Driving school management, done properly. And a self-management suite for solo learners.
One workspace for your whole school — calendar, lessons, payments, progress-tracked lessons, theory practice, route planning. The same toolkit, in your pocket, for learners who run their own journey.
Run your school from one workspace.
Drag-drop calendar, instant payments, progress rubric, multi-staff with permissions, your own public booking page. Replaces the spreadsheet and the group chat.
- Calendar, payments, rubric, theory and waitlist in one place
- Host multiple instructors, each with their own permissions
- Your own public page at passdesk.co.uk/s/your-school
Your full self-management suite for learning to drive.
Between lessons, with family, or while you save up — the same toolkit a Passdesk school gives its students, in your pocket and run by you.
- The full DVSA-aligned toolkit — theory, rubric, test-ready %, time-to-test
- Plan your route to test day — practice routes, your test centre on a map
- Bring your own instructor, or learn solo with family supervision
Running a school today can mean juggling tools that weren't built for it.
Bookings in a group chat. Payments in a notes app. Progress on paper. And theory test prep happens somewhere else entirely. Passdesk pulls every piece of the journey into one place — for you, your staff, and your students.
Bookings in texts and chats
Texts get missed. Slots double-book. Cancellations go unnoticed until the instructor's car is parked outside.
Payments scattered
Bank transfers, cash on the day, half-remembered "I'll get you next week". Nobody knows the real balance.
Theory and practical drift apart
Lessons in one app, theory revision in another, no shared view of how close to test-ready they actually are.
One workspace, eight pillars.
Everything a UK driving school needs to run lessons, take payments, and get students through their test — plus theory, route planning, and an in-car flow that works offline.
Scheduling
Drag-drop calendar that syncs with Google Calendar (Outlook coming soon). Automatic 24h and 2h reminders. Late-cancel policy enforcement built in.
Learn more →Payments
Stripe checkout, stored cards, deposits and no-show fees auto-charged. Live balance in lesson hours.
Learn more →Progress & rubric
30+ test-aligned skills, test-ready %, transmission-aware. Lesson notes carry forward.
Learn more →Waitlist
Cancellation slots auto-offered to waiting students with a 10-minute claim window.
Learn more →Theory testing
14 official theory-test categories, mock mode with the real 57-minute timer and 43/50 pass mark.
Learn more →Routes & test prep
Practice route library by test centre. Draw, upload GPX, or live-record from your phone.
Learn more →In-car mobile flow
Offline-capable lesson capture: odometer, location, quick reactions. Syncs when reconnected.
Learn more →UK compliance
Licence fields, ADI/PDI tracking, GDPR consent log, audit log, phone-verified accounts.
Learn more →Add staff, set permissions, see where the gaps are.
Schools grow. Passdesk grows with you. Every plan above Solo supports multiple staff with their own permissions, payroll-grade earnings tracking, and a utilisation heatmap that shows you where the open capacity is.
Email invitations, pre-set permissions
Invite staff with exactly the access they need. Owner, instructor, or office.
Instructor earnings cockpit
Hourly rate, month-to-date earned, by-week breakdown. No spreadsheet required.
Utilisation heatmap
Spot the underused slots, plan around peak demand, and recognise the instructors who keep filling up.
Customise the rubric
Hide skills you don't teach. Rename. Add your own. Reorder. Per-school.
A calendar that doesn't fight you.
Drag a lesson to a new slot. The student gets the email. The instructor gets a push. The cancellation policy quietly does the right thing in the background.
- Drag-drop calendar with day, week and month views — a familiar day/week/month layout your instructors will pick up in minutes.
- Repeating slots for regular Tuesday-at-six learners; one-off overrides without breaking the series.
- Saved meeting locations per instructor — pickup or fixed point, with notes the student sees.
- Cancellation policy enforced automatically — late-cancel fee inside the policy window, fee charges itself.
Get paid up front, automatically.
Card checkout, saved-card payments via Stripe, and the awkward bits — deposits, late-cancel fees, no-shows — charged automatically against the policy you set.
- Card checkout for packages and one-off lessons; refunds go through cleanly — no double-charges, no duplicated refunds.
- Saved cards via Stripe — students opt in once, then deposits and fees pull silently. Card details stay with Stripe, never on our servers.
- Stripe customer portal for students — manage cards, download invoices.
- Live balance per student in lesson hours, not pounds — the unit your instructors actually think in.
Test-aligned progress, every student can read.
The same five categories every examiner scores against, on a four-point scale, transmission-aware. Plus curated YouTube videos per skill, with watched tracking.
- Five test categories: Control, Manoeuvres, Junctions, Road types, Conditions — with weighted test-ready %.
- Transmission-aware — automatic-only learners don't see gear-related skills.
- Lesson notes carry forward — the next instructor sees what to focus on before the student gets in the car.
- Curated skill videos — hand-picked YouTube content per test-required skill with watched tracking.
Fill cancellations before you've finished cancelling.
Students set a preference window — days, hours, instructor, transmission. When a slot opens, Passdesk fans out three offers in parallel and the first tap wins.
- Preference windows — date range, weekdays, hour-of-day, instructor and transmission.
- Multi-channel offers — push, SMS and email fan out simultaneously, every send logged.
- 10-minute claim window — first tap wins, race-safe in a transaction.
- Balance restored automatically on the cancelling student, no admin intervention needed.
The full theory test, built in.
