Booking software for driving instructors in Canada
Your diary is a map: a pickup at a high school at 3:30, another across town at 5, the test centre on Saturday morning. Slotora takes the pickup address with every lesson, keeps travel time between pupils, and sells lesson blocks paid in advance. There is no driving-school category and no licensing paperwork in it — the rest is below. Try it for 14 days.
Try 14 days freeWhat works for a driving instructor
None of this was built for driving specifically. All of it fits.
The pickup point on the booking
Make your lessons a service at the pupil's address, and the booking form asks where to collect them — home, school or work. It is on the lesson in your diary and in the app.
Travel time between pupils
Add travel minutes before and after each lesson, and the page keeps that gap free, so no pupil can book a lesson that starts the minute the last one ends across town.
The area you cover
Limit bookings to a radius around your base, or to a list of up to 200 postal codes or towns, so nobody books a pickup an hour outside your patch.
One hour or two, the pupil chooses
Price your lessons by the hour with a minimum and a maximum, and the pupil picks the length; or set fixed 60- and 90-minute lessons as separate services.
Blocks of lessons paid up front
Sell ten lessons as a pass with an expiry date. Each booking uses one, and you can decide that a no-show uses one too.
Late cancellations charged
A cancellation inside your notice period, or a no-show at the curb, can be charged to the card the pupil left when booking, in Canadian dollars.
What it does not do for driving
- No driving-school category
- You register as Other. Nothing is hidden, but the wording you see is general rather than written for driving.
- No certificates or government reporting
- Slotora does not track in-car hours toward a course, issue completion certificates or send anything to a licensing authority.
- No car scheduling
- If several instructors share cars, Slotora books instructors, not vehicles. You can set cars up as a limited resource, but there is no maintenance log or mileage.
- No skills checklist for pupils
- Write progress in a note on the pupil's card; there is no structured list of manoeuvres to tick off.
- Email reminders, no texts
- Teenage pupils may not read email, and Slotora cannot yet text a Canadian phone, so every lesson reminder lands in an inbox.
- Québec
- Instructors in Québec cannot sign up until our French version for Québec exists.
Instructor licensing differs by province
In British Columbia, ICBC licenses driver training instructors. Its own page says you must be at least 19, hold a valid B.C. licence in the class you will teach with at least three years' driving experience in it, and complete an ICBC-approved instructor training course within two years of your approval letter. The instructor licence itself costs $30, paid when you send in your course certificate.
In Alberta, the province says every driving instructor must be affiliated with a licensed driver training school, and new applicants start by contacting one. That shapes how you would use Slotora there: the school is the business, and each instructor is a bookable person on its account.
Other provinces set their own rules, so check with yours. Slotora does not report lessons or course hours to any of them, and does not issue the certificates some programmes require; keep doing that the way your licence and your school require.
What it costs
Counted by the instructors pupils can book. A school's subscription stops rising at a ceiling.
| An independent instructor | C$19 a month |
|---|---|
| A school with three instructors | C$39 a month |
| 6 instructors or more | C$69 a month |
| One instructor, paid yearly | C$190 a year |
Prices in Canadian dollars. No GST/HST is added at present. No commission on lessons, blocks or fees; Stripe's own fee applies to card payments.
Instructors ask
Can a parent book lessons for their teenager?
Yes. The parent books with their own name and email and gives the pickup address; put the pupil's name in a booking question if it is different.
Can I block out the drive between two pupils?
Yes. Travel time before and after a lesson is set per service and kept free in your diary.
Can I book a road-test day differently from a lesson?
Yes. Make it its own service with its own length and price, and offer it only to existing pupils if you prefer.
Does Slotora report lesson hours to my province?
No. It keeps your bookings; any reporting your licence or school requires is done the way it is done today.
Is there a commission on lessons booked online?
No commission at all, on lessons, blocks or fees.
Sources
Provincial pages on instructor licensing, read on the date shown.
- ICBC — become a driving instructor — https://partners.icbc.com/driver-training/driving-instructors/become-driving-instructor · read
- Government of Alberta — become a licensed driving instructor — https://www.alberta.ca/become-a-licensed-driving-instructor · read
Map one week of lessons into it
During the 14-day trial, set your area and travel time, add your regular pupils' pickups, and see whether the week looks like your real one.