Business Analytics for Tutoring & Coaching Businesses

Two students have been waitlisted for algebra since March, and the coach who covers most of that subject just asked to drop to part time. The owner has to answer a hiring candidate by Friday, and the honest answer needs numbers nobody has written down: how tight capacity already is, whether this month's cash covers another hourly rate, and whether the last hire ever worked out.

None of that lives in one place. The scheduling view only shows this week. The bank balance shows what cleared, not what families still owe. A spreadsheet from the last hire has last year's numbers on it, untouched since. By Thursday night, the decision usually gets made on a feeling instead of an answer.

The Executive Report Reconciles Cash, Bookings, and What's Still Owed

The Executive Report answers "how are we actually doing" with numbers pulled straight from sessions and payments: net cash collected against refunds, sales booked against what's actually been recognized as revenue, and a receivables line that separates overdue balances from ones not yet due. A delivery-completion rate shows how many booked sessions actually happened, and the report calls out exceptions instead of leaving you to spot them. It runs on a 36-hour cache, not a live query, so numbers hold still through a morning of review.

$258,015 booked this month, 72% of sessions actually delivered, and $78,815.39 still on the receivables line, the same report a Friday hiring decision would pull from.

Capacity Forecast Counts Real Room, Not Calendar Hours

Most scheduling tools that forecast capacity just subtract booked hours from open calendar hours, which says a coach with an empty Tuesday has room even when they already carry all the students they can. Capacity Forecast starts from what your team decides about each coach instead: how readily to assign them, how many college counseling students they should carry per graduating class, and how many tutoring and test prep hours a week. It compares that with the students each coach has now and the pace families have been buying at, and shows how many seats and hours are open and roughly how long they will last.

Payment Analytics Splits Card From ACH

Payment Analytics breaks every transaction down by method instead of lumping "payments collected" into one number: card versus ACH volume, the success rate for each, how many days ACH takes to clear, and a running tally of what moving families to ACH has saved in fees. If half your families still pay by card when ACH would cost less, this report shows it, transaction by transaction, not as a rounded estimate.

Sales Acquisition and Reputation Close the Loop

Sales Acquisition attributes conversions to whatever lead source or campaign actually brought a family in, with a one-click sync to a connected Google Ads account that pulls in conversion data on demand, not a background job running on its own. Reputation Overview tracks the other half of the loop: every completed session triggers a request for a one-to-five star rating and comment, and anyone who leaves five stars gets pointed toward leaving that same review on Google, Trustpilot, or Thumbtack (a settings dropdown can widen that to four). Marketing spend and review growth end up measured by the same system that runs the sessions, not reconciled by hand afterward.

Who Uses This

A solo tutor doesn't need any of this. They already know if they're fully booked and whether last month's checks cleared, because they taught every session and cashed every check themselves. These reports start to matter once you can't hold the whole business in your head at once: three or more coaches, a waitlist that's a real question rather than a rounding error, or marketing spend you need to justify with more than a feeling. Below five or six educators, checking in weekly is probably enough; past a dozen, the exception list is worth a daily look.

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Related Resources

• Educator Payroll - Payroll runs on the same completed-session data these reports summarize
• Billing & Payments - Where the cash, ACH, and card transactions behind Payment Analytics actually happen
• Smart Scheduling - The bookings and coach calendars that sit beside Capacity Forecast