What the app does for an instructor, screen by screen
Seven steps, in the order the app takes you. Most instructors start by adding a few hours around the work they already have, for clients who have asked. Each step shows the screen you will be looking at, what you need in front of you, and the single thing that tells you it is done.
The app screens on this page are redrawn, with example names and figures. Where you see a pulsing ring, tap it.
Set up so you can be paid
Telling the app who you are, where to pay you, and which card to use in the few cases you could owe something. The app calls this onboarding. You do it once, and it takes about fifteen minutes.
Have in front of you
- Your ABN, or personal ID if you teach as an individual
- The Australian bank account you want your share of each session paid into
- An Australian credit or debit card
In the app
- Download Trimio and log in. On the home screen, the Offer and Host tiles each carry a closed padlock. The goal of this step is to open the one on Offer.
- Tap Offer. While the padlock is closed, the app takes you into onboarding.
- Complete the identity check. Trimio uses Stripe for this. It confirms who you are as someone able to receive money. Whether you teach in a particular room is still the host's call.
- Add the bank account your share of each session will be paid into.
- Add a credit or debit card. It is charged only if a session's takings do not cover the hosting fee and the service fee (the Hosting Shortfall Fee), or if you cancel a session clients have already booked. Your break-even is on screen before you choose a room, so neither comes as a surprise.
What this shows youThe padlock is the whole of step one. While it is closed, you can look around but not create an Offering. Once it is open, nothing has been listed and nothing has been charged. You have simply made it possible to be paid.
Start the Offering
Describing the session you want to run before you look for a room. In the app, finding the room comes later, inside this same Offering.
Have in front of you
- A name for the session and a few lines on who it suits
- A photo of you teaching, or of the kind of session it is
- Your price per client, and the most clients you would take
- How long the session runs, and how long you need either side of it
In the app
- On the Offering tab, start a new Offering. Choose the service it is, then add the name, description and photo.
- Set your price per client. If you are registered for GST, it includes it.
- Set your class size. A room only matches if its capacity fits it.
- Set the time allocation in 15-minute steps: set-up, session and wrap-up. You book all three, and you pay the host for all three. Clients only ever see the session.
- Set the dates the Offering runs from and to.
What this shows youThe set-up and wrap-up are yours to decide, and yours to pay for, so a 60-minute class does not have to start the moment you walk in. Clients only ever see the session itself.
Say when you can teach
Still inside the same Offering: the days and times you could run it. The app matches rooms against these times, which is why they come before the search, not after it.
Have in front of you
- The times you are free around the work you already do
- The times your clients have asked for
In the app
- On the Offering's Timetable, add each time you could run the session: Wednesday 09:00, Monday 18:00. The length comes from your time allocation.
- Add as many times as suit you. One room may not cover all of them, and that is fine.
- Change or remove any time that nothing is booked into.
What this shows youA time on your Timetable commits you to nothing and costs nothing. It is a question you are asking the rooms nearby: is anyone open when I am?
Find the hosting that matches, and check the Income tab
Searching for rooms near you that suit your session, and seeing what the session would leave you before you choose one.
Have in front of you
- Roughly where you want to teach, and how far your clients will travel
In the app
- On the Offering's Hosting tab, search. The map opens where you are, and you can narrow it by area, service type, day and time of day.
- The app checks three things: whether the room suits the service you run, whether its capacity fits your class size, and whether its hourly rate still lets the session break even.
- Open a room to see which of your times it covers. Tap Coverage: its hours are green, the split cells are where your time meets them, and yellow is a time of yours it does not cover.
- Tap Income. What a full class would bring in, the hosting fee for the time you book, the one service fee, what would be yours, and the fewest clients you need to break even.
- Below break-even, you pay the difference from your card: the Hosting Shortfall Fee. That is why the number is on screen before you choose.
What this shows youBreak-even is the number to decide on, and you see it before anything is committed. Several instructors can plan around the same hour; only a client's booking locks it in.
