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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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David O’Keefe, founder of David O’Keefe Education

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Hello, We would like to thank everyone that has emailed us and expressed interest in being a credit card beta tester. With such an overwhelming response we now have enough beta testers to move forward. We thank everyone who expressed interest. Stay tuned for more updates on this exciting new …

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Hello everyone, This week we’re excited to announce the first of a number of changes to online school payments. Beginning today TutorBird has a new process for online payments. Now, when a student/parent clicks the “Make Payment” button (or uses the “Pay Online” link in an invoice), they’ll be taken to …

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Hello Everyone, This week we’re happy to announce a highly requested feature: the option of disabling make-up credits by event category. This is helpful when scheduling lessons and events that fall into a particular category but you do not wish to issue make-up credits for if a student is absent (i.e. …

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Hello Everyone, This week we’re excited to announce the added ability to create and organize your Download Library items into folders. This should make finding and navigating the items in your Download Library a little bit easier for your students and yourself. Folder access is automatically determined by the files …

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Hi Everyone, We hope you all had a “Hoppy” Easter! Today we’re proud to introduce printable lesson notes. For those of you who love paper, you can now print a physical copy of your lesson notes directly from the attendance popup (you’ll see a new “Print” button located below the …

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Hello everyone, This week we’re introducing the ability to use your phone (or tablet) GPS to track your tutoring/teaching mileage. Starting right now, if you log into your TutorBird account, you’ll see a new “Start GPS Trip” button on the mileage page if your device has GPS. To track your …

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Hello everyone, this week we’ve made a number of smaller fixes and improvements to TutorBird. We’re also excited to have added a new “logging” feature to the Download Library. Here’s a full list of this weeks changes & additions: The “Address” field on your website’s “Sign-Up” page (if you have …

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Hello everyone, this week we have a small but useful set of changes to TutorBird! This Week’s List of Changes: The menu “Opened/Collapsed” mode has now been made “sticky”. You may not have known, but you can collapse and expand the main menu by clicking the small button beside the …

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Hello everyone, this week we’re excited to introduce two new highly requested features to TutorBird.   Recurring Expenses and School Email Addresses Recurring Expenses (and Other Income) – Now you can enter a recurring expense the same way you would with mileage (or a recurring lesson). We hope that this will …

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Hello everyone, this week we have a big list of updates, fixes, and improvements that we think will make using TutorBird even better, and quicker! This Week’s List of Changes: The Attendance Pop-up has been completely redesigned internally so that the “Loading…” box never appears after the popup is open. This …

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