For Private Tutors & HSC/ATAR Coaches
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–$69/mo — replaces Calendly + Xero + Teachworks.




The average private tutor saves $45+/mo replacing Calendly (USD) + Xero + Teachworks + Mailchimp with OneBookPlus — and drops the USD-to-AUD FX surprise on every renewal.
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State-by-state — when private tutors need WWCC, full teacher registration (NESA/VIT/QCT), or both.
Open →ReferenceHourly rates by syllabus, subject, city and lesson format — 2026 AU tutoring market data.
Open →Operator Guide$75k threshold, taxable supply rules, overseas online students (s38-190), BAS cadence, input tax credits.
Open →Operator GuideACL-enforceable pack expiry, cancellation policy templates, refund obligations under s60, no-show recovery.
Open →ReferenceCapacity Building line items, registered vs unregistered, plan-managed vs self-managed billing, GST-free rules.
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5Built for Private Tutors
From recurring weekly slot booking to pack billing, OneBookPlus handles the admin so you can focus on the actual tutoring.
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.
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 Class Pack Tracker app (coming soon) adds automatic per-session credit deduction and low-balance top-up 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.
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.
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.
Tag sessions as Zoom, in-home, or library. The session-confirmation email pulls the right meeting link or address for each session type automatically.
Free plan available · No credit card · Cancel anytime
Free Website Included
Stop paying $30–80/mo to Wix or Squarespace — and skip the $1,500–3,000 up-front for a designer. Every OneBookPlus tutor gets a branded booking page on the free plan. Want it on your own domain like a proper business website? $15/mo and we host it for you.
your-business.onebookplus.com.auoronebookplus.com.au/book/your-businessyourbusiness.com.au— custom branded domain, we host the siteA 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.
Brand color picker in settings. Logo upload. Trade licence number shown on every page so customers know you're legit.
1-hour HSC Maths session $85. 10-session term pack $750. Customers see prices before booking — kills the price-shopping phone calls.
70%+ of tutoring searches happen on phones. Your booking page is built mobile-first; loads in under 2 seconds on 4G.
Already own yourbusiness.com.au? Add the Booking Website app ($15/mo) and point your domain at the booking page we host for you. We don't sell domains — keep yours wherever you registered it.
Schema.org markup for tutoring services + suburbs you cover. Google finds you for 'HSC maths tutor in [suburb]' searches.
Tutors website cost — typical
Website builder
Wix, Squarespace or similar
Web hosting + SSL
Bundled in builders; separate if custom site
Designer (one-off)
Only if you want a custom-built site
Bookings on Calendly
Separate from your website
Typical recurring total
~$60–100/mo
+ $1,500–3,000 up-front if you hire a designer
With OneBookPlus
Your total
$0–15/mo
See it in action
Not mockups — these are the real product screens for your day-to-day.
Subject-coloured calendar across every student. Recurring weekly slots, drag-to-reschedule, automated reminders to parents the day before.

Topics covered, homework set, exam-result history, parent contact — all on one record per student. Pull it up before each session.

Sell 5-pack or 10-pack tutoring bundles, auto-deduct per session. Casual single sessions get a GST-compliant invoice with Stripe Pay Now.