Submit, and the owner gives the yes
Asking the host for access to their room, and the conversation that usually comes with it.
Have in front of you
- Your insurance certificate
- The questions you would ask any studio: how you get in, what equipment you can use, how to leave the room
In the app
- Select the room for the times it covers, and submit. Access on those times shows as Pending.
- The host is notified. They see your Offering, the hours of theirs it needs, and what each session pays them.
- Use the private thread to introduce yourself, share your insurance and agree how you get in. The app does not hold keys or door codes; the host shares what they choose, in private.
- When the host grants access, the padlock on that time shows Granted.
- A host can decline, and can revoke later. Your Offering stays live, so for any time a room does not cover, go back to Hosting and search again.
What this shows youThe host sees the same session and the same numbers you do. Approval is their call, made about you and the session you run, not about how many years you have taught.
Tell your clients
Letting the people who asked know where to book. Only a client's booking locks the hour in; everything before it was a plan.
Have in front of you
- The clients who have asked you for a session. Five is plenty to start.
In the app
- Tell your clients to download Trimio, tap Book, and find you by your name, the studio or the area.
- They book and pay in the app, at your price. Downloading costs them nothing.
- Each booking arrives as a notification. Open Schedule, then Bookings, to see who is booked into each session.
- From a booked session, you can message everyone booked into it, or one client.
- Need to step back? You can withdraw a single session, or end the whole Offering. If clients are already booked, you cover the payment costs on those bookings: what it cost to take their payments and return them. The app works out the exact amount and shows it to you before you confirm.
What this shows youYou never paid for an empty room. Until the first client booked, nothing was locked in and nothing was owed. The clients are yours, and so is the list of who comes back.
Getting paid
Seeing what a session you ran left you, after the room and the service fee.
Have in front of you
- Nothing. The payout runs on its own once the session has run.
In the app
- After the session has run, open Account, then Payout. Each completed session has its own entry. Nothing is paid out at the time of booking, because clients can still cancel up to 24 hours before.
- On Details, the gross revenue is what your clients paid.
- The hosting fee is the host's hourly rate for the time you booked, set-up and wrap-up included.
- One service fee comes off, made up of 13% of the session's revenue and $1.00. It covers every payment in and out, including the payout to you.
- The rest goes to your bank account, usually within two business days. The terms allow up to 30, depending on the bank.
- The Host receipt is the host's tax invoice for the hosting fee. The Trimio receipt is Trimio's for the service fee. Both are there for your records.
What this shows youBelow break-even, the difference comes from your card. In this example, the first Wednesday had three clients, who paid $90.00. That covered the hosting fee but not the $12.70 service fee, so the Hosting Shortfall Fee was $12.70. The Income tab had shown a minimum of four before the room was chosen.
Add a time when your clients ask for one. Remove it when they stop.
Everything above works the same the second time. Add a time to your Timetable, or start a second Offering for a different session. When a host you are approved with opens new hours in that room, you are notified.
Two more things worth knowing, because they come up. If a client cancels inside 24 hours of a session, they are charged for it. If they cancel earlier, they are refunded less the payment costs, and the app shows them the amount first. If you cancel a session that already has bookings, you cover the payment costs on those bookings, and if you cancel inside 24 hours, the host is still paid. Either way, the app works out the exact amount and shows it to you before you confirm.
One service fee, made up of 13% of the session's revenue and $1.00.
It covers every payment in and out, including your payout. It is the same for hosts and instructors, and if nobody books, you pay nothing. If what your clients pay does not cover the hosting fee and the service fee, you pay the difference: the Hosting Shortfall Fee, charged to your card. The Income tab shows your break-even before you choose a room, so it is never a surprise.
Free to download and to create an Offering. No subscription, no joining fee, no monthly minimum, no lock-in. Full pricing
Every figure on this page is an example. Prices are in Australian dollars and include GST where it applies.
The same app, from the other two seats. All three step-by-steps