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Business Phone Numbers for Tutors & Tutoring Agencies
Keep your personal number private, take enquiries while you teach, and send parents to the right tutor first time
Parents ring when you are teaching
Tutoring enquiries come from parents, and parents ring during the working day and the early evening, which is exactly when you are teaching. Whether you tutor maths online, run a music school or provide specialist support for children with special educational needs, stopping a lesson to answer the phone is not an option.
SwitchboardFREE gives your tutoring business a professional number that looks after callers while you teach, keeps your personal mobile out of parents' contacts, and lets an agency send each family to the right person.
What a tutor or tutoring agency gets
- A business number that is not your personal mobile: answered on the app, a softphone or a desk phone
- Lesson-time quiet: open and close times so the phone only rings when you choose
- Enquiries as text: voicemail to email with a written transcript
- Routing by subject: departments for agencies on the Standard and Unlimited plans
- No contract: rolling monthly plans, so quieter summer months cost less to plan around
From £5 per user/month + VAT
Choose your tutoring business number
Tutoring agencies and specialist education providers
Agencies need the business, not individual tutors, to own the relationship with families. With one agency number, calls ring your coordinators, tutors call families from the app showing the agency's number, and when a tutor moves on, families still have your number rather than theirs.
Specialist providers, including SEN tutors, music and language schools, can use departments to route by need or by instrument, and time-of-day routing to send evening calls to voicemail.
Talk to us about your tutoring business
Tell us whether you tutor on your own or run an agency, and which subjects you cover. We will suggest the numbers and routing.
Call us nowMoving from a personal mobile to a business number
Already have a landline number parents know? Transfer it to SwitchboardFREE for free, usually within 7 to 14 days. Mobile numbers cannot be transferred, so if parents have your 07 number, start giving out your new business number instead. If you work in a school, see how SwitchboardFREE works for schools.
Feature by feature: why SwitchboardFREE works for tutors and tutoring agencies
Every SwitchboardFREE account comes with over 40 features. These are the ones that make the biggest difference to tutors and tutoring agencies, and why.
- Calls from your business number
- Giving your personal mobile to parents and students blurs the line between work and home, and many tutors would rather not. When you call back from the SwitchboardFREE app, families see your business number, so your own number stays private and professional boundaries stay clear.
- Open and close times
- You cannot answer the phone in the middle of a lesson, online or in person. Set your opening hours around your timetable so calls only ring in the gaps you choose, and everyone else hears a friendly message and can leave a voicemail.
- Voicemail to email
- Parents usually leave the details you need: the child's age, the subject, the exam board and when they are free. Their message arrives in your inbox with a written transcript, ready to reply to between sessions.
- DepartmentsStandard & Unlimited plans
- A tutoring agency can offer "press 1 for maths and science, press 2 for English, press 3 for special educational needs support" so parents reach the coordinator for that subject. Each option has its own voicemail and can ring different tutors.
- Missed call alerts
- Exam season and the start of each term bring a rush of enquiries, and parents often contact several tutors. The caller's number is emailed the moment you miss them, so you can ring back before they book someone else.
- Divert calls to your mobile
- Many tutors work from home, from students' homes and from libraries. Your business number rings the app on your mobile or a softphone on the laptop you teach from, so you can answer wherever your next lesson is.
- Custom greetings
- Record your own greeting on the app for free, and change it whenever your availability changes: "We are fully booked until after half term" saves you returning calls you cannot take on. It plays to callers straight away.
- Music on holdStandard & Unlimited plans
- When an agency coordinator puts a parent on hold to check a tutor's availability, the parent hears music rather than silence and knows they have not been cut off.
- Ring groups
- An agency can ring all its coordinators at once so the first free person answers, or ring the office first and an available tutor next. Nobody has to forward calls by hand.
- Call recordingPaid add-on
- Fees, cancellation terms and lesson arrangements are often agreed on the phone with parents. Recording those calls gives you a record if anything is remembered differently later. Tell callers when calls are recorded.
- Local numbers
- A local number for your town helps parents see you as their local tutor, even if you teach online. If you cover more than one area, you can add a number for each.
Questions tutors ask us
Yes. Parents ring your SwitchboardFREE business number, and when you call them back from the app they see the business number, not your personal one.
Yes. Set open and close times around your timetable so calls only ring when you choose. Outside those times callers hear your message and can leave a voicemail, which is emailed to you with a transcript.
Yes. On the Standard and Unlimited plans, a short menu can route parents by subject or need, with each option ringing different coordinators or tutors.
Yes. The SwitchboardFREE softphone runs on your computer and the app runs on your mobile, so you can answer on whichever device you are using.
No. Plans are rolling monthly with no setup fee, from £5 per user per month plus VAT.
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What our customers say
Real reviews from UK business owners who use SwitchboardFREE every day.
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