Why OnTime Bookings
A marketplace grows its business on your lessons. OnTime Bookings grows yours: your own branded booking site, lesson times that fit where you drive, unlimited SMS from your number, and 0% commission. We set it all up for you.
30 days risk-free trial
Each of these is something we built because instructors asked for it. Every one links to the detail, so you can check it.
Your name, logo and colours on the site, the booking, the checkout and the student login. Not a listing beside every other instructor in town.
Plenty of “white-label” tools look like yours until the student reaches the cart, then hand them to a platform-branded app and login. Here the whole journey stays on your brand.
Your branded booking site →Other “white-label” tools
Your storefront looks branded, but the moment they pay they're the platform's customer, on the platform's login.
OnTime Bookings
One brand the whole way, checkout and login included. They're your customer, start to finish.
A salon tool thinks every appointment happens in the same chair. OnTime Bookings only offers times near lessons you already have, on the days you cover that suburb, for the services you run that day. Same teaching hours, less unpaid driving.
Three controls, set once
0% commission at any volume, one flat monthly price, and unlimited SMS included. Take card, cash, PayID or bank transfer, hold deposits, sell packages, and see who still owes you at a glance.
$59 a month covers you and one other instructor. The only add-ons go to someone else: a domain registrar fee if you want your own web address, and Stripe's fee on card payments only.
See full pricing →The booking that comes in at 9pm on a Sunday drops straight into your diary. The reminder goes out the night before, from your own mobile, with replies coming back to you. Students reschedule themselves inside the rules you set.
Reminders and notifications →Tell us about your school and we build and write the site for you. Most instructors are taking bookings the next day. Hosted in an Australian data centre, supported in your timezone, by the people who built it.
Who's behind OnTime Bookings →Four ways instructors take bookings today, on the things that actually matter on a Tuesday.
| OnTime BookingsBuilt for driving schools | A general booking appMade for salons and clinics | A marketplace profileListing on a booking platform | Texts and a diaryPhone, paper, bank app | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Commission per booking | Yes. 0%, at any volume | Yes. Usually none | No. A cut of every booking it sends you | Yes. None |
| Whose name & logo students see | Yes. Yours, through checkout and login | Varies. Yours on the front; on many, theirs at checkout or login | No. Theirs, beside every other instructor in town | Yes. Yours |
| Your website address | Yes. Your own domain name, with your brand on it | Varies. Often a page inside their app, or a clunky iFrame on your website | No. A page inside their app | No. None |
| Lesson times fit where you driveTravel time, suburbs, services by day | Yes. Built in, with Location Intelligence | No. No, it assumes every booking is in one place | Varies. Only for lessons booked through them | No. You work it out |
| Reminders | Yes. Unlimited SMS, from your own number | Varies. Often per-text or capped, from a shared number | Varies. Varies by platform | No. You text people yourself |
| PaymentsDeposits, packages, balances | Yes. Card, cash, PayID and bank transfer | Varies. Card, usually; PayID is rare | Yes. Yes, through them | No. You chase it |
| Your customer list | Yes. Yours, in your own account, and exportable | Varies. Yours, usually | No. Held on their platform | Varies. Yours, if you keep the records |
| Who sets it up and keeps it running | Yes. We do. Build, hosting, updates and support are all included in the one-off $149 onboarding | No. You, or a web agency you pay, typically $600–1,200 to set up | Yes. They do | No. You |
In your favour Against you, or not included Depends on the product, or on you
The general booking app and marketplace columns describe what we've commonly seen; terms and agency fees differ, so check the one you're considering. Your domain name itself is a small yearly fee to your registrar.
In practice
Nothing changes about how you teach. What changes is everything around it.
Before
With OnTime Bookings
Four quick questions. If the answer is no, we'll say so.
Are you a driving instructor, or do you run a driving school?
Do you want to build your own business, rather than work under someone else's name?
Do you want your students to book, pay and get reminded without ringing you?
Would you rather spend your time teaching and growing the school than dealing with developers and website upkeep?
No. OnTime Bookings runs beside whatever else you’re doing. Keep the marketplace on quiet weeks and run your own bookings alongside.
We do. You tell us about your school, we build and write the site, and most instructors are taking bookings the next day.
Yes. The plan price is the price — everything’s included, right down to unlimited SMS, with no extra OnTime Bookings fees and nothing hidden. The only costs that ever sit on top go to someone else, and only if you choose them: a custom domain (a small yearly fee to a domain registrar, if you want your own web address), and Stripe’s standard transaction fee (only if you switch on card payments — cash, PayID and bank transfer don’t have one).
You can keep it and link to your OnTime booking site from it. That said, we recommend moving your website over to OnTime Bookings, so students get one seamless experience from the first click to the booking, and you have one thing to look after instead of two. There’s no extra cost: the site build, hosting and updates are all included.
It’s yours. It sits in your own account, not pooled with other schools, and you can export it.
A 30-minute demo, then a 30-day risk-free trial. We build and write the site for you.
