# bindro — Dive shops and certification

> bindro sells dive courses and guided dives with the medical questionnaire, the signed RSTC statement and the liability waiver collected before any money moves. With application review on, no payment intent exists until a human has read the declaration and the uploaded statement. A diver who declares a condition raises a physician-clearance requirement automatically and is refused at check-in until the centre signs it off, though bindro never judges anybody’s fitness to dive. Places are held per session, rental kit is sold by size with real stock, and a ten-dive pack is drawn down one dive at a time. bindro is not PADI or SSI: it issues no certification and sends nothing to either agency.

Canonical page: https://bindro.io/vertical/dive-course-booking/
Reviewed: 2026-08-09

## Facts
- Inventory model: session series.
- Pricing models: flat, class pack.
- Fees: 2.5% + $0.99 per paid place; free courses cost nothing.
- Payouts: one payout per event, released 2 days after that event's LAST session has ended (medium risk tier, 12% reserve). Never before delivery, and a course sold as a run of dates pays out once, after the final date.
- Check-in: name list, works offline. Visitors can come back in: a scan after they were admitted reads as a re-entry rather than a used code, at whichever entrance they come back to, and says when they first arrived. A second scan within a few minutes of the first is still read as the same code presented twice, so a screenshot passed down the queue does not get anybody in. The visit is counted once however often it is scanned.
- Joining: free, alone, in minutes. No contract, no monthly fee and no card at signup. A payout destination is verified before the first payout, never before the first sale.
- Booking fee default: the diver pays it. A dive centre can absorb it or split it per course; the fee itself does not change with the choice, only which side of the sale it comes from.
- Overselling is structurally impossible: inventory moves only under a row lock inside the transaction that confirms the order, with a database constraint behind that as a backstop rather than as the mechanism.
- The number this vertical is run on: Certifications issued. Also tracked: medical-gate drop-off, course completion rate, equipment attach rate. The console computes the north-star figure and prints the arithmetic under it, beside this dive centre's own funnel with the drop-off at each stage, where the traffic came from, refund, transfer, turnout, no-show, add-on and repeat rates each shown with its numerator and denominator, gross, fees and refunds per course, live remaining capacity during the course, and CSV exports of orders and divers. A step the platform cannot observe says so rather than reporting a zero.
- Data export: orders and divers as CSV from the console at any time, behind a fresh one-time code. No export fee, no notice period, no lock-in.
- Required before checkout, enforced on the money path: Scuba diving liability waiver; Medical fitness declaration; Parent/guardian consent for divers under 18.

## Not supported for this vertical
- No PADI, SSI, RAID or NAUI integration — bindro issues no certification, no eLearning code and no digital card, and transmits nothing to any agency.
- No assessment of a medical answer: bindro decides only whether a physician’s countersignature is required, never whether a diver is fit to dive, and the clearance queue names the declaration rather than the condition. Judging the countersigned statement, and the sign-off that lifts the door refusal, are the centre’s.
- No club or buddy roster. Several places go on one order and the booker answers for each diver, but there is no invitation link that lets a buddy fill in their own medical form.
- No club, school or group rate — the checkout cannot price a place differently because several were bought together.
- No rescheduling a diver onto another course date. A blown-out dive is refunded and rebooked; bindro cannot move a place from one session to another.
- No photo or video delivery to divers after the course.
- No live roster at sea. The door works with the network off, but the copy your crew carries is as fresh as its last sync: a place sold ashore after you cast off is not on it, and it catches up when you are back in coverage.
- No sales tax added at checkout and no tax report — the price a diver sees is the price that is charged.
- No waitlist on a full course. A full course says "Course full" and takes no names.
- No automatic collection of the balance of a plan. You publish the deposit, the number of charges and the interval on the ticket type and the deposit is taken at checkout; bindro never charges the stored card for the rest of it, because it does not bill a card with nobody present. Collect the balance the way you collect anything else.
- No handing a place to another diver. A diver who cannot come is refunded, and the place does not return to sale by itself — raise the session’s capacity by one to resell it.
- A diver’s medical answers are anonymised twelve months after their last course, well inside the seven years the signed waiver record is kept. Keep your own copy if your insurer wants the questionnaire itself years later.
- No dive log, no equipment servicing history, no air-fill or cylinder testing records, no retail till and no rental asset tracking — bindro sells the place, it does not run the shop.

## Questions the landing page answers
- What does it take to get an Open Water course on sale this afternoon?
- Does bindro make my centre a PADI or SSI system?
- What happens to a diver’s medical answers, and how long do they last?
- What should a dive centre check before moving its bookings across?
  https://bindro.io/vertical/dive-course-booking/

## Pages
- FAQ (28 questions): https://bindro.io/vertical/dive-course-booking/faq/
- bindro vs DiveShop360: https://bindro.io/vertical/dive-course-booking/compare/diveshop360/ (reviewed 2026-08-09)
- bindro vs Checkfront: https://bindro.io/vertical/dive-course-booking/compare/checkfront/ (reviewed 2026-08-09)
- bindro vs Peek: https://bindro.io/vertical/dive-course-booking/compare/peek/ (reviewed 2026-08-09)
- Gating a dive course on the medical form, not on trust: https://bindro.io/vertical/dive-course-booking/blog/gating-a-dive-course-on-the-medical-form/ (reviewed 2026-08-09)
- Selling an Open Water course that runs over four days: https://bindro.io/vertical/dive-course-booking/blog/selling-an-open-water-course-that-runs-over-four-days/ (reviewed 2026-08-09)
- Renting kit in the right size, at the moment the place is booked: https://bindro.io/vertical/dive-course-booking/blog/renting-kit-in-the-right-size-with-the-place/ (reviewed 2026-08-09)
- Deposits, instalments and the day the boat cannot sail: https://bindro.io/vertical/dive-course-booking/blog/deposits-instalments-and-the-day-the-boat-cannot-sail/ (reviewed 2026-08-09)
- Checking divers in on the dock, and what to do about the boat: https://bindro.io/vertical/dive-course-booking/blog/checking-divers-in-on-the-dock-and-on-the-boat/ (reviewed 2026-08-09)