Teach the pupils. Keep the fee. All of it.
Tutorful and MyTutor take a cut of every lesson — for the whole time a pupil stays with you. Book them through your own site and that cut is yours to keep.
Live example: Thornfield Tutoring
The maths
Here's what it's quietly costing you.
Set it to your own numbers. This is money off work you already do.
Drag the sliders. Defaults reflect a typical tutor — adjust them to your own numbers.
What the platforms take
£185 / month
That's a year
£2,218
Own Your Trade
£49 / month flat
You'd keep
£1,630/yr
Illustrative. Compares platform commission against the Growth plan's flat monthly fee; excludes card fees, which both sides pay.
See it in action
This is the real thing — try it right here.
Not a screenshot. Place a real test booking below, then look at what the owner sees.
This is the live dashboard the owner sees — every booking lands here in real time, so you run your day without juggling apps.
Straight comparison
Own Your Trade vs Tutorful vs MyTutor
No spin. Filter by what matters to you, and see where the money goes.
| OWN·YOUR·TRADE | Tutorful | MyTutor | |
|---|---|---|---|
| On a £30 lesson | ✓You keep all £30 | The family pays ~£40 for your £30 — a ~35% fee sits on top | ~40% + VAT taken — you keep barely half |
| Commission per lesson | ✓None — flat monthly fee | ~35% service fee on every lesson | ~40% + VAT, every lesson |
| Repeat lessons, same pupil | ✓Never charged — flat fee regardless | Keeps taking a fee on every repeat lesson | Keeps taking a cut on every repeat lesson |
| Own the parent relationship | ✓You do | Through the platform | Through the platform |
| Branded booking site | ✓Yes (Growth up) | Profile page | Profile page |
| Support | ✓A real local developer | Marketplace support | Marketplace support |
What that adds up to
You keep about £2,000 a year
— against one flat fee from £29 a month.
28 lessons a month at £30: MyTutor's ~40% cut would be over £330 a month, so £2,000 a year is a conservative figure — and it applies for as long as those pupils stay.
Pricing for tutors
One flat fee. Pick your level.
Starter
The ordering or booking system, live on a subdomain of ours. No custom site build.
No setup fee · yourname.ownyourtrade.uk
- ✓Online ordering or booking system
- ✓Live owner dashboard (orders / bookings)
- ✓Secure card payments via Stripe, straight to your bank
- ✓Hosted on a subdomain we provide
- ✓No commission — one flat monthly fee
- ✕Custom-built website
- ✕Your own domain name
Growth
Your own branded site on a proven system, on your own domain — live in under 2 weeks.
+ £149 one-off setup · yourbusiness.co.uk
- ✓Everything in Starter, plus:
- ✓Your own branded version of a proven system
- ✓Your own domain name, set up for you
- ✓Built for your trade specifically — live in under 2 weeks
- ✓Keep your menu, services, prices, hours and photos fresh — unlimited content updates, included
Established
Growth, plus an ongoing design partner — quarterly improvements, honest reviews, same-day support.
+ £149 one-off setup · yourbusiness.co.uk
- ✓Everything in Growth, plus:
- ✓A small design tweak on us, every quarter — a layout change, photo refresh or minor new feature
- ✓A quarterly design & performance review — real analytics on how the site's doing, what it's winning you, and 2–3 specific next steps
- ✓Priority support — a real person, same day
One flat monthly fee. No commission, ever. A branded site on your own domain is included from Growth up — Starter is the system only, on a subdomain. We don't sell a website without the system. Bigger design or layout changes are easy too — arranged as a simple one-off whenever you want one.
Get started
Own your tutor bookings.
Tell me how you take lessons now and I'll come back with a straight answer on whether owning it yourself saves you money. Keep about £2,000 a year — or don't, and I'll tell you that too.