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Running a tutoring business, done right
Playbooks, comparisons and how-tos for running a tutoring business — scheduling, billing, payroll, reporting and the learning platform that proves the teaching.
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When WhatsApp and a spreadsheet stop working: scheduling, bookings and reschedules for a growing tutoring company.
Pricing across multiple tutors and tiers: rate structure, packages vs hourly, and raising rates without losing clients.
Most tutoring business plan templates are generic small-business boilerplate. This is the one-page version that actually matters, with a real financial model and the Australian market numbers behind it.
Students now have free AI at home, and that has quietly raised what parents expect from a paid tutor. A photocopied worksheet no longer clears the bar. Here is the new expectation, and how to meet it without adding tutor hours.
Running online well isn't about picking the best video app. It's closing the gaps between your tools, so the session and everything after it live in one place. Here's how, from someone who ran EquateIt on a stitched-together stack first.
For my first few years I didn't track progress at all. I hoped, asked how the tests went, and re-tested a hard question the next session. Here's where that broke, why the spreadsheet most owners reach for next fails too, and the four things a progress-tracking system actually has to do.
Every tutoring platform claims AI. Most is a chatbot with a badge on it. How to tell real AI from hype — plus the one buyer's test that cuts through it.
The channels that win your first tutoring clients are word of mouth, Bark and local groups. But the families who stay and refer are what actually make you grow.
Tutoring clients cancel when they can't see their child improving — not over bad admin. The four real churn drivers, and the early-warning signal for each.
How money actually moves through an Australian tutoring business: invoicing policy, how families pay, chasing overdue invoices, and how tutors get paid.
TutorCruncher tracks sessions, payments and payroll. What it can't tell you is whether students are actually learning — or which ones are about to cancel.
ClassQuill's REST API gives your tutoring business programmatic access to your sessions, invoices, payments and students. Here's what it does today.