What’s New with TutorBird

Time Shift

Here’s the list for this week: Added an “Invoice Balance” placeholder (%InvoiceAmount%) to the invoice and invoice reminder email templates. The “Invoice Balance” displays the invoice amount less any payments received since the invoice date. The original invoice will still be attached to the email. When adding a new lesson from …

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Updates to Chant About

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 …

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A Bit of This, a Bit of That

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 …

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A ‘Touch’ of Class

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 …

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Recurring Transactions. Recurring Transactions.

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 …

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Update Medley

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 …

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Compose Yourself

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 …

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Minor Improvements

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 …

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Internal Organs

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, …

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Improvement Table of Contents

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 …

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