OneBookPlus vs BookingTimes
Built for driving schools, books included

BookingTimes is an Australian booking-led business platform, it describes itself as an all-in-one business platform, with a dedicated driving-school page, online booking, SMS reminders, invoicing, payments, packages and gift vouchers, student progress tracking and payroll, across four tiers with unlimited bookings and clients on every tier. OneBookPlus is driving-first inside a full Australian small-business platform: a per-student prepaid credit ledger that draws down automatically each lesson, a parent link on the student record so invoices route to the payer, a day route map, and GST-native invoicing with BAS-ready reporting. It is $49/mo for Driving School Complete, on a core plan that is $0 for a solo instructor or from $29/month once more than one person needs a login.

Yes, for the right school. BookingTimes runs a dedicated driving-school page and names the pain points directly (pickups and drop-offs, changing instructor schedules, cancellations, commission tracking), and it publishes packages and gift vouchers, student progress tracking, instructor and commission management and driving-school website templates. If that list covers what you need, it is easy to recommend. The differences are specific: its published material has no GST or BAS reporting, its external calendar sync is one-way by its own documentation, its lesson packages are counted voucher bundles with a business-level liability report rather than a per-student ledger that draws down automatically each lesson, and no day route map appears in its published features. Check bookingtimes.com for the current list on each tier.

BookingTimes includes invoicing, payments, expense tracking and financial reports; its features page lists automated invoicing, quotes, revenue and expense tracking and advanced financial reports. What its published material does not cover is the ATO layer. Its GST settings are a business-wide rate, a choice of tax inclusive or added, and a per-item Include GST tick, with no BAS or GST return mechanics, and its Xero integration posts one daily cash total as a single bank transaction rather than invoices or contacts. OneBookPlus posts every invoice and payment to a built-in ledger and produces BAS-ready GST figures under your ABN, on the Starter core plan and up, so the books live in the same product as the bookings.

If you want software built specifically for driving instruction and the whole business behind it, yes. BookingTimes is a strong booking-led platform with a genuine driving-school template. OneBookPlus adds the driving-specific depth we could not find in its published material: prepaid lesson credits on a per-student ledger with automatic draw-down, expiry and no-show forfeit, a parent linked to the student record so invoices route to the payer, a day route map with ordered waypoints, and BAS-ready GST reporting in the same subscription. If booking, reminders and invoicing cover your needs, BookingTimes may be enough. If you want the lesson-credit, route and BAS depth in one place, OneBookPlus fits better.

BookingTimes publishes Kick Starter at $99/month, Nail & Scale at $159 and Evolve at $199, each marked billed annually, plus an Enterprise plan on quote. Each tier covers one booking calendar, and additional calendars are $29, $39 and $69 per calendar per month on the three published tiers on annual billing, or $39, $49 and $79 each if you pay monthly. Every tier includes unlimited bookings, clients, products and services, and there is no free plan or free trial (entry is via a demo). Those are the Australian dollar figures, which is what its price table shows an Australian visitor by default, with a currency switcher if you need another (bookingtimes.com/Prices, checked August 2026). OneBookPlus prices the driving tools as an add-on. Driving School Complete is $49/mo on top of a core plan. The free core plan suits a solo instructor (1 login, 250 contacts, 10 invoices a month), so a solo operator pays $49 all-in. A school where several people need to log in sits on Starter at $29 or Plus at $49, so budget $78 to $98 all-in. Driving School Suite on its own is $29/mo if you do not need vehicle scheduling.

Yes. Ask BookingTimes for an export of your client list (its support team can tell you which formats it provides), then import the CSV in OneBookPlus under Contacts, then Import, which recognises common columns, de-duplicates on email and gives you a downloadable template. Each learner becomes a student record you can link to a parent, a lesson package and their invoices going forward. Bookings already made in BookingTimes are best left to run their course while new bookings come through your OneBookPlus page. Keep your own export of invoices raised in BookingTimes, your accountant will want the full year regardless of which system issued them, and your OneBookPlus data is exportable at any time.

Both can schedule multiple instructors. BookingTimes prices by booking calendar: every tier includes one, and additional calendars are $29 to $69 per calendar per month depending on tier on annual billing ($39 to $79 if you pay monthly), with unlimited bookings and clients throughout (bookingtimes.com/Prices). OneBookPlus schedules instructors as roster records, so putting another instructor on the calendar costs nothing; what the core plans band is logins, one on Free, three on Starter, five on Plus and ten on Growth. Every instructor you give a login to sees the same student records, the same prepaid-credit balances and the same pickup address on every lesson, so a learner can move between instructors without their history living in one person's head.