About OneTerp
Software that understands the work.
Most scheduling software in our field was built to move jobs from one column to another. OneTerp was built from inside the work, by a working interpreter who has spent sixteen years in classrooms, courtrooms, clinics and conference rooms, and who has also sat on the agency side of the desk.
We think how a tool is built says what its makers believe.
So here’s what we believe.
Interpreters are professionals, and professionals need professional tools.
An interpreter is a skilled independent professional running a business, not a resource to be allocated. Yet most platforms treat the interpreter as a login inside someone else’s system: one portal per agency, and nowhere to keep your own records, rates, credentials or career.
At OneTerp the interpreter is a full user. You get one profile, one login, and one schedule across every agency you work with, plus the business tools any other professional would expect for income, expenses, CEUs and a portfolio you own. Interpreters never pay to be on the platform. The person doing the work shouldn’t have to pay to be scheduled.
Agencies are where interpreters and consumers meet.
A good agency does more than fill requests. It matches the right interpreter to the right setting, protects quality, advocates for fair conditions, and carries trust in both directions. Most agency owners are interpreters themselves. They know what goes wrong when the match is wrong.
We don’t believe the answer is an app that cuts agencies out and turns interpreting into gig work. We build to strengthen that relationship. Coordinators should spend their time making good matches instead of chasing confirmations, and interpreters and agencies should be working from the same information.
Our profession only improves when we help newer interpreters improve.
Every one of us was new once. Someone gave us feedback, took a chance on us, or told us what nobody teaches in the program. The quality of interpreting in ten years depends on what we do for the people entering the field now.
That’s why OneTerp Launch gives graduating ITP students a free year of Premium, and why mentoring is built into the platform. New interpreters shouldn’t have to work out the business side alone, and experienced interpreters should have an easy way to give back.
See it in OneTerp
People shouldn’t be overhead.
Per-seat pricing quietly teaches an agency to keep its team small and its interpreters off the system. We think that’s backwards. Agencies pay for the work that moves through OneTerp, and every coordinator and interpreter can be included without counting heads.
The point is access.
Behind every assignment is someone who needs to communicate: a patient, a student, a parent, a defendant, an employee. Every minute an interpreter or coordinator loses to scheduling chaos is a minute taken from the work that matters. Good software should stay out of the way and give that time back.
A note from our founder
I’ve been interpreting for sixteen years. I’ve had the 6 a.m. text asking if I can cover a job across town, done invoices at midnight, kept CEUs in a shoebox, and watched brilliant new interpreters leave the field because nobody showed them how to run a business.
I built OneTerp because I wanted the tool I never had, and because I believe our profession deserves software built with us, not just sold to us.