Roadmap

How deep we're going

Everything below is either working today or plainly marked as not. We plan against the season you actually run — the off-season when there's time to set things up, the opener when you're hiring, and the months the gate is open — because a fiscal quarter on a slide means nothing at a pool.

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1 FT You are here

Already in the water

Everything here works today, and every plan gets all of it — there are no feature tiers. See features for the detail.

Chemistry and compliance

Log readings against the schedule your facility runs, see what's out of range, and keep the record your health inspector asks for.

Shift scheduling

Build a roster from recurring templates and let open shifts fill themselves against availability, position, and who worked last.

Shift swaps and time off

Guards request a swap, the covering guard confirms, and a supervisor signs off — with the whole chain recorded.

Certification tracking

Every guard and instructor credential in one place, with expiration warnings that arrive before the certificate lapses.

Incidents and saves

Record what happened while it's fresh, and keep the incident and rescue history the state expects you to hold.

Courses, classes, and certificates

Run learn-to-swim and certification courses end to end, then issue certificates with your own facility's design.

Maintenance

Recurring checks generate themselves when they come due, and get ticked off as they're done.

Lockers, warranties, and reports

The paperwork around the water — assignments, equipment coverage, and the reports that summarise it.

2 FT The shallow end

This off-season

Two things that need no new hardware and no new habits — they just start showing up where your staff already are.

The week's schedule, emailed out

Next up

Each facility's coming week goes out as an email your staff can read on a phone without logging in. Managers get the whole roster; guards get theirs. Anyone who'd rather not receive it can turn it off.

Text alerts and swap confirmations

Next up

Schedule changes reach the people they affect by text, not by hoping they check the app. Swaps already confirm by reply — the same channel opens up to the rest of the schedule.

  • Shift reminders and schedule changes by text
  • Confirm or decline a swap by replying to the message
  • Open shifts offered to everyone eligible, first to claim takes it
  • Quiet hours, so nobody gets a 4 a.m. roster change
4 FT In your pocket

By the 2027 season

The jobs that happen on the deck belong on the device already in your guard's pocket — a focused app, not the admin dashboard squeezed onto a small screen.

The deck, on your phone

Planned

Four things a guard actually does during a shift, each one screen deep. No sidebar, no tables that scroll sideways, no pinching.

  • Check in when you arrive for your shift
  • Log a chemical reading poolside — one tap per parameter
  • Tick off maintenance tasks as you finish them
  • See today's assignment without hunting for it

Notifications that reach the deck

Planned

When a shift moves, the person it moved for finds out. Push notifications for schedule changes and shift reminders, with the same per-person controls as email and text — including the ability to turn them off.

7 FT Mid-season

During the 2027 season

Events today are classes wearing a different label. They get to be their own thing.

Events with a real calendar

Planned

Swim meets, private rentals, parties, and closures as first-class entries — with their own capacity, their own sign-up, and a calendar you can actually look at instead of a filtered list.

Events that hold the water

Planned

The part that makes it operational rather than a second list: an event reserves the pool. Book a meet and the lanes it needs stop being available to a lesson, and the roster knows the guards it takes to cover it.

11 FT Further out

After the 2027 season

The largest change on this list, and the one furthest out — taking money from the public, not just tracking what you already collected.

Pay by link

Exploring

Generate a link and send it. Someone renting a locker, signing a kid up for lessons, or buying a day pass pays from their phone without creating an account — and the record lands against the locker, the class, or the gate.

Your money, your account

Exploring

Payments go to your facility's own account, not ours to hold and hand back. Card handling runs on Stripe, so the card number never touches Aqua Mage — which is usually the first question a finance office asks.

This is a plan, not a promise — the order changes when facilities tell us it should. If something here matters to you, or the thing you need isn't on the list at all, tell us. That feedback is most of how this page gets rewritten.

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