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Payments & Refunds

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Placeholder — not legal advice. This page is a working outline written for a booking service that takes a deposit. It has not been reviewed by a lawyer. Have counsel licensed in your state review and replace this text before the site accepts real users.

1. What you pay us, and what you pay your instructor

There are two separate payments for every lesson.

This page is about the deposit only. It is the only money we take from you.

2. The deposit is not a booking you can walk away from

The deposit guarantees the appointment for both sides. Your instructor turns down other work to hold that slot, and drives to meet you. Where the deposit ends up depends on what happens to the appointment:

What happensYour deposit
The lesson goes aheadWe keep it as our booking fee. It is not credited against the lesson price.
You cancel or move the lesson with at least the notice shown at checkoutRefunded to you in full.
You cancel with less notice than thatPaid to the instructor for the time they held open.
You do not turn upPaid to the instructor for the wasted trip.
Your instructor cancels, for any reasonRefunded to you in full, whatever the notice.

The notice window is shown to you in your dashboard before you cancel, and is stated again on the cancellation screen with the consequence spelled out. It is currently 24 hours.

3. How refunds are issued

Refunds go back to the card that paid the deposit — we cannot send them anywhere else. Allow up to YOUR-REFUND-WINDOW business days for your bank to post it. If the deposit had not yet been charged to your card when the appointment was cancelled, there is nothing to reverse: the authorisation is simply cancelled and you will see no charge at all.

4. Disputes about the lesson itself

Your instructor is an independent, state-licensed business. Complaints about how a lesson was taught, the vehicle, or the balance you paid at the kerb are between you and them — we did not take that money and cannot return it. Tell us anyway: we vet who appears in this directory and we remove instructors who do not meet the standard.

5. Chargebacks

If you believe a deposit was taken in error, contact us first — we can usually settle it the same day. Raising a chargeback for a lesson balance you handed to an instructor in cash will not succeed against us, because we never received it.

6. Instructors: when we pay you

Deposits released to you for a late cancellation or a no-show are paid out YOUR-PAYOUT-SCHEDULE. Deposits on lessons that went ahead are ours and are not paid out. Everything else you earn is collected by you, from the student, on the day.

7. Contact

YOUR-CONTACT-EMAIL / YOUR-BUSINESS-ADDRESS