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Aug 27, 2026

The Summer of Packages 

User beta testing for our new Lesson Packages feature is in full swing! 🎉 Catch up on the latest TutorBird updates, including a look at what’s included with Lesson…

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David O’Keefe, founder of David O’Keefe Education

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If you manually invoice your business in bulk, we have a cool new feature for you! Bulk invoicing now has an option to skip invoices that would display $0 owing. Previously, this was only available if you were using the auto-invoicing feature. Now you can easily avoid creating invoices when nothing …

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As many of you know (because you were awesome beta-testers!), we recently introduced a new version of the Student Sign-Up or Registration form. The new widget features a number of usability improvements over the current form, including: More modern look and feel with colors that can be customized to match …

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Making sure more people can use TutorBird! We’ve made a few minor changes to the Student Portal to improve accessibility for the visually impaired. Some of the “Zoom” buttons now correctly tell screen readers what content they are associated with. If you’re located in the Netherlands, the PDF Payment Receipt …

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Here at TutorBird, we love being organized. We’re sure you do too! Our updates this week are all about optimizing your online organization! (See what I did there?) Online Resources: We’ve modified the Online Resources section in the Student Portal so that items are sorted by filename by default. This …

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Because we’re brewing BIG THINGS here at TutorBird! I know it’s not as exciting and glamorous as a new feature, but our development team is hard at work making big changes behind the scenes. We’re trying to make sure that the scenery doesn’t fall down! Everything will work much more …

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We’ve made some improvements and fixes over the last few weeks. We just didn’t tell you because it was the holidays and we were sure everyone was busy! Some website-related fixes and improvements: We’ve added YouTube to the list of Social Links that you can publish in the footer of …

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We’ve made a few tweaks to the beta Sign-Up widget. The initial load should now be faster, and in the event that it is delayed for a few seconds, the loading progress dots will continue to display. We have also made the beta Sign-Up widget available en français. If you’d …

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If you’re using a custom domain name with TutorBird and you don’t yet have a SSL certificate, it’s time to update your domain configuration (it’s easy and free). We’ll be sending an email to anyone who needs to update their domain configuration. If you’re already using TutorBird to host your website, you’re …

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Answer: Our new black and white reports! If you set the Accent Color of your invoices to white, it now forces the report to become entirely black and white (no more grey text). So if you need to print out a report, it will be easier to read. Some improvements …

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Improving the Sign-Up Widget: If you’re using the new Sign-Up widget with a Policy Agreement field, any links to the policy itself should now work correctly. For those using the old Sign-Up widget, the Policy Agreement should put something more user friendly in the student note field. If you have …

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