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What does driving between homes cost your school?

If your teachers go to students, every gap between lessons is paid time on the road. Put in your own numbers and see the season total. Then slide the what-if to see what tighter routes would be worth.

Example numbers. Replace them with yours.
Driving between lessons
$25,920 a season
96 drives a week, 24h of paid driving, $720 a week.
What if
$5,184 back
173h of driving your teachers skip this season.
This is your assumption, not our promise. Your real routes decide the real number.
Set the Tune for 120 students: Starter, $79/mo, about $711 for a 9-month season.
See your real drive times free
Import your roster, no card. Set the Tune builds the schedule and shows each teacher's actual drive minutes.

How the number is worked out

A teacher with five lessons in a day drives four times between them. So drives per week are your lessons minus your teacher-days. That count times your average drive, times your pay rate, times the weeks in your season, is the total.

The drive to the first home of the day is left out, so the real figure is at least this big.

Where drive time actually comes from

Drive time is mostly decided when the schedule is built. Two neighbors on different days, or a teacher crossing town between back-to-back lessons, costs the same every week for the whole season.

  • ♩Neighbors split across different days
  • ♩Siblings placed with different teachers
  • ♩Days that zigzag across the service area
  • ♩Gaps too short to make the drive, so lessons run late

See your real routes, not an average

Set the Tune places every student at real drive times for the hour the lesson runs, and chains each teacher’s day so the route makes sense. Import your roster free and look at the minutes on your own schedule.

Common questions

Is the what-if saving a promise?

No. The slider is your assumption. How much a better schedule saves depends on where your families live and when they are free. The honest way to know is to build the schedule and look.

Should drive time between lessons be paid?

For employees in the US, driving between lessons during a workday is generally work time. Check the rules for your state and how your teachers are classified.

Why lessons minus teacher-days?

Each teacher-day has one drive fewer than it has lessons, because the first lesson has nothing before it. Siblings at the same home lower the count a little.

What does Set the Tune cost?

Plans are sized by placed students: Starter $79 up to 150, Pro $129 up to 300, Studio $199 up to 500. Building your schedule is free. You pay when you export and keep it.

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What Set the Tune doesn't do.
Tuition invoicing, attendance, parent portals, family messaging. On purpose. Set the Tune is the scheduling layer. It builds the calendar your admin tools manage. If you run those elsewhere, keep them and use both.

Schedule the season in an afternoon, not a week.