Driving instructors: lesson lengths and pickup points online

Pupils text at all hours to ask for a lesson, and each message needs the length, the place and the time sorted out. Put your lesson lengths and pickup areas on a booking page instead: pupils pick a slot that already says how long it lasts and where you meet, and you drive from one pupil to the next without answering your phone at the wheel.

On Book, each service has a name, a price and an optional description shown on your public page, and each slot belongs to one service, sits within one day and has its own capacity. Give each lesson length its own service with one place per slot.

Durations and prices are examples: set your own.

Say in each description where lessons start: the pupil's home within a set area, a school or college gate, a station, or your office. If you cover several towns, create one service per area, such as "1 hour lesson, pickup in the town centre" and "1 hour lesson, pickup at the college", and open each area's slots on the days you're there.

The booking form takes first name, last name, email and phone, plus an optional note that reaches you in the new booking email and appears in the pupil's calendar file. Ask for the exact pickup address in the note.

If each lesson ends where the pupil wants to be dropped, leave a gap before the next slot to reach the next pickup point. Grouping slots by area on the same day keeps the gaps short.

Slots repeat each week on the weekdays you choose until an end date. Open after-school and Saturday slots for pupils still at school, and daytime slots for adults. When a slot is booked, it leaves your page.

A pupil working towards the test needs regular lessons. At the end of a lesson, book the next ones yourself from your bookings list: first and last name are enough, and if you enter the pupil's email they get a confirmation with a calendar file for each lesson.

Pupils can't move or cancel online: they contact you, and rescheduling works across services, so a one-hour lesson can become a two-hour one. Book doesn't take payments or send reminders. Your bookings sync with Google, iPhone or Mac calendars. Book costs €5/month, everything included: unlimited services and bookings, no commission, no contract.