TutorBird Blog

Release Notes & Business Tips

Follow the latest product improvements, feature releases, and helpful tips for running your studio.

Product Updates

What’s new with TutorBird

Catch up on new features, improvements, and monthly release notes.

View updates

Oct 5, 2026

Fall-ing Into New Updates! 🍂 

We’re welcoming fall with a fresh batch of updates, including improvements to Lesson Packages, Online Resources search, Website Builder, the Student Portal, and dozens of bug fixes and…

Read more
Deanna Smith, co-founder of Elevate Learning Collective

Success Stories

See how tutors and tutoring businesses use TutorBird

Read real stories from tutors using TutorBird to simplify admin and spend more time helping students.

Visit success stories

Tutoring Business Tips

Helpful ideas for growing your tutoring business

Practical tips for organizing sessions, engaging students, getting paid, and running your tutoring business.

View tips

Credit Card Payments for Everyone! Today we’re excited to announce that our testing is completed and we’re rolling out credit card payments for all teachers located in the US and Canada! Over the next few weeks you’ll receive an email with all the details. (For those of you outside North …

Read More

Hi Everyone, This week we’ve got a hearty list of smaller changes in TutorBird: Any place in TutorBird that allows you to select a date range (i.e. on invoices or reports), there’s a new drop-down button to quickly select common dates, such as “Last Month”, “Next Month”, etc. You can …

Read More

Hi Everyone, Today’s update consists of a number of smaller changes to TutorBird. Here’s what’s new and improved this week: You can now add multiple files at once to your schools “Download Library“. The interface looks exactly the same, but you can now select multiple files in your browser’s file …

Read More

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 …

Read More

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 …

Read More

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. …

Read More

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 …

Read More

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 …

Read More

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 …

Read More

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 …

Read More