Read Teachworks students, families, tutors, lessons, invoices and payments; book lessons. Hosted by usefulapi — connect from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or any MCP client.
Team and Enterprise: an Owner adds the connector for the organization first.
Run this command, then run /mcp in Claude Code to log in:
Add to Cursor or add this to ~/.cursor/mcp.json:
{
"mcpServers": {
"teachworks": {
"url": "https://teachworks.usefulapi.io/mcp"
}
}
}Add to VS Code or add this to .vscode/mcp.json:
{
"servers": {
"teachworks": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://teachworks.usefulapi.io/mcp"
}
}
}No Add custom MCP server option? It depends on your account or workspace settings: see OpenAI's guide.
Run these commands. The second one opens the login page:
Other MCP clients (Windsurf, Cline, Zed and more): add the URL as a remote MCP server (Streamable HTTP). The client then opens the login page in your browser. Do not add an Authorization header: see Before you connect.
The login page asks for your Teachworks API token.
In Teachworks go to Account → Integrations & Add-ons, search for API, switch it on, open Settings and click Generate API Token. The API is available on the Growth and Premium plans. Your token is used only to call the API on your behalf and to derive a private account id; it is never shown to anyone.
Add only the URL. Do not add an Authorization header or an API key to the client config. The server signs you in with OAuth: the login page asks for your Teachworks API token. If the config has such a header, remove it: some clients then send that header instead of the login token, and every call fails with 401.
Turn on the Teachworks connector, then ask in plain words. The AI picks the tools.
| Tool | Type | What it does |
|---|---|---|
teachworks_list_students | read | List students List or search students (child students of families and independent students) with their school, grade, subjects, status, billing method and default teachers. GET /students. |
teachworks_get_student | read | Get student Retrieve one student profile: contact details, school/grade, billing, custom fields, default teachers/services. GET /students/{id}. |
teachworks_list_customers | read | List customers List or search customers — the billed profiles: families (with child students) and independent students. Returns contact details, status and last invoice date. GET /customers. |
teachworks_get_customer | read | Get customer Retrieve one customer (family or independent student) with contact details and custom fields. GET /customers/{id}. |
teachworks_list_employees | read | List employees List or search employees — teachers/tutors and administrative staff — with subjects, status and wage settings. GET /employees. |
teachworks_get_employee | read | Get employee Retrieve one employee (teacher or staff): contact details, subjects, wage type, bio, permissions. GET /employees/{id}. |
teachworks_get_employee_earnings | read | Get employee earnings Total earnings of one employee (lessons, other events, other compensation, total) for an optional lesson status and date range. GET /employees/{id}/earnings. |
teachworks_get_lesson_totals | read | Get lesson totals Lesson totals for one student, customer or employee: count (default), duration in minutes, or (employees only) earnings, broken down by status, for an optional status and date range. GET /{students|customers|employees}/{id}/lesson_totals. |
teachworks_list_lessons | read | List lessons List lessons (the calendar) with teacher, service, location, start/end, duration, status and participants. Filter by teacher, student, location, service, status and date range. GET /lessons. |
teachworks_get_lesson | read | Get lesson Retrieve one lesson with its participants (students, statuses, charges, notes), teacher, wage and cost. GET /lessons/{id}. |
teachworks_list_other_events | read | List other events List non-lesson calendar events (meetings, open houses, staff work) with location, times and participants. GET /other_events. |
teachworks_list_availabilities | read | List teacher availability List teachers' weekly availability slots (day of week + start/end time). Use before scheduling a lesson. GET /availabilities. |
teachworks_list_invoices | read | List invoices List invoices with customer, number, dates, status (Saved, Approved, Paid, Void) and totals. Filter by customer, status, invoice date or due date range. GET /invoices. |
teachworks_get_invoice | read | Get invoice Retrieve one invoice with its line items (lessons, charges), taxes and totals. GET /invoices/{id}. |
teachworks_list_payments | read | List payments List customer payments (amount, method, date, refunds, invoice allocations). Filter by customer and date range. GET /payments. |
teachworks_get_payment | read | Get payment Retrieve one payment with its refunds and the invoices it is allocated to. GET /payments/{id}. |
teachworks_list_locations | read | List locations List locations and sub-locations (rooms) where lessons take place. GET /locations. |
teachworks_list_services | read | List services List services (lesson types such as 'Math Tutoring') with their default cost and wage. GET /services. |
teachworks_list_subjects | read | List subjects List standard subjects (used on student and teacher profiles). GET /subjects. |
teachworks_create_family | write | Create family WRITE: create a family customer (the billed parent profile that child students belong to). Add children afterwards with teachworks_create_child_student. POST /customers/family. |
teachworks_create_child_student | write | Create child student WRITE: create a child student under an existing family (the family is billed for their lessons). POST /students. |
