Spoteca vs TutorBird

Spoteca is a cloud-based management platform for music schools, covering students, teachers, lessons, schedules, payments, attendance, and communications. Its shared calendar handles recurring lessons, scheduling conflicts, rooms, teacher availability, and attendance. Billing features include custom plans, automatic invoices, payment tracking, discounts, financial reports, and teacher pay tracking. Schools can also manage group classes, events and recitals, curricula, lesson notes, milestones, and student progress reports. Role-specific account views serve administrators, teachers, students, and guardians, with messaging. Reports cover enrollment trends, new students, dropouts, teacher performance, financial results, and student flags, with PDF or CSV exports. Schools can bulk-import records from Excel, and customers retain ownership of their data and can export a full copy before cancellation. Spoteca is web-based. Its Free plan costs nothing forever and supports up to 10 billable enrollments. Growth costs $1 a month per billable enrollment per branch, capped at $100/month per branch, and includes a 30-day trial. Scale costs $100 a month for 101 or more active enrollments.

TutorBird is software for tutors to manage students, lessons, learning materials and billing across Android, iOS and web. Its plan costs $16.95 per month, with an additional $4.95 for each tutor or staff member; there is no free plan, but a 30-day trial is offered. Scheduling includes lesson booking, attendance, reminders, rescheduling, cancellations and two-way calendar sync. Student records can hold profiles, lesson tracking, progress notes and shared files, and tutors can send bulk email and SMS messages. Billing tools cover automatic invoices, online payments, late fees and revenue tracking. Learning features include lesson notes, file and video uploads, assignments and progress tracking. A drag-and-drop website builder supports online registration, lesson booking, mobile-friendly design and embeddable forms. Listed integrations include Stripe, PayPal, Lessonspace, Wix, Squarespace, WordPress, Zoom, Google Calendar, Outlook, QuickBooks and Zapier. Student counts and storage are unlimited, but each uploaded file must be under 2GB. Support includes weekday phone and email service, a Help Center and video guides.