Run the whole school. From one login. Mangrove for Driving Schools runs J1 Drivers Training Center — a TLC school with two locations in Queens, New York, training taxi and rideshare drivers in six languages. This is a real class day on the real screens. It began as AutoEd, a build of its own for J1, and is folding into Mangrove as the driving-school edition.
2 NYC locations run on it, every class dayPlay this epicA new driver walks into the Jamaica branch. The front desk scans their licence — the camera reads it, the record fills itself in, and the DMV and TLC numbers land with expiry dates the system will keep watching.
The TLC 3-day course fires on the calendar — recurring series, capacity checked, roster attached. This morning it runs in Bengali at Jamaica and Spanish at Jackson Heights, off the same screen.
The instructor closes attendance and Mangrove pivots the day into the TLC/DMV export — every student a pass or an incomplete, licence numbers attached, completion dates set. The roster the regulator actually wants.
A student splits tuition between cash and card — one chained invoice, no sticky notes. The month's income statement and every instructor's salary sheet — monthly, daily or hourly — build from the same ledger.
Three tiers, and no surprises in the bill: what every Mangrove product comes with, what classroom hours, road lessons, cars and the dmv needs on top of that, and what else you can switch on. Mangrove for Driving Schools includes all of it — you never pay per tool, and there is no module you have to buy.
Add-ons cost nothing extra. They are separate only because most businesses of this kind do not switch them on in the first week.
Need something none of these do? The studio builds it — same team, and we have done it before.
Software demos well on the happy path. What decides whether you keep it is the hour it goes wrong. These are four that happen to a driving school, and what happens next.
Permit, DMV and TLC expiry dates live on the student’s own record rather than in somebody’s head — so the school owns the date, not the student.
Every lesson is stored with its student, instructor, vehicle and hours already attached — so the answer is a query, not an archaeology dig through a filing cabinet.
Staff, courses and money are partitioned by branch, and the calendar will not promise the same person twice.
The slot reopens, the car frees up, and the students waiting on that vehicle are the ones you are shown first.
A driving school runs on a handful of people who need their own login — the owner, the office, the instructors who take bookings. Five of those come with the subscription. Everything below is the whole price list; there is nothing quoted separately and no implementation project to schedule.
Buy a year at a time and renew, or buy several years up front — renewal pricing is confirmed with you at renewal. The 24/7 option is the service previously called Premium, not a second charge on top of it. The AI add-on is a one-year commitment: added mid-year it is pro-rated, it then renews with the base on the same invoice, and it cannot be cancelled mid-year.
What software like this is worth is not a number we get to invent. Below is what other people measured, with the source on every one — set against a $4,000 bill.
Read those as figures for this kind of software, published by other people — not as measurements of Mangrove for Driving Schools. Two of the three come from companies that sell a remedy for the problem they measured; we have named all three, and dated them, so you can weigh that yourself.
$7.23 back on a dollar is a ratio, and it was measured on much larger dollars — systems bought with an implementation project attached. We are not going to pretend it multiplies cleanly onto a smaller bill; nobody has measured that. What we can say is which half of it we control: there is no setup fee, no project to schedule, and the price of running the school is one line you can read in full above.
Everything above · five accounts included · $4,000 / year · no implementation project