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About
Yagga is a family-run nautical base on the French coast offering an exceptional range of watersports under one roof — catamaran sailing, surfing, windsurfing, wingfoiling, and Optimist dinghies for kids. Driven by a tight-knit, passionate team, the school is built around one idea: making watersports accessible to everyone, whatever their age or level.
Running that many activities from a single beachfront base is rewarding — and relentless. With a constant flow of clients across half a dozen disciplines, every product, session, and instructor has to line up perfectly, day after day.
The Problem
Before Bloowatch, Yagga ran everything the old-fashioned way: one paper notebook per activity, a wall calendar, and everything written by hand. With the volume of clients passing through, it was hugely complicated — and there was no online booking at all. Nothing was easy to read, and nothing lived in one place.
Managing availability alone was an enormous time sink: checking slots, editing each session individually, and going back and forth with support. It led to scheduling errors, slow and painful payment tracking, and no reliable day-level overview of the planning. Payments were taken at the club, and there was no way to send clients a clean confirmation email with everything they needed.
“With a notebook for every activity and everything written by hand, it was almost impossible to get a clear, reliable view of a single day.”
The Solution
Yagga chose Bloowatch for three reasons: 24/7 online booking, payment links to secure reservations and avoid no-shows, and a planning system built for the specifics of a multi-activity base. Adoption was progressive — over several years, more and more of the operation moved onto the platform.
Today, the team leans on calendar drag-and-drop scheduling, deposit and balance payment links, and integrations that connect payments and accounting. This year is Yagga’s first running online bookings through its new website, with Bloowatch built in — and the early numbers and customer feedback are promising.
“We now manage almost everything through Bloowatch — and this year, bookings come in automatically, without us lifting a finger.”
What Actually Changed
The difference is felt every day. There’s less stress at the desk, scheduling is far more efficient, and for the first time there’s a true global view of the whole operation. Clients receive clear, complete information automatically, front-desk mistakes have dropped sharply, and tracking a booking is finally simple.
Just as importantly, payments moved forward in the process — where almost everything used to be settled on-site, the majority of lessons are now paid in advance. And every booking quietly builds a customer database that Yagga is only beginning to put to work.
Conclusion
For a base juggling catamaran, surf, windsurf, wingfoil, and kids’ sailing, centralizing everything in one platform has been transformative. Bloowatch freed up an estimated 6 hours per week in peak season and contributed to an overall estimated sales impact of 45% — while making the whole operation feel more professional to customers.
Yagga’s story is a reminder that the more activities you run, the more you gain from having them all in one place. With its customer database growing and online bookings flowing in automatically, the team is just getting started.
