Teachworks alternative: 100% in French, priced in Canadian dollars, $0 per lesson.
Teachworks is a mature scheduling and billing system from Ontario, and owners praise its calendar. Pillar OS is built for centres that work in French: each family in its own language, Interac instructions on every invoice, and a price in Canadian dollars that follows your active students, not every lesson you teach.
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Some of our centres
Centre de Francisation et de Tutorat au Québec
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Teachworks charges a monthly plan plus a fee for every student-lesson, billed in US dollars. Teachers and students are unlimited.
Pillar OS charges one fee by active students, in CAD, from $35/mo. Teaching more lessons doesn’t change it.
Pillar OS serves each family in its own language. We found no mention of French on Teachworks’ own site.
| Capability | 
Pillar OS
| Teachworks |
|---|---|---|
| Price set by active students only From $35/mo CAD; no per-tutor, per-lesson or revenue fee | Monthly plan + a fee per student-lesson (USD) | |
| French for staff and families Each family in its own language | ? French not named on their site | |
| Interac e-Transfer instructions on every invoice And on every payment reminder | ? Not found on their site | |
| Your own payment account Your Stripe or Global Payments; no Pillar fee on top | Stripe built in | |
| Invoices built from the lessons Per lesson, week or month | Invoice Autopilot | |
| Families book lessons online By subject, tutor or calendar | Website booking and lesson requests | |
| Family portal with your brand Your logo and colours | Logo, name and subdomain | |
| Tutor pay from the lessons taught With an export for your payroll | Payroll reports | |
| AI progress reports Drafted from session notes; AI use billed separately | ? Not found; their AI answers support questions | |
| We move your students, families and tutors On a setup call; past lessons and invoices stay in your export | Self-serve import template |
✓ included · — partly, as a paid add-on, or on a higher plan · ✕ not offered · ? not found on their site
CAD. One platform fee set by your number of active students: $35/mo for up to 50, then by band up to $599/mo at 1,000, quoted beyond. No per-tutor fee, no per-lesson fee, no cut of your revenue. Scheduling, billing, the family portal, tutor pay and AI progress reports come in every band. Billed separately, only if you use them: texting, AI usage, storage beyond what is included, a website, extra locations and the GoHighLevel connection.
A monthly plan (Starter, Growth or Premium) plus a fee for every student-lesson, charged in US dollars; a lesson with two students counts as two. A few extras, such as two-way Google Calendar sync, cost more each month.
Where Teachworks is a fine choice
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Scheduling at its core
Owners praise its calendar, which flags clashes between teachers, students and rooms. If your week is complicated, it handles it.
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Simple payroll, and QuickBooks
It totals each teacher’s hours and classes for the month, and syncs invoices to QuickBooks, which Pillar OS doesn’t do.
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A mature product
It has been around for years, with a public roadmap and support that recent reviews call prompt.
Why centres switch to Pillar OS
Your bill doesn’t grow with every lesson
Teachworks adds a fee per student-lesson, so a busy month costs more. Pillar OS counts each active student once a month, however many lessons they take.
French for every family
Each family gets its emails, invoices and portal in its own language, French or English, on the same account.
Interac on every invoice
Your e-transfer instructions print on every invoice and reminder, and reminders stop once you record the payment.
Set up on one call
Teachworks gives you an import template. We bring your students, families and tutors over for you and book your first sessions with you.
Switching from Teachworks? We move your students for you.
On a setup call, we bring your students, families and tutors over from your export and book your first sessions with you. Past lessons, invoices and notes stay in your old system’s export, so keep it.
Good to know
Is Pillar OS a good Teachworks alternative?
If your centre works in French or in both languages, takes Interac transfers, and wants a price that doesn’t rise with every lesson, yes. If you need two-way Google Calendar sync or QuickBooks, Teachworks offers those and Pillar OS doesn’t yet.
Can you move my data from Teachworks?
Yes. On a setup call, we bring your students, families and tutors over from your Teachworks export and book your first sessions with you. Past lessons, invoices and notes don’t move, so keep that export for your records.
How do the prices compare?
Teachworks charges a monthly plan plus a fee per student-lesson, in US dollars. Pillar OS charges one fee by active students, in CAD, from $35 a month. On Pillar OS, texting, AI use, extra storage, a website, extra locations and the GoHighLevel connection are billed separately, only if you use them.
Does Teachworks work in French?
Its own site doesn’t name French among its languages, and a 2023 post on its blog said the whole interface couldn’t be translated. Check with Teachworks for today’s answer. Pillar OS runs in French and English, family by family.
Comparison based on each product’s public materials as of October 2026. Features and pricing change, so verify details with the vendor, and if something here is out of date, tell us at info@kalbotsolutions.com and we’ll fix it. Teachworks is a trademark of its respective owner; Pillar OS is not affiliated with or endorsed by it.
It keeps working when nobody is watching.
- The calendar refuses a clash
No session is booked twice: overlaps are stopped before they save.
- Every invoice is followed
Reminders go out before the due date, on it and after, and stop the moment it is paid.
- No student slips away unnoticed
Any student with no session in 4 weeks is named, with a check-in drafted for you.
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