Get your school set up

After you create your school, the Dashboard shows a card called Get your school set up. It lists what is left to do and ticks each step off by itself as your school's data changes. Each step links to the page where you do it.

The card is shown to school owners and administrators. It goes away when every step is done, or when you choose Dismiss.

Add your aircraft

1. Open Fleet in the sidebar.
2. Choose Add Aircraft.
3. Fill in the form. Tail Number, Make, Model, Year, Category / Class and Total Hours are required, and so is Location when your school has locations. If you are allowed to set rates, Hourly Rate ($) is required too. Anyone else sees that field as "Set by a billing admin".
4. Choose Add Aircraft at the bottom of the form.

If you don't see Add Aircraft, your role can't add aircraft.

Add your instructors and students

1. Open People in the sidebar.
2. Choose Add Member.
3. Enter the person's Email Address.
4. Under Role Assignments, pick a role, for example Flight Instructor or Student Pilot.
5. Choose Add Member.

Aerial emails the person an invitation. They join your school once they accept it, and the checklist counts them from then on. For more on invitations, see Invite people to your school.

Set your aircraft rates

This step appears only when your school has student billing turned on and you are allowed to set rates. If you entered Hourly Rate ($) when you added the aircraft, that is already a rate. To set or change one later:

1. Open Fleet and click the aircraft.
2. In the Rate history section, choose Set rate.
3. Enter the hourly rate and choose Set rate.

The step is ticked once at least one aircraft has a rate above zero.

Connect Stripe payouts

This step appears only when your school has student billing turned on and you are allowed to manage payouts.

1. Open Billing in the sidebar.
2. In the Payouts card, choose Set up payouts. If you already started, the button says Continue setup.
3. Finish the steps on Stripe's own page.

Until payouts are active, you can't invoice students. The checklist ticks this step once Stripe reports your account is ready.