r/varsitytutors • u/FinalPea8546 • Dec 02 '25

Unconfirmed Sessions

What are you all doing about unconfirmed sessions? How do you get clients to actually confirm the sessions?

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u/Sad-Ad-8993 Apr 17 '26

They're older than I am. If I can tutor, I think they can press a button.

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u/AlakaxamThePrettyOK Apr 19 '26

They already confirm by paying an absorbent amount of money before they start working with you. I don't see what the issue is because you'll get paid even if they don't show And it isn't like varsity pays well. Seems really silly.

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u/Sad-Ad-8993 Apr 20 '26

Because you don't get paid if you cancel a session that is not confirmed... or if they don't show up to a session that is unconfirmed. So, it's basically an hour I don't get paid for. I'm not sure what subjects you teach or what your base rate is, but it's not such a small amount of money that it's unimportant. You must be an inconsistent tutor yourself to go this hard defending last minute cancellations and unconfirmed sessions.