Visby for schools and programs
Your course. When they plan the trip around it.
Ski and surf schools, climbing and cycling camps, cooking schools, language courses, retreats, group trips and volunteer programs. People using Visby find your program while they plan the trip, and book and pay in the app. You accept or decline. No monthly fee. Visby takes 15% only when someone pays through Visby.
Students who are already planning the trip
- Found while they planIn the app and on the website, next to the place they are going.
- You stay in controlLevels, ages and requirements are yours. Every request is accept or decline.
- $0 to startNo monthly fee. If nobody pays through Visby, there is no charge.
- 15% only when they payAll-in: card processing is included. The other 85% is yours.
What you get
What you pay
No listing fee. You take the request or you don’t.
to start, and no monthly fee.
If nobody pays through Visby, there is no charge.to accept or decline each request.
Visby does not run the course or employ your instructors.A trip built around learning something.
They find your program in Visby while they plan where to go and what to do.
Sample trips. Your program sits with the rest of the trip. You accept or decline.
How it works
From their trip plan to your class list
They are already planning. You take the request or you don’t.
- Step 1
They plan a trip
Where to go, where to stay, and what they want to do there, in the Visby app or on the website.
- Step 2
They find your program
A ski week, a surf camp, a cooking course, a volunteer program: your dates, spots and price.
- Step 3
They book. You accept or decline
Dates and headcount come with the request. Each one is yours to take or not.
- Step 4
You are paid
15% all-in comes out of what they paid through Visby, card processing included. The other 85% is yours. Through the Visby widget on your own site or emails it is 3% plus card processing.
Before, during and after
Every student and every message, in one place
Everyone who books lands in one list, with what they booked and every email and text they got. Reminders and follow-ups send themselves, in your words.
the course: what to bring, where to meet.
Someone who adds your program to their trip and does not book gets a note to finish, in your words.the week: one inbox for the team.
Students write from their trip. Whoever is on shift answers from Visby.the course: reviews and the next level.
A thank-you email, a review text the next morning, and a code to come back for the next course.Why Visby
No listing fee
What a booking looks like next to a listing site.
A listing site
- How they find you
- A search page
- Who takes the request
- The marketplace
- Fee to start
- Often a subscription
- Monthly fee
- Yes
- Reminders and follow-ups
- The site keeps the customer
- When Visby is paid
- Listing fees
A search tab
- How they find you
- They already knew you
- Who takes the request
- An email thread
- Fee to start
- None
- Monthly fee
- None
- Reminders and follow-ups
- Another tool
- When Visby is paid
- None
Visby
- How they find you
- While they plan the trip
- Who takes the request
- You accept or decline
- Fee to start
- None
- Monthly fee
- None
- Reminders and follow-ups
- Built in, to your list
- When Visby is paid
- 15% when they pay
Questions
Questions schools and programs ask
30 minutes with Serena. You can keep selling on other sites.
What kind of programs fit?
Anything people travel to join: ski and snowboard schools, surf, kite, dive and sailing schools, climbing and mountaineering courses, cycling camps, cooking schools and culinary holidays, language courses, retreats, group trips, and volunteer programs run by nonprofits.
Do you run the course?
No. You run it. Visby does not employ your instructors or guides.
What does it cost?
Nothing to start. No monthly fee. Visby takes 15% of what they pay through Visby, all-in: card processing is included. On a €1,000 course you get €850. Bookings through the Visby widget on your own website or emails are 3% plus card processing. If nobody pays through Visby, there is no charge.
Can I set levels, ages or requirements?
Yes. Put them in the listing, and decline any request that is not a fit.
We are a nonprofit. Does this work for volunteer programs?
Yes. You design the program and accept each volunteer. If it is free to join, there is no charge. If it has a fee, Visby takes the same 15% as every partner when it makes the sale.
What are the terms?
Schools and programs sign the Tour Operator Terms: fees, payouts, cancellations and refunds. Read the Tour Operator Terms
Nonprofits: run a volunteer program
Plenty of travelers would give a morning, a weekend or a few weeks of their trip to a good cause, if they knew where to start. You design the program: what volunteers do, the dates, how many spots, your requirements, and a program fee if you charge one. Visby posts it on the website and in the app, travelers sign up and pay in Visby, and you accept or decline each person.
Nothing to pay to start, and no monthly fee. If people join for free, there is no charge. If your program has a fee, Visby takes 15% when it makes the sale, card processing included, the same as every partner, or 3% plus card processing through the Visby sign-up widget on your own site.