A CRM built for driving schools
Students, lessons, instructors and test dates in one place — reminders confirm the diary by themselves, and blocks top up before they run dry.
Free · no signup · a real plan and price in ~10 minutes, in your words.
- to a working prototype
- ~1 week
- to start
- €500
- that top themselves up
- Blocks
Off-the-shelf CRMs were built for a sales team. Not for driving schools.
The diary lives in nine instructors’ phones. One double-booked car and two students are standing on the kerb — one of them won’t come back.
Nobody notices a student is on lesson 11 of a 10-lesson block until the spreadsheet gets reconciled — those hours are simply given away.
Reminders go out by hand, if at all. Every no-show is an hour of instructor and car you’ve already paid for.
Test dates sneak up. A student walks into a practical without a mock, fails, and the retest queue eats three months of momentum.
See it from the inside
What your CRM would look like — screen by screen.
Not stock screenshots — this is the shape of the system we’d build for driving schools: your records, your stages, your words. Click through the screens.
The owner’s morning screen — today’s lessons, the tests coming up, blocks running low — and what the reminders already handled overnight.
A real starting point
Here’s the analysis we’d start from — for driving schools.
Not a template. This is the data model, pipeline and automations a business like yours actually runs on — mapped in your words. Your free analysis produces exactly this, shaped to you.
Your system, mapped
Your pipeline, exactly as your CRM would show it — your stages, your words. This is what we build from.
What it tracks
Where customers reach you
Connects to
Busywork the system takes over
- Lesson reminders — evening-before SMS with one-tap confirm
- Block top-up nudge — offers the next block, with a payment link, when two lessons remain
- Test-day countdown — checklist and what-to-bring, seven days out
- Cancellation backfill — offers a freed slot to the waiting list automatically
What this replaces — where it hurts today
- Diaries in nine different phones
- Blocks quietly overrun unpaid
- Cancelled slots left empty
Your price, from your answers
Standard scopePrototype · 1 weekstart here
€500
- Student + lesson records
- One instructor’s diary board
- The lesson-reminder automation
Full build
€4,000–€7,500
Estimate — it becomes one fixed price on the free call. Never hourly, no surprises.
What sets your scope
- · One diary across instructors and cars
- · Lesson blocks & payment tracking
- · Automated reminders & test countdowns
Run · monthly
€180/mo
Hosting, monitoring, fixes and small improvements.
If you go all the way: ≈ €6,160 first year, all-in — and you own everything. Today's only decision is the €500 prototype.
Questions driving schools ask us
- Do lessons sync with our instructors’ own calendars?
- Yes — two-way. A lesson booked in the CRM lands in the instructor’s Google or Apple calendar, and a slot they block out disappears from yours. Test dates sit on the student record next to it, so the diary and the countdown never disagree.
- Our instructors are self-employed — will they actually use it?
- They barely have to. Each one gets a morning day sheet by text — pickups, cars, routes — and confirmations come back with one tap. You decide what they see: their own diary and students by default, never each other’s.
- How long until we’re live?
- A working prototype in about a week for €500. The full build usually lands in three to six weeks, depending on how many instructors, cars and integrations are in scope.
- Who owns the system and the data?
- You do — entirely. It’s your system, hosted for you, and you can export everything at any time. No per-seat lock-in.
Have a mess like this one?
Book a free 30-min call. We’ll sketch what your version of this system would look like — and put a number on it.
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