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Course selling websites for UK driving schools that trade in more than one region.

Codeeo delivers driving school course selling website development UK schools, franchises and instructor trainers can run nationally. We build the site that sells intensive courses, lesson packages, theory courses and instructor training online: a course catalogue priced by area, enrolment and payment in one checkout, and a learner portal that opens the moment the money clears. It matters because consumer law on pricing and cancellations now has teeth, and a national school needs one set of rules applied the same way in every postcode it serves.

This is the selling and enrolment side of the business. Lesson diaries and in car records belong to your instructor tools; the website's job is to take the order correctly, take the payment securely and hand a clean enrolment to the people who deliver it. Codeeo has delivered 200+ projects across the UAE and the US and is rated 4.7 from 23 Google reviews.

Built for
Multi region driving schools, franchise networks, instructor training providers and theory course sellers across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Typical timeline
Agreed in writing after discovery, once the course range, regions, payment methods and integrations are fixed; larger networks often launch one region first.
What you own
The website code, the course and enrolment database, payment provider accounts in your name, learner records and every domain and analytics property.
Rated
4.7 / 5 from 23 Google reviews

200+ companies servedFrom a first store to an ADX listed developer

Modon
Majid Al Futtaim
HP
Belkin
Dulsco Group
OneClickDrive
Hanayen
HMS
Clocksprings
Ghezlan

What the platform handles

Built for selling courses lawfully across four nations.

A national driving school sells several products that behave differently. An intensive course is a block of hours with a test attached to it in the learner's mind. A lesson package is credit drawn down over months. A theory course is digital content released straight away. Instructor training runs in stages with its own entry requirements. Each needs its own enrolment rules, cancellation terms and payment options, and all of them must show the full price up front.

Since the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 brought in drip pricing rules, any compulsory fee has to be inside the headline price, and the Competition and Markets Authority has already fined a national driving school brand over a booking fee that was not. We design the catalogue and checkout so that cannot happen, then connect it to the systems your office already relies on.

Some schools come to us for driving school online course platform development UK wide, because theory and instructor training now sell as much as lessons. Others need driving school course payment integration UK providers can support, with deposits, balances and refunds reconciled automatically. Most need both, plus a driving school paid learning portal development UK learners can reach from a phone after enrolment. The list below shows how those pieces fit together on a single platform that one office team can run.

Explain your project
  • Regional course catalogue

    Learners enter a postcode and see only the courses, car types and start dates that your instructors can actually deliver there. Head office sets national products once and regions adjust availability, so a manual intensive in Cardiff and an automatic package in Leeds sit in the same catalogue without separate websites.

    No orders taken for areas you cannot cover.

  • Full price display

    Booking fees, admin charges and car hire for the test are either built into the price shown or removed. Optional extras such as Pass Plus or extra hours appear as clear add ons, never pre-ticked, and the basket total matches the price on the course page every time.

    Pricing that stands up to the drip pricing rules.

  • Test booking under the 2026 rules

    DVSA now expects learners to book their own car test, so course pages explain what the learner must arrange and when. Enrolment asks for the learner's test date once they hold one, and the course start is planned around it rather than around a slot the school no longer controls.

    Courses sold on promises the school can keep.

  • Cancellation and refund logic

    The Consumer Contracts Regulations give a fourteen day cancellation period for distance sales. The checkout records whether the learner asked for lessons to start sooner, calculates a proportionate charge for hours already taken and handles digital theory content, where access starts at once, under its own consent wording.

    Refunds worked out the same way every time.

  • Payments built for UK cards

    Card payments with Strong Customer Authentication, Apple Pay and Google Pay, and pay by bank through Open Banking for larger course balances. Deposits and staged payments are possible, and any instalment credit is arranged through a lender authorised by the FCA rather than run by the school itself.

    Fewer failed payments at the final step.

  • Learner portal and theory access

    After payment the learner gets one login for course details, hours remaining, theory and hazard perception study, and documents such as the course agreement and VAT receipt. Where official revision questions are used, the content runs under the licence DVSA requires.

    Learners find everything without phoning the office.

  • Instructor training courses

    Separate enrolment for people training to become approved driving instructors, with eligibility questions, Part 1, 2 and 3 modules sold in stages and trainer profiles that can show ORDIT registration where your trainers hold it.

    Trainee instructors buy the right stage first.

  • Welsh and English pages

    Schools operating in Wales can publish course pages, checkout text and emails in Welsh alongside English, managed as proper translations in the CMS with their own URLs for search.

