Know When Your Facility Schedule Changes Before It Creates Chaos

Your facility changes. HQPodium finds the impact.

A freestyle session disappears. Ice moves by thirty minutes. A facility closes. A tournament changes the week. The hard part is not noticing that a schedule changed; it is determining what that change means to the academy.

• Automatically capture supported published facility schedules.
• Refresh supported facility schedule data every 30 minutes.
• Compare current schedule information with prior captures.
• Detect additions, removals and time or availability changes represented by the source.
• Identify academy lessons affected by a facility schedule change.
• Surface weekly facility availability and open-slot information.
• Notify the appropriate coaches and support family communication when action is required.

From facility change to lesson impact

1. The facility publishes its schedule.
2. HQPodium captures the supported schedule automatically.
3. The new capture is compared with prior schedule information.
4. HQPodium identifies what changed.
5. Booked academy lessons are checked against the change.
6. Affected lessons are surfaced for the appropriate coach or administrator.
7. The academy can respond and communicate with affected families.

The operational question is not simply “did the rink calendar change?” It is “which of my actual lessons does this change affect?” HQPodium is designed to answer the second question.

Ask HQPodium what changed

Facility intelligence is available through Talk to AI for authorized users. An owner or administrator can speak or type a request in plain language instead of navigating a separate report.

• “What changed at the rink this week?”
• “Did anything change tomorrow morning?”
• “Which lessons are affected by the new rink schedule?”
• “Show me this week’s facility availability.”
• “Where do I have an open slot?”

See how Talk to AI turns academy data into answers and actions.

Supported DaySmart and Bond Sports schedule sources

HQPodium currently supports automatic facility-schedule capture from supported rink schedules published through DaySmart Recreation and Bond Sports. These capabilities read published schedule sources used by the academy; they do not imply an official certification, endorsement or partnership with either provider.

Learn about DaySmart rink schedule intelligence.

Learn about Bond Sports rink schedule intelligence.

Built from a real figure-skating problem

Figure-skating academies frequently coach inside independently operated rinks. The academy may not control the master ice schedule, but its coaches still need to know when freestyle changes, whether booked lessons still have valid ice and which families need to be contacted.

Ziegler Skating Academy uses HQPodium across multiple facilities to manage skating lessons and facility-schedule changes without requiring the academy to operate the rink itself.

Explore figure skating academy software built around lessons and changing ice.

The facility remains the facility. HQPodium runs the academy.

HQPodium does not need to operate the rink, court, field, pool, gym or training facility in order to manage the academy activity taking place there. It connects coaches, athletes, lessons, families, payments, communications and supported facility availability inside the academy operating system.