Customer story
Scaling a tutoring business using Practice
NST tutors come from top schools, including Ivy League institutions, and have a track record of helping students gain admission to prestigious colleges and private schools.
Key solutions used
Background
Based in Atlanta, Northside Tutoring was founded by Robert Feagin, a passionate educator with deep roots in the Buckhead community. For over 12 years, Robert and team have scaled the business from a one-man operation to a tutoring company with over 60 expert tutors. Ranging in everything from math and science to college messages along with prep for standardized tests like SAT, ACT and SSAT.
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Consolidated client & family records

Before Practice, session usage, history, and utilization were spread across many tools, services, and spreadsheets. Managing the session activity, client notes and billing activity of a client (and then the wider view of a family) became disjointed.

Using Practice, Northside Tutoring can aggregate all client activity in one centralized space. Now, it's easy to organize all of the communication, history, and activity of an entire family relationship in one single place. Across parents and children, there is one single source of truth to view the detailed information about many types of relationships.

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Automated package tracking

One of the most difficult elements of scaling a service-based organization like Northside Tutoring is tracking fulfilment and completion of the services. Across dozens tutors working with clients, in some cases multiple tutors with one client, there are significant hurdles to know "who's done what, with whom and when?" at this type of scale and session volume.

Now, with one single record and link for clients, Practice can automatically track booked sessions, completed sessions and everything in between. Using packages, the entire intake process, payment capture and appointment flow are automated under one roof.

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Automated payment & client billing

Before Practice the Northside Tutoring team was managing client billing in a manual way. Having to tabulate client utilization and create invoices based on sessions logged by tutors. As volume increased, the overhead associated with creating invoices, managing collections and scaling the business became an exceptional amount of time. As clients request different payment options (one time, split, usage based, etc...) there was a high-level of complexity associated with managing payments.

Now with Practice, Northside Tutoring can offer a menu of different payment options for clients to select from. With payments & invoicing build directly into packages, invoices are automatically processed and payment plans automatically scheduled. Importantly, clients can self-serve manage all of their payment information directly via their client portal.

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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.
Before Practice, it was challenging to keep track of sessions and engagements across all of our tutoring engagements.
Robert Feagin
President, Northside Tutoring
"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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