Getting started with Academy

Discuss yourAcademy setup.

Tell us what your organization needs from Academy. Contakt replies by email with the setup requirements.

Sending a request commits you to nothing, and nothing is bought.

Your first message

A few lines are enough. Every field is optional.

This opens your email app. You review and send the message there. Nothing you type is submitted or saved by this website.

Or write directly to hello@contaktacademy.com

If your email app does not open

Subject: A request for help from Contakt

Please leave out member lists, details about individual children, bank details and passwords.

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The first conversation

What happens after you email us.

  1. Start with your situation

    Describe what you run and what you want to improve. Leave out any details you do not know yet.

  2. Contakt checks the fit

    A person replies by email with the requirements that apply to your organization. We suggest a call when one is needed.

Setup, migration and training are discussed after the fit is clear. Their scope is not settled yet; sending this message buys or books nothing.

Before you plan a move.

Check the current setup requirements for your organization.

Starting your own workspace

Academy Start is not open yet. When it opens, a tennis club in the Netherlands with one location can create its own workspace.

Start your clubComing soon

Setting up with Contakt

  • For program providers, padel clubs, organizations outside the Netherlands and clubs with more than one location, Contakt creates the workspace for now.
  • A program that teaches only at other people's sites cannot be set up yet. Ask, and we tell you where it stands.

Bringing your records across

There is no file import. People and households are added in batches, typed or pasted in by an owner of the account. Classes, coaches and memberships are entered by hand. Sign-ins and passwords are not carried over.

Help from Contakt

Managed gives your organization a named Contakt contact for monthly product help.

What Managed includes for getting started (setting up, moving records, training) is still being decided.

More context, if we need it

You do not need to answer this checklist to contact us. These are the detailed setup questions we may work through if the conversation continues.

You

  • Kind of organization

    Pick oneA clubA program providerA bit of bothNot sure yet

    It decides which words we use when we reply: courts or spaces, coaches or instructors.

  • Organization name

    Short text

    So we know who is asking.

Where

  • Country

    Pick oneThe NetherlandsAnother country (Which country?)

    Academy is set up for the Netherlands first. For another country we check what is needed.

  • Sport or activity

    Pick any that applyTennisPadelSomething else (Which sport or activity?)

    Academy is set up for tennis first. For padel or something else we check the fit.

  • Where it happens

    Pick any that applyAt a place we run ourselvesAt schoolsAt other places we rent or borrow

    A place of your own brings courts, memberships and a front desk into the picture. Teaching at other places leaves them out.

  • Places you run

    Pick oneOne placeMore than one

    Asked only when you run a place of your own.

What you run

  • Pick any that applyGroup lessons or classesPrivate lessonsCamps or holiday programsEvents or tournamentsMembershipsMembers book courts themselvesShop or front-desk salesPeople pay us online, or we want thatSomething else (What else?)

    We only ask about what you run. Memberships, members booking courts and shop or front-desk sales are asked only of an organization with a place of its own.

Who

  • People taking part

    A rough numberNot sure yet

    A rough size tells us how much there is to set up.

  • Children take part

    Pick oneYesNo

    With children come parents, households and consent.

  • Your team

    Pick any that applyJust meCoaches or instructors (Roughly how many?)Office or desk staffNot sure yet

    It tells us who needs an account and who may want training.

Help and timing

  • Help you would like

    Pick any that applySetting upMoving our records acrossTraining our teamA direct line to Contakt once we are runningNot sure yet

    We reply about the help you ask for.

  • When you want to start

    Pick oneAs soon as we canBefore a season or term (Which month?)No date yet, we are looking around

    It tells us what to send you first.

Reply to

  • Your email

    Our reply goes here. It is the last thing we ask.

Keep the first message about your organization.

We do not need member records, personal information about children, passwords, bank details or files to discuss the fit.