Setting up your tutor profile

Right after you create your tutor account you go through a five-step setup. It’s the profile students will see, so it’s worth taking your time with it.

Your progress is saved at every step, on our servers and not just in your browser. You can select Save & exit at any point and pick up exactly where you left off later — even on a different device.

1. About you

Who you are and the link your public profile will use.

• Profile photo — required. A clear, friendly headshot works best.
• Display name — your full name. Students publicly see your first name and last initial.
• Username — the end of your profile link. It follows your display name as you type, and stops following it the moment you type your own. We check availability as you go.
• Country.
• About you — at least 50 characters describing your teaching style, experience and what a student can expect.
• Intro video — a YouTube or Vimeo link. This is the first thing most students watch.

Your display name, username, About you, specialties and experience entries can’t include contact details — email addresses, phone numbers, links or social media handles. If one does, we tell you which one to change before it’s saved.

2. Languages

• Languages you speak, each with your level. At least one has to be marked native, and you can mark at most two.
• Languages you teach — you can only offer a language you speak at C1 or above, so this list is built from the previous one.
• Specialties — what you focus on (conversation, business, exam prep, and so on). Pick Other to describe one that isn’t listed.

3. Experience

Optional, but it’s what students read to decide they can trust you. Add entries for your education, professional experience and certifications.

You can attach a diploma or certificate to an education or certification entry. Our verification team reviews it and that’s how you earn the verified badge. Only the verification team sees the file — it is never shown on your profile. Professional experience entries can’t be backed by a document.

4. Availability & rate

• Time zone — everything else is shown in it.
• Weekly hours — the ranges you’re generally available, day by day. You can block specific dates later from your calendar.
• Price per lesson — for your 50-minute lesson, between $10 and $250. You can change it anytime. A 25-minute lesson costs half of it, rounded to the nearest cent, and you don’t set that price separately.
• Regular lesson lengths — 25 minutes, 50 minutes, or both. At least one is required.
• Trial lesson lengths — 25 minutes, 50 minutes, or both. At least one is required, and you choose them independently of your regular lengths.

A trial and a regular lesson of the same length cost the same. Every length you enable applies to every language you teach — you don’t price languages separately. These are the prices students pay. Vocally’s service fee comes out of them — see what fee Vocally takes for the tiers.

5. Review & agree

The last step shows a summary of the profile you just built, plus the service fee terms that will apply to you — the tiered fee and the 50/50 trial split, at the numbers your own plan uses. To finish you have to:

• accept the Terms of Service and the Tutor Policy,
• decide whether to tick Feature my profile on Vocally’s social media. It is optional and off unless you tick it; you can change it later in Settings › Visibility & privacy, and
• type your full legal name as a digital signature.

Select Finish and your profile is submitted for review.

What happens after you submit

Your profile is not visible to students until our team approves it. We send you a confirmation email, and the status is always shown at the top of your tutor dashboard:

• Under review — we’re looking at it, usually within a few days. Our team reviews your profile field by field, and it is approved once every reviewed field is.
• Needs a few changes — the parts to fix are marked on your profile, with the reviewer’s notes. Update them and select Submit for review again.
• Approved — your profile passed review.
• Not approved — write to support@vocallyglobal.com if you think it’s a mistake.

Approval alone doesn’t put you in search. Students can find and book you once all of these are true:

• your profile is approved,
• you have set up payouts — until then the dashboard shows Set up payouts,
• you haven’t hidden your profile yourself in Settings › Visibility & privacy, and
• no recent change to your profile, other than a price, was declined.

Changes you make after approval show on your profile right away and are reviewed afterwards. If our team declines one, your profile leaves search and new students can’t book you until you fix it and the fix is approved; students who already know you keep their access. The dashboard shows See what to fix while that lasts. A declined price is different: your previous price comes back at once and your profile stays in search.

The verified badge is separate from approval: it comes from the credential documents you attached in step 3, and you can still upload them from your dashboard after you’re approved. A document our team declines never holds back your approval or hides you from search: replace it or delete it from your dashboard.