UsesSurf schools
Every other business on this site picks when its information changes. You don't. The tide runs on a lunar day, so it arrives roughly fifty minutes later than yesterday, every day — and the lesson times move with it. A printed flyer is wrong by Wednesday. The board gets rewritten at dawn by whoever opened. A tab opens the times you set this morning, from wherever you set them.
~50 min/dayhow far the tide walks, every day
Hotels tooa tab at their desk, pointing at you
₡0a month, and every morning's change is free
One week, seven answers
You set the destination when you open, from your phone, and doing it costs nothing — which is the only reason doing it daily is reasonable. A week can look like this:
Mon
6:40 · 9:10
Low tide early. Two beginner slots before the wind comes up.
Tue
7:30 · 10:00
Fifty minutes later than yesterday, like every day.
Wed
8:20 · 10:50
The board on the wall still says 6:40. Nobody has rewritten it.
Thu
9:10 · 11:40
A guest checks the tab at breakfast and shows up at the right hour.
Fri
10:00 · 12:30
Swell picked up: beginners moved to the inside, and the page says so.
Sat
Full — waitlist
The destination goes to the waitlist form instead of the schedule.
Sun
11:40 · 2:10 p.m.
Afternoon session. The printed flyer promised mornings.
To say it plainly: the tab doesn't read a tide chart and doesn't update itself. You decide the times and you change the page. What's unusual is that changing it every single morning for three years costs exactly what changing it once costs, which is nothing.
Where the pieces go
Your students are asleep in somebody else's hotel right now. Each tab is programmed on its own, so the ones you leave around town can each say something written for where they're standing.
A guest asks about surf lessons at the desk and gets handed a phone-shaped answer instead of a phone number. The page can be written for that hotel — pickup time from their door, their rate if you have one — and repointed the day the deal changes.
The one on the counter of the place everyone has breakfast at, pointing at this morning's times. The decision to take a lesson gets made over coffee, about an hour before the session you want them in.
Today's schedule, the waiver, what to bring, and the board rental prices. The walk-in who came to ask a question reads the answer while you're finishing with someone else.
Pointing at your review page. Somebody who just stood up on a wave for the first time, on the ride back, with their phone already out — there's no better moment and there never will be.
The piece
It lives on a counter near the beach, gets handled with wet hands and wiped with whatever is nearby. It's built to take that for years — and it isn't a marine product, which is worth saying out loud.
Sealed print on acrylic, so it doesn't warp, lift or cloud the way a laminated card does after one green season. Keep it on the counter rather than in the sand and it outlasts the flyers by years.
Pieces spread around town go missing more than pieces bolted to your own counter. Every 12 tabs comes with one programmed spare, so replacing one doesn't mean a new order.
A chip that won't read, lifted printing or a bad cut: replaced at no cost, and the replacement carries the same code — so the hotel it was standing in never notices.
What everyone asks
No, and we wouldn't claim it does. The tab opens a web address you control. What makes it useful is that you can change that address, or the page behind it, every morning at no cost and with no limit — which is what a schedule driven by the tide actually needs.
That's the best thing to do with them. Each tab is programmed on its own, so the ones at a hotel front desk can point at a page written for their guests while the one at your shop points at today's times. And when the hotel changes, the tab doesn't — you repoint it.
You point the tabs at your waitlist or your booking page instead of the schedule. It takes ten seconds and it costs nothing, so it's worth doing for a single Saturday.
It's acrylic, sealed print, no paper. Salt air, wet hands, sand on the counter — it wipes down. It isn't a marine-grade product and we won't pretend otherwise, so keep it off the sand itself; it comes with 90 days of warranty either way.
No app. They hold their phone near it and it opens in the browser, and the QR printed on the same piece covers any phone without NFC. They do need a connection — at a shop or a hotel desk, wifi is usually the answer.
Delivery is in person inside the GAM and arranged case by case outside it. Ask — a good share of what we make goes to the coast, and this is exactly the trade it was worth building the English pages for.
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Let's talk
Tell us how many you want on your own counter and how many places around town you would leave one, and we'll price it out for your count and your format. We answer on WhatsApp.
+506 7214 1615
Every 12 tabs comes with one programmed spare — the one that goes back to the hotel desk the week theirs disappears.