📝 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.
