DriveSchoolPro company facts
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The company
- Product
- DriveSchoolPro
- Website
- driveschoolpro.com
- Legal entity
- JOHN POWELL LTD, registered in England and Wales
- Company number
- 05408918 (incorporated 31 March 2005)
- Registered office
- 124 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX
- Founder
- John Powell. Previously built and sold RevelationPets.com. First Class Honours in Software Engineering.
- VAT
- Not VAT-registered, so no VAT is charged
- Support
- support@driveschoolpro.com
What it is
- Category
- Driving school software (lesson booking, pupil management and payments)
- Who it is for
- UK approved driving instructors (ADIs), independent instructors and multi-instructor driving schools
- Market
- United Kingdom only, in English. Built around the DVSA National Standard for driver and rider training.
- School size
- Works for a single instructor or a multi-instructor school with many cars: one shared diary, a login for each instructor and office staff, role-based access, and clash checks across pupils, instructors and vehicles
- Platforms
- Web browser, plus apps on the App Store (iPhone) and Google Play (Android)
- Pupils
- Pupils use the same app or any web browser to see lessons and progress, book and pay
Prices
- Now
- Free until 31 March 2027 during early access. Every feature, no card required.
- Free plan (from 1 April 2027)
- £0, permanently. 1 instructor, up to 60 lessons a month, every feature including AI lesson briefings, email reminders.
- Solo (from 1 April 2027)
- £22 a month. 1 instructor, unlimited lessons, text and WhatsApp reminders (coming soon).
- School (from 1 April 2027)
- £22 a month plus £10 for each extra instructor.
- Founding member price
- £15 a month (School: £15 + £8 per extra instructor), locked for 24 months, for accounts that add a card by 1 March 2027.
- Card payments
- 3% on card payments a school collects through DriveSchoolPro, plus Stripe's standard processing fee. No fee on cash or bank transfer.
- Contract
- Monthly, no contract, no setup fee, no cancellation fee
Main features
- Diary
- Day, week and month views, drag-and-drop rescheduling, clash detection, multi-instructor calendar
- Online booking
- Booking widget for the school's own website; pupils book 24/7 within the rules the instructor sets
- Progress tracking
- All 27 DVSA skills across 8 categories, recorded per lesson
- AI lesson briefings
- Pre-lesson briefings generated by Claude (Anthropic). Pupil data is not used to train AI models.
- Payments and invoicing
- Stripe card payments and pay-links on invoices; cash, bank transfer and cheque recording; pupil balances and packages
- Reminders
- Automatic email reminders before every lesson, with delivery logs
- Schools
- Role-based access, vehicle MOT, insurance and service tracking
Not available yet
- Recurring lesson series
- Coming soon
- Test bookings, results and pass-rate reports
- Coming soon
- Bulk import of pupils from another system
- Not available; pupils are added by hand
- Parent or guardian accounts
- Not available
Data and security
- Data controller
- JOHN POWELL LTD, under UK GDPR
- Sub-processors
- Stripe (payments), Neon (database), Vercel (hosting), Resend (email), Anthropic (AI briefings)
- Encryption
- Data encrypted at rest; payments handled by Stripe (PCI DSS Level 1)
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