OneBookPlus vs EzLicence
Own the booking, keep the whole lesson fee

EzLicence is a learner-facing marketplace: students search for a driving lesson, book an instructor, and EzLicence takes a per-lesson commission plus payment fees. It publishes that fee at 25% of the hourly rate on lessons 1 to 20 with each learner, and 0% from lesson 21 onwards, read off its own instructor page on 31 August 2026. Its value is demand, it brings you new learners. OneBookPlus is a flat-fee business platform you run yourself, and the fee is two lines rather than one: a core plan (free for a solo instructor) plus the $49/mo Driving School Complete add-on, so $49 all-in solo and $78 to $98 once several people need a login. What you get for it: online bookings, prepaid lesson packages and credits, a student and parent CRM, pickup route mapping, GST invoicing and full accounting. It doesn't take a cut of any lesson, and you own the customer relationship.

EzLicence publishes its instructor fee at 25% of the hourly rate on lessons 1 to 20 with each learner, and 0% from lesson 21 onwards, read off ezlicence.com.au/instruct on 31 August 2026. Payout processing costs are charged on top and are not in that figure. EzLicence charges no subscription and no upfront cost, so that commission plus the payout costs is the whole bill. What it comes to depends on your diary rather than your hours: a learner who takes ten lessons is charged at 25% the whole way through, while one who stays for forty is charged on the first twenty only. So 25% is the top of the range on the commission itself, and the payout costs sit on top of it. Put your lesson price and your weekly hours into the driving instructor earnings calculator to see the annual figure for your own diary, and confirm the current rate with EzLicence before you decide.

No. EzLicence processes the lesson payment through the marketplace, but it isn't your accounting system, it doesn't produce GST-compliant tax invoices under your ABN, track your expenses, or give you BAS-ready figures. You keep a separate accounting tool for that. OneBookPlus includes GST invoicing, expense tracking and BAS-ready reporting in the same subscription.

For most established instructors, yes, because the two do different jobs. EzLicence is a marketing channel that brings demand and skims a commission; OneBookPlus is the system that runs the business once a learner is yours. If you can fill your own diary from referrals and repeat students, moving those bookings to OneBookPlus means you stop paying a commission on the learners you found yourself, and you keep the customer. Many instructors keep some marketplace leads while building demand and run repeat bookings through OneBookPlus.

Yes, and many instructors do. EzLicence is worth its commission while you have empty slots to fill and are building word-of-mouth. Once students refer friends and rebook, you can take those bookings through OneBookPlus at no per-lesson cost, keep the relationship, and manage the whole business (lesson credits, invoicing, accounting) in one place. Over time, more of your diary shifts to the commission-free channel you own.

OneBookPlus isn't a lead marketplace, but it does give you a free public listing in the OneBookPlus directory where locals search for and book businesses, plus the tools to win repeat and referral work, online bookings you can share anywhere, automated reminders, and review requests. EzLicence's strength is raw demand; OneBookPlus's strength is converting and keeping the customers you get from any source without paying a commission.

Two parts, and it is worth seeing both, because they add up. The core platform (bookings, student CRM, GST invoicing, accounting) starts on a free plan of 10 invoices and 5 quotes a month, 250 contacts, with Starter at $29/month and Plus at $49/month when more than one person needs a login (one login on Free, three on Starter, five on Plus and ten on Growth). The prepaid lesson packages and automatic credit draw-down sit on top as an app. 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. Paid plans and apps carry a 14-day trial with no card needed. Whichever combination you land on, none of it takes a per-lesson cut: the fee is the same whether you teach two lessons a week or twenty. EzLicence has no subscription: its cost is a commission on lessons booked through the marketplace, 25% of the hourly rate on lessons 1 to 20 with each learner, and 0% from lesson 21 onwards, read off its instructor page on 31 August 2026, with payout processing costs on top.

Check your instructor agreement before relying on it, what learner information you can take with you depends on EzLicence's terms at the time, and we can't speak for them. That uncertainty is the structural trade-off of any marketplace: the platform, not you, holds the customer relationship. Students you book directly through OneBookPlus are unambiguously yours, their contact records, lesson history, notes and remaining credits live in your account, and you can export your data free at any time.