Everything you'll pay, on one page.
Schools pay per workspace, and each plan covers a set number of instructors. On Pro and Team you can add instructors one at a time for £10 a month each, and office staff are free on every plan. Solo learners pay for themselves. Every school tier runs the same workspace and phone app; the tiers differ on learner and instructor limits, Team adds custom branding, instructor regions, franchise fees and webhooks, and Scale adds API access for up to 25 instructors.
Learners find you, and we take no commission. Publish your school page and it's listed in the Passdesk school directory. Enquiries come straight to you, with no finder's fee or commission on the lessons they book.
- 30-day free trial for schools, 14 days for solo
- No card needed
- Cancel any time and export your data whenever you like
- Free migration from your current diary app
- Hosted in the UK, ICO-registered, GDPR-compliant for UK and EU customers
- Built for UK schools, billed in pounds
Schools pay per workspace. Solo learners pay for themselves.
Free trial on every plan — 30 days for schools and 14 days for solo learners, with no card needed. Email is always included, and texts up to a monthly fair-use limit on every plan.
Prices below are in pounds.
50% off your first 12 months
The first 25 schools on Passdesk join as founding members and pay half price for a year on the Instructor and Pro plans, monthly or annual. The discount is on your plan, so add-ons and the optional setup service are full price. The count is based on real signups, and the offer closes when the slots are gone.
24 of 25 left
For schools and instructors
Just you? Instructor. Two to eight instructors? Pro, adding seats after four. Nine to 25? Team or Scale. More than 25? Network.
Office staff are free on every plan. Only people who teach take a seat.
60 active learners · just you
- Drag-drop scheduling + waitlist
- Stripe checkout, deposits, fees
- Test-aligned rubric + routes, with theory in the UK
- UK expense ledger + tax exports for Xero and FreeAgent
- Public booking page
- In-car mobile + offline
- Works with Claude and ChatGPT — ask about your diary in plain English
- Email support
- Upgrade to Pro when you take on a second instructor
- Free while you train as a PDI — up to 12 months, no card
Founding schools: 50% off for 12 months
Start free trial150 learners · you + 3 instructors
- Everything in Instructor
- 3 instructor seats as well as you — each instructor gets their own login and calendar
- Add up to 4 more instructors at £10 a month£100 a year each — up to 8 in all, and each seat adds 40 learners
- Every instructor's lessons in one school view
- Staff permissions — choose who sees payments and progress
- 150 active learners — enough for four busy instructors
- Public school booking page, with your instructors on it
Founding schools: 50% off for 12 months
Start free trial500 learners · you + 10 instructors
- Everything in Pro
- Add up to 9 more instructors at £10 a month£100 a year each — up to 20 in all, and each seat adds 40 learners
- Custom branding + colour
- Custom signup-form fields
- Instructor regions — online bookings and enquiries go to the instructors who cover each area
- Franchise fees — weekly or monthly statements for instructors you franchise
- Webhooks
Unlimited learners · you + 24 instructors
- Everything in Team
- Public API access
- AI assistants can book and cancel lessons
- Priority support
More than 25 instructors?
Start on Scale today. Its flat price covers your first 25 instructors, and when you need more we add them to your workspace at a per-instructor rate we quote for you. Running several schools? Each can take its own plan, or we'll quote the group as one.
For solo learners
For learning with family, between schools or on your own. One monthly plan that you stop when you pass.
1 learner · 1 invited instructor
- Self-mark test-aligned rubric, test-ready %
- Theory practice + mock (UK)
- Practice route library + test centre map
- Curated skill videos
- Invite an instructor any time
- Test-ready % & time-to-test countdown
Texts and add-ons
Texts come with your plan. The three add-ons are pay-as-you-use, and your subscription fee doesn't change whether you use them or not.
- Text messages — included up to a monthly fair-use limit that rises with your plan. There's no extra charge for texts, and we'll give you at least 30 days' notice before that changes. At the limit, texts pause until the next month and email and app notifications carry on. Texts only go out when you turn them on, and start once your subscription does.
- Webpage imports — paste your existing site URL and Passdesk extracts your lesson packages (and your About / Contact text the same way). First 5 imports per school are free; £5 buys a 10-pack of additional imports; packs never expire. Manual product entry is always free.
- Recording mile top-ups (UK) — each user — instructor or learner — gets 50 free recording miles for life. After that, £5 buys a 50-mile top-up pack per user, and you can buy up to five at once; packs never expire. Drawing or uploading routes (no recording) is always free.
- AI credit — for AI features such as lesson debriefs and the Help assistant. Every school starts with £4 of AI credit, about 300 lesson debriefs, once. After that, £5 buys £4 more, up to five packs at a time; credit never expires and doesn’t renew each month. When it runs out, AI features pause until you top up, and nothing is bought unless you choose to.
Optional: we can set your school up for you, from £49 one-off and free on annual plans. Most schools do it themselves for free.
The true monthly cost
Most diary apps in this market price per instructor and sell the rest back as add-ons. When you compare, add up what the sticker price doesn't cover:
| Passdesk | Typical per-instructor tools | |
|---|---|---|
| Pupil & parent access | Included, unlimited | Sometimes a paid add-on or capped |
| Online booking page | Included on every plan | Often the next tier up |
| SMS | Included up to a monthly fair-use limit, opt-in | Bundled credits, marked up |
| Adding instructors | Each plan covers a set number, then £10 a month per extra instructor on Pro and Team; office staff free | Every instructor added to the bill |
| Theory, routes, expenses/MTD | Included on every plan (theory and expenses in the UK) | Separate apps, separately paid |
| Setup fees & minimums | None required. Done-for-you setup is optional | Varies — check the small print |
The sticker price above, plus any extra instructor seats you add on Pro or Team, is the whole subscription. The only other extras are the three pay-as-you-use add-ons listed in the section before this one — and 2.5% + 20p on each lesson payment taken through Passdesk, with Stripe's card processing included in that figure. AI features, such as AI lesson debriefs, use your AI credit and are never billed on top: once it's used, they pause until you choose to buy more.
