Get DMV Appointments

What Get DMV Appointments does

Get DMV Appointments is a Dallas-based web service that automatically books appointments at Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) offices on behalf of Texas residents. The company operates a continuous polling and matching system against the public Texas DPS scheduling portal, monitoring all 235 offices statewide and booking driver license, learner permit, ID card, Real ID upgrade, and commercial driver license appointments the moment matching slots become available. Customers pay a flat $29.99 one-time fee per search via Stripe, with an automatic full refund processed if no appointment is booked within 7 days, and receive confirmation passes directly to Apple Wallet or Google Wallet.

The underlying technology is a custom monitoring and automated booking engine built on standard infrastructure providers — Stripe for payments and refunds, Supabase for database and authentication, Vercel for hosting and analytics, Surge for SMS delivery, and Trustpilot for review collection. Sensitive personal information (name, date of birth, last four SSN digits) is encrypted at rest using AES-256-GCM and automatically purged after the appointment is booked. There is no native mobile application; the entire user experience runs through the getdmvapt.com website.

The business is a fully product-led, direct-to-consumer model with no sales team, no enterprise contracts, and no institutional funding. Acquisition is driven by an owned SEO and content footprint (20+ blog guides and city landing pages for Dallas, Houston, Austin, San Antonio, El Paso, and Corpus Christi), supplemented by earned media syndicated through the Associated Press, USA Today Network, and ABC/NBC/CBS affiliates. Get DMV Appointments is a DBA of Smartyz Inc, a Delaware-incorporated holding entity founded in 2025 by Abhi K., a software engineer in Dallas who built the original system to secure a learner's permit appointment for his teenage son.

Name

Get DMV Appointments

Legal name

Smartyz Inc

Website

https://getdmvapt.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2025

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Get DMV Appointments monitors all 235 Texas DPS offices and automatically books appointments for individual Texas residents. Operated as a DBA of Smartyz Inc since 2025, the bootstrapped company charges a $29.99 one-time fee per search for driver licenses, permits, Real ID upgrades, and ID cards.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Dallas

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Personnel, Operations

Revenue model

1. Appointment Search and Booking Service: One-time transaction fee of $29.99 per appointment search. Customer pays once and receives automated monitoring and booking until an appointment is secured. If no appointment is booked within 7 days, Stripe automatically refunds the full amount. No subscriptions, recurring charges, or additional fees.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Get DMV Appointments operates an automated Texas DPS appointment booking service that continuously monitors the public Texas Department of Public Safety scheduling system across all 235 DPS offices statewide. When a matching appointment slot opens, the system books it on behalf of the customer and delivers confirmation to Apple Wallet or Google Wallet. Customers pay a one-time $29.99 fee per search with a 7-day full refund guarantee if no appointment is secured.

Product overview

Get DMV Appointments is a single-service platform that offers one core product: an automated Texas DPS appointment booking service. The service continuously monitors the public Texas DPS scheduler at public.txdpsscheduler.com across all 235 Texas DPS offices, and when a matching appointment slot opens, it automatically books the appointment on the customer's behalf. The company does not offer multiple products or modules—the service is unified and consists of the monitoring and automated booking engine, the customer dashboard, and delivery of confirmations to Apple Wallet or Google Wallet. All services are included in the single $29.99 one-time fee, with no subscriptions, premium tiers, or add-ons.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Texas DPS Appointment Booking Service Automated appointment booking service that monitors all 235 Texas DPