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The initial setup

The initial setup is the screen that turns a fresh site into a usable one. It creates the starter content for you: all that is left is to replace it with your own. It is the second thing to do, after filling in the general settings — because the site name and the contact email are reused in the generated content.

The site assessment

The screen is split into sections, from the most structural to the least urgent — studio information, visual identity, navigation, pages, offer and schedule, payments, emails. Each section first shows what is already in place, then, right underneath, the tick box that generates what is missing: the status and the action sit in the same place, on the same line.

A green marker flags what is done, an orange one what is left, and a progress bar at the top of the page sums it all up. Sections that are fully configured fold away on their own: what stays visible is what is left to do. Clicking a section title opens it back up.

Some rows cannot be generated — the company name, the phone number, the Stripe keys. The arrow at the end of the row opens the exact screen where you fill them in.

What can be generated

Each item is ticked independently: generate everything at once, or only what you are missing. The "Select what is missing" button ticks everything the assessment reports as absent in one go — the shortcut to use on a fresh site.

  • Visual identity — a default icon for the favicon, the logo and the app icon, never overwriting an image you already uploaded.
  • Top menu and footer — the navigation bar and the columns of links.
  • Home page, contact page (with its form) and legal pages (terms and conditions, privacy policy), written from your company name.
  • Coaching and activities — demo coaches, categories and activities, to rename or delete.
  • Sample products — a few shop products with their media and variants.
  • Demo planning — a repeating weekly timetable, fictional customers with credits, past sessions and bookings. Generate it on a demonstration site, never on a live studio: you would see customers appear that are not yours.
  • Email templates — the branded templates for bookings, orders, subscriptions and the newsletter. Do not skip this one: without templates, your emails go out with neither your logo nor your colors.

The demo planning is the exception to the "Recreate" mode: a session already there carries your customers’ bookings and the credits they spent, so the generation only adds what is missing and never deletes anything. The fictional customers receive no email at all: their address does not exist.

The two modes

As soon as an item is ticked, a bar appears at the bottom of the screen: it counts the selected items, offers the choice between "Complete" and "Recreate", and carries the generate button. It stays visible as you scroll, so the mode you picked and the button that applies it are never separated.

"Complete" is the default mode, and the cautious one: it only creates what does not exist yet, and leaves everything you already have untouched. It is the one to use to top up a site along the way — for instance to pick up an email template added to the platform after your installation. The assessment flags that for you: the email templates row stays orange for as long as one is missing.

"Recreate" changes everything: the selected items are deleted then recreated in their original version, and your edits to those items are lost. The button asks for a confirmation before acting. That mode is for starting over on a site with no real content yet — not for refreshing a live site.

The generated content is not set in stone: the pages are recomposed block by block, the coaches and activities are renamed, the products are deleted. Treat it as a starting point, not as a frame.