I don’t use a potty due to sanitary issues. Big toilet only with hard plastic ring seat that is easy to disinfect. I don’t run kids to the toilet every hour. That sounds like training the adult not the child. I have 5 scheduled toileting times in my day, and any other time they tell me they need to go. Children need to be able to pull their own pants up& down/wash hands etc/need to be able to tell me they need to go or have gone.
I require pull-ups to be worn and need to be accident free for 2 weeks of consecutive days before we do underwear here. One month of dry nap times with pull-ups then we do underwear.
I don’t start toilet training until the parents have done it for 5-7 days straight at home first. I will assist after they have established the routine at home.