r/PreplyTutors

I’m a young French teacher, and I met a woman in her 30s online. At first, it was simply in the context of my lessons, but over time, we became very close.

We can talk for 3 or 4 hours without even noticing the time, sometimes about completely random things. And the strange thing is, I genuinely love talking to her. Whenever we talk, it makes me feel really good.

After spending so much time talking to her, I developed very, very strong feelings for her. I think about her a lot, I’ve even dreamed about her several times. Sometimes I try not to message her for a whole day to create some distance, but the urge always comes back.

And when she talks to me about other men, I have to admit it: it hurts, and I feel jealous.

I think she has probably figured out that I have feelings for her, even though I’ve never clearly told her.

The problem is that I have absolutely no idea how to make her understand that I love her without making things awkward or ruining what we have.

If you were in my position, how would you let her know that you have feelings for her?

I am trying to think about what to do about my schedule.

Currently it's 10 - 3 & then 6 - 10 M - TH but I hardly have any bookings.

Should I change to the weekends? I also want to work with more LATAM students ... what days & times are they usually available?

I am currently studying Spanish - however I have lived in Japan for years which is why sometimes I get more Asian students... but to be honest I am more interested in teaching Latin American students at this time.

How can I change my profile to attract more latin american students? I can't really explain lessons in Spanish at this point so I have no idea what to put that would attract more of them :(

I will soon move to France and I will register as a micro-entrepreneur. My incomes will come from Preply but also from other services (media related). I read that for the first year your tax is reduced. Is that accurate?

Hey I've been on preply for 22 days and I started on 3$ to gain some students/exposure then gradually increase but I'm wondering how does increasing affect the algorithm? I have 6 reviews/12 student/60 lesson

And been getting a lot of trials past week so I was thinking maybe I should start increasing but I wanna understand how increasing works

Like rn the exposure is great I'm on average rank 23 of my language and receiving a lot of trials will increasing change anything​ with the exposure/visibility or will it only affect how students judge the profile?

(any suggestions/tips is welcomed about increasing prices cause I'm clueless how preply deal with it) ​

I started doing this a while ago and have found it helpful. I teach students at four different price points. In each of the student's profiles, I have used the rename feature to add in the amount I'm charging for a lesson with that person. So, for instance, "(21) Charlie." Then, when I look at my calendar, I can quickly see what I'm going to make on a particular day or during a week. It's also encouraging to see that the number of more recent and higher-paying students is growing in a given week.

This works on the website calendar, but unfortunately, the app calendar doesn't show amended names.

So there is a student who just needs a one-off lesson as an interview preparation on the next day. After being asked he said he is not interested in subscribing. He booked last minute and there‘s just 22 hrs left until the lesson. I definitely don’t want to loose statistics over this and conduct a free lesson that I know is not gonna convert. How do I cancel this to not get a canceled/missed trial in my statistics?

Hey everyone,

So I've been bombarded by Preply's corporate student program, I never agreed to it as it's not what I want per se.

However, today someone booked a trial with me as a corporate student.

Curious if anyone has had this before? Does it even really matter? Should I just treat it like a normal student?

My main worry is, they will want help with a lot of things that I don't really do. I'll make this clear in the trial anyway but it's still a bit odd.

Interested to hear people's thoughts and experiences with these types of students

for example, i have student who reacts offended when i correct him and then asks - why is this grammar rule like that? and i cant remember what is the reason for that (i also told him few times already that i am not professor and thats not the purpose of my lessons) but i feel like he wanna make me stupid by asking that

I’m a Biology tutor and was getting quite a lot of lessons before July. Since July/August, things have completely dried up because it’s summer break and a lot of my students have finished their exams.

My profile used to show up within the first couple of pages, but now it’s basically invisible. I’ve also gradually reduced my price from $35 to about half, and made some changes to try to the profile, but nothing seems to be helping. I’ve barely had any trial bookings this month.

For Preply tutors who’ve been through this before, does it usually pick back up around late August/September? And what actually helped you get your visibility and new students back?

TL;DR: Bookings completely died over summer. Looking for tips on boosting profile visibility and attracting new students again.

Title: Preply blocked our accounts and withheld $7,400 of our earnings — has this happened to anyone else?

Hi everyone. I want to share what happened to a friend and me on Preply because I'd like to know whether other tutors have experienced something similar and whether they managed to recover their money.

I had been working on Preply for approximately 2 years and had around 40 active students when my account was blocked. At the time, I had approximately $400 in my balance, which Preply withheld. Fortunately, I used to withdraw my earnings approximately every three days, so I didn't normally keep a large amount of money in my Preply account.

However, the same thing happened to a friend of mine. He had been working on Preply for approximately 5 years and, unlike me, he didn't regularly withdraw his earnings. Instead, he left the money accumulating in his account. When his account was blocked, he had approximately $7,000, and that money was also withheld.

Between the two of us, that's approximately $7,400 in money earned from teaching lessons.

Apart from the money, in my case the suspension meant suddenly losing access to an account I had spent two years building and to around 40 active students.

So I'd really like to know whether this has happened to other tutors:

• Did Preply block or suspend your account and withhold the balance you had?
• How much money was involved in your case?
• Did you eventually manage to recover it?
• How long did it take?
• What process did you follow to make a complaint or claim your money?

I'm particularly concerned about my friend's situation because $7,000 is a significant amount of money earned after years of working on the platform.

I don't want to make any accusations that I can't substantiate. I simply want to explain exactly what happened to us, find out whether there are other similar cases, and understand what options we have to recover our money.

If you've experienced anything similar, I'd really appreciate hearing your story.

Hi everyone, I had a trial lesson today and had a student ask me about taking the lesson off the platform for the first time. I've never dealt with this situation before so responded without thinking straight. She said paying in USD was more expensive than initially thought so I was thinking of doing her the favour. I told her it's not allowed on the platform but maybe we could discuss it more via email. And I typed our emails on the google doc file that I usually share with my students for corrections/notes, and talked a bit about how that would work (e.g. google meets classes, scheduling, payment).

I'm stressed right now because I realized I had lesson insights on and I didn't think about the fact that they can review the call to see what was discussed. Or that key words might be flagged.

However, I see that no lesson insights were sent in the chat like they usually are with my other students. But in the Next Steps for student page that they make you fill out, I saw that some of the boxes were pre-filled with some info we talked about in class (e.g. goals for exam in 1 month).

I'm freaking out a bit now because I don't want to lose this income. I should've been more careful but here we are.

So my question is, can they flag what was discussed during the video call? (Nothing was written in the chat). Should I message her in the chat noting that I checked the policy and that it's not possible? Or would that just raise flags for Preply to check my account and the recording/AI transcript (if it exists) from the lesson?

Thank-you!

Hi I (27F) am new to preply, right now it's my side gig as I freelance in the NGO field. It's literally day 2 for me, and it's so quiet haven't had a student yet. I've filled in 100% of my profile and am completing the preply language teaching certificate as advised by the platform, but I'd love to hear from experienced tutors on preply, how did you build up a steady schedule of students and realistically how long did it take you? I teach English by the way

Edit: I have a teaching qualification and please know it was not my intention to inspire any disdain for the people upset at this post please know I am just looking for help and an honest insight as a "green" teacher on the site so any detailed suggestions are welcome if you so wish

I currently have 20 students, the other day I realised I cannot do more than 5 classes a day so I went and changed my calendar availability. I reduced my hours for thursday and friday, but when I go on my calendar I still see that my student has his usual slot on thursday that is now outside of my available hours. It's like this for every week, he has paid the reoccurring class.

So does that mean that preply did not warn him I changed my availability? What do you do in this situation?

Yes! I want to teach english language

I have this student who keeps booking slots without logic, once they booked 5 slots in a day, just to cancel them the day before, then they postponed them all to the next week, one slot per day (which they will never attend)...how do i deal with such behaivour? I explained them the situation and explained quite explicitly that they should only book classes that they want to attend. If they dont listen, is a block the only solution?

Título: Preply bloqueó nuestras cuentas y retuvo $7.400 de nuestros ingresos — ¿a alguien más le ha pasado?

Hola a todos. Quiero compartir lo que nos ha ocurrido a un amigo y a mí con Preply porque me gustaría saber si otros profesores han pasado por una situación similar y si consiguieron recuperar su dinero.

Yo llevaba aproximadamente 2 años trabajando en Preply y tenía alrededor de 40 estudiantes activos cuando mi cuenta fue bloqueada. En ese momento tenía unos $400 en mi saldo, que Preply retuvo. Por suerte, yo tenía la costumbre de retirar mi dinero aproximadamente cada tres días, así que la cantidad acumulada no era demasiado elevada.

Sin embargo, a un amigo mío le ocurrió lo mismo. Él llevaba aproximadamente 5 años trabajando en Preply y normalmente no retiraba el dinero que iba ganando, sino que lo dejaba acumulado en su cuenta. Cuando bloquearon su cuenta, tenía aproximadamente $7.000, y ese dinero también quedó retenido.

Entre los dos estamos hablando de unos $7.400 de dinero ganado dando clases.

Además del dinero, en mi caso el bloqueo significó perder de un día para otro el acceso a una cuenta en la que llevaba dos años trabajando y a unos 40 estudiantes activos.

Por eso me gustaría saber si esto le ha ocurrido a más profesores:

• ¿Preply os bloqueó o suspendió la cuenta y retuvo el saldo que teníais?
• ¿De cuánto dinero estamos hablando en vuestro caso?
• ¿Conseguisteis recuperarlo finalmente?
• ¿Cuánto tiempo tardaron en devolvéroslo?
• ¿Qué procedimiento seguisteis para reclamar?

Me preocupa especialmente el caso de mi amigo porque $7.000 es una cantidad considerable de dinero ganado después de años trabajando en la plataforma.

No quiero hacer acusaciones que no pueda demostrar. Simplemente quiero contar exactamente lo que nos ha ocurrido y averiguar si existen más casos similares y qué opciones tenemos para recuperar nuestro dinero.

Si alguien ha pasado por algo parecido, agradecería muchísimo que compartiera su experiencia.

i had about 10 lessons with this young student who after a while couldn't keep up with paying for a private tutor anymore, everything was good and they even gave me a 5 star review. assuming that they was sincere, would the algorithm still punish me for this early drop? does anybody now how does it work?

You sign up to a platform in order to make money but you fail to make full use of the platform and all the information provided. Then you go to an altogether different website and complain when things go wrong. Those things could have all been avoided had you used the website properly!!!

What can you get on the Preply site that you won't get anywhere else? Information and advance warning on changes, and how to work with them, peer review and support, advice and help when you don't understand something, advice on how to perfect your profile, advice on rate increase, and probably much more that I can't think of now.

Any tutor who thinks they can do without that site and all the contents I've just mentioned is doomed to failure. This sub is great but it is NOT a substitute for the platform's own site. It's true that there are many posts not worth the bother but you can scroll past the obvious dross. If you want to make money from tutoring and if you take yourself seriously, make a habit of checking in to the Community pages once a day between lessons.

At the moment there are 2 big issues that many tutors have suffered: the costly scams and the new ST metrics. However, if you were checking in to the Community regularly you would've read about all of that long before getting caught on the wrong side of it.

Now go ahead and downvote solid good advice from a tutor with years of Preply experience.