Description

🚘 Run your entire driving school from one Command Center.
The Driving School and Instructor Scheduling Manager is a complete office system built for driving schools of every size. Book lessons without conflicts, track every student from inquiry to road test, sell packages, send invoices, manage instructors and vehicles, and print the reports your school actually needs. It runs on your own computer and works from any phone, tablet, or laptop on your Wi-Fi. One-time purchase. No subscription, no cloud account, no monthly fees.

📅 Conflict-free scheduling
✅ Day, week, month, and agenda views, plus columns by instructor, vehicle, or room
✅ Instructors, vehicles, rooms, and students can never be double-booked
✅ Drag a lesson to move it, or use the keyboard-friendly Move dialog
✅ Suggested alternatives when a time is taken
✅ Recurring lessons and classroom series with a preview of every date
✅ Temporary holds that expire on their own
✅ Travel buffers, availability shading, leave and holiday blocking
✅ Daylight-saving safe: lessons keep their wall-clock time

🎓 Students and families
✅ Student profiles with a visual Learning Journey from enrollment to completion
✅ Guardians, households, and one billing account per family
✅ Enrollment with consents, signed agreements, and privacy notices
✅ Learner permit tracking with expiry warnings and renewal history
✅ Waiting list with preferred days and one-click booking
✅ Test-readiness checklist: hours, critical skills, recent assessment, valid permit, instructor approval

🎟️ Packages that balance themselves
✅ Lesson or minute packages with a full credit ledger
✅ Units reserved on booking, consumed on completion, released on free cancellation
✅ Late cancellation and no-show policies apply automatically with a clear preview
✅ Make-up lessons linked to the original
✅ Freeze, extend, adjust, or refund with every movement recorded

💳 Finance built for a driving school
✅ Invoices with line items, discounts, tax, credit notes, and statements
✅ Payments with allocation to open invoices, refunds, and receipts
✅ Recurring tuition billing that never creates duplicates
✅ 18 currencies, cents-accurate math, no rounding drift
✅ Expenses, budgets, aging, and instructor earnings from compensation rules

🧑🏫 Instructors and fleet
✅ Availability, breaks, leave, credential and medical expiration checks
✅ Compensation rules: hourly, per lesson, or per minute, with travel allowance
✅ Vehicles with insurance, inspection, and registration dates
✅ Maintenance lockout that lists affected lessons and reassigns them in one step
✅ Pickup locations and route notes printed on confirmations and daily sheets

🎯 Learning and progress
✅ Programs, subjects, levels, and skill libraries
✅ Assessments with 1 to 5 skill ratings, notes, and signatures
✅ Test records for knowledge, practice, and road tests
✅ Printable certificates with your school banner

📨 Communications
✅ Message templates with merge fields
✅ Automatic lesson reminders
✅ Three delivery paths: printable notice, email draft in your own mail app, or your SMTP account
✅ Promotional consent respected automatically

📊 20 report families
Schedule, utilization, attendance, cancellations, waiting list, progress, skill mastery, test outcomes, enrollment funnel, permits and credentials, package balances, credit ledger, revenue, cash received, aging, refunds, expenses vs budget, instructor earnings, vehicle usage, and communications log. Every KPI carries a written definition, every row opens the record behind it, and every report exports to PDF, Excel, or CSV in one click.

📱 Phones and tablets connect in seconds
Scan the QR code on the same Wi-Fi. Instructors get their day, attendance, and completion on their phones. Students and parents get a portal with schedule, progress, invoices, and receipts, and never see other families or staff notes. Optional HTTPS included.

🔐 Your data stays yours
✅ Everything is stored on your computer, never on our servers
✅ Encrypted backups on demand and on a schedule, with verify and restore
✅ CSV import with preview and duplicate handling, full export any time
✅ Roles and per-area permissions enforced by the server
✅ Full audit history of every change with who and when

🎨 Designed to be enjoyed
Five color themes (Coastal Drive, Sunrise Studio, Urban Violet, Forest Journey, and Midnight Drive dark mode), bold readable text, dimensional charts, and a clean layout on desktop, tablet, and phone.

📦 What you receive
✅ Instant digital download, about 19 MB, nothing to install: extract and double-click
✅ Windows 10 and 11 (64-bit), macOS Intel, and macOS Apple Silicon versions included
✅ A complete fictional sample school to explore every feature immediately
✅ Illustrated 58-page user guide with real screenshots, plus an HTML help version
✅ Full source code and acceptance tests
✅ Lifetime license for one school, unlimited computers and devices

🧪 Tested before it ships
Thirty automated acceptance scenarios cover concurrent bookings, package math, idempotent completion, cancellation policies, lockouts, permit and credential expiry, daylight-saving series, family privacy, multi-currency, billing, and backup restore.

⚠️ Note: this is a scheduling and record-keeping tool. Readiness indicators are your school's own assessment, not an official authorization. Card payments are recorded manually; no payment processing is included.

🚀 Stop juggling spreadsheets, paper calendars, and text messages. Give your instructors one shared schedule and your office one source of truth.