Pricing FAQ
Trials, upgrades, cancelling, and what happens to your data.
What is the founding-schools offer?
The first 25 schools on Passdesk join as founding members and pay 50% less for their first 12 months on the Instructor and Pro plans. The counter at the top of the tiers shows how many slots are left, read from the number of founding schools that have signed up. There’s no code to enter: sign up on an eligible plan while slots remain and the discount is applied to your subscription. It comes off your plan, monthly or annual, and any extra instructors you add to it. On annual billing it’s taken off the yearly invoice as half the monthly price for each of your first 12 months that’s left. Add-on packs and the optional setup service are full price.
What if it turns out not to be for me?
Your trial needs no card, so it costs nothing unless you subscribe. Once you have paid, cancel and you stay active to the end of the month you have already paid for; there is no refund of part of a month, and no notice period or exit fee either. Cancelling is a button in your billing page. Your learners, lessons, payments and progress export as CSV whenever you want them, and we keep your workspace for 30 days in case you come back, then permanently delete it within 45 days of cancelling unless you ask us to hold it longer.
Do you charge to move my data across?
No. Send the export from your current diary app and it is set up for you — learners, lesson history, packages and balances, progress and test results — on any plan, including during the trial. The same six importers are on the Import data page if you would rather do it yourself.
Do I get anything for referring another school?
Yes. Every school has a referral link in its billing page. When a school you send over pays its first invoice, you get a month’s credit on your next one, worth a month of whichever plan is cheaper, yours or theirs.
Is there a free plan for trainee instructors?
Yes. If you are training towards your ADI badge, Passdesk is free until you qualify, for up to 12 months. Sign up the same way, tick the PDI box and add your DVSA reference number (PRN), which is on DVSA's emails and letters about your ADI tests. No card needed. No PRN yet? You start on the 30-day trial and can add it from Billing when it arrives. Once your badge is verified, or the 12 months are up, you get 30 days to choose a plan, and nothing is charged before you do. It's one free period per person, checked against the PRN. Within 30 days you upload proof you're training — a photo or screenshot of a DVSA letter or email showing your name and PRN, or your trainee licence — and we check it. Without it, the free period ends then and you get 30 days to choose a plan.
Is there a free trial?
Yes. Schools get 30 days and solo learners get 14, and neither needs a card. Subscribe whenever you are ready, schools from Billing and solo learners from Subscription in their account. With at least two days left, the rest of your trial carries over and nothing is charged until it ends; in the last two days, the first payment is taken straight away. Nothing is charged unless you subscribe.
Do you charge per instructor or per workspace?
Schools pay per workspace per month, and each plan covers a set number of instructors and learners (Instructor: just you and 60 learners; Pro: you + 3 instructors and 150 learners; Team: you + 10 instructors and 500 learners; Scale: you + 24 instructors and unlimited learners). On Pro and Team you can add instructors one at a time for £10 a month each (£100 a year on annual billing), and each extra seat adds room for 40 more learners. Pro takes up to 4 extra seats and Team up to 9; one more and the next plan up costs the same. Office staff are free on every plan, and learners who have passed never count towards the cap. Above 25 instructors, Scale still covers the first 25 and each extra instructor is added at a per-instructor rate we quote for you. That is Network pricing.
Do office staff need a seat?
No. Only people who teach take a seat. Office staff, and you as the owner, are free on every plan. If someone in the office starts teaching, they take a seat from then on.
Are there any setup fees or hidden costs?
No setup fee is required, and there are no usage minimums. Setting up is free, and so is moving your data from your current app. If you’d rather we did the whole setup with you, that’s an optional extra from £49, and it’s free on annual plans. Past what your plan includes, Pro and Team schools can add instructors at £10 a month each, and office staff are always free. Texts are included up to a monthly fair-use limit at no extra charge. The three pay-as-you-use add-ons are webpage imports (5 free per school, then £5 per 10-pack), recording mile top-ups in the UK (50 free per person — instructor or learner — lifetime, then £5 per 50-mile pack) and AI credit for features such as AI lesson debriefs (£4 free per school to start, then £5 for £4 of credit, about 300 debriefs, which never expires). Lesson payments taken through Passdesk cost 2.5% + 20p per payment, all-in, with Stripe’s card processing included. Email is always included.
Can I switch tiers later?
Yes, any time. Upgrades take effect immediately and we pro-rate your billing. Downgrades take effect at the next billing cycle. No tier change resets your data — students, lessons, payments and rubric history stay intact.
Can I save with annual billing?
Yes — annual billing on Instructor / Pro / Team / Scale gets you 2 months free (toggle the billing frequency on the pricing table). Solo stays monthly so you can stop paying once you pass.
What if we have more than 25 instructors, or several schools?
Start on Scale — its flat price covers your first 25 instructors. When you need more, email [email protected] and we'll add them to your workspace at a per-instructor rate we quote for you. That's Network pricing. A franchise or group can give each school its own plan, or ask us to quote the group as one.
Ready to give it a go?
30-day free trial for schools, 14 days for solo learners. No card needed, and you can cancel any time.
Prices stay put for existing subscribers when we change them — see what we've shipped recently in the changelog.