Effortless Setup
Get off spreadsheets and onto autopilot before next term starts.
Add the subjects you tutor — Maths Methods, English Advanced, HSC Chemistry — with your hourly rate. Toggle online vs in-person for each.
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.
Generate a 10-session pack invoice for each student. Parents pay by Stripe. Pack credits draw down automatically as you teach.
After each session, log topics covered and homework set. Reminders fire automatically. At term's end, review revenue, attendance and your no-show rate.
Most tutors add their first student and fire a pack invoice within 15 minutes of signup
$50–$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
5 min
Setup time from blank account to first invoice
Scroll through the day 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 five-star review is requested automatically, and the day closes with the ledger already written.
8:50am
While you're mid-session
Mia's HSC trials are three weeks away and physics isn't clicking. Her mum calls the first tutor on Google — you.
AI Receptionist
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
Session card on screen: Mia's year level, goals and the topics her mum flagged. Straight into projectile motion.
Between sessions
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
Card payment lands, the books update themselves, and $81.82 GST is set aside for BAS.
Reputation on autopilot
Two hours after payment — the sweet spot — the AI asks for a review. Mia's mum leaves five stars.
The day closes itself
You taught five sessions and won a new student. The book did the rest.
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Tutor pricing
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
Get your first HSC student on the books today — no credit card.
Starter
$29/mo
Replaces Calendly + Xero + Teachworks for a full term roster.
No card · Drops to Free if you don't upgrade
Growth
$69/mo
For tutoring practices running several tutors across maths, science and English.
Prices in AUD inc. GST. Stripe processing fees apply to card payments (1.7% + 30¢ AU cards). Full plan comparison →
Already on another tool?
Most tutors move across 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.
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Built-in AI
You're teaching — the phone rings out and the enrolment enquiry quietly moves on.
OneBookPlus
AI Receptionist · incoming call
“Do you have room for beginner lessons?”
If you don't answer, the AI books it — Trial lesson · Sat 10:00am — and texts a confirmation.
Built in Melbourne, AU
ATO-ready from day one
256-bit encryption
No credit card needed
Common questions about tutoring booking and billing software.
Yes — the Free plan includes session bookings, the student CRM, GST-compliant invoicing, and up to 5 students. It's well-suited to tutors just starting out. Upgrade as your student count grows.
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 Class Pack Tracker app (coming soon) 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Student records (names, parent contact, session notes) are stored in the tenant's isolated Supabase database — row-level security means another tenant can't see your data even if they share 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
Founder & CEO, OneBookPlus
Bishal has over a decade of experience in digital marketing, web development, and small business consulting across Australia. He has worked with private tutors and small tutoring businesses across Australia, helping them simplify recurring session billing, parent communication, and term-by-term roster growth.
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.
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 pick a recurring weekly slot — 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, the parent gets a confirmation email with what to bring and where to meet, and the recurring booking rolls forward until end of term.
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.
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.
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 1–14 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.
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.
Recurring session bookings, pack billing, and parent reminders that run on autopilot — built for Australian private tutors. Free to start.
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Who it's for
Whether you tutor one HSC English student a week or run a full-time tutoring book across maths and science, OneBookPlus adapts.
Weekly recurring 1-hour sessions across Year 7–12. Needs subject tagging, homework tracking, exam-result history.
Essay-heavy workflow with annotated feedback. Needs progress notes, parent comms, term-pack billing.
Exam-block intensives + regular weekly support. Needs flexible pack structures, casual top-ups during exams.
Zoom-based, students across multiple states. Needs online-session tagging, time-zone-aware reminders, digital invoicing.
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Real-world scenario
How a Sydney HSC tutor uses OneBookPlus through a busy exam term
It's Tuesday of Week 6, Term 3 — HSC trials are three weeks away. Daniel opens OneBookPlus and sees: 6 sessions today, $670 invoiced for next month, 2 outstanding invoices. The dashboard banner reminds him: Week 6 of Term 3, school holidays in 19 days.
At 5pm a parent messages: my daughter wants to add a Saturday session before trials. Daniel finds the student, checks she has 3 credits left in her 10-pack, and books a 1-hour Saturday slot from his open availability. Parent confirms by reply, automatic confirmation email goes out.
After each session, Daniel logs the topics covered — projectile motion, exam-paper Q12, common-mistake patterns. After his last 8pm session he reviews two trial-exam essays via shared Google Doc; the session note captures what he fed back.
Friday evening, Daniel batches next term's pack invoices for his 14 regulars — 14 invoices created and sent in 90 seconds. Eight parents have paid by Sunday night via Stripe. His BAS summary is up to date.
How we compare
See how we compare to the tools tutors typically string together.
| Feature | OneBookPlus | Calendly + Xero | Teachworks | Spreadsheet + Square |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weekly recurring session slots | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Session-pack billing | Yes | No |
| Yes |
| No |
| Parent reminders (email) | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Student progress notes | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| GST-compliant AU invoicing | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| AU BAS-ready summary | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| School-term-aware dashboard | Yes | No | No | No |
| ABN on every invoice (AU-required) | Yes | No | No | Yes |
| Free plan available | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Price | From $0/mo | $47+/mo combined | USD $20+/mo | $30+/mo combined |