A milestone is the basic unit of payment on Tutorac — a chunk of scope with its own amount, schedule, and status. Understanding how milestones flow through their lifecycle is the key to using Tutorac confidently: when to release payment, when to wait, what each status indicator means, and how the numbers tie back to refunds if things go sideways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A milestone is one self-contained block of training with three things attached:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You fund milestones one at a time (or all at once if you prefer). Money you fund goes into escrow<\/strong> with Tutorac — the tutor doesn’t receive it until you release it. That’s what makes refunds work even mid-training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Every milestone moves through this flow:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Two off-ramps can occur instead of Released:<\/p>\n\n\n\n On the batch’s Payment tab, each milestone card shows three pieces of state. Read them together to know what’s going on:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Common combinations and what they mean:<\/p>\n\n\n\n The completion percentage isn’t something the tutor types in arbitrarily. It’s tied to the actual scope:<\/p>\n\n\n\n This number drives the cancellation refund bracket. If you’re uncertain, check the milestone activity log on the Payment tab to see what’s being counted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Multi-milestone is generally safer for longer engagements — you keep more leverage and refund flexibility throughout the training. For short trainings, single-milestone is fine and simpler.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Not unilaterally. Scope can only change with your agreement on Messages. If a tutor is pushing for scope changes without you agreeing, that’s worth raising with Support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That’s normal — milestones have scope, not a strict deadline. As long as the work is happening, it’s fine. Long stretches with no progress (no sessions, no Messages reply) tip into dormancy<\/em> — see that policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yes — the Payment tab shows a summary at the top of the batch with total funded, total released, total refunded, and the in-escrow balance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Last updated: 29 May 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What a milestone is on Tutorac, its lifecycle (Funded \u2192 In progress \u2192 Completed \u2192 Released, or Cancelled\/Refunded), the status indicators, how the completion percentage is calculated, and the difference between single- and multi-milestone batches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-for-learners","category-learners-pricing-milestones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tutorac.com\/help-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tutorac.com\/help-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tutorac.com\/help-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tutorac.com\/help-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tutorac.com\/help-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tutorac.com\/help-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tutorac.com\/help-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tutorac.com\/help-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tutorac.com\/help-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}The milestone lifecycle<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
The status indicators<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Completion percentage explained<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Single vs multi-milestone batches<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
FAQs<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Can a tutor change a milestone’s scope after I’ve funded it?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
What if a milestone is taking longer than expected?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Can I see how much I’ve paid across all milestones in a batch?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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