What’s New with TutorBird

Notable Improvements

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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Make-Up Credit Improvements

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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Attendance Improvements

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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Family Day Holiday

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

Family Account Improvements

Hi Everyone, This week we’re introducing some bigger and better changes to how payments and charges are recorded in TutorBird. On the Families & Invoices page, the “Add Charge” and “Add Payment or Discount” buttons have been combined into a single “Add Transaction” button. This has a number of benefits: …

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Delicious Updates

Hi Everyone, Here’s what’s new and improved this week: Empty invoices (invoices with no charges) now display some helpful text indicating that no charges or lessons occurred during the invoice period. We made a few tweaks to the “Calendar” to prevent refreshing the calendar data unnecessarily. We updated the “Invoice” …

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Report Improvements

Hi Everyone, Here’s what’s new and improved this week: A number of changes to the “Student Tax Credit Receipt” report: Non-lesson related fees can now be excluded. This report can now be split automatically into separate PDFs by family (and then downloaded in bulk). You’ll still need to email them individually. …

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Grouped Charges and Payments

Hi Everyone, This week we’re introducing a new invoice option that will allow you to group charges (and payments) by student on invoices. When this option is enabled, the charges will be listed for each student (then by date), rather than interspersing all the charges for the family. This option is …

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January Tune-Up

Hello Everyone, Here’s what’s new and improved in TutorBird this week: We’ve added a “Teacher Phone Number” and “School Phone Number” placeholder to the Event Reminder email template. This allows you to provide a contact phone number if the student should phone the school (or teacher directly for multi-teacher schools). …

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Introducing Auto-Pay (Beta)

Happy New Year everyone! Today we’re excited to introduce a new feature to your TutorBird account called “Auto-Pay”. If you’re using Stripe or PayPal Pro to accept online payments, Auto-Pay allows you to automatically charge credit cards as soon as you email invoices to your families. Best of all, Auto-Pay works …

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