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GolfCoachOS Help Center

Step-by-step guides for every part of your coaching environment.

Getting Started

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Welcome to GolfCoachOS

A complete overview of the GolfCoachOS platform — what it does, who it's for, and how it helps you deliver a connected coaching experience. Watch this first before anything else.

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Setting Up Your Coach Profile

Step-by-step guide to completing your coach profile — photo, bio, credentials, specialties, and booking link so players and families can find and connect with you.

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Your First Login & Dashboard Tour

A walkthrough of the Coach Dashboard — roster, today's sessions, priorities, messages, and how everything connects together.

Managing Players

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How to Add a Player

Three ways to add players — invite a family by email, share your affiliate / signup link, or paste a roster from Sheets/Excel when you already have a client list.

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Import Roster from Spreadsheet

Paste client rows from Google Sheets or Excel into GolfCoachOS using a fixed column header. Best for academies onboarding an existing client list without retyping each player.

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Player Dashboard Overview

Understand the shared player dashboard — development stage, development domains, lesson history, practice, and how coaches and families stay aligned on one record.

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Player Intake Form Walkthrough

A walkthrough of player intake — what families complete, how the data feeds development context, and how Quick Start gets a new athlete onto your roster fast.

Lesson Scheduler

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Book a lesson

Put a one-to-one lesson on the calendar. It stays linked to that player.

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Open a player from the calendar

Click a one-to-one lesson to work from that player’s record, not a bare booking card.

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Day, week, and All coaches

Switch how you see the wall. Academies with more than one coach can watch the whole house.

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Move a lesson or blocked time (drag)

Drag a one-to-one lesson or a blocked hold to a new time on Day or Week view. Group lessons stay put — move those from the session roster.

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Block time (lunch, days off)

Hold hours so families cannot book them — a year of Tuesday–Saturday lunch, or Sunday and Monday off.

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Remove blocked time

Clear one day, a matching series (every lunch this year), or only those hours inside a date range.

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Time away (travel / holidays)

Clear repeating lunch in a from–to window, move group lessons to another coach, then block every day you are away. One-to-one lessons are not cancelled for you.

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Group lessons on the calendar

Click a clinic on the wall to see the roster, move that session to another coach, or manage drop-ins. Create programs under Group Lessons.

Recording Your Lesson Summary

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Recording a Lesson Summary

Capture what happened in the lesson — voice or typed notes, key focus, and assigned work — directly into the player's development record.

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Assigning Practice After a Lesson

Turn the lesson into directed practice — assign work, set expectations, and keep accountability between sessions.

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Just Talk and Short Talk

Just Talk writes a coaching conversation into notes. Short Talk turns spoken numbers into metrics you review before anything is saved.

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My Lessons

My Lessons is the player's lesson history, grouped into five categories.

Creating Lesson Plans

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Building Your First Development Plan

Create a clear development plan with objectives, priorities, and notes so every lesson advances a documented pathway.

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Assigning & Tracking Plans

Keep plans living — track progress session to session and adjust when competition, physical growth, or practice quality changes the picture.

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Uploading a Scorecard Photo (iPhone & Android)

Add a round from a phone photo of the scorecard — AI fills the hole grid for review. Works from a phone camera; desktop screenshots are not required.

AI Coaching Tools

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Coach Briefings & Priorities

How GolfCoachOS surfaces what deserves attention — roster briefings and today priorities that inform judgment without replacing the coach.

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Roster Intelligence

How roster-level insights help you see stage mix, development priorities, and patterns across your coaching environment.

Videos & Media

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Adding Videos to Lessons

Attach swing or session video to the player record — keep media with the same longitudinal history as notes and plans.

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Coach Library and My Library

The coach library is where academy videos, lesson plans, skill challenges, and combine tests live, plus the items you save for frequent use.

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Skill Challenges

Skill Challenges are their own library tab, separate from Lesson Plans.

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Combine Tests

Combine Tests are their own library tab. Saving one does not score it.

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Player Library

The player library uses the same shelves as the coach library, without another academy's private videos.

Profile & Settings

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Managing Your Profile & Preferences

Update photo, bio, schedule timezone, and account preferences so your coaching workspace stays accurate.

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Website Builder

Edit your public academy site as a draft, then publish when it should replace the live site.

Billing & Earnings

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Plans, Billing & Business

Understand coach plans, lesson deposits, and where to track revenue in My Business.

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On-Account Player Balances

Record deposits and track open cash balances for coaching that is not sold as a packaged credit product. For sellable lesson packages with external payment links, see Help → Lesson Packages.

Lesson Packages

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Overview

Sell lesson packages using your own payment provider. GolfCoachOS tracks packages and lesson credits; Stripe, Square, PayPal or your facility checkout handles the money.

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Create a Package

Build a package from Schedule → Packages with credits, duration, coaches, price, and availability.

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Publish and Share

Share the GolfCoachOS public package link so purchase requests are recorded; the external payment link is only for checkout.

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Manage Purchase Requests

Review purchaser and player details, payment status, and player matching from Schedule → Packages → Purchases.

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Activate Player Credits

Credits activate after payment confirmation (or complimentary approval) and a correct player link. GolfCoachOS never auto-merges public registrations.

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Use Credits When Booking

On the booking form, choose Use Package Credit for an eligible active balance. Confirmed bookings reserve one credit; completion marks it used.

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Cancellations and No-Shows

GolfCoachOS tracks restore vs forfeit decisions. Your package or academy policy decides what should happen — do not assume forfeiture without a policy.

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Refunds and Payment Problems

GolfCoachOS cannot issue or verify refunds. Process refunds in your provider, then mark Refunded Externally and review credits.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about creating packages, Stripe/PayPal links, confirming payment, remaining lessons, and refunds.

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