5 Tips to Prepare for Your Swim Race Meets

Race meets are an excellent way for swimmers to get some practice in competition. These race meets occur between individual swimmers or organised teams. They're invariably a lot of fun for everyone...

5 Tips to Help Students Set Healthy Life Goals

In today's day and age, people often have a desire to become more fit and healthy. When people think about becoming healthier they usually only think of one aspect - physical health. However, when ...

Feeling Fatigued Already? Here's How to Stop Feeling Tired and Start Excelling Again.

For many entrepreneurs, four months into the year could be one of the most challenging times. You've just started a fresh year with new ideas and new aspirations. Many business owners pour their he...

How To Write a Business Plan: Why You Need It and What You Need To Do

Every business should have a business plan. If you have a small or medium-sized enterprise (e.g. perhaps you run a dance studio or a tutoring school), you might be tempted to skip the business plan...

4 Ways to Make Online Training More Effective for Staff

Staff training is one of the most effective ways to retain talent. Pareto Law, a company in the UK, surveyed recent graduates and found that "they valued progression and training above remuneration...

Beating The COVID Blues: How to Keep Staff Motivated

If there's anything that COVID-19 has taught us, it's how high the mental health impact of a global pandemic can be. The Black Dog Institute in Australia suggests that the COVID-19 pandemic co...

How to Boost Your Productivity by Redesigning Your Workday

The workday for instructional places is frequently different than traditional offices. Firstly, the hours are different. While people tend to sit inside an office for eight hours or more a day...

How to Keep Customers in the Age of COVID: What You Need to Know

With every passing day, it is becoming more and more apparent that COVID-19 is not going away any time soon. Social distancing, wearing masks, learning remotely, and various other changes that...

ThinkSmart Software's integration with AskNicely

Need an intuitive way to source and manage customer feedback? Well, look no further. ThinkSmart Software is now fully integrated with AskNicely. AskNicely helps businesses understand their cust...

Zoom integration is here!

With the release of version 15.5, adding meetings to Zoom has become an automated process. In just a few steps you can setup your account to automatically add Zoom meetings from new classes that ar...

Version 15.5 has just landed with some useful new features!

As we approach the much-anticipated release of Version 16, during this time there has been a great deal work done with both versions 15.5 and 16. Although 15.5 is a minor release, it still has so...

Version 16 is Just Around the Corner!

We’ve been busy adding the finishing touches to our new major release, and it’s looking great. This is one of the best updates to the software we’ve done and includes some enhancements...

3 Tips You Need to Know for Your Business After COVID-19 Passes

With the COVID-19 pandemic still spreading across the world, many small business owners find themselves in a precarious position. In many countries, businesses have been forced to close their...

5 Tips You Need to Know to Keep Happy Customers Through COVID-19

Like most countries across the world, the UK and Australia are facing challenging times due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Lockdowns are dramatically altering customer behaviours, due to both fina...

Can You Improve Your Business During a Pandemic? Yes!

With government lockdowns in full effect (both Australia and the UK have seen closures and restrictions since the end of March), many entrepreneurs are looking for ways to improve their busin...

How to Survive COVID-19: Guide for Businesses

All over the world, businesses have been forced to modify or suspend operations due to COVID-19. Sadly, the worldwide pandemic is still growing, and people are adjusting to this temporary ‘...

A Short Guide to Marketing in a Topsy-turvy World

Have you been required to put your business on hold, or are you moving your business temporarily online? In either situation, it is now more critical than ever to stay visible to your customer...

Choosing the Right Video Conferencing App for Your Business

The restrictions COVID-19 has brought about for Australian businesses have been extremely tough for most. With many businesses having closed up shop to wait out the virus at home. Althou...

New Release - Version 15.4

The planning around this software version was for a few minor features and adjustments in preparation for the anticipated release of the feature-packed version 16 next month. In light of the effect...

Five Reasons Staff Training Is A Worthwhile Investment

As small to medium business owners, you likely know the importance of having help. Employees are more than just a number - they are the assistance and talent you need for your business to thrive. ...

We are SCA Ready!

Version 15.2 has just been released. In this update, we have delivered on the Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) EU requirements. This means for all our EU customers, we are fully prepared and re...

New Release - Version 15.1

Our Version 15.1 is out now and is jam-packed with new features and capabilities! Check them all out in the version history. Included in this release is our new check-in app (for Android tablets)....

What's On 4 Kids 2019 Conference & Awards Night (Australia)

ThinkSmart Software was proud to sponsor the What's On 4 Kids Conference & Awards night. This event brought together a diverse range of children's activity providers. Andrew and Natalie enjoyed...

Social Media Trends 2019

Why Traditional Catchment Zones Are Not Yielding New Customers Like They Used To

In the past, swim schools found a location with a high volume of age-appropriate children, set up shop and their classes soon filled up with children by default. In addition, to the catchment zone ...

New Release - Version 15

We're excited to announce that version 15 has just been released. This version includes our new 'Notifications' feature. Now users can completely automate messages to both customers and staff based...

SEO In Its Simplest Form

Firstly, what does SEO stand for? ‘Stressful Embarrassing Ordeal’ Not quite. To many people, the acronym SEO conjures thoughts of some mystical language that only serious ‘computer nerds’ u...

Ten Reasons To Break Free From Excel; It Is Holding Your Business Back

The future is calling out to you. Obviously, if you are using Excel, you know your way around a computer. Take this knowledge and start using a customised Class Scheduling and Registration software...