    Welsh speaking learners can buy in their own language.

  • Completion certificates

    Learners receive a school certificate when a course or theory module is complete, with a record the office can reissue. Certificates are worded as school records and never suggest a DVSA qualification the learner has not earned.

    Proof of completion without manual paperwork.

  • Allocation to instructors

    Each paid enrolment is routed to the right region and instructor, or to a franchisee, with the details they need and nothing more. Your existing diary or management software receives the booking through its API where one exists. Where no API exists, a daily export keeps both systems in step.

    Orders reach the person who will teach them.

Who this is for

Four kinds of national driving business we build for.

A course selling site for a school working across several regions has different problems from a single instructor's website. Pricing varies by area, instructors may be self-employed franchisees, and the legal rules on cancellations and pricing apply to every sale wherever it happens. These are the situations we see most often, with the decision that matters most in each. If your business fits more than one of these, discovery decides which comes first.

01

A franchise network selling under one brand

Franchisees want their own areas and prices, while the brand owns the website and its legal wording. We give head office control of products, terms and checkout, and give franchisees permission to set availability and start dates for their postcodes. Revenue reporting follows the franchise agreement, so each franchisee sees their own sales and nobody else's.

Agree who sets prices before design begins.

02

An intensive course specialist

Intensive courses are high value orders bought quickly, often by people who already have a test date. The site has to qualify the learner's current level, match them to a course length and take a deposit without overpromising a pass or a test slot. We build that qualifying step into enrolment so the office spends less time on calls that end in a refund.

Qualify the learner before taking money, not after.

03

An instructor training provider

Trainee instructors need to know entry requirements, stage costs and what support they receive between parts. The site sells each stage separately, checks eligibility questions before payment and gives trainees a portal for study material and progress through Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3.

Sell each stage separately so trainees can pause.

04

A school operating in Northern Ireland and Great Britain

Learners in Northern Ireland deal with the DVA rather than DVSA, so test guidance, course descriptions and some terms must differ. We keep one catalogue with nation specific content blocks, so learners in Belfast see guidance that applies to them and learners in Bristol see theirs.

One catalogue, with guidance that changes by nation.

Six stages from course list to a national selling platform.

  1. 01Product and region mappingEvery course, package and training stage written down with its regions, car types, cancellation terms and how it is delivered, so the catalogue reflects what the business sells.
  2. 02Pricing and legal reviewHeadline prices checked for compulsory fees, cancellation wording drafted for your solicitor to approve, and VAT treatment confirmed with your accountant for each product.
  3. 03Checkout and enrolment designPostcode entry, course choice, learner details, consent and payment designed as one short flow, tested with real learners before any build work starts.
  4. 04Build and integrationThe site, the learner portal and the admin built together, then connected to payment providers, accounting and the diary or management software instructors use.
  5. 05Regional rolloutOne region goes live first with real orders, the office learns the admin, and further regions follow once refunds, allocation and reporting work as intended.
  6. 06Ongoing improvementCheckout analytics, abandoned enrolments and support questions show where learners hesitate, and changes are released in small, tested steps.

Technology

What we build this with.

We choose the stack around your size and your existing tools: WooCommerce or a custom Laravel or Next.js build for the shop and portal, UK payment providers that support Strong Customer Authentication, and APIs into the diary and accounting software you already pay for. Hosting sits in UK or EU data centres where your data protection assessment calls for it, and cookie consent follows PECR, with analytics loaded only after a learner agrees.

01Web

  • React
  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • Node.js
  • Laravel
  • WordPress

02Commerce

  • Shopify Plus
  • WooCommerce
  • BigCommerce
  • Headless storefronts

03Data and cloud

  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • MongoDB
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Docker

04Marketing and tracking

  • GA4
  • Google Tag Manager
  • Search Console
  • Meta Pixel
  • Looker Studio

What national schools ask before building a course site.

A catalogue, a checkout, a learner portal and the admin behind them, set up for several regions.

We map your courses and regions, design pricing that meets the drip pricing rules, build enrolment and payment, and connect the result to the software your instructors and accountants use. The national version adds regional availability, franchise permissions, nation specific content for Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, and reporting by area. Rollout usually starts with one region so the process is proven before every instructor depends on it. Scotland has its own legal system, so terms used north of the border are checked by a solicitor there.

Tell us what the business needs. We will tell you what to build first.

Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.

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PROVEN RESULTS

4.7 / 5from 23 Google reviews