About Passdesk

Why this exists

Driving schools are run by people who'd rather be in a car than in a spreadsheet. Much of the software in this space comes with a franchise contract, so an instructor who leaves the franchise loses their diary too. Independent instructors are left with a mix of paper, group chats and a calendar export from a booking site.

Passdesk gives a school one workspace for its calendar, payments, progress tracking, theory, routes and learner app, however the school is run. Passdesk isn't a franchise itself: an independent instructor pays a flat subscription, keeps their own brand and owns their data. A school that franchises its instructors can set each one's fees on the Team and Scale plans, as a weekly or monthly fee, a share of takings or a rate per hour, and Passdesk drafts their statements for the school to check and send.

Who's behind it

Passdesk is built and run by Passdesk Ltd, a small UK company registered in England & Wales (company number 17193377) and registered with the ICO. We aren't a franchise and we don't sell lessons, so we have no reason to come between you and your learners.

Email hello@passdesk.co.uk and it reaches the people who build Passdesk, not a call centre.

Your data

You own it. Export every record (students, lessons, payments, progress, theory results and your diary) whenever you like.

Solo learners

The other audience is the learner who can't or won't sign up to a school yet — between paid lessons, with family supervision, or saving up for the test. They get the same toolkit as a Passdesk school's students, on a £9.99/mo subscription they can stop once they pass.

Solo and school accounts run independently today. Carrying a solo logbook (progress, theory results and routes) into a Passdesk school is in active development.

The principles

• The school owns the relationship. Passdesk is the tool the school and its learners share.
• Day-to-day work comes first. Features are judged by whether they help when you're running lessons on a wet Tuesday morning.
• Your data stays yours. Export your students, payments, progress and routes whenever you like.
• Hosted in the UK. Your data is held in London and encrypted, and we're registered with the ICO and follow UK and EU data protection law.
• Priced per school. Each plan covers a set number of instructors, office staff are free, and Pro and Team schools add instructors at £10 a month each. Solo learners pay monthly and stop when they pass.