I think a lot of students don't know that you're not getting paid unless the confirm it. Maybe it should be made clear that they have to confirm it. Or italki should reduce the automatic confirmation time to 3 days. I believe 7 days is way too long. And I don't really like asking students to confirm their lesson.

It is a hassle. I try to remember, but I have kids taking lessons as well. So I can have up to 3 or 4 lessons a day. So I log into italki and sometimes I have 5 to 15 lessons that need confirmation.

The way their system is set up, I need to rate every one individually, and put in my password for every single one and go back to the home page to go to the next lesson. It takes a long time.

I have emailed italki about this trying to get an easier process to confirm lessons. It would not be a big deal for 1 lesson, but with many, it is just time consuming.

So if it did not take 3 page views to get from one confirmation to the next, and you did not have to enter your password again every time even though you are logged in. It would be a lot easier

So when I have 10 lessons or so to confirm here is the steps

Click actions required
Click the specific lesson
click lesson completed
Rate the lesson and leave a comment
Click enter
Enter Password
Click Enter
Then click home/dashboard to get back to where I can do the next one.

Simple process would be -
Click action required.
Have list of lessons with checkboxes
Select and hit completed with no password

Like I said, I try, but on a typical day, I have 3 or more lessons and I book them weeks in advance, so I do not log in every day. These are for my kids so I am not always there to confirm instantly. I sometimes call them and say - you have a lesson starting in 5 minutes while I am out shopping or something.

I am not sure how many other people are dealing with that many lessons or kids.

Alexandra, many of them know that we get paid only after they confirm it. My students, for instance, who have been taking lessons from me for a long time now, they know and the ones who never confirms, they keep not confirming which is annoying and every 14th of a month I have to send them the same old message  reminding that I have pays to bill. Once a student of mine said "Nah, in seven days it will be confirmed automatically" and then I explained to him that in a certain day of the month I withdrawal the money to my bank account and that I'm also a student on italki and I buy classes from my teachers as well and I depend on their credits, then he started confirming. 

After the lesson, I often leave a message to my students. For example "I'm very glad to have this conversation with you. Please confirm the lesson. If you have any questions, please feel free to leave me a message."