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Sawyerspeak Terminology

This article serves as a quick-reference glossary for the key terms you'll encounter when using Sawyer.

Written by Shaney Thrasher

📝 Overview

Every platform has its own language, and Sawyer is no exception. This article serves as a quick-reference glossary for the key terms you'll encounter when using Sawyer


📖 Sawyerspeak Glossary:

🎭 Activity

  • The class, camp, or program you offer for customers to book.

📅 Appointment

  • A type of activity designed for 1:1 bookings. It’s always one instructor + one student. Each time slot is booked individually. On your calendar, appointments show with a capacity of one.

📕 Booking

  • A single reserved spot for a student in an activity or appointment.

🏕️ Camps/Events

  • An activity that happens on consecutive days (like a summer camp that runs Monday through Friday) or a one-off event (like a single-day holiday camp).

👧 Drop-in

  • Purchasable single-day of class

📍 Instance

  • instance” is a single scheduled date and time for an activity (like one class date in a multi-week series). So if you have a class that meets every Tuesday for 6 weeks, each Tuesday is its own instance.

🏬 Marketplace

  • A place for families to find and register for classes offered by Sawyer providers.

🏫 Provider

  • An organization (usually a small business but sometimes a non-profit, a school, or a private tutor) that runs out-of-school-time activities for children

📃 Rush Registration

  • Rush registration is a short, high-demand window when you open registration for an event, camp, or activity and lots of customers try to sign up at the same time (like a “Black Friday” traffic surge).

👨‍💻 Sawyer for Business

  • Sawyer for Business is our all-in-one software for children’s activity businesses to run scheduling, payments, and customer relationships in one place.

📅 Schedule

  • The time frame you set up (like a Semester or Camp/Event) that defines the range of dates your program runs.

🎮 Scheduled Activity

  • The specific class or session that lives inside that schedule (for example, “Monday 4pm” within a Semester). It’s the actual thing that shows up on your Upcoming calendar and can have bookings.

📆 Semesters

  • A semester is a set date range you create for weekly, repeating activities.

⚙️ Widget

  • The registration interface that gets embedded into providers’ websites so customers can sign up

🏷️ Widget Tags

  • A label you add to scheduled activities so you can show only those activities in a specific widget on your website.

    Example: tag all adult classes with “adults,” then embed a widget that only displays activities with that tag.

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