I'm planning to spend a couple of months in Russia. I was wondering 🤔 if tutors are able to run their classes smoothly via vpn on Preply...does the profile work just fine? Are there any restrictions?
Any advice or help is much appreciated 🙏
Anyone else shit themselves when payment is in moderation?
I have been a tutor on preply for almost 2 years. I make a comfortable living averaging 7-8k dollars per month. The only trouble - it’s my only source of income now and I committed to preply fully. To be honest - I would expand and diversify, but the platform has taken the uncomfortable part of processing the payment and marketing. So I commit to the platform, since it does seem to like me.
I don’t do any shady stuff. I don’t take students off the platform. I have never been scammed yet into opening weird links etc.
But once in a while - like every 2 months or so - i sh1t my pants when I don’t receive the “receive money” link from wise and see my payment “in moderation”.
I guess I want some input from others, who get this moderation message from time to time. What seems to trigger it? Have you noticed any patterns? I sure didn’t, but it seems to hit when I withdraw like 400$+ for a day. So right now I’m scared AF if the AI is gonna do some weird stuff and ban me without reason. I guess I’m overreacting, but having this “moderation” message pop up from time to time really gets to me.
Hi all. Basically what it says in the title. My house is quite noisy because I have pets and a lot of family members walking around and talking with each other, but Preply doesn't have like a noise cancelling setting in the microphone and I haven't been able to install extensions in Chrome to fix this. What do you do to teach without any noise, just your voice? Thanks!!
I am wondering, what do you do in a trail lesson. Do you use a presentation?
Hi, I’m starting my teaching account but I don’t have any English certificates. What should I talk about?
I am currently jobless and thinking about becoming a full-time English tutor on Preply. I would love a job where I would work from home, and meeting people from all over the world. If any long time tutors have any suggestions I’d highly appreciate it!
I have been approached by a client based in Germany who doesn't want any lessons and is fluent in english but doesn't have any friends and hence wants to take my lessons for talking. Is this creepy or should I go with it
When I first signed up as a tutor for my language, I was one of the cheapest ones and I already had a good price for myself. But when I checked, because I was curios, how much others charge. I saw a big wave of new people charging just 3-10$. My language is not English or Spanish so charging that means not living. Most of them are not fluent or atleast have it as a native language.
I’m curious why we all are put in the same statistics when I for example speak two other languages fluently I can teach that language in, while others just studied this language in school/uni + don’t have education background.
Is there like a new wave of tutors (I’m also part of the new wave but not in this extreme case)
I’m now in 300 position, just because I maybe charge to much. But I don’t even earn anything with the commission.
There should be different ranges based on fluency and educational background.
But to not sound negative. I’m happy with the Plattform and the students I have right now. It’s a nice job next to university ❤️
I’ve been on Preply for about a year, plus 1 year of English writing tutoring at my university. I also have a 120h TEFL.
I mainly teach Business English (I studied commerce), general speaking, and some travel English. Most of my classes start from A2-C1 and for general speaking I don’t teach anyone under 12.
It started as a side job as a university student last year, but now I’m thinking of doing it full-time to save for postgrad. I live in a developing country so USD helps, but I still want to increase my income and save properly.
Not sure if I’m undercharging or what a realistic rate would be for my experience.
How did you figure out your pricing and when to raise it?
hello all,
I just started being a preply tutor lately and got my first anonymous review. It turns out to be quite bad to be honest.... i didnt expect anyone to give me a 4 in clarity and preparation, as I follow up with my students right after each class... any tips to go back up? i saw many tutors have 4.5+ in terms of anonymous reviews
Hello, quick question to make sure what to do next.
I've been a tutor on preply for the past three/four months. I teach a language (not english). I started, as many others here, with a very low rate and slowly went up. All of my earlier students are with me and even accepted to pay more with the coming renewal.
But... one student has been cancelling classes or simply not showing up for the past 6 weeks. At first, she would cancel last minute and write an apology saying her work schedule changed and she needed to find a better time for our classes. I understand that so I kept going, each week writing her to remind her to change the time of the class. She would see, say it was okay and then simply cancel last minute. However, the past two weeks she has not even written me back or anything. I show up, stay the usual 15 minutes and leave.
My question is: what is the best action to take here? As far as I've read here, cancelling her classes will impact me negatively but also blocking her can lead to problems for me. I haven't blocked any student so far because I got lucky with mine and my rate is way higher now and the new students are even better. I only have this one problem and I'm not sure what to do with it.
Hi everyone,
I have a student on Preply she pays around 40 USD per hour and she has didn't show op for 6 straight weeks and she keeps paying for her subscription. Yesterday she even renewed it. What should I do. Sometimes she sends a message that she is busy and she cannot come to the lesson. To be honest I don't feel well to receive this money, but on the other hand it helps me as well and besides because she is sending from now and then messages I assume she is aware of it. Has any of you the same experience? and is there a possibility that Preply will send her the paid money back?
Hi, I am a Spanish tutor and I have been with Preply since the end of last year. When I started, I was charging $10, and thanks to great reviews, I was able to double my class price in a couple of months.
This student was my second student on the app. She is paying $10 a class, and overall I enjoy teaching her because she mainly wants to focus on conversations and she has a fun personality
She is booking me for 3 or 4 classes per week, but in reality, she is only taking 1, maybe 2. She told me her boss is paying for the classes and that she is happy to pay me for my availability, so she waits 30 minutes before the class to cancel, just to make sure that I will get paid.
The issue is that I only do Preply part-time because of my availability, and I am starting to feel that I am losing the opportunity to give those spots to other students who would pay double for it.
I also don't want to increase her rate, because we have been together only for about 6 months, and I think I need at least a year to increase the price.
Hi everyone,
I’d like some advice about a situation with a student. (Corporate student)
She booked a trial lesson with me, then cancelled it 10 minutes before the class. After that, she booked another trial lesson, rescheduled it, and today I’m sitting in class waiting, but she still hasn’t joined or sent any message.
What would you do in this situation? Would you continue giving the student chances, or would you block them after repeated cancellations and no-shows?
Have you guys ever taught them? What are the benefits? I’ve just got my first one and I’d like to know your thoughts on this matter
I started about a month ago on preply (if not more) and i haven't had any students so far, not even trial lesson or anything, I'm not sure if I'm doing somthing wrong or what the issue is. Anyone have any advise on the matter, that would be very useful for me. I'm a Spanish tutor
I just increased my rates. Students have been accepting it on the app, but the email message I get says “Any lessons scheduled before [FUTURE DATE] will be charged at [OLD PRICE]. You can't cancel these lessons, but you can reschedule them if needed.”
Hi, what's the best way to get new students? I've been struggling for a bit now
