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For Private Tutors & HSC/ATAR Coaches

Tutor Software Built for the Term Rhythm

Bill the whole 10-pack before Week 1, then just teach.

OneBookPlus is tutoring software for Australian private tutors. It runs weekly session bookings, 5/10-session pack invoicing, automated parent reminders, GST-aware billing and progress notes, on one school-term-aware dashboard for HSC, ATAR, maths, science and English tutors. All-in-one for $0 to $69/mo, replaces Calendly + Xero + Teachworks.

Free plan. No card required. · Billed in AUD, no USD FX risk · AU school-term aware dashboard · First invoice in 5 minutes

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The OneBookPlus home dashboard in the iPhone app, showing today's sales, table status and the active orders list
The bookings list in the OneBookPlus iPhone app
The invoices list in the OneBookPlus iPhone app, showing paid and overdue invoices with their due dates
The contacts list in the OneBookPlus iPhone app, with a job, quote and invoice shortcut on every contact
Dashboard screen

Key takeaways

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  • Private tutoring is one of the fastest-growing AU education sub-categories, driven by HSC/VCE/ATAR pressure and post-COVID learning gaps. Most tutors are sole traders charging $50 to $120/hour depending on subject and level.
  • GST treatment: private tutoring is GST-taxable at 10% once turnover exceeds $75,000/year. Tutors below that threshold typically don't register; those at full-time student loads usually do.
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  • Typical billing rhythm: 5-session or 10-session packs sold up front, with the pack billed once and credits drawn down per session. Some tutors also offer pay-per-session for casual top-ups during exam blocks.
  • Common AU tutoring tools: Calendly (USD, no GST invoicing), Square Appointments, paper-and-spreadsheet. Few include AU GST-aware accounting, parent comms, and progress notes in one tool.
  • OneBookPlus is the all-in-one alternative: session bookings + pack billing + parent reminders + progress notes + GST invoicing + AU school-term aware dashboard, Free, $29/mo (Starter) or $69/mo (Growth), all billed in AUD with no FX risk.

Built for Private Tutors

Every Session, Every Student, In One Book

From recurring weekly slot booking to pack billing, OneBookPlus handles the admin so you can focus on the actual tutoring.

Weekly Session Bookings

Set recurring 1-hour sessions per student, subject-coloured on your calendar. Parents see real-time availability and book online, no more juggling group chats. The Free plan runs one repeating student at a time; Starter at $29/mo runs the full book. One-off sessions are never capped.

Session-Pack Invoicing

Invoice a 5-pack or 10-pack tutoring bundle up front with GST and your ABN, then mark sessions as taught against the pack. The Prepaid Packs app adds automatic per-session credit deduction and low-balance top-up reminders.

Parent + Student Reminders

Automated email reminders the day before each session and an hour out, sent to both the parent and the student. Cuts last-minute cancellations during exam blocks.

Student Profile + Progress Notes

Track topics covered, homework set, and exam-result history per student. Each note is tagged by kind (session observation, exam result, goal, milestone, parent comm), pinned to the session it came from, and flagged 'visible to parent' when you're ready to share. Filter by kind, export the lot as CSV, handy when an HSC parent asks for the term's trajectory in writing.

AU School-Term Aware

The dashboard shows your current term week and the next school-holiday block. Plan the term, batch your invoices, and don't accidentally book a session during the break.

Online + In-Person Modes

Tag sessions as Zoom, in-home, or library. The session-confirmation email pulls the right meeting link or address for each session type automatically.

Try all features free, set up your tutoring book in 5 minutes

Free plan available · No credit card · Cancel anytime

Free booking page included

Your tutoring business gets a booking page. Free.

Stop paying a website subscription you do not need, and skip the up-front designer quote. Every OneBookPlus tutor gets a branded booking page on the free plan. Want it on your own domain like a proper business website? The Website Builder app is $29/mo and we host it for you.

Freeyour-business.onebookplus.com.auoronebookplus.com.au/book/your-business
$29/moyourbusiness.com.au: your own branded domain, hosted by us

24/7 emergency callout booking

A Year 12 parent finds you on Google at 10pm before HSC trials and books their child's first Chemistry session while you're marking essays. The enrolment lands in your dashboard with the student's school, year level and target ATAR, ready for next week's term roster.