Happy Customers = Successful Business

Think about a customer’s interaction with your business from the first touch to the last. First touch points could be social media posts, your website, over the phone or in person, then customers...

New Release - Version 14.1

Version 14.1 has been released and has some handy new features! These new additions are just some of the features we have in store for our customers for 2019. Below is a snapshot of some of these....

Online Advertising Options Glossary Of Terms

Types of Ads Display Ads – Paid advertising in this form is usually comprised of an image and text ad. These consist of banners, landing pages and pop-ups. Search Engine Marketing (SEM) – Eve...

ThinkSmart Software featured on Industry Leaders

Andrew Leigh and the Aussie team featured on the TV show 'Industry Leaders', which aired on Foxtel during October 2018. The segment follows the fascinating story of how ThinkSmart Software began an...

18 Fantastic Ways To Say 'Thank You' To Staff

It’s that time of year. A time for Christmas parties and thank you gifts. What do you think your staff want? More money, cold hard cash, praise, a new title or a new car? Well, they may have to s...

New Release - Version 14

Version 14 has been released and is jam-packed with new features! Our software has taken a big leap, which will accelerate the development of new features being planned for 2019. Here is a small s...

SwimBiz Now Integrates With SwimDesk

If you love SwimDesk then you'll be happy to hear that it now integrates with Australia's favourite swim school management tool - SwimBiz. SwimBiz can directly push across class and student inform...

Version 14 - Coming soon

We are busy working hard at getting version 14 ready. While we apply the final touches to this release, we're asking any supportive customers to contact us who are willing to help test it and get ...

New Release - Version 13.4

The wait is over, version 13.4 has arrived! New features include... The ability to define emails for marketing purposes and allow contacts to unsubscribe. Notification of absences through the ...

New Release - Version 13.3

Version 13.3 is now available and offers a number of features and enhancements. Our users can now display student names on the schedule, access a worktime report summary for their whole company, v...

New Release - Version 13.2

We're excited to announce a new software release - version 13.2. This release now allows our UK customers to integrate in with the direct debiting system GoCardless. There are many more great fea...

ThinkSmart Partners With CDET!

We are thrilled to be one of only a select few partners of this prestigious organisation and cannot wait to get our partnership underway! Since 1979 CDET has provided quality assurance for the pro...

New Release - Version 13

So the update is here: Version 13! After months of hard work here at ThinkSmart it's fair to say we are happy with the results. With 40 plus new features, the new update will help our clients autom...

New Release - Version 12

Happy new year! Just before Christmas we released version 12.0 of our product range. There is a HUGE list of new features in this release which can be checked out in the version history. Amongst t...

SportsBiz & ClassBiz

We're excited to announce that we recently released two new products - SportsBiz and ClassBiz! As part of the SportsBiz release we're running a radio ad on SEN 1116 in Melbourne, Australia. Check ...

New Release - Version 11.1

Our development team have been busy building and testing a long list of updates to the software and we are happy to finally have this update live. Each new update brings about new enhancements and...

New Release - Version 11

With one of our largest updates to date, we are proud to release version 11 into the market. There is something for everyone in this latest update, and we look forward to another major update in t...

New Releases - Version 10.2 & 10.3

We've been so busy that we forgot to put a post up about our previous update. Anyway, version 10.2 and 10.3 were released recently. Some of the main updates were: Aussie users can now integrate ...

New Release - Version 10.1

We released version 10.1 last week that introduced a number of handy features. Among them are: You can now text and email enrollments directly from classes. You can view and edit your email b...

New Release - Version 10

Version 10 has finally been released into the wild. This is one of our biggest updates ever that includes many, many new features and enhancements. A lot of late nights and serious coffee drinking ...

The Source Of Profit Is Out

You may have begun your business after spotting a gap in the market, or simply love what you do. Either way, chances are you’ll spend less time being paid for your work than you would like, and m...

New Release - Version 9.10

Late last week we released a new version. This update saw some new Xero integration features, plus many other minor upgrades. The next major release will be version 10. This will include a lot of ...

Value Your Time

When running a business, there is one resource of which there could always be more: Time. More hours in the day, more time for this one project, more time away from work. Your business pays for you...

New Release - Version 9.9

We recently released version 9.9 which included a new event planner component. (In DanceBiz & MusicBiz it's called a recital planner.) This handy feature allows you to organise events like per...

New Release - Version 9.8

Last week we released version 9.8 of the software which included two handy invoicing features. From now, when auto generating invoices, all new enrollments will create new invoices. Also, individu...

New Release - Version 9.7

We released version 9.7 of the software this week. The main update in this release is the totally revamped online class registration add-on with a cool new interface. If you haven't seen this add-o...

You're Worth More Than Discounts

Whether we're selling a product or service, it’s important to understand the value of our work. Discounts are abundant, offering promises of potential lifelong clients and a surge in profits. We ...

New Release - Version 9.6

We're excited to announce that this week we released version 9.6 of the software. Amongst many other things, the major update here is the attendance tracking packages. This allows you to assign a ...

Keeping Your Customers Happy

It’s simple and straight forward business practice to treat your customers well but this article is going to give you some solid statistics on why. These are our favourite four stats: 97% of c...

Welcome!

Welcome to ThinkSmart Software’s™ new blog. This blog will be used to deliver news to our customers about the latest software releases, and also as a forum for us to publish interesting article...