Earnings & Commission
How Tuitionable pays tutors: automatic earnings on completed sessions, commission vs subscription, the no-show rule, session allowance, and per-lesson package payouts.
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Overview
When you teach a session, Tuitionable calculates and records your earnings automatically. This page explains how each earning is worked out, when it becomes withdrawable, and the rules around no-shows and packages.
Earnings Are Automatic
As soon as a paid session is completed, an earning is credited to your pending wallet balance. Your dashboard and Payments page show every earning with its session, amount, and status.
Commission (Tiered Based)
Each earning is priced by the model that applied at the time of the session:
- Commission — you keep the session price minus the platform commission.
- Subscription — Tutor plans (optional): a plan gives you a larger monthly AI credit allowance.
Rates are locked per session. Each earning uses the commission rate in force when that session was completed. Later changes to rates never re-price past sessions, and plans don’t change commission.
Pending → Available
A new earning starts as pending and becomes available (withdrawable) after the session is completed and a 3-day buffer period. Once available, an earning can be paid out — see Payouts.
| Status | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pending | Earned, waiting out the release buffer. |
| available | Released into your available balance — ready to withdraw. |
| paid_out | Included in a completed payout. |
| reversed | Undone because the booking was refunded or cancelled before payout. |
You’re Paid for Delivered Sessions
You earn for a session you delivered — and that includes a student no-show, because the slot was reserved and you showed up. Specifically:
| Outcome | Do you earn? |
|---|---|
| Completed | Yes. |
| Student no-show | Yes — the slot was used. |
| Tutor no-show | No. |
| Refunded / cancelled | No (any earning is reversed). |
Plan Session Allowance
Some tutor plans cover only your first N sessions at the plan rate. Once that allowance is used up within a subscription, further sessions revert to the platform default commission rate. No-show-reversed sessions don’t consume the allowance.
Package Sales Pay Per Lesson
When a student redeems a lesson from a package they bought from you, you earn per completed lesson — each lesson is its own earning, credited as you deliver it (not all upfront when the package is sold). Package lessons are billed at the plan’s package commission rate when one is set (which can differ from your single-session rate), otherwise at your normal session rate. See packages and offers for how you create them.
Refunds & Reversals
If a session is refunded or cancelled before you’ve been paid out, its earning is reversed — pulled back from your pending or available balance. An earning that has already been paid out can’t be reversed automatically
Related
- Payouts — withdraw your available balance.
- Tutor Subscription Plans — teach better with a subscription plan.
- Dashboard & Sessions — see earnings per session.
- Managing Bookings — completing sessions and no-shows.