Upcoming Changes to PayPal

Hi Everyone, If you’re using TutorBird with your PayPal account, you may have received an email from PayPal with the subject “IMMEDIATE ATTENTION REQUIRED: PayPal service upgrades.“. This email explains that PayPal will be upgrading their systems at the end of the month (or possibly sooner) and you may need …

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Back To School

Hello Everyone, We just wanted to wish all teachers and students returning to school today good luck and have a great year! As mentioned last week there is no scheduled update today. Have a great week! – The TutorBird Team Did you know? You can quickly reset student make-up credits …

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August Bits and Bytes

Hi Everyone, This week’s update consists of a number of smaller changes and improvements to the site. Here’s what’s new and improved this week: We’ve added an option to “My Preferences” that allows you to copy last week’s attendance notes to the current lesson automatically. (A “*” is automatically added …

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Payroll Improvements

Hi Everyone, This week we’re rolling out a number of changes to TutorBird based on your feedback. Here’s what’s new and improved this week: We’ve added the ability to customize the SMS Reminders from the “School Settings” page on the “Messaging” tab. You’ll see a new section labelled “System SMS …

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Student (and Teacher) Attachments

Hi Everyone, This week we’re rolling out a number of improvements to TutorBird. Here’s what’s new and improved this week: You can now add file attachments to a student on their “Student Details” page (and Teacher Details in multi-teacher schools). This is helpful for keeping private documents associated with a student, such …

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Automatic Invoicing

Hello Everyone, This week we’re excited to introduce a highly requested feature: Automatic Invoicing. Now your staff can work a little bit harder for you by automatically sending out invoices on a weekly, monthly or annual basis. This feature can be enabled from the “Families & Invoices” pages and you …

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Fine Tuning

Hi Everyone, Here’s what’s new this week: We added a new column to the Student page called “Reminders” that shows if email and/or text reminders are enabled for parents and students. It’s now easier to see at-a-glance who’s getting what. We made it easier to turn text/email reminders on and off …

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SMS Reminders (Beta)

Hello Everyone, This week we’re excited to announce that we’re beta testing SMS (Text Message) reminders. This feature is now available in your TutorBird account, and you can enable it from the Calendar page. Click “Event Setup” at the top of the page, and you can enable this feature on …

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Tweaks and Fixes

Hello Everyone, This week’s update consists of a number of smaller changes and fixes to TutorBird while we work under the hood on some bigger features we know you’re going to love. Stay tuned! Here’s what’s new and improved this week: There’s a new option under School Settings to hide the …

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Daily Agenda

Hello Everyone, This week we’re happy to introduce another new feature to TutorBird that has been highly requested. We’ve added a new daily agenda email, so now TutorBird can send you a copy of your schedule each day even before you even visit the site. The new daily agenda email feature is …

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