If you found students through a tutoring or lesson marketplace, that platform can take a cut of every session and put your next student in front of whichever instructor is available, not necessarily you.
Book Visit Now holds none of that: no marketplace, no directory, no account for students to log into that anyone but you controls.
Locations do not have to mean your own studio.
Set one up for every place you actually teach: a student's home if you travel to them, a school or rehearsal room you rent, your own studio if you have one.
Every field on a location is optional, so a one-off location takes seconds and a regular one can carry the full address, the gate code, whatever you need in the notes.
The conflict checker still catches you if you accidentally book two lessons at the same time regardless of which address either one is at.
Subjective: Record how the student felt about the piece or chapter and any challenges or concerns they expressed during the lesson.
Objective: Document what was actually covered during the lesson, including the material practiced, techniques introduced, and progress made.
Assessment: Provide an honest evaluation of the student’s current abilities, progress, strengths, and areas that need improvement.
Plan: Outline what the student should practice before the next lesson and identify the specific skills or material to focus on during the next session.
It carries forward automatically, so you are never starting from a blank page trying to remember where you left off with a student you have not seen in two weeks.
Two photo columns on every note hold a marked-up score or a worksheet before the lesson and after, stored in your own iCloud and never uploaded anywhere else.
Set a repeating appointment for a weekly or biweekly time and the whole term is on the calendar in one pass.
Text reminders go out from your own number through Messages, after you have read them, which is most of what stops a family from simply forgetting a 4pm on a school night.
A sibling discount for a family enrolling two kids. A different rate for rush prep before a recital or an audition. Both live on the client record as a price bump and a loyalty discount, and you can use one, the other, or both without maintaining two separate rate sheets.
A Do Not Book flag for the family that cancels inside the hour every time or has not paid in a month.
A private rating emoji for your own shorthand.
Referrals, tracked per family, for whoever sent you your next student, which for most private teachers is the whole business.
Preferences for anything worth remembering: a favorite piece, an allergy if you teach in a home with a pet, a gate code.
Which students have not booked a lesson in 30, 60 or 90 days, without you having to remember to check. A family that quietly stopped lessons is worth one phone call before you write them off.
No online booking. Families book through you, by text or call, not through a self-serve page.
No payments or deposits. If you invoice separately, keep doing that; this is not a payments product.
Apple only. One login. A solo tutor or a small home studio works fine on one account. A larger studio with several instructors needing their own separate logins should look elsewhere.
Every feature, no time limit, no card required. $24.99 a month for unlimited students and families after that.
Ten active clients, every feature, no time limit and no card. If your book grows past ten it is $24.99 a month for unlimited, and nothing else ever gets added to the bill.