Branded with your colours, logo & licence

Brand color picker in settings. Logo upload. Trade licence number shown on every page so customers know you're legit.

Show service prices upfront

1-hour HSC Maths session $85. 10-session term pack $750. Customers see prices before booking, kills the price-shopping phone calls.

Mobile-first: looks great on phones

Your booking page is built mobile-first, so a customer searching on a phone can book without pinching to zoom.

Bring your own domain: we host the site

Already own yourbusiness.com.au? Add the Website Builder app ($29/mo) and point your domain at the site we host for you, through a guided DNS and SSL wizard. We don't sell domains, keep yours wherever you registered it.

Local SEO baked in

Schema.org markup for tutoring services + suburbs you cover. Google finds you for 'HSC maths tutor in [suburb]' searches.

Tutors website cost, typical

What tutors pay for a website

  • Website builder

    Squarespace's cheapest plan billed monthly, verified 2 August 2026. Wix publishes no fixed Australian rate.

    From $24/mo
  • Web hosting + SSL

    Bundled in builders; separate if custom site

    $15 to $40/mo
  • Designer (one-off)

    Only if you want a custom-built site

    $1,500 to $3,000
  • Bookings on Calendly

    Per seat, billed in US dollars, verified 2 August 2026. Separate from your website.

    From US$10/mo

Typical recurring total

~$39 to $64/mo

+ US$10/mo per seat if you add Calendly for bookings, billed in US dollars, and $1,500 to $3,000 up-front if you hire a designer

With OneBookPlus

Included on every plan

  • Branded booking page, free plan
  • Hosting + SSL, free plan
  • 24/7 customer self-booking, free plan
  • Connect your own domain with the Website Builder app, +$29/mo (BYO)

Your total

$0 to $29/mo

Claim your free booking page

The app

The app behind your session packs

Prepaid Packs sits on top of your core OneBookPlus plan and counts prepaid session credits down as you teach.

Prepaid Packs

$9/mo

Sell work paid for upfront, and let the balance draw down as each class, lesson or job is done

Studios, tutors, driving schools and trades all sell the same thing: work paid for in advance. Prepaid Packs is the accounting layer between that payment and the work. Define your pack templates (a 5-pack, a 10-pack, a 10-lesson term-pack at your studio rate, three cleans at a package rate), sell one to a customer when they pay, and every completed booking or job deducts a credit automatically. Customers with a booking portal see their own balance, so no awkward "how many sessions do I have left?" texts from parents. When someone drops below 2 credits a low-balance reminder fires inviting them to top up, and the renewal invoice is one tap to send. Expiry rules (a 10-pack expires in 6 months, a term-pack at term-end) stop dormant credits piling up. Multiple pack types run in parallel, so a member can hold a Reformer 10-pack and a Mat 20-pack and the right credit deducts for the class they book. For music studios the same primitive runs term-pack billing. For a jobs-led business - a cleaner selling three cleans upfront, a trade selling a service block - the credit comes off when the JOB is marked complete, and goes back if the job is reopened.

  • Pack templates of any size, from 3 to 20+ sessions
  • Per-customer balance tracking
  • Auto-deduct when a booking or a job is completed
  • Credit returned automatically if the work is reversed
  • Low-balance alerts at 2 credits left
  • Configurable expiry (3, 6, 12 months)
Explore Prepaid Packs14-day free trial · cancel anytime

Effortless Setup

How Tutoring Bookings Work

Get off spreadsheets and onto autopilot before next term starts.

1

Set up your subjects + rates

Add the subjects you tutor: Maths Methods, English Advanced, HSC Chemistry: with your hourly rate. Toggle online vs in-person for each.

2

Onboard your students

Import existing students or send each family a sign-up link. Lock in their weekly slot: Tuesday 5pm, for example: and OneBookPlus repeats it through the term. Free covers one repeating student, Starter covers the full book.

3

Send pack invoices, get paid

Generate a 10-session pack invoice for each student. Parents pay by Stripe. Pack credits draw down automatically as you teach.

4

Tutor, log, review

After each session, log topics covered and homework set. Reminders fire automatically. At term's end, review revenue, attendance and your no-show rate.

Send your first 10-session pack invoice, Free

Add your first student and fire a pack invoice the day you sign up

Who it's for

Built for every kind of tutor

Whether you tutor one HSC English student a week or run a full-time tutoring book across maths and science, OneBookPlus adapts.

Maths & Science Tutor

Weekly recurring 1-hour sessions across Year 7 to 12. Needs subject tagging, homework tracking, exam-result history.

English / Humanities Tutor

Essay-heavy workflow with annotated feedback. Needs progress notes, parent comms, term-pack billing.

HSC / ATAR Specialist

Exam-block intensives + regular weekly support. Needs flexible pack structures, casual top-ups during exams.

Online Tutor

Zoom-based, students across multiple states. Needs online-session tagging, time-zone-aware reminders, digital invoicing.

What a four-tool stack costs each month

Named tools, at each vendor’s own cheapest published plan, and ours underneath. Vendor pricing changes, so check each one before you decide.

CalendlyBooking
US$10/mo
XeroAccounting & GST invoicing
$37/mo
StripeCard payments
Per txn
MailchimpParent comms
Not published
Total monthly cost$37/mo + US$10/mo + Mailchimp

Or use OneBookPlus

$29/mo

Everything in the list above, on one bill.

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No credit card · Free forever · Cancel anytime

Example walkthrough

Wednesday after school, three students and a term invoice

An illustrative walkthrough of a typical tutoring day

It is Week 6 of Term 3 and trials are three weeks away. You open OneBookPlus and see the day: six sessions today, next month's session packs already invoiced, two invoices still outstanding. The dashboard banner shows the term week and how long until school holidays.

At 5pm a parent messages asking to add a weekend session before trials. You find the student, see three credits left on their 10-pack, and book an hour from your open availability. The parent confirms by reply and the confirmation email goes out automatically.

After each session you log the topics covered, the exam-paper questions worked through, the common-mistake patterns worth revisiting. After the last session of the evening you review two trial essays and the session note captures the feedback.

On Friday evening you batch next term's pack invoices for your regulars, created and sent in a couple of minutes. Several parents pay by card over the weekend. The BAS summary stays up to date on its own.

How we compare

OneBookPlus vs tutor software

See how we compare to the tools tutors typically string together. On OneBookPlus, weekly recurring session slots are available on every plan: the Free plan runs one repeating student at a time, Starter makes them unlimited, and one-off sessions are never capped.

FeatureOneBookPlusCalendly + XeroTeachworksSpreadsheet + Square
Weekly recurring session slotsYesYesYesNo
Session-pack billingYesNoYesNo
Parent reminders (email)YesYesYesNo
Student progress notesYesNoYesNo
GST-compliant AU invoicingYesYesNoYes
AU BAS-ready summaryYesYesNoYes
School-term-aware dashboardYesNoNoNo
ABN on every invoice (AU-required)YesNoNoYes
Free plan availableYesYesNoNo
PriceFrom $0/moTwo subscriptionsPriced in US dollarsTwo subscriptions

Built for the Australian tutoring practice

$50 to $120

Typical AU hourly tutoring rate (subject and level dependent)

24/7

Online bookings, parents can self-serve

$0

Free to start, no lock-in contracts

$29/mo

Starter plan, unlimited invoices and quotes

One day, written by itself, an illustrated day of an Australian tutoring business run on OneBookPlus

An illustrated day, not real customer data. Scroll through it from morning to 5pm: the AI receptionist answers and books a missed call, the work runs from the app, the GST invoice is sent on the spot, payment lands and the books balance themselves, a review invite is queued for the next daily run, and the day closes with the ledger already written.

8:50am

While you're mid-session

The call three weeks before trials.

Ivy's HSC trials are three weeks away and physics isn't clicking. Her mum calls the first tutor on Google, you.

AI Receptionist

Answered mid-session, Zoom link emailed.

The AI answers in two rings, books an 11:30 am trial session, and emails the Zoom link, while you keep teaching.

In the session

Everything's already prepped.

Session card on screen: Ivy's year level, goals and the topics her mum flagged. Straight into projectile motion.

Between sessions

The 10-session pack, invoiced before trials.

Her mum wants a 10-session pack before trials. One tap raises the GST invoice with a pay link, no Sunday-night billing.

While you're teaching

Paid, and the session credits start counting.

Card payment lands, the books update themselves, and $81.82 GST is set aside for BAS.

Reputation on autopilot

The review ask, once the trials are over.

Once the payment clears, the AI asks for the review at the delay you set. Nothing awkward to raise with a parent.

The day closes itself

Five sessions taught, one new student.

You taught five sessions and won a new student. The book did the rest.

$0

collected

0

admin tasks done by AI

0

evenings lost

An illustrated day, not real customer data. AI Receptionist is a $79/mo add-on that needs AI Companion ($25/mo, included on Growth), and AI Companion is what sends the review invite as well. The rest of the day is the app itself.

Tutor pricing

Four plans. All built for private tutors.

Start free, upgrade when your student roster justifies it. Billed in AUD, no USD-to-AUD FX surprise like Teachworks or Calendly. No contracts, no per-student tax. Cancel any time.

Free

$0/forever

Side-hustle tutor

Get your first HSC student on the books today, no credit card.

  • Up to 250 students & parent contacts
  • 10 invoices/month
  • 1 weekly recurring session slot
  • Unlimited one-off session bookings
  • GST + ABN built-in
  • Branded booking page
  • Mobile PWA (works at the library)
Start free

Starter

$29/mo

Full weekly book

Replaces Calendly + Xero + Teachworks for a full term roster.

  • Everything in Free
  • Unlimited students, invoices & bookings
  • Unlimited weekly recurring session slots
  • Batch 5/10-session pack invoicing
  • Automated parent + student reminders
  • Stripe online payments + reminders
  • Student profiles + progress notes
  • Online (Zoom) + in-person session modes
  • Accounting, P&L & BAS summary
Start 14-day trial

No card · Drops to Free if you don't upgrade

Our pick

Plus

$49/mo

Growing

Outgrowing the basics, unlimited contacts & bookings, advanced reporting.

  • Everything in Starter
  • Unlimited contacts & bookings
  • Advanced reporting & analytics
  • Batch invoicing
  • Budget tracking
  • 5 team logins
  • 10 GB website media storage
Start 14-day trial

Growth

$69/mo

Multi-tutor practice

For tutoring practices running several tutors across maths, science and English.

  • Everything in Plus
  • Per-tutor calendars + earnings view
  • Consolidated practice revenue dashboard
  • SMS reminders to parents
  • Reputation Engine (auto Google reviews)
  • Email campaigns to your enrolment waitlist
  • AI receipt and supplier-bill scanning
  • 10 team members
Start 14-day trial

Prices in AUD inc. GST. Online card payments carry Stripe processing fees (1.7% + 30¢ AU cards) plus a 2.5% OneBookPlus platform fee. See the full plan comparison

Already on another tool?

Switching from Teachworks, Calendly or a Google Sheet?

Switching is designed to fit in a single evening between terms. Export your student list as CSV from your current tool, import it into OneBookPlus with the bulk importer, and you're ready to fire pack invoices before Week 1, billed in AUD, no FX guesswork at renewal.

  1. 1Export students + parent contacts CSV from Teachworks or your spreadsheet (5 min)
  2. 2Upload via the bulk importer, subject, year level and parent email auto-map (10 min)
  3. 3Set up your subjects (Maths Methods, English Advanced, HSC Chemistry), hourly rate and recurring weekly slots, one repeating student on Free and the full book from Starter (15 min)
  4. 4Fire 10-session pack invoices Monday morning, coffee in hand, no USD conversion

Switch from

Teachworks
TutorCruncher
Calendly
Acuity Scheduling
Spreadsheets
Incoming

OneBookPlus

AI Receptionist · incoming call

“Do you have room for beginner lessons?”

DeclineAnswer

If you don't answer, the AI books it, Trial lesson · Sat 10:00am, and texts a confirmation.

Australian Owned

Built in Melbourne, AU

GST Compliant

ATO-ready from day one

Encrypted & Isolated

TLS in transit, AES-256 at rest, tenant isolation at the database layer, read the security page

Free Plan Available

No credit card needed

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about tutoring booking and billing software.

Is OneBookPlus tutor software free?

Yes. The Free plan includes session bookings, the student CRM, GST-compliant invoicing, 10 invoices a month and up to 250 contacts. One-off session bookings are unlimited on every plan, including Free. Repeating weekly slots are the one thing with an allowance: Free runs one repeating student at a time, and a second standing slot needs Starter at $29/mo, which makes them unlimited. Extending a repeating slot you already have never costs anything, on any plan, and neither does cancelling, rescheduling or skipping a week on it. A side-hustle tutor with one standing student and casual exam-block sessions can stay on Free; a full weekly book is a Starter tutor.

Can it handle session packs for tutoring?

Yes. Create a 5-session or 10-session pack at your hourly rate and send it as a single GST-compliant invoice at the start of the block, that works today. The optional Prepaid Packs app will then auto-deduct a credit per session and prompt you when the pack drops to 1 session remaining. Today, you mark sessions taught manually and fire the next pack invoice when you're ready.

Does it work for both 1-on-1 and small group tutoring?

1-on-1 is the primary use case. For small group sessions (e.g. siblings or a HSC study group), you can book the same time slot to multiple students and the system will track each student's pack balance separately. Large class-based tutoring centres need a more specialised tool.

Can parents book and reschedule sessions themselves?

Yes. Each family gets a portal where they can request rescheduling within your cancellation window and see their pack balance, past sessions and invoices. You stay in control of which slots are bookable.

Does it handle GST and BAS for tutoring income?

Private tutoring is GST-taxable once your turnover exceeds $75,000/year. Below that, GST registration is optional. OneBookPlus tags every invoice with the correct GST treatment and gives you a quarterly BAS summary so end-of-quarter isn't a spreadsheet weekend.

What if I tutor online via Zoom, does it still work?

Yes. Tag a session as online and attach your Zoom (or Google Meet, or Teams) link to the session-confirmation email template. Each student receives the right link in their reminder, the day before and an hour before the session.

Can I log session notes and share key updates with parents?

Yes. After each tutoring session, write a structured note tagged by kind, Lesson observations, Exams (trial-results, HSC assessment marks), Goals, Milestones, or direct Parent Communications, pinned to the session it came from. Mark a note 'Visible to parent' to share it via the family portal; leave it private for your own pedagogy notes. The student profile lists the full history newest-first with filter chips, and you can export the lot as a CSV for an end-of-term parent meeting. The dashboard's at-risk panel flags regulars who haven't booked recently, useful in HSC year for catching students who quietly drift before exam blocks.

How is student data handled, privacy + Working with Children Check (WWCC)?

Student records (names, parent contact, session notes) are stored in your own business's isolated database. Each business's data is separated at the database layer, so another tutoring business cannot read yours even though you share the same infrastructure. OneBookPlus itself doesn't store the operator's WWCC; verification lives between you and the relevant state authority (e.g. NSW Office of the Children's Guardian, VIC Service Victoria). Australian Privacy Principles (APP) compliance: each tenant's data is yours to export or delete; CSV export of student notes is one click and a soft-delete restores notes within 30 days. AI features can be disabled per-tenant if you'd rather no third-party LLM ever sees student-identifiable text.

About the author

Bishal Shrestha, Founder of OneBookPlus

Bishal Shrestha

Founder & CEO, OneBookPlus

Bishal spent a decade running digital projects for Australian small businesses before founding OneBookPlus. He writes and maintains these pages, and publishes what OneBookPlus does not do alongside what it does.

