Working document
The prepaid tutoring package policy worksheet
Fill in every line before you sell your next block of sessions, and the awkward conversations in February answer themselves.
Free resources
Resources for tutoring practices
Working documents and calculators for the parts of a tutoring practice that happen away from the table: pricing a block, writing the policy, and deciding how many students you can carry.
Tutoring is one of the few businesses where the practitioner is also the sales team, the scheduler, the bookkeeper, and the person who answers a parent email at ten at night. These resources exist for the second half of that list, which is the half nobody was trained for and the half that decides whether the practice pays.
Everything here is free and none of it requires an account. Start with the package policy worksheet if you are still deciding your terms, the margin calculator if you are setting a rate card, and the comparisons if you are weighing TutorCredits against a broader platform or a general booking tool.
Free tools
Tutoring calculators
Two free calculators for the arithmetic a tutoring practice actually argues about: what is left of a package once everyone is paid, and how many students a roster can carry in a week.
Comparisons
TutorCredits compared with other tutoring software
If you sell tutoring in blocks of ten or twenty sessions rather than by the single hour, the right tool is the one that keeps a credit balance a parent can read at a glance.
Main guide
What Your Tutoring Package Agreement Must Spell Out: A Checklist
It settles every term a prepaid tutoring package has to define, from session count and expiration to make-ups, transfers, and refunds, before money changes hands.
Magazine
Session Notes
Reporting on the craft, pricing, and paperwork of running an independent tutoring practice in the United States.
About
Who writes all of this
The author page covers who writes Session Notes, the tutoring practices and small centers the reporting draws on, and how to reach us with a correction or a question about credits and package terms.
Keep the worksheet, keep the calculators
Everything on this page stays free and unlocked whether or not you ever open the software, because a tutoring practice should be able to settle its package terms without buying anything. When you do want the sessions left to stop living in a spreadsheet, a demo runs about twenty minutes and starts from your own rate card. We set up one package and one family so you can see the balance move.