14 official theory-test categories. Practice mode with instant feedback and weak-category hints. Mock mode with the real 57-minute timer and the official 43/50 pass mark. No more "use this app for practical, that one for theory".
- All 14 theory categories — Alertness, Attitude, Safety, Documents, the lot.
- Practice mode — instant feedback, hints when you're weak in a category.
- Mock mode — 50 random Qs, 57-minute timer, 43/50 pass mark.
- Per-question attempt log, weak-category dashboard for the next session.
Practice the actual roads they'll drive on test day.
A library of practice routes anchored to every test centre. Curated by us, added by your school, and recorded live by your students. Draw on a map, upload a GPX, or hit record on your phone and let the geolocation API capture every turn.
- Three tiers — global curated, school library, personal recordings.
- Three creation methods — draw on a map, upload GPX, or live-record from phone.
- Difficulty rating and estimated drive time per route.
- Test prep dashboard — your test centre on a map, recommended routes nearby.
The instructor's flow runs on a phone, even with no signal.
Tap "Start". Capture the odometer, location, and quick reactions during the lesson. Tap "End", confirm billable minutes. If you were in a Faraday cage of a multi-storey, the data queues up and syncs the moment you hit fresh air. Install Passdesk on the home screen; it behaves like a native app.
- Start time + odometer capture, location pin per lesson.
- Quick-reaction taps for safety incidents and praise.
- Offline-first — every action queues, syncs on reconnect.
- PWA — installable on iOS and Android, your school's icon on the home screen.
A booking page that does the selling for you.
Every Passdesk school gets a public page at passdesk.co.uk/s/your-school. Tagline, packages, photos, social links — and a signup form that turns a curious learner into a booked first lesson without you lifting a finger. Listed in our public directory too.
- Your tagline, packages, photos, social URLs
- Built-in signup form — new students arrive in your tenant pre-onboarded.
- Featured products with strike-through pricing
- Listed in passdesk.co.uk/schools — sortable by location.
The Passdesk schools directory
Learners can browse every Passdesk school sorted by their postcode — free acquisition for you.
The solo learner cockpit.
Whether you're saving up for an ADI, doing private practice with family, or topping up between paid lessons — Passdesk gives you the same kit a school student gets, minus the school. One app, run by you.
Test-aligned rubric
Self-mark 30+ skills across 5 categories after every drive.
Theory practice + mock
14 categories, instant feedback, 57-minute mock with the real 43/50 pass mark.
Your test centre on a map
Pick your test centre, see practice routes nearby with difficulty recommendations.
Personal route library
Draw on a map, upload a GPX, or live-record routes from your phone.
Curated skill videos
Hand-picked YouTube content per test-required skill, with watched tracking.
Test-ready % & countdown
An honest number that updates as you improve, with the three skills to focus on next.
Invite an instructor
Add an ADI any time — they join your logbook, you stay in control.
Yours, secure, accessible
Phone-verified, GDPR-tracked, WCAG 2.1 AA, install as an app on your phone.
Start your Passdesk logbook today.
7-day free trial · No charge during trial · Cancel any time · £9.99/month after
Compliance baked in, not bolted on.
Built in the UK, by people who have been through the test. Every required field, every audit trail, every consent log — and it's all in a UK-hosted database.
Schools pay per workspace. Solo learners pay for themselves.
Free trial on every plan — 30 days for schools, 7 days for solo learners. Card required at signup (verified by Stripe, no charge during trial). Email always included. SMS at cost. Cancel any time before your trial ends and you won't be billed; cancel after and you stay active until the end of your current billing month, with your data ready to come with you.
1 learner · 1 invited instructor
- Self-mark test-aligned rubric, test-ready %
- Theory practice + mock
- Practice route library + test centre map
- Curated skill videos
- Invite an instructor any time
- Test-ready % & time-to-test countdown
50 students · 3 staff
- Drag-drop scheduling + waitlist
- Stripe checkout, deposits, fees
- Test-aligned rubric + theory + routes
- Expense ledger + HMRC self-assessment (MTD-ready)
- Public school booking page
- In-car mobile + offline
- Email support
- Feature requests — we read every one
200 students · 10 staff
- Everything in Starter
- Custom branding + colour
- Custom signup-form fields
- Custom domain (e.g. learn.yourschool.co.uk)
500 students · 20 staff
- Everything in Pro
- Founder-led support — straight to the person who built it
Unlimited students & staff
- Everything in Team
- Public API access + webhooks
- Founder direct line — same working day
Your products, imported automatically.
Most schools have a website that already lists their packages. Don't retype them. Paste the URL — Passdesk reads the page and creates the products for you.
Product import from URL
Paste the page that already lists your packages. Passdesk extracts each product (name, price, hours) and creates them in your tenant. Edit and confirm — total time, four minutes.
Up and running in an afternoon
Once your products are in, invite your staff, share your public page, and start your first lessons — all from the same workspace. Bring real data on a 30-day free trial.
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30 days for schools, 7 days for solo learners. Real data. Cancel any time.
Move your school over in one sitting.
Paste your packages URL, invite your staff, share your public page. Calendar, payments, rubric, theory, routes, in-car offline — all in one workspace.
Start free trialYour full driving-test toolkit, run by you.
Theory + rubric + test prep + practice routes + skill videos. Invite an instructor when you're ready. £9.99/month after a 7-day free trial — card required (verified by Stripe, no charge during trial).
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