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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Tech Tune-Up

Hello Everyone, Here’s what’s new and improved this week: The “Thank You” message on the Sign-Up widget no longer cuts off the last line of text. The birthday reminder on the “Agenda” now only shows if the birthday is coming up in the next 7 days (instead of 14). On …

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Student and Teacher Profile Images

Hi Everyone, This week we’ve got a nice hefty list of changes, improvements, and additions to TutorBird. We’re also excited to announce we’ve added the ability to upload Student and Teacher profile pictures to TutorBird. You can add these from the “Student Details” page, the “My Preferences” page, and the “Teacher …

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October Bits and Bytes

Hello Everyone, Here’s what’s new and improved this week: We updated the “Attendance” pop-up so that the “Print” button (for printing lesson notes) is now located in the pop-up footer. This saves some vertical screen space and looks a bit tidier. The “Attendance” pop-up will now appear larger on desktops …

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Invoices For Everyone

Hi Everyone, Today we’re introducing a highly requested feature: The ability to automatically send invoices to both parents at once. On the “Family” tab in Student Details, you’ll see a new check box for each parent labelled “Preferred Invoice Recipient“. If you turn that option on for one parent, they become …

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Barrel Of Updates

Hi Everyone, This week we’ve got a huge set of updates that we’re introducing to TutorBird. Here’s what’s new and improved this week: We were hard at work all summer long rebuilding the way websites are created in TutorBird. While your current website looks the same on the surface, the …

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Attendance History and More!

Hi Everyone, Here’s what’s new and improved this week: The pop-up on the Student Portal calendar now places itself dynamically, so if you leave long lesson notes the student can scroll down to read them all. We’ve added a BlackBerry shortcut to the calendar “Sync” button. We’ve updated the Student …

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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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