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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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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