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Set up your profile with the welcome guide

Go through the welcome guide step by step: bio, photo, experience, subjects, location, rates and contact details.

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Written by Adam Bedford

Each step of the welcome guide saves when you select Next, so you can stop and pick up where you left off.

1. Open the guide

On Home, select Finish setting up your profile. The seven steps run across the top (1); select one to open it. A tick marks each step you've finished. Finish later (2) takes you back to Home.

The Bio step with the step tiles marked 1 and Finish later marked 2

2. Bio

Write a Tag line (up to 300 characters, shown under your name in search results) and your Bio. Both are required. Select Next.

The Bio step showing Tag line can't be blank and Bio can't be blank

3. Profile photo

Select Choose photo (1) and pick a clear photo of your face: a JPG, PNG or GIF up to 10 MB.

The Profile photo step with Choose photo marked 1 and the message Upload a photo to continue.

Profile photos are square. If yours isn't, Crop your photo opens. Drag the photo or the slider to choose the part that shows, then select Crop and upload (2), or Use as is (1) to upload it uncropped.

The Crop your photo dialog with Use as is marked 1 and Crop and upload marked 2

When your photo appears in the preview, select Next.

The Profile photo step showing the uploaded photo

4. Experience

Fill in Tutoring experience and Lesson planning. Experience with exam boards and Past success are optional. Select Next.

The Experience step filled in

5. Subjects

Subjects are grouped in tabs (1). The number on a tab shows how many levels you've picked there. Tap a level, such as GCSE, to add it, and tap it again to remove it.

The Subjects step with the subject tabs marked 1

To find a subject, type in Filter subjects (1). Selected levels show a tick (2). Choose at least one subject and level, then select Next.

The Subjects step filtered to Physics, with the filter marked 1 and A Level selected, marked 2

6. Location

Under Where do you teach?, tick any of At my home, I will travel to students and Online. If you travel, choose How far will you travel?. For home or travel lessons, enter Your address; students see only your area. Under When can you teach?, tick at least one of Weekday days, Weekday evenings and Weekends. Select Next.

The Location step with errors asking you to choose a way to teach and a time you can teach

7. Rates

Enter an hourly rate in every box. You only see the columns for how you teach: In-person rate (hourly), Online rate (hourly) or both.

The Rates step with Enter a rate under every empty box

You will receive under each rate shows what you keep. Tutorspot keeps £3 plus 15% of your rate per hour (How fees work explains this), so at £40 an hour you receive £31.00. Select Next.

The Rates step filled in, with the How fees work explanation open

8. Contact

Add a Home phone or Mobile phone (one is enough) and your address. Address line 2 is optional. Clients only see these once you have an active lesson reservation together.

The Contact step with errors under the phone and address fields

Select Finish (1).

The Contact step filled in with Finish marked 1

9. Add a qualification

You land on Home. Your profile goes to our team for review only once every item in Set up your profile is done, including qualifications, which the guide doesn't cover. The message at the top says what's missing, usually One more thing before we can review your profile with a link to Enter your qualifications. Select that link (or Add qualifications in the checklist, or Your profile > Qualifications) and add at least one.

The One more thing before we can review your profile message on Home, with the Enter your qualifications link

If nothing is missing, the message says Profile sent for review, and we email you when your profile is live.

Good to know

  • If you open another step with unsaved typing, You have unsaved changes asks first. Select Stay on this page to keep what you typed.

The You have unsaved changes dialog
  • To change where you teach after the Rates step, go back to Location. The rate columns follow your choice.

  • If you leave the guide, Finish setting up your profile on Home brings you back to the first step you haven't finished.

On your phone

The steps fold into one line, such as Step 1 of 7: Bio, with a bar showing how many are done. Tap Show all steps (1) to see the list (2) and open any step.

On a phone, the guide with Show all steps marked 1
On a phone, the list of all seven steps, marked 2

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