Product information
About Miles & Minutes.
Miles & Minutes is UK driving instructor and driving school software: a responsive web application connecting Lessons, pupils, recorded money, school teams and PDI / Trainer workflows for authorised accounts.
Controlled access · responsive web application
This reference is published by Miles & Minutes and describes the current product, subject to permissions and settings. Product facts reviewed: . Future ideas are identified separately on the roadmap.
How is Miles & Minutes available?
Miles & Minutes is in controlled access for authorised accounts. Initial onboarding is invitation-only. It is not generally available through public registration. Features depend on the account, role and school or training-provider settings. There is no public paid signup or public trial offer. Planned monthly subscription prices are set out on the Terms page; AI access remains restricted to fictional reviewer testing.
Miles & Minutes runs in a web browser on phones, tablets and computers with a responsive interface. There is no native iOS or Android app today. A pupil workspace is part of the web application, not a separate app-store download.
Current access and future plansWhat can an Instructor manage?
Authorised Instructors can manage their Diary, Lessons, weekly or fortnightly recurring Lessons, working hours, pupil records, meeting locations, progress and published feedback. Lesson history remains connected when plans change. Qualitative progress records do not predict driving-test readiness.
Instructor workspace in detailCan driving schools and office teams use it?
Yes. Miles & Minutes supports independent Instructors and multi-instructor driving schools. A school Owner governs access; Admin and other authorised office Staff work within their assigned permissions. Office access does not make a person an Instructor or give every user finance access.
School teams can coordinate pupil assignment, per-Instructor diaries, requests and factual reports. Assigning a pupil to another Instructor does not rewrite earlier Lesson ownership or history. The public instructor directory shows only eligible profiles deliberately published by authorised users. Listings are not guaranteed. Browsing does not create an account or book a lesson.
Driving school software in detailWhat can a Pupil see and do?
A permitted Pupil can sign in to their own web workspace to see their Lessons, published feedback, progress and money records, and manage supported profile, location and availability information. Pupils see their own records, not another pupil’s account.
Supported Lesson and reschedule requests are available where enabled. A reschedule request does not move the confirmed Lesson; the authorised change must pass the relevant checks.
Pupil workspace in detailCan pupils book their own Lessons?
Miles & Minutes keeps a pupil request separate from a confirmed Lesson. A request expresses intent and does not reserve time. A TeachingSlot is offered capacity, not a booked Lesson. A temporary reservation is also a separate state, with its own expiry and checks.
Eligible in-account open-slot booking can create a confirmed Lesson after the required checks; it is not always just a request awaiting approval. When booking with Account Credit, a positive-priced open-slot booking must secure the full price from available existing credit; a partial balance is insufficient. Timing, location, eligibility and permissions still apply. Instructor offers follow their own permitted funding arrangement. The public directory does not take lesson bookings.
Requests, reservations and confirmationDoes Miles & Minutes take card payments?
Pupil card payments and Stripe account connections are not currently enabled. Authorised users can record money already received, such as cash or bank transfers, see available pupil credit and track outstanding lesson charges where lesson accounting is enabled. Recording a receipt does not collect money. Planned software subscription charges are separate from pupil payments; subscription checkout is not open.
Account Credit and Lesson charges are separate records. Credit may be applied to a charge or held for an eligible booking. Money is not a purchased number of teaching hours. Reasoned corrections preserve earlier records. Releasing credit or reversing an allocation is not proof that a bank refund was sent; cancellation charges depend on the applicable rules.
Money records and correctionsDoes Miles & Minutes support PDIs and Trainers?
Yes. Provider-scoped training workflows connect a PDI / trainee’s My training, assigned Trainer work and Academy management. Training proposals, confirmed appointments, submitted attendance and published feedback remain separate. A proposal alone does not reserve time.
Training activity does not confer qualification. Qualification evidence, teaching-authority evidence and operational Instructor activation are separate decisions. Miles & Minutes records the relevant evidence and reviewed states; it does not replace the DVSA, integrate with DVSA systems or itself award a qualification or permission to teach.
PDI and Trainer workflows in detailWhat does professional development mean here?
Qualified ADIs and Trainers can keep private, self-reported objectives, reflections and manual CPD records. A CPD activity relevant to both practices is counted once overall. Corrections retain immutable history. Personal declaration and development records do not grant provider roles or teaching authority.
The GB ADI Standards Check section is a private qualitative self-review. It is not a DVSA result, teaching assessment, score, grade or autonomous readiness prediction. Miles & Minutes does not use AI to assess driving or teaching.
Trainer work and private developmentDoes it sync with Google Calendar?
Miles & Minutes supports an Instructor-owned, revocable read-only calendar subscription for generic Lesson and unavailable-time entries. It is not two-way Google, Apple or Microsoft calendar sync. External edits do not update Miles & Minutes, and the external calendar app controls refresh timing. Pupil-private detail and open TeachingSlots are not exported as booked Lessons.
Diary and calendar subscriptionA few useful terms
The records mean different things.
- Lesson
- A confirmed pupil teaching appointment, with its own identity and history.
- DiaryBlock
- Non-Lesson time kept unavailable in an Instructor’s Diary.
- TeachingSlot
- A period an Instructor deliberately offers for teaching. It is capacity, not a booked Lesson.
- Account Credit
- Received money recorded on a pupil account that has not been fully applied to Lesson charges. Available credit excludes amounts already used or held.
- Lesson charge
- The money a Lesson requires under its applicable accounting and cancellation rules, separate from a received payment.
- PDI
- Potential Driving Instructor: a trainee whose training records remain separate from qualification and teaching authority.
A request, temporary reservation and confirmed Lesson are separate booking states. Training, qualification, teaching authority and Instructor activation remain separate too.
See the product in context.
The Instructor software and School software pages explain current workflows, account permissions and product limitations.
The Guides explain practical workflows. The software comparisons are written by Miles & Minutes using dated official-vendor sources, with our current limitations disclosed. They are not independent third-party reviews.
The roadmap distinguishes current controlled access from future possibilities. Native apps, pupil card collection, DVSA integration and AI assessment are not currently available; future delivery dates are not promised.
Early Access records interest only; it is not account registration and an invitation is not guaranteed.
For published contact options, see Support.