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pre-set lesson package prices for invoices
I'd like to be able to pre-set course packages that allow X number of lessons at a set rate. We mostly do not charge on a 'per lesson' basis and the math doesn't come ...
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Better "student record" file - more like CRM
Better formatting for student record page. This page has lots of useful information, but it's hard to read. I'd like the option to remove "unused fields". Not ...
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Multiple Payment Reminders for Overdue Invoices!
Multiple Payment Reminders for Overdue Invoices! This way, we can customize the email text to fit different scenarios. ie. first auto-reminder at 3 days, vs. the ...
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Provide iCalendar feeds for students
A parent has asked about calendar feeds so they can pull our lesson appointments for their kids into their family calendar. Sounds like a good idea.
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Prevent Completing a Lesson Prior to It Occurring
Do not allow tutors to complete lessons prior to happening. There should be a way to prevent this from happening.
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Require payment method selection for manual payments
Require payment method selection when recording manual payment.
When recording a manual payment, I'd prefer that the admin has to actually
choose one of the ...
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Don't pre-select "Pay w/ CC" or "Pay manually"
Don't pre-select "Pay w/ CC" or "Pay manually"
We've had at least two instances (that I am aware of) where we
inadvertently marked an invoice as paid, without ...
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Designate additional contact as billing contact
Designate additional contact as billing contact? (for receiving invoices).
We often run into situations where there is an assistant or accounting person who handles ...
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Tutor Profile Pictures and Bios Visible to Parents/Students
We want parents to be able to see our tutors pictures and bios that they have in TeachWorks when they log into their parent portal of TeachWorks.
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Teacher/Staff/Tutor List Customization
Ability to customize which columns show up under your teacher/staff/tutor list. That way each business can customize the list to have information that is relevant to ...
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Select student's teaching address on lesson details
Ability to choose student's teaching address on lesson details. Sometimes, students have lessons in our office, or online, or at their parent's address, or at their ...
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Allow zip code search functionality between prospective clients and tutors
Provide a filter where we can enter a client or prospective client's zip code that would allow us to filter only tutors in a given area, or allow tutor locations to ...
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Search tutors availability & proximity to match student
Add functionality to search tutors availability & proximity in the advanced search to narrow down available tutors. - Teachworks Support - 1 Year Ago
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Notifications when files are attached to a user account
Add an option to automatically send an email notification to a user when a new file has been attached to their profile in Teachworks.
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Create Report centered on Student Retention and/or length of Enrollment
This is essential data for planning marketing endeavors and planning for growth. There isn't currently a way to sort students by length of relationship(based on start ...
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Attach tasks to families/ students.
We would like the ability to not only assign Tasks to employees but also attach them to family/ student files.
This functionality would primarily improve the ...
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Internal Messaging System
An internal messaging system for clients and tutors to interact with each other? I know you can send out communication via email, but perhaps something like this ...
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Client Referrals & Affiliates Rewards Programs
Would like to set up a rewards program for clients or be able to have affiliate program for people outside the organization who are providing referrals. Open to how ...
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Auto-response emails for custom forms.
Auto-response emails for custom forms.
For example, after a customer fills out an enrollment form, they'd receive a (customizable) email, thanking them for filling ...
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Include the ability to invoice staff/teachers
Be able to send invoices to staff/teachers as they may owe you money. I.e if client pays the teacher cash, you can invoice your commission to the teacher. Thus the ...
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Pay/Pay rate based on the number of student in the class
the ability to auto calculate the pay /pay rate based on the number of student/number of the student attending the class.
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Extend API: Retrieve info about files (that were added with "Profile Attachments Add-On")
We'd like to see information about the files (that we’ve added via the "Profile Attachments Add-On" feature) in the API response for "Retrieve a Customer" and ...
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Restrict to default lesson durations (option).
Restrict to default lesson durations (option).
For example, if a student’s default service is: “Studio A - 60 Minute Session,” we need a way of limiting a teacher to ...
