Private tutors: get paid per session without chasing payment apps

Last updated: August 13, 2026

What Tavvi is for private tutors: a page that books you and gets you paid — for $0 a month. You get a public page at your own handle that shows your work and takes the order AND the payment, a booking calendar, customer chat, and a register in your pocket: your iPhone takes tap-to-pay cards at the library, their kitchen table, or online with no extra hardware.

How it works day to day

Parents book a recurring slot and pay per session or per block, up front. No end-of-month invoice chase, no "did you get my Zelle?" — the booking IS the payment.

Session packs are listed with a count, so a 10-seat exam-prep group closes itself at 10.

What your page does

Takes real orders for weekly sessions, exam prep blocks, group classes — buyers pay on the web with no app and no account.
Books time with a calendar that shows what is actually open.
Answers questions in a built-in chat, so your customer conversations stop living in DMs.
Takes cards in person — Tap to Pay on iPhone means the phone you already own is the card reader.
Keeps one count across in-person and online, so nothing sells twice.

What it costs

$0 a month. No subscription, ever.
Online orders: 3.5% + 30¢ all-in — card processing is already inside that number, not on top of it.
In person: 0.5% on top of standard card processing.
Cash sales at the register: free.

Compare that with $29–$99/month link-in-bio subscriptions, or free tiers that keep 9–12% of every sale. The math is on the comparison pages.

When Tavvi isn’t the pick

If you run a full premise operation — a dining room with servers, a kitchen display rail, table maps — you are shopping for restaurant POS, and Toast or Square for Restaurants will fit better. Tavvi is built for one person selling real work from wherever they are.

Try Tavvi free

Set up the free register with no account. Your public page and online orders switch on whenever you claim your handle.