Tutoring and training
Teaching delivered in sessions or courses, in person or online, usually billed by package or subscription.
Six short steps. No email or account.
Family
Education, tutoring and childcare
Enrolment, recurring billing, and obligations to families and regulators.
- Priority decisions
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Foundation — what that means here
Operating reality
What makes this different
The realities that change which tools can actually work for you.
Package and prepaid session billing is the normal model and needs balance tracking, not just invoicing.
Instructors are frequently contractors, making 1099 handling more relevant than payroll.
Scheduling across many part-time instructors is the main operational complexity.
Where to start
The decisions that matter here, in order
You do not have to take them in this order, and you do not have to take all of them. This is where most businesses like yours start.
- 1Appointment booking
Let people book a time without the back-and-forth.
- 2Card payments
Take a card in person, over the phone or through a link.
- 3Invoicing
Send the bill, and let people pay it without writing a cheque.
- 4Accounting software
Track income and expenses so tax time is a report, not an archaeology dig.
- 5Paying contractors
Pay 1099 help and collect the paperwork you need for January.
- 6Business insurance
Cover the things that could end the business in one bad afternoon.
- 7Email marketing
Stay in front of past customers so they call you again.
- 8Website
A site that makes you look real and tells people how to hire you.
Your next step
Answer six short questions about your tutoring and training business: your team, where the work happens and what you want to fix first. You get an operating plan in the order to tackle it, with the must-haves and comparison points for each area.
Answers
Common questions
- What software does a tutoring and training business need?
- Teaching delivered in sessions or courses, in person or online, usually billed by package or subscription. The decisions that matter most are 8 areas, starting with the ones tied to how the work actually gets done and paid for.
- What makes running a tutoring and training business different?
- Package and prepaid session billing is the normal model and needs balance tracking, not just invoicing. Instructors are frequently contractors, making 1099 handling more relevant than payroll. Scheduling across many part-time instructors is the main operational complexity.