Black Sand Box
A surf school on São Miguel. Booked direct. Paid direct.
About
Black Sand Box sells its surf lessons on Airbnb and GetYourGuide, and both take a cut of every booking. We built a site that sells the lessons directly, a booking flow that takes the payment, and a backoffice to run the day, with no monthly fee for any of it.
18–30% of every booking back from the platforms
€0 monthly fees
3 languages: EN, PT, DE
The problem
Every booking paid someone else first.
Through the platforms
- A commission on every lesson sold
- The customer belongs to the platform
- Their listing, their rules
Direct, on their own site
- Only Stripe’s card fees, instead of the platforms’ 18–30% commission
- No monthly fee for the site or the backoffice
- Payments land in their own Stripe account
- Their customers, their emails, their data
Booking
Pick a pack, a day, a wave.
- 01 Package One lesson, or packs of three and five.
- 02 Surfers How many are coming.
- 03 Day and time Session times can follow the tide, from our own tide model.
- 04 Pay A deposit or the whole thing.
Website
Learn. Surf. Repeat.
Lessons for every level, board and wetsuit rentals, the Longboard Project, a gallery. In English, Portuguese and German, for the visitors who actually come.
Backoffice
The whole day on one screen.
Everything the school does in a day, in one place, including the website’s own texts and photos.
- 01 Revenue and a sessions calendar
- 02 Customers and their history
- 03 Refunds by Stripe or by hand
- 04 No-shows, alerts, CSV exports
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