Why we take no commission on paid tiers

Most tools for tutors take a cut of every lesson a family pays for. Some take 10 per cent. Some take 25 per cent. A few take 30 per cent or more. This stacks up. A tutor working forty weeks a year at fifty pounds a lesson loses thousands of pounds to a piece of software that only sends a few reminder emails.

A different deal

On the TutorStudio paid tiers, the deal is plain. A family pays the tutor through Stripe. Stripe takes its small bank fee. TutorStudio takes nothing. The tutor sets the rate, sends the invoice and keeps the rest.

The platform earns its keep through a monthly subscription instead. A tutor who teaches one student or one hundred students pays the same predictable fee. That is the whole agreement.

What about the free tier?

The free tier carries a 10 per cent commission. That is how a tutor can try the product without paying anything up front. The moment a tutor wants to keep what they earn, the paid tier is there for a fixed monthly fee.

Founder Member promise

The first 25 tutors who join the paid tier get 30 per cent off Premium for life. That discount stays with the account, not the tier — it is a thank-you for backing the product before it had any reviews.

That is the entire pricing story. No commission on paid tiers. No surprises. No vendor lock that costs more than it earns. Tutoring is already a hard way to make a living. The tool should not make it harder.