Half term is coming. Close the pool for the week and see what
every family is owed before you save. See how closures work 
Swim school software built for every swimmer.
Bookings, registers, payments and progress in one place, with SEND support built in and included in the price.
Run today at a glance. Sessions, swimmers and teachers in one view. Holiday requests and slot offers in one queue. See who has paid and who has not, instantly.
Where your week actually goes.
WhatsApp is your booking system
Parents message at 10pm. You reply at 6am. Half of them are asking something you answered last week.
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.
Four things we built on purpose.
Every swim school tool does bookings. These are the four we care about most.
Built around the swimmers who need the most.
Because a system that works for them works for everyone.
Teaching guidance, poolside
A short briefing before the lesson. Approach first, diagnosis last, because two autistic swimmers can need opposite things.
Adults as well as children
Adults with additional needs, and nervous adult beginners, get the same intake and the same support.
Included in the price. Permanently.
Not a module, not a premium tier, not a setting you have to find and switch on.
We built the system we couldn't find.
The systems we used, and the others we tried, could all take a booking and collect a payment. None of them could tell a teacher, before the lesson started, that the swimmer walking towards the pool finds the changing rooms unbearable and needs one instruction at a time.
That information existed. A parent knew it, often in detail, and had known it for years. So we made a place for it.
Teach the framework you already teach.
The national learn-to-swim frameworks are built in with every stage already set up. Or build your own.
Swim England
Learn to Swim Programme, Stages 1 to 10.
STA
International Learn to Swim Programme, the full award pathway.
Scottish Swimming
Learn to Swim Framework, as set out by Scottish Swimming.
Swim Wales
The Learn to Swim Wales framework, with its stages already set up.
£20 a month. Plus 40p per swimmer over 50.
The rate you see at 50 swimmers is the rate you see at 500. No tiers. No upsells. No cut of your transactions.
40 pence per swimmer. Not 40 pounds.- Base fee
- £20.00
- 40 swimmers over 50, at 40p
- £16.00
- SEND support
- £0.00
- Cut of what parents pay you
- £0.00
- Total per month
- £36.00
No big-bang switch.
Step 1 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.
Step 2 We import it with you.
Send us your classes, swimmers and families as they are, in a spreadsheet or an export from your current system. We set them up, and you check it all before you've paid anything.
Step 3 Migrate in batches.
Move one class at a time, keep your existing system running in parallel. Nobody is surprised on a Tuesday morning.
Meet Splashy. She's dressed up.
Our mascot, poolside all year round. For October, she's raided the dressing-up box.
Witch
Vampire
Skeleton
Mummy GhostYou run lessons. We run everything else.
No card required · Cancel whenever you like · Your own Stripe account