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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Hi Everyone, Here’s what’s new and improved this week: On the Email History page, the “Search” feature now searches the “To” and “From” addresses as well as the message title and body. We adjusted the behavior of the calendar filter so that “Hide Full” now hides lessons that student’s cannot …

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Hi Everyone, Here’s what’s new and improved this week: If you try to send an SMS reminder that’s too long, the error message that you see in the “Notification” page now helpfully tells you that it was too long. (The limit, by the way, is 250 characters.) We adjusted the …

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Hi Everyone, Here’s what’s new and improved this week: On your home page agenda there is now an option at the bottom of the agenda to set the attendance for all lessons at once. If you set attendance for all lessons at once (either as overdue attendance, or from the …

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Hello everyone. Due to the “Family Day” statutory holiday here in Ontario Canada on Monday, February 15, 2016 our regular weekly scheduled update will be postponed until Tuesday, February 16, 2016. Happy Family Day everyone! – The TutorBird Team