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Official Holidays on Calendar
Official Holidays on Calendar
When booking new students, it would be very helpful to see an overlay of official and popular cultural holidays on the calendar.
Since ...
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Calendar Sync for Students/Families
It would be great to allow students and families to sync the calendar from Teachworks to other personal calendars (i.e. google calendar). This feature is available ...
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Improve mobile "main calendar" layout
Improve mobile "main calendar" layout
The "main calendar" view on mobile is currently quite difficult to use.
We need to be able to quickly switch between different ...
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Deleting lessons by teacher function, not whole agency deletions
We have a lot of teachers (40) who teach different term dates due to professional work/illness etc. The triangle delete function on the Main Calendar is great for ...
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Central Document Library
We would like to request that a central document library is created for uploading various blank forms, policies and other HR documents for tutor(s) and/or staff to ...
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Add notes for teachers or students from every page.
Hell all,
We would like to have the option to be able to add quick notes when booking lessons, creating invoices, etc.
We find that when we want to add notes to the ...
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Financing Option on Invoices
Can you please include the option for payment plans on the invoices? Aka, the invoice total could be divided into 6 total payments at a 3% installment fee, and ...
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View all open availability
An option to 'reverse view' open availability in the main calendar. This would show all the open availability for all teachers in one screen. It would be very helpful ...
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Add A Booking Calendar View (or just view available booking spots on calendar)
A week long view that looks like the main calendar but also includes availability & unavailability with the ability to highlight priority spots.
It's not easy to ...
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Set Tutor Availability by Location
In tutor availability, add the option to indicate what location the tutor is available in so that tutors who work in multiple locations can schedule back to back ...
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Prevent teachers from changing the lesson status while still being able to enter notes
I would like to propose an option to allow teachers to add lesson notes but not be able to change the status of the lesson. (For example, if the status was set to ...
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An Administrative Notes Section on Calendar Page
A high priority for us is to have an area where administrators can leave notes for each other. Even just a blank notepad area on the calendar page would be incredibly ...
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Clock-in / out or Log-in / out log for all staff & teachers
Track teacher and staff log in & out times in downloadable log.
Optionally included as part of detailed hours log.
We need to know when staff and teachers actually ...
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holidays which can't be scheduled in
I need to be able to set days as holidays or closed so that the schedule will not allow a course to be set on those days. Furthermore when scheduling a series of ...
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“Pencil-in” lessons, to hold times while waiting for payment/enrollment forms etc.
“Pencil-in” lessons, to hold times while waiting for payment/enrollment forms etc.
These “penciled in” lessons, could have a temporary title or description, and be ...
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Add ability to provide a credit, such as a coupon, within an invoice
Within invoices, add an option to include a credit as a line item. For example, if you give someone a credit for referring a new client or if you want to remove a ...
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Add the option to change the language of the system
For non-English speaking countries, having the option to run the system in their native language will greatly improve usability in their region. I am sure there will ...
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Build progress reporting functionality.
We issue monthly progress reports for all active students. The reports are written by the tutors. In the report the tutor provides info on what was covered in the ...
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Make the teacher conflict booking check automatic when adding a new lesson
Rather than relying on the admin to manually check for conflict (mistakes will happen if they forget) in teacher appointments, it would be better to check ...
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Undo' or 'revert' option
I sometimes make an error in editing an ongoing session and I would love to be able to undo or go back to before I made the error.
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using your system as SSO
We would like to integrate with your system and use your system as SSO, how can we use Username and Password instead of the API Token to authenticate the student and ...
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task
Notes on Task screen.
On the Task screen, after click on the check mark on the task list,
Will be great if we can have a text area where we can log the progress of ...
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Ability to upload logo to portal dashboard
I'd like to be able to do a bit more branding to the dashboard that teachers, families, and students see. Being able to upload a logo and select colors, would make a ...
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Auto bill when package balance is low
Ability to auto charge for a new package when a student's package balance is low or zero.
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