Customer story
Practice has helped Beyond BookSmart automate session tracking & client billing
Executive Function coaching for students online throughout the U.S. and internationally.
Key solutions used
Background
Beyond BookSmart (BBS) supports a spectrum of coaching services across students, adults, and schools. Within each vertical of the business, the BBS team has a programmatic approach to serving each type of customer across their standard program, WorkSmart coaching program, and BrainTracks program. Before Practice, the BBS team managed all of their financial and coaching operations with a homegrown solution that required a significant commitment of internal resources to maintain, drawing resources from their other priorities. As the business has grown, the level of complexity has grown, and their custom-build solution wasn’t able to keep pace as they aim to hit the next stage of scale.
1.
Streamlined client billing

Beyond BookSmart bills clients based on what they use each month. A “pay as you go” model that required coaches to manually enter and log their hours for client invoicing. In addition, clients pay a deposit that’s used towards their coaching services.

Tracking the amount of each client invoice relied on coaches to input and log their activity with clients. Naturally, there are errors with manual input when logging this information manually.

Now using Practice, client sessions are automatically added to an invoice at the end of each billing cycle for each individual or family. Practice uses the card on file to auto-charge based on the amount of the approved invoice. The lifecycle of a session from creation to client billing all the way through to being tracked in coach payroll happens automatically without any manual reconciliation.

2.
Expedite client onboarding

Because the BBS team used numerous systems to onboard a client, the manual overhead to support each new client required the operations team to “live” in many systems all at once to successfully sign up a new client for coaching services. With a variety of different tools, each client required an onboarding checklist

After migrating to Practice, the number of steps has been consolidated to simply sending the client to one location to pay, collect intake, and access the package in one dedicated place.

3.
Streamlined payroll & time tracking

Across hundreds of coaches, calculating the hours between both client sessions and non-client billable time was a significant lift on a bi-weekly basis. With thousands of hours delivered to clients each month, reconciling what was delivered against what should be paid (and at which hourly rate) has a significant amount of complexity. The payroll tracking function of the business was divorced from where client billing took place.

Directly from within Practice, coaches can manage their sessions, log their time with clients, and submit other billable requests outside of client sessions in one singular place. To improve the administrative experience, Practice consolidates the tabulation and hour tracking for the entire organization on the payroll hub.

With Practice Payroll, coaches no longer need to manually track their time with clients or log session hours. Practice automatically records client session times, assigns them to the appropriate package, and calculates the rates for the correct pay period.

3.
Simplified payroll & time tracking
Across multiple tools, each coach was responsible for tracking the contents of sessions and managing their outcomes between dozens of clients. This created administrative time and billable hours that and added cost to Ama La Vida.
Practice has significantly helped our team streamline our financial operations. We’re able to spend more time coaching and less time managing the admin of the business.
Michael Delman
CEO & Founder, Beyond BookSmart
"Our team of 50+ coaches historically used a whole suite of products to manage billing, scheduling, session tracking and client comms. It’s incredible to have found something that integrates this all in one place and creates a much more streamlined experience for both our clients and our team."
Nicole Wood
Founder of Ama La Vida

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