Brendon Downey, Author at TutorBird

Updates to Chant About

May 30, 2016

Hey Everyone! We have some great additions this week: Teach more, scroll less: When you close a popup window in TutorBird, the page no longer scrolls to the top of the page. The “Recent Payments” tab on the “Families & Invoices” page now displays the payment type in the description (if …

A Bit of This, a Bit of That

May 17, 2016

Hi Everyone! Lots of great new changes this week: When cloning a day’s worth of events on the calendar into a future month, the necessary fixed monthly charges are now automatically created. We added a new option to specify a preferred location when you add a new lesson or event. When …

A ‘Touch’ of Class

May 10, 2016

Hello Everyone! Here’s what’s changed this week: The calendar now supports drag-and-drop schedule changes on touch devices (iOS/Android)! Previously, drag and drop was only available from desktop browsers. Tap and hold (1 second) to drag-and-drop No more tears! The student details page (and a few others) now warns you if …

Recurring Transactions. Recurring Transactions.

May 2, 2016

Here’s a list of this week’s changes: Recurring charges and discounts are now available. This feature is perfect if you’re charging a manual fee for a monthly supplies rental, or providing a recurring sibling discount. We adjusted the layout of the “Expense/Other Income” popup, placing the recurring entry settings just below the …

Update Medley

April 25, 2016

Here’s what’s new this week: We’ve fixed the performance issue when typing lesson notes from the home page agenda on older devices (iPad 2, we’re looking in your direction…tsk tsk) On the home page agenda, the drop-down menu under the student’s name now displays the parent names. Building on last week’s …

Compose Yourself

April 18, 2016

Hi Everyone! We’ve made a lot of great improvements to email, attendance notes and school websites. Take a look at the full list of changes: Email Improvements: Images can now be included in emails! We did a lot of work behind the scenes to make this as easy to use …

Minor Improvements

April 11, 2016

Here’s what’s new this week: Added 5 new stock invoice logos If you change the date on the Home Page Agenda, it’s now sticky. So if you leave the page to edit a student’s details, when you return to your agenda, you still see the same view. The date text …

Internal Organs

April 4, 2016

Hi Everyone, Here’s what’s new this week: We’ve made a number of internal improvements to the way data is stored in TutorBird. While no external change is visible, this lays the ground work for additional improvements that will be rolled out in the coming weeks. On the Calendar popup window, …

Improvement Table of Contents

March 28, 2016

Hi, everyone! Take a look at this week’s changes: On the student Sign-Up form/widget, mobile or home phone is now required. Previously, both fields were optional, now one phone number is required (so that you’ll have another way to contact a new student if they mistype their email address). For teachers who teacher internationally …

Update Cheat Sheet

March 22, 2016

Hello everyone! Here’s what’s new this week: The “Posts” page has been renamed “News & Blog Posts” to more accurately reflect what that page is used for. When lessons are automatically converted to an open make-up slot (by your school policy), any specific “per-student” fee is no longer copied to that …