We started the new year right with some quality-of-life updates that are sure to improve your experience. From adding new accessibility features, to setting up new ways for the app to remember your previous settings, we’re taking “new year, new me” to new levels!

Calendar & Attendance

• We added additional detections to help prevent scheduling conflicts in the calendar
• Changing the price of a recurring lesson no longer starts a new series of lessons
• The time picker on desktop now stays open as you select the hour, minute, and AM/PM
• Accounts with no locations listed in the calendar no longer need to specify location
• Saving a new event in the calendar will no longer automatically remove unassigned students
• We fixed an issue with how the time was displaying during event creation

Families & Invoices

• When moving a student to a new family, the remaining transactions that weren’t tied to a student (manual charges & payments, for example) now follow the student to the new family
• We fixed an issue that caused duplicate students to show the incorrect status
• Transactions can now be searched by “First Name, Last Name” in addition to “Last Name, First Name”
• When manually adding multiple transactions, the family drop down will now scroll to the top of the list
• The “Auto Pay” column on the Families & Invoices page can now be sorted
• We fixed an issue that caused an error when attaching multiple images to a manual expense.

Student Management

• Fixed an issue that prevented the parents of inactive students from receiving emails
• We fixed an issue preventing students being moved to a new family while having a phone number on file

Student Portal

• Lesson slots in the Student Portal now show the names of all family members attending that lesson
• We fixed an issue that prevented students from signing up for a recurring event if they had any future scheduling conflicts

General/Other

• We removed the ability for tutors without the permission to create reports to be able to download a list of students
• We fixed an issue that caused a file selector to appear on mobile when adding new expenses
• We fixed an issue that affected how preferences in a multi-tutor business were being shown
• In various areas, the app will now remember your settings the next time you try to perform the same action
• Selecting a currency will now notify you if the currency selected doesn’t match your current region
• When starting to compose a new email, returning to the previous screen will now automatically save what you were writing as a draft
• We have upgraded keyboard functionality for menu buttons & dropdowns to improve accessibility.
• We fixed an issue that allowed some settings to be changed using keyboard shortcuts
• Added additional options to the “Payee” field when running an expense report
• Mileage reporting now accurately represents the rate down to three decimal points (Mileage page also accurately reflects this)
• Search filters in single-tutor accounts no longer include the option to filter by tutor
• Various cosmetic tweaks throughout

Please note: If you have any questions or require assistance with your account, please contact our support team at support@tutorbird.com