Four capabilities separate a school system from a multiplied instructor licence: allocation of pupils across instructors with the history intact, an office view of every diary, consolidated finance, and permissions for staff who do not teach.
In a school system the pupil moves and the record moves with them: lesson history, progress against the syllabus, outstanding balance, test date, and the login the pupil already uses. In multiplied single licences the pupil is re-entered by hand in the receiving diary, and everything that happened before stays in the diary they left.
Somebody who is not driving needs to see all the diaries at once: where the gaps are, which instructor is full, which pupil has not booked for three weeks, which tests are coming up.
DriveInstruct publishes a school dashboard with per-instructor analytics on its School plan. MyDriveTime publishes school pricing that includes free admin accounts.
Consolidated finance means takings, outstanding balances, refunds and instructor earnings rolled up across every car by the system.
Staff who answer the phone and book lessons need to see and edit diaries without being instructors, and permissions decide whether they also see instructor earnings and pupil payment details.
Surveyed 6 September 2026 from providers' own pages.
| Provider | School product published | Price |
|---|---|---|
| DriveInstruct | ✓ School plan, dashboard, per-instructor analytics, to 10 instructors | £49/mo flat |
| MyDriveTime | ✓ school pricing, free admin accounts, setup and migration support | £19 then £15 · £10 · £5 |
| DriveSchoolPro | ✓ stated to cover solo ADIs and multi-instructor schools | £0 until 31 Mar 2027 |
| Total Drive | ✓ school price published for 1 to 15 instructors, sales contact above that | £12 to £18 per instructor |
| Lesson Diary | single plan published | £9.99/mo |
| GoRoadie Pro | ✓ GoRoadie Schools, a separate multi-instructor product with an admin dashboard | not published |
| ADI Network | not stated | £0 |
In a franchise operation the money runs the other way. The instructor is self-employed, holds the pupil relationship and pays the school a weekly fee, so the system has to account per instructor as well as per school, and the office needs visibility into diaries it does not own.
None of the seven providers surveyed publishes a franchise-specific price.
Count how many of the four capabilities you actually need.
The cheapest paid product changes at five instructors and again at fourteen. Those numbers are worked through in the cost guide.
It works until the office has to do something that spans two instructors. Several licences give you several diaries that do not know about each other. Moving a pupil from one instructor to another means re-entering them, the lesson history stays behind, and the school's finance figure only exists if somebody adds up the individual ones by hand.
Four things: allocation of pupils and lessons across instructors with the history intact, an office or owner view showing all diaries at once, consolidated finance across every car rather than per instructor, and permissions for people who do not teach.
DriveInstruct publishes a School plan at £49 a month covering up to ten instructors, with a school dashboard and per-instructor analytics. MyDriveTime publishes school pricing with tiered per-instructor rates and free admin accounts. Total Drive publishes a school price through a selector for one to fifteen instructors, with the rate falling from £18 to £12 each from the second. DriveSchoolPro states its early access covers solo ADIs and multi-instructor schools. GoRoadie Pro publishes a single-instructor price. Its separate multi-instructor product GoRoadie Schools is published without a price. Lesson Diary publishes a single-instructor plan only. Surveyed 6 September 2026.
Ask for one thing to be done in front of you: move a named pupil from instructor A to instructor B, mid-course, and show what happens to the lesson history, the progress record, the outstanding balance and the pupil's app login.
Usually yes, because the money flows the other way. In a franchise the instructor is self-employed and pays the school, so the system has to account per instructor as well as per school, and the office needs visibility without owning the diary. None of the providers surveyed publishes a franchise-specific price.
The four capabilities are our own criteria, derived from the tasks a multi-car school performs that a single instructor does not. Statements about which providers publish a school product were taken on 6 September 2026 from the providers' own pricing and product pages. Prices and product scope change, and the provider's own information is authoritative. This guide is general information, not advice on your particular business.