What’s New with TutorBird

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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Happy Holidays

Hi Everyone, From the whole team at TutorBird we would like to say Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! Thank you all for such a great year. This will be the last scheduled system update for 2015. We have lots of new features planned for 2016, and we look forward to resuming …

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Calendar and Agenda Enhancements

Hi Everyone, This week we’ve got a handful of new features and improvement to TutorBird that we think everyone will enjoy! Here’s what new and improved this week: On the home page “Agenda“, you can now change the date to peek ahead at tomorrow’s agenda (or backwards to see yesterday’s). The “Billable …

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Turkey Trimmings

Hi Everyone, Here’s what new and improved this week: We added an option to jump directly to the “Family Account” from the Home page “Agenda“. This makes it easier to check the family’s account balance for teachers who don’t wish to have that information displayed directly on the homepage. If you …

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Calendar V2 (Beta)

Hello Everyone, This week we’re excited to announce the “Beta” version of the new Calendar is now available in TutorBird. To activate it, use the “Switch to Calendar v2” button at the bottom of the calendar page. Below are some of the features/benefits in v2 of the calendar: New “Timeline” view …

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Custom Sign-Up Form Fields

Hi Everyone, This week we’re excited to announce that the Student Sign-Up Form (and Sign-Up Widget) can now be customized with your own form fields. The original fields are still included, but now you have the option to add additional fields to collect information about students when the sign-up for lessons …

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Credit Cards in More Countries

  Hello Everyone, This week we’re launching beta support for accepting credit cards with Stripe.com. If you’re already using TutorBird with PayPal Pro, then this doesn’t change much for you. However, if you aren’t already accepting online payments and want to get started, Stripe with TutorBird makes it quick and easy. Stripe uses simple …

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Fall Colors

Hello Everyone, Here’s what’s new and improved this week: You can now set the “Color Mode” used in the “Student Portal” Calendar. For teachers who prefer to color code by location, this can ensure that your students see the same colors in their calendars as you do. This is a …

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