Section Cadence

Not every part of a check-in needs to be filled in every week. Body measurements often make more sense every 3 or 4 weeks. A deep reflection on goals might only need to come up monthly. Habit audits read better as a three-week average than a weekly snapshot.

Section cadence lets you control how often a single section of your check-in form appears for clients — without splitting your form in two or asking coaches to remember which form to send.

How it works

Each section in your check-in form has a How often to ask this dropdown:

• Every submission (default) — Clients always see this section. Same as before.
• Every 2 / 3 / 4 / 6 / 8 / 12 weeks — Clients only see this section when it's due.

When you set a cadence:

1. The first time a client fills out this check-in, the section is shown. Always.
2. After they submit, the section disappears until the cadence interval has passed (e.g. 3 weeks for "Every 3 weeks").
3. Then it reappears in their next check-in, they submit it, and the clock resets.

The cadence is per-section, so a single check-in can have weekly questions and monthly questions side by side. The client just opens the form and fills in what's there — no decision required from them.

When to use it

A few real coaching scenarios where this helps:

• Body measurements — Most coaches measure full-body every 3 or 4 weeks, not every week. Skin folds compress, tape position varies, weekly numbers add noise without much signal.
• Goal review / deep reflection — Asking "How do you feel about your progress overall?" every week dilutes the answer. Every 4 weeks gives clients time to actually have something to reflect on.
• Habit audits — Three-week averages tell you more than weekly snapshots about whether a habit is sticking.
• Photo check-ins on a different schedule than weight — Some coaches like weekly weight, monthly photos. One form, one cadence per section.

If everything in your form genuinely matters every week, leave the default — there's no "right" cadence. The control is there for the cases where weekly is too noisy.

How to set it

1. Go to Forms in the sidebar.
2. Open the check-in template you want to edit (or create a new one).
3. Expand the section you want to put on a cadence.
4. Use the How often to ask this dropdown to pick the cadence.
5. Save the form.

Once saved, every client assigned to this form will follow the cadence on their next check-in.

When a section is collapsed in the builder, its cadence appears in the summary line (e.g. "5 questions · Every 3 weeks") so you can scan a form without expanding everything.

Things to know

• Only check-in forms. Cadence is hidden for intake, feedback, custom, and lead forms — those aren't recurring, so cadence doesn't make sense for them.
• First check-in always includes the section. A client never starts a coaching relationship with a section hidden from them — they get the full form first time. The cadence kicks in only from their second submission onward.
• Per-client overrides still work. If you add a custom section for a specific client on top of a cadenced template, the cadence on the template's sections still applies; the custom additions show every time.
• Changing the cadence retroactively affects future check-ins immediately. A client mid-cycle on the old cadence will see the section reappear at the new interval after their next submission.
• Existing forms keep working. Forms saved before cadence shipped have no cadence set — they behave as "Every submission" by default. Nothing changes for them until you choose to add a cadence.