When to use it
Class types let you set a rule once for a whole program instead of on every class. Group classes the way you run them - “Vinyasa”, “Reformer Pilates”, “BJJ Fundamentals”, “Padel clinic” - and each new class inherits its type’s behavior. Typical uses:- Kids and adult classes side by side - a tennis gym tags “Kids Tennis” as Kids and Beginner and “Tennis Squad” as Juniors and Intermediate. Parents see who each class is for on the schedule, and someone searching 1club.me for “kids tennis” finds the gym.
- Belts that count the right classes - a jiu-jitsu academy links “BJJ Fundamentals” and “Advanced BJJ” to its adult belt track, so a strength class no longer moves anyone toward their next belt.
- A martial-arts school with program strands - “BJJ Fundamentals”, “Advanced BJJ”, and “Kids Muay Thai”, where an empty weekday session cancels itself 2 hours ahead and frees the coach.
- Padel clinics that allow groups - a member books a spot for themselves and three friends in one booking, and clinics get their own cancellation window through a booking policy.
- Studio classes with their own revenue line - “Reformer Pilates” books to its own revenue account, so equipment-class income is split from mat classes for tax and reporting, without changing how members book.
How class types are used
- Creating a class - you pick a class type in the class dialog; the type’s rules then govern that class.
- Party bookings - the type’s Max party size caps how many seats a member can book in one go (see Classes).
- Booking policies - scope a booking policy to a class type to give it its own payment and cancellation rules.
- Auto-cancellation - the zero-attendance rule runs on the type, so every class of that type inherits it.
- Schedules and search - the type’s age group and difficulty show under each class on your schedules and can filter them, and they let people find your gym on 1club.me (see Age group and difficulty).
- Progression - the type’s Counts toward track decides which sessions count toward a member’s next level (see Counting toward a progression track).
Managing class types
The list at Settings > Clubs > Class Types shows one row per type with its name, its sport, the track it counts toward, whether it allows multi-day, its description, and its max party size. Use Add class type to create one, the row menu to edit, and delete to remove a type that’s no longer used.Fields
- Name - required. Shown when creating a class and on the class detail chip.
- Description - optional, for your own reference.
- Sport - optional. New classes of this type start with this sport, so you don’t pick it on every class. A class can still be set to another sport.
- Age group - optional. Who the class is for: Infants, Kids, Juniors, Adults, Seniors, or All ages. See Age group and difficulty.
- Difficulty - optional. Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, or All levels.
- Counts toward - optional. The progression track sessions of this type count toward. Leave it at No track if the class trains for no belt or level. See Counting toward a progression track.
- Allow multi-day - when on, classes of this type can start on one day and end on another. Off by default.
- Cancel if attendance is zero - when on, a class of this type is automatically cancelled if it has no bookings by a set number of hours in advance of its start. Use it to avoid running empty sessions and to notify the assigned instructor early.
- Max party size - the most seats one member can reserve for a single class of this type, including themselves. Defaults to 1, which turns party bookings off. Raise it to let members bring guests.
- Revenue account - the account class income books to. See Transactions for how revenue is recorded.
- Default assessment template - the assessment template a score card on a class of this type starts on. Only active templates are offered; leave it at None to let the instructor pick. Shown once your organization has at least one template.
Age group and difficulty
The age group and difficulty describe who a class is for. Members see them under each class name on your schedule - on 1club.me, in the member portal, and on your website - and on the Book a session list on your gym’s 1club.me page, for example “Juniors · Intermediate”. A label the class name already says is left out, so “Kids Tennis” shows only “Beginner” rather than “Kids · Beginner”. The age groups are fixed bands, the same ones the Age smart tags start from:
They also work as filters:
- On your schedule - the Filters menu offers Age group and Level sections, listing only the values your classes carry.
- On 1club.me search - people can search for “kids tennis” or “advanced jiu jitsu”, or pick an Age group and Level in the search filters. A gym matches only through an upcoming public class whose type has that age group or difficulty, and that is of the searched sport. A class type with no age group set doesn’t match an age group search. Opening a gym from those results shows its schedule already narrowed to the matching classes.
- For AI assistants - the
search_clubstool on the discovery MCP server takes the same age group and level.
Counting toward a progression track
Counts toward decides which sessions move a member toward their next level on a progression track.- A track with no class types linked counts every session - a check-in or a completed booking of any kind. This is how every track starts.
- Once any class type is linked, only sessions of the linked types count toward that track. Link “BJJ Fundamentals” and “Advanced BJJ” to “Adult BJJ Belts”, and a strength class or an open mat of another type stops counting toward a belt.
- Linking or unlinking a type recounts everyone on the track. Counts are worked out from attendance, not stored, so a member’s “13 / 20 sessions” can change the moment you save. Check the counts before a grading if you have just changed the links.
- Bookings that are not a class seat - a private lesson or a court booking - don’t count toward a track that has class types linked, because only a class has a type. Leave the track unlinked if 1:1 lessons should count.
Worked examples
Kids and adult tennis
Create “Kids Tennis” with Sport tennis, Age group Kids, and Difficulty Beginner, and “Tennis Squad” with Age group Juniors and Difficulty Intermediate. Every class of those types shows its age group and level on your schedule, parents can filter the schedule to Kids, and your gym appears when someone searches 1club.me for “kids tennis”.Belts that count only the classes that train for them
Enable or create an “Adult BJJ Belts” track, then set Counts toward to it on “BJJ Fundamentals” and “Advanced BJJ”. Set “Kids BJJ” to count toward your kids belt track instead. Leave “Strength & Conditioning” at No track. Each student’s session count now reflects only the classes that prepare them for their next belt.Martial arts program with belt levels
Create class types for each program strand - “BJJ Fundamentals”, “Advanced BJJ”, “Kids Muay Thai” - and set each one’s Age group and Difficulty. Turn on Cancel if attendance is zero (say 2 hours in advance) so an empty weekday session cancels itself and frees the coach. Keep Max party size at 1 for adult classes.Padel clinics that allow groups
Create a “Padel clinic” type with Max party size set to 4 so a member can book a spot for themselves and three friends in one booking. Scope a booking policy to this type if clinics need a different cancellation window than open court time.Studio classes with their own revenue line
Give “Reformer Pilates” its own Revenue account so equipment-class income reports separately from mat classes, without changing how members book.Tips & best practices
- Set up class types before creating classes. The type controls the sport, party size, auto-cancel, and the revenue account, so classes inherit the right behavior from the start.
- Set an age group on every type that has one. An untagged type never matches an age group search on 1club.me, so a kids class with no age group is invisible to parents searching for one.
- Link every type that trains for a track, or none. Once one type counts toward a track, sessions of an unlinked type stop counting toward it.
- Use auto-cancel to protect instructor time, but set the hours-in-advance long enough that members still have a fair chance to book.
- Match party size to the activity. Court-based and social classes benefit from a higher party size; skill or safety-limited classes usually stay at 1.
- Give distinct programs distinct revenue accounts if your accounting needs class income split out.
Troubleshooting
Issue: Members can’t book more than one seat in a class. Solution: The class type’s Max party size is 1. Raise it on the type under Settings > Clubs > Class Types. Issue: A class cancelled itself unexpectedly. Solution: Its class type has Cancel if attendance is zero on, and no one had booked by the cutoff. Turn it off for that type, or lengthen the hours-in-advance. Issue: My gym doesn’t show up on 1club.me when someone searches for “kids tennis”. Solution: Set Age group to Kids on the class type, and check the gym has an upcoming class of that type that is public and set to tennis (the class’s own sport, or the type’s sport when the class has none). Issue: A member’s session count dropped after I edited a class type. Solution: You linked a class type to their track under Counts toward. Only sessions of linked types count from then on. Link every class type that trains for that track, or set them all back to No track to count every session again. Issue: I can’t set a class to span two days. Solution: Turn on Allow multi-day for its class type first.Related
- Classes - Where class types are assigned and party bookings happen.
- Booking policies - Scope payment and cancellation rules to a class type.
- Progression tracks - The tracks a class type’s sessions count toward.
- Smart tagging - The Age tags use the same age bands as class types.
- Transactions - How the revenue account records class income.