teachworks_create_lesson | write | Create lesson WRITE: schedule a single lesson on the calendar for one or more students with a teacher, service and location. Check teachworks_list_availabilities and teachworks_list_lessons first to avoid conflicts. POST /lessons. |
teachworks_add_student_to_lesson | write | Add student to lesson WRITE: add a student to an existing lesson (the lesson must still be Scheduled). PUT /lessons/{id}/add_student. |
teachworks_create_payment | write | Record payment WRITE: record a payment received from a customer (bookkeeping only — it does not charge a card). POST /payments. |
teachworks_usage_status | Usage status (free-tier meter) Report the caller's current usage: the plan, calls used this month, the limit of the plan (the free monthly cap or the Pro fair use limit), remaining, and whether the limit is reached. Read-only; does not count against the meter. | |
teachworks_request_feature | Request a missing feature Tell usefulapi that the user needs something the Teachworks tools cannot do yet (a missing tool, field or filter). Call it only when the user asks for something none of the tools can do, and tell the user that you send the request. Do not call it for errors or for normal requests. Do not include personal data, credentials or customer records. Stored with the product name and the client type (for example Claude or Cursor), without the user's account. At most 5 requests per day. Does not count against the meter. | |
teachworks_upgrade | Upgrade to Pro (unlimited*) Get Pro: unlimited tool calls (fair use limit: 10,000 a month) on Teachworks (the free tier caps monthly usage). Plans: "monthly" — $9/month; "yearly" — $90/year (2 months free). Cancel any time: Pro then runs to the end of the paid period, so it also suits a one-time job. *A fair use limit applies. For heavy use (near Pro's limit): "plus" or "plus_yearly" — Pro+, $19/month or $190/year, unlimited tool calls (fair use limit: 100,000 a month); an existing Pro subscription changes to Pro+ in place (needs confirm: true; the price difference for the rest of the period is charged at once). Otherwise returns a short link to open in your browser (it opens Stripe Checkout); after payment the account upgrades automatically. Does not count against the meter. | |
teachworks_cancel_subscription | Cancel the Pro subscription Cancel the caller's Teachworks Pro subscription at the end of the paid period (no refund for the current period; Pro continues until then, then the free tier applies). Requires confirm: true. Run teachworks_upgrade later to undo the cancel before the period ends. Does not count against the meter. |
| Plan | Price | Limit |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 50 tool calls / month |
| Proper user | $9/mo · $90/yr | Unlimited* |
*Pro fair use limit: 10,000 tool calls a month on this server. For more, write to [email protected].
Pro covers this Teachworks server only. Subscribe with teachworks_upgrade (it returns a Stripe Checkout link). Cancel any time with teachworks_cancel_subscription: Pro continues to the end of the paid period, with no refund for the current period, and running teachworks_upgrade before then undoes the cancel. Or write to [email protected].
No. usefulapi is an independent service. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Teachworks. The server calls the Teachworks API with your own Teachworks access, so it sees only the data that your account can see.
Yes. In Claude, add this server's URL as a custom connector. In ChatGPT, add it as a custom MCP server in Plugins. Then log in once. Cursor, VS Code, Claude Code and Codex work too. See the setup steps.
The login page asks for your Teachworks API token. See Before you connect for where to find it.
No. Add only the URL. Do not add an Authorization header or an API key to the client config. The server signs you in with OAuth: the login page asks for your Teachworks API token. If the config has such a header, remove it: some clients then send that header instead of the login token, and every call fails with 401.
The login stores them encrypted in the authorization grant of your connection. The server uses them to call the Teachworks API for you and to derive a private account id for usage metering. usefulapi does not show them on any page or in any reply. To stop all access, remove the connector and change or delete these credentials in Teachworks.
Yes, if you approve it. 5 of the 24 Teachworks tools can create or change data. The other 19 are marked read-only. Most MCP clients ask you to approve a tool call before it runs.
The Free plan gives 50 tool calls / month. Pro costs $9/mo or $90/yr, with unlimited tool calls (fair use limit: 10,000 tool calls a month), for this Teachworks server only. Cancel any time: Pro then runs to the end of the paid period. Run teachworks_usage_status to see how many calls you used.
Ask the AI to run teachworks_upgrade: it returns a Stripe Checkout link. To cancel, run teachworks_cancel_subscription. Pro continues to the end of the paid period.
Tell the AI what you wanted to do. It can send the request with teachworks_request_feature. We store the text with the server name, the type of AI client and the tool you tried, not with your account, and read every request when we plan new tools. You can send up to 5 requests per day.
Any client that supports remote MCP servers (Streamable HTTP) with OAuth login: Claude (web and desktop), Claude Code, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf and others.
This is a Model Context Protocol endpoint — meant to be connected from an AI client, not opened in a browser. An invalid_token response at the URL is the auth gate working as designed; clients authenticate automatically.