their child progress.
Run today at a glance.
OctoSwim AdminToday
18 April 2026 · Your Swim School
21
Sessions today
15
Swimmers booked
3
Teachers in pool
0
Cancellations
0
No shows
5
Need attention
🕐 Today's Schedule
1:1 Class · Emma W.
Ms Cooper · Pool A
1:1 Class · Oliver T.
Mr Davies · Pool B
1:1 Class · Sophie L.
Ms Ali · Pool A
Needs Attention
Built for wet hands.
OctoSwimSat 18 Apr · 4:49 PM
SEN: Autism / ADHD. Visual prompts, extra processing time.
Medical: Asthma. Inhaler poolside.
One less thing to chase.
OctoSwimGood afternoon, Parent
Your next swim payment
£100.00
on May 1
Based on 4 lesson(s) this cycle
Upcoming Lessons
Tomorrow · 9:40 AM
1:1 Class
Your Swimmers
Updates
The Difference
Four things only we do.
Every swim school tool does bookings. These are the four we built because nobody else had.
01 · PROGRESS
Five-stage skill tracking.
Every skill rates from Tried to Mastered, not just done or not done. Teachers tap dots poolside. Parents watch progress at home. Certificates trigger automatically when a stage completes.
02 · POOLSIDE
Real Poolside Mode.
Full-screen register. Three big buttons per swimmer. Medical alerts front and centre. Built for wet hands and chlorine splash, not a desk.
03 · ACCESS
SEND-aware by default.
Proper intake captures diagnosis, meds, sensory needs, and water comfort. Emergency Action Plan saved against the child. AI teaching guidance for SEND swimmers surfaces in Poolside Mode.
04 · RETENTION
Targeted slot offers.
A space opens up. You pick the parent from their family profile and send the slot directly. One tap to Accept and Subscribe. No broadcast waitlists, no first-come chaos.
SEND-First
The only swim school software built for every child.
Most swim software treats SEND as a medical notes field. OctoSwim was built from day one around what SEND teaching actually needs. Staggered entry so each swimmer changes privately. Full SEND intake covering diagnosis, meds, sensory needs, communication style, and water comfort. Emergency Action Plans saved against the child, visible in Poolside Mode. AI-generated teaching guidance for each SEND swimmer, before the session starts.
Every family deserves a swim school that thinks about them before they arrive.
OctoSwimSat 18 Apr · 4:49 PM · Pool A
Age 4
9:50am
1:1 Class
SEN Profile
Diagnosis
Autism spectrum, ADHD
Sensory
Echo sensitive, prefers goggles on deck
Communication
Visual cues, 10s processing
Mia responds best to clear visual demonstrations. Lead with "watch me first", then cue her turn. Allow 10 seconds processing before repeating. Praise every attempt, not just successes.
View full briefing →
Pricing
£20 a month. Plus 40p per swimmer over 50.
The price you see at 50 swimmers is the price you see at 500. No tiers. No upsells. No cut of your transactions.
How many swimmers do you have?
Your monthly cost
£20.00
billed monthly · cancel anytime
At 200 swimmers per month, your software costs:
ClassForKids and LoveAdmin take a percentage of your revenue on top of their subscription. At £40,000 annual revenue, that is over £1,200 a year. Gone, quietly. We take zero.
Getting Started
Three steps. Most schools are live in a week.
No sales call. No demo gate. No data migration invoice.
01
Free 14-day trial.
No card. No commitment. Use OctoSwim like a real school for two weeks. Bring your own families, set up real classes, take real bookings.
02
Import your data.
CSV upload, usually under an hour. We help with the messy bits. Bring your classes, swimmers, and family details as they are. We clean them up.
03
Migrate in batches.
No big-bang switch. Move one class at a time, keep your existing system running in parallel. Nobody is surprised on a Tuesday morning.
We don't take a cut of your money.
Most UK swim school software either charges 2 to 3% on every parent payment, or doesn't let parents pay by bank transfer at all. We don't sit in the money flow. Card via Stripe direct. Bank transfer free. Cash and cheque tracked. Whatever works for your parents.
Card payments
Stripe Connect, direct to your account, at standard Stripe rates only. We never touch your money.
Bank transfer
Free for both you and parents. Automatically tracked and reconciled. No other UK swim school software offers this in-app.
Cash, cheque, anything else
Whatever your parents currently do keeps working. We just track it for you. No forced changes.
Meet Splashy.
Eight arms. Zero spreadsheets. Splashy runs bookings, payments, registers, and skill tracking while you are at the pool.
Ask what happens when you have got 200 parents in a WhatsApp group.
What swim schools say
"We were drowning in spreadsheets and chasing parents on WhatsApp every spare evening. Now the school runs itself in the background and I actually teach again."
Claire
Co-owner, Splash 'N' Swim · Essex
Transparent pricing
The price is on the website. Always.
Built for pools
Designed by people who have stood poolside, not just at a desk.
Real UK support
You talk to us. Not a ticket system.
Try it for two weeks. Decide for yourself.
No card required. No sales call. First booking in five minutes. Cancel whenever you like.
Three clicks to start. Your own Stripe account. Your money in your bank next day.