Admin Dashboard

1. Review the booking (subject, grade, address for in-person, lesson date & time when provided).
2. Returning students (they already had a tutor on a past booking) are verified automatically with their previous tutor when you open or refresh this page — unless they asked for a new tutor or excluded someone. New students (first booking) need you to assign a tutor and click Verify.
3. Assign a tutor from the dropdown when needed. You’ll see approximate distance in km and, if the lesson has a date/time, whether that tutor has blocked hours that overlap the lesson (avoid assigning if they’re unavailable). The dropdown prefers the previous tutor for returning students if auto-verify didn’t run (e.g. slot clash).
4. Verify moves the booking to pending payment. The system stores the tutor’s lesson time so the same tutor cannot be verified again for another booking that overlaps that time — this prevents double booking. If you try, you’ll get an error to choose another tutor or ask the student to change the slot.
5. Tutor calendar blocks (red slots they set themselves) are a separate hint: they mark “I’m not free then.” Booked lessons are enforced at verification time as above.
6. Manual / offline payment (WhatsApp bookings, EFT, or Yoco paid outside the normal link): use Record payment for … on that row — it names the learner the booking is for. Upload proof (image or PDF) and/or paste the Yoco link and payment details, then save. The booking is marked paid for tutors and dashboards.

After verification, students with a Google login pay from their dashboard; for learners you booked manually, use Record payment for … when you have proof.