A decade running digital projectsPersonal site: bishal.com.auMelbourne, Australia
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How this page was researched

The compliance and licensing statements above are taken from the bodies this page links to, including ACARA, the NSW Office of the Children's Guardian and the ATO, so you can read the rule rather than take our word for it. Plan prices come from the OneBookPlus price registry, so the page and the checkout cannot disagree. Everything said about OneBookPlus describes what the product does today, and the page says so where it does not do something.

Your Complete Tutoring Workflow, From Enrolment to Exam-Block Wrap

Most private tutors got into tutoring because they were good at the subject, did well in HSC or ATAR, and saw a way to earn good money around uni or alongside a full-time job. They didn't start tutoring because they wanted to chase parents for the second-term invoice or maintain a spreadsheet of who's in which 10-pack. OneBookPlus exists so you can spend your time tutoring, and the booking, billing, and admin runs itself.

Enrolment & Recurring Slot Booking

A new student lands on your branded booking page after a Google search, an Instagram referral, or a recommendation from another parent. They see the subjects you tutor, your hourly rate for each, and your real-time availability. They book their first session, Wednesday 5pm Maths Extension 1, for instance, and fill in a short enrolment form capturing the student's school, year level, current grade, target ATAR, parent contact and any access-needs notes. The session lands in your calendar and the parent gets a confirmation email with what to bring and where to meet. Turning that into a standing weekly slot is your call, made from the dashboard, and from there it rolls forward until end of term without being re-entered. Families book and reschedule individual sessions themselves; the repeating slot stays under your control. The Free plan carries one repeating student, so the second standing slot is where a tutor moves to Starter at $29/mo; extending a slot you already have costs nothing on any plan, and one-off sessions are never capped.

Session-Pack Billing & Casual Top-Ups

Most successful tutoring businesses run on packs, typically 5 or 10 sessions sold up front. OneBookPlus generates the pack invoice with your ABN, your bank/Stripe payment options, the session count and the GST line (if you're registered). The parent pays once and the pack credits draw down automatically each time you teach a session. When a student gets to their last one or two credits, the system flags it so you can fire the next pack's invoice, no awkward "hey it's been a while since you paid" messages. For casual one-off sessions (common during exam blocks where students need extra), a single-session invoice goes out as soon as the session completes.

Parent Communication & Rescheduling

Parents drive most of the comms in tutoring, and most of those messages are about rescheduling. OneBookPlus handles this through the family portal. The parent sees your open availability, picks an alternative slot within your cancellation policy window, and the change happens without you needing to text back and forth. Automated reminders go out the day before and an hour before each session, sent to both the parent and the student. The reminder includes whether the session is online, in-home or at a public location, and the right meeting link or address for each.

Progress Notes & Homework Tracking

Each student has a profile that captures their full tutoring history. Before the 5pm Maths session, you tap in and see exactly where you left off, projectile motion last week, started on circular motion midway, set Exercise 8B questions 1 to 14 as homework. After the session, you spend 90 seconds logging what was covered, what's set for next week, and any patterns to flag for the parent. Over a term, the profile shows clear progress that you can share at parent-teacher catch-ups or when families ask whether the tutoring is making a difference. For HSC/ATAR students, the exam-result history shows the trajectory from first session to trials to final exams.

Term Reporting & GST

At the end of each term, OneBookPlus shows you the picture: revenue, sessions taught, attendance rate, no-show count, active student count and your top-revenue subjects. If your turnover is climbing toward the $75k GST threshold, the dashboard surfaces it so you can plan for registration before you cross. If you're already GST-registered, your BAS summary is complete, every invoice has its GST line tagged correctly, expenses are categorised against the right ATO code, and quarterly lodgement becomes a five-minute task instead of a weekend.

Tutor More, Admin Less

Recurring session bookings, pack billing, and parent reminders that run on autopilot, built for Australian private tutors. Free to start, with one repeating student included; the full book repeats from Starter at $29/mo.

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Reviewed by Bishal Shrestha

Authoritative sources

Where the industry and tax facts on this page come from

Private tutoring in Australia is governed by ATO/ABN tax rules, ACARA-aligned curriculum standards, and state-specific child-safety requirements (e.g. Working with Children Check). We cite primary sources for every claim on this page so you can verify directly.