Free online booking for driving instructors
What you see. A sample dashboard, shown with a cleaning business's bookings.
What your clients see. The driving instructor starter page, before you change anything.
Driving school software is built for several instructors and cars. If you teach on your own, 1MinuteBooking books and sells your lessons, free.
Students book a 1- or 2-hour lesson or your car for their road test, and give you the pickup address as they book. See the booking page
A 5-lesson package books the first lesson, and students book the other four from their own link once it's paid for. How packages work
Travel time blocks your calendar before each lesson, and students farther away pay a travel fee. How travel fees work
No add-ons to buy and no per-feature upgrades. Pro, at $10 a month, only adds your branding, Excel export and analytics.
Clients pay a deposit or the full price by card, Apple Pay or Google Pay as they book, straight into your own Stripe account. How it works
Bookings are confirmed the moment they come in, with a confirmation email. Bookings that look risky still wait for you. How it works
Clients get the date, time and address by email 24 hours before, or when you choose. How it works
A Manage booking button lets clients move or cancel up to a cutoff you set. You get an email for every change. How it works
When you mark a booking Completed, the client gets a Book again button with their last booking filled in. How it works
Every booking shows up in Google, Outlook or Apple Calendar, and moves and cancellations update by themselves. How it works
Paste one line of code, and clients book and pay right on your site.
Square, Calendly and BookingKoala, side by side, for one person running their own business.
| 1MinuteBooking | Square Appointments | Calendly | BookingKoala | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cost for one person | $0, with no time limit. Pro is an optional $10 a month | Free for one location. Plus is $49 a month per location (Oct 2026) | Free for one event type. $10 to $12 a month for more (Oct 2026) | From $27 a month, after a 14-day trial (Oct 2026) |
| Prices built from the job | Hours, quantities, sizes, add-ons and travel fees | Service variations | One event, one length | Pricing parameters for cleaning-style forms |
| Card deposits as they book | On the free plan, into your own Stripe account. 2% plus Stripe's fee | Through Square payments | On paid plans | Through its payment gateway |
| Quote requests with photos | Yes, with your own questions and up to 5 photos | Estimates in Square Invoices, not on the booking page | No | A lead form |
| Travel fees and drive time | A fee and drive time for each distance | Not a built-in setting | No | Pricing by location |
| Setup | Minutes. Your trade's services, prices and questions start filled in | Build your services in the Square dashboard | Build your event types | Pick an industry, then set up forms and providers |
Last updated . From each company's pricing page and help center. Plans change, so check theirs before you decide. Full comparisons: Square Appointments · Calendly · BookingKoala
Driving school software like BookingTimes or Bookitlive is built for schools with several instructors and cars. A solo instructor mainly needs students to book lessons, buy packages and say where to pick them up.
If you run a school with several instructors, school software fits better. If you teach on your own, 1MinuteBooking books lessons and packages with the pickup address in hand. It's free, with no time limit.
Your booking page with stock photos, bookings and quote requests.
Your logo, your own photos and colors, Excel export and analytics, and no "Powered by" badge.
Schools with several instructors use driving-school software. A solo instructor mainly needs lessons, packages and pickup addresses - 1MinuteBooking handles those for free.
Yes. With Stripe Payments on, the 5-lesson package can be charged before the booking goes through, into your own Stripe account. It's optional. Students book the other four lessons from the link in their confirmation email, already paid for. How prepaid packages work.
Yes - add a Mock Road Test add-on and offer it only with the 2-hour lesson. The preset starts without add-ons, so it's yours to price.
Yes - every booking asks for the pickup address for the lesson and what license the student has now.
Yes - buffer time keeps a fixed gap of 5 to 60 minutes before and after every booked lesson, so no other lesson can be booked right up against it.
Yes - with location options. The Driving Instructor preset starts with "Within 20 miles (30 km) of us" (no charge), "20-40 miles (30-65 km) away" (+$15) and "More than 40 miles (65 km) away - we confirm first" (+$30). Change the names, prices and travel times, or add your own, under Settings > Locations. The drive time blocks your calendar but is never shown to the client.
Yes - Road Test: Warm-Up + Car for the Test ($150, 90 minutes) is a starter service: a warm-up drive, then your insured car for the test itself. It sits next to 1-hour ($70) and 2-hour ($130) lessons.
Sign up free with Driving Instructor already selected. You can change anything later.