Driving School Booking Software for Blocks and Standing Slots

Learners book their own lessons and pay in the same flow, on your own website or on a standalone kiwilaunch booking page. Sell a block of ten hours up front and let it come off lesson by lesson, and keep the standing Saturday slot on the calendar instead of rebuilding it every week.
  • Learners book and pay online, on your website or a kiwilaunch booking page
    Learners book and pay online, on your website or a kiwilaunch booking page
  • Sell ten-hour blocks up front, redeemed one lesson at a time
    Sell ten-hour blocks up front, redeemed one lesson at a time
  • A length per lesson type, and a break between pick-ups
    A length per lesson type, and a break between pick-ups
  • Take a card at the curb with Tap to Pay on iPhone
    Take a card at the curb with Tap to Pay on iPhone
Two hands on a car steering wheel with sunlight on the dashboard
Instructor talking with a learner driver through the windshield of a parked car
View down a country road from a learner car with an L-plate
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Yellow driving school car with a roof sign parked on a suburban street
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Integrate with your website or use our standalone booking page

Marlowe Driving School's Single Lesson page with a postcode booking widget

Booking widgets in your website

  • Integrate in 3 mins with an embed scriptIntegrate in 3 mins with an embed script
  • Your own web pages convert to paying customersYour own web pages convert to paying customers
  • Compatible with all systems (Wix, Wordpress, Squarespace, Weebly and more)Compatible with all systems (Wix, Wordpress, Squarespace, Weebly and more)
Marlowe Driving School's booking page listing single, two hour and motorway lessons

Standalone booking page

  • Your custom domain and designYour custom domain and design
  • Use in your ads (social media, newsletters)Use in your ads (social media, newsletters)
  • Optimized for conversion and customizableOptimized for conversion and customizable
Laptop showing the kiwilaunch admin dashboard with bookings, sales and staff hours

Driving lesson scheduling software with payments built in

A solo instructor and a six-car school don't run the same week. One is a diary interrupted by a phone buzzing at a junction. The other is a coverage problem across several calendars, where somebody has to know who is free on Thursday. kiwilaunch takes both. Online booking for driving schools runs from an embed script on your own site or a standalone kiwilaunch booking page, and the learner picks a lesson, picks a time, and pays by card in one flow. Each lesson type carries its own length, and the break you set between bookings is the drive from one pick-up to the next.
Hand resting on a manual gear stick with open road ahead

Booking software for driving instructors who can't answer the phone

You're on the dual controls at a busy junction and the phone is buzzing in the door pocket. By the time you're parked, that call is a voicemail with everything still to arrange. Your booking page keeps taking lessons while you teach: a new learner picks the lesson type, takes a slot you have free, and pays by card without either of you speaking. The widget goes onto your own site with a script tag, on Wix, WordPress, Squarespace, Weebly and other site builders, or you can run the standalone booking page if the site doesn't exist yet.
Learner adjusting the rear view mirror before setting off

The ten-hour block, sold once and used week by week

Blocks are how a lot of driving gets sold: ten hours bought at once, a better rate per hour, and a learner who is committed past lesson two. Sell the block as a package through the booking flow, with Stripe taking the card, so the hours are paid for before they're taught. The learner books against the block as they go, and each lesson is redeemed from what they already bought, which keeps the last five minutes of the hour about the reverse park rather than about money.
Learner paying by card at the roadside beside her instructor's car

Saturday at nine, held without rebooking it

A learner who takes the same hour every week is one recurring booking, not a fresh arrangement every Sunday night. Set the rhythm once and the slot stays. With the customer's permission, whether that's the learner or the parent paying for them, the card is charged each time the lesson happens, so nobody is counting out notes in the passenger footwell. Pay-as-you-go learners still book single hours on the same calendar, and when somebody's shift pattern changes, the lesson is rescheduled to another time instead of being canceled and rebuilt.
New driver holding up her keys while a proud parent applauds

Who's free on Thursday, and who's driving where

Each instructor is a staff member with their own shifts and their own calendar, so a cancellation on Thursday morning is a gap you can see rather than a message in a group chat and a name on a whiteboard. Coverage areas are defined per service, by ZIP or post code or by area name, which is what you need when home pick-up covers a different map than the lessons that start from one fixed meeting point. A learner outside that area can't complete the booking, so the length of the drive isn't a discovery you make on the morning of the lesson.
kiwilaunch iPhone app showing the day's lessons and a payment to collect

A driving instructor booking app for the passenger seat

Between lessons you have about as long as it takes to drink a coffee, and one hand free. The kiwilaunch iOS app holds your calendar, your customers, your bookings and your payments, so the next pick-up, the hour a learner just asked for, and the lesson that still hasn't been paid for are all reachable from where you're already sitting. Tap to Pay on iPhone takes a card at the curb when a learner wants to settle up before they get out, with no reader to buy.

iPhone app

Run the whole thing from your iPhone

Everything you'd sit down at a desk for, on the phone that's already in your hand.

kiwilaunch iOS app get started screen

Your booking page, live in minutes. Set it up on the phone and share the link the same day.

kiwilaunch iOS app dashboard with the day's bookings

Today, first thing. Who's coming, what they booked, and who still owes you.

Collecting a payment in the kiwilaunch iOS app

Get paid without the chase. Take the card in person or send a payment link, from the app.

Apple Tap to Pay screen collecting a payment

Take a card with nothing but your iPhone. No reader to buy, carry, or charge.

Download on the App Store

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Flexible pricing plan suited for the size of your business

Free
$0/month
Take bookings and get paid online, with no monthly bill.
  • 100 bookings100 bookings
  • Own branding experienceOwn branding experience
  • Custom labels and localizationCustom labels and localization
  • Custom landing pageCustom landing page
  • Online payments via StripeOnline payments via Stripe
  • Self onboardingSelf onboarding
Transaction fee : 1%
(Excluding payment gateway fees)
Solo
$9/month
One calendar, one person: you.
  • Everything in FreeEverything in Free
  • Unlimited bookings and customersUnlimited bookings and customers
  • Custom domainCustom domain
  • Google Calendar integrationGoogle Calendar integration
  • Marketing integrationsMarketing integrations
Transaction fee : 1%
(Excluding payment gateway fees)
Business
$39/month
Bring your team. Add as many staff members as you need.
  • Everything in SoloEverything in Solo
  • Unlimited team membersUnlimited team members
Transaction fee : 1%
(Excluding payment gateway fees)
Scale
$99/month
Assisted onboarding, enterprise support, and the lowest transaction fee we offer.
  • Everything in BusinessEverything in Business
  • Assisted onboardingAssisted onboarding
  • Enterprise supportEnterprise support
Transaction fee : 0.5%
(Excluding payment gateway fees)

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Frequently asked questions
Can I sell a block of ten hours and let learners book lessons against it?
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Can I set up a standing weekly lesson?
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How do I put online booking on my driving school's website?
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What if my school doesn't have a website?
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I have several instructors covering different towns. Does that work?
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How do payments work for driving lessons?
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Can I run theory or classroom sessions with a set number of seats?
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Can I try it before I pay, and bring my existing learners with me?
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