BonHand VS Openlib

BonHand's answer

BonHand is built for one person running their own practice, not a tuition centre or a studio with staff. It doesn't change how you talk to clients: you keep WhatsApp, email, calls and lessons as they are, and BonHand keeps the record behind them. Each client gets one page with sessions, payments, notes and a running balance, and the dashboard shows what needs doing today. Group sessions track attendance and payment per person. Clients pay you directly through your own payment link, so BonHand never takes a cut. It works in English and Traditional Chinese, and it's free for up to 5 clients.

BonHand's answer

Most tools in this space are built for centres and studios, with online booking, card checkout and staff accounts. If you work alone and clients already pay you by bank transfer, FPS or PayMe, you'd be paying for features you won't use. BonHand focuses on the record: who attended, who has paid, what you agreed and what to send next. Payment reminders list each unpaid session and the total, and AI can draft a post-session update from your notes that you edit and send yourself. It's free for up to 5 clients with no card, and paid plans start at $29 a month. If you need online self-booking, card payments or invoicing, a tool like TutorBird or My Music Staff will suit you better.

BonHand's answer

Independent professionals who teach or train one to one or in small groups and run the business side themselves: private tutors, music teachers, personal trainers, language tutors and coaches. Typically someone with a handful to a few dozen regular clients, keeping track of sessions, payments and updates to clients or parents across chats and a diary. BonHand works in English and Traditional Chinese, handles fees in 11 currencies, and is aimed first at Hong Kong and the UK.

BonHand's answer

Laravel, Livewire, Alpine.js and Tailwind CSS on PostgreSQL, hosted on Laravel Cloud behind Cloudflare. Stripe handles subscriptions. Update drafts use OpenAI and Anthropic models through Laravel's AI SDK. It runs in the browser and can be installed to the home screen.

BonHand's answer

BonHand was started by Dollie PoYan Wong, an academic tutor who spent years teaching primary and secondary students preparing for local exams, mostly online. At her busiest, every slot in her week had a student in it, and she ran it all on a chat app, a paper diary and a spreadsheet. Lessons moved in the chat while the diary kept the old time, make-up lessons were owed and forgotten, and working out and chasing each family's fees took more and more of her evenings. The tools she found were made for salons, clinics and studios with staff, and were too costly or too complex for one person. So she built BonHand for a single person with a full week. The full story is at https://bonhand.com/why

BonHand's answer

• Private tutors
• Music teachers
• Personal trainers
• Language tutors
• Freelance service providers with regular clients