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Keep your website, run the shop on DiveDesk

Your current site stays exactly as it is. DiveDesk runs students, classes, waivers, the register and the customer portal behind it — linked from your menu or on book.yourshop.com.

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Plenty of shops like the website they have. You do not have to move it. DiveDesk gives you a set of pages at yourshop.divedesk.io — course pages with enrollment, the class calendar, the gear shop, waivers and the customer portal — and everything behind them: rosters, training records, certifications, POS, inventory, finance. Your site links to those pages and keeps doing everything else.

What lives where

  • Your website: the home page, about, blog, photos, SEO — unchanged.
  • DiveDesk pages: /courses (each course with a price and an Enroll button), /calendar (upcoming classes with open spots), /gear/shop (the shop, if you list products), /portal (where students sign in, see what is next and upload paperwork).
  • DiveDesk admin: everything staff touch. Contacts, In Training, class day, certifications, waivers, POS Register, inventory, finance, QuickBooks.

Set it up

  1. Change the temporary password, set your time zone and sales tax, connect Stripe. The setup checklist on the dashboard walks these in order.
  2. Add the courses you teach from Course Templates, fix the prices, tick Active. A course is not on your DiveDesk pages until it is Active.
  3. Post your next classes so the calendar has something on it.
  4. On your website, add two menu links: "Book a class" to https://yourshop.divedesk.io/courses and "Student login" to https://yourshop.divedesk.io/portal. Change any existing "Book now" button to the course page it belongs to — every course has a Copy link button in the admin.
  5. Optional: put those pages on your own name. Under Settings → Custom Domain save book.yourshop.com, add the one CNAME record it shows you, verify. Then the links on your site read book.yourshop.com/courses instead. See Use your own domain.

Students who never touch the website

Walk-ins and phone bookings work the same way as before, just in DiveDesk. Ring them up on the POS Register or add them to a class roster from Contacts; the confirmation email, waiver link and portal invitation go out on their own. The website is one door in, not the only one.

TipSelling gear on your DiveDesk pages is optional. Every product has a List this product on the public website storefront switch; leave it off and the register still sells it in person.
CarefulDo not point your bare domain (yourshop.com) at DiveDesk while your website still lives there — that replaces the site. A subdomain leaves it alone.

Something here is wrong or missing? Email hello@divedesk.io.