What’s New with TutorBird

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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Update Cheat Sheet

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 …

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Springing Forward

Here’s what’s new and improved this week: We’ve made two highly requested changes to the “Cancellation Policy” feature in TutorBird: You can now limit the number of make-up credits that will be automatically issued after a certain date. For example, if you’re a school that only issues a maximum of …

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Don’t Miss A Beat

Hi Everyone, This week we’ve made the following changes to the “Accounts & Invoices” page: We’ve added the ability to manually mark an invoice as “Paid“. TutorBird will continue to automatically mark invoices paid as payments come in, but if for some reason you need to override it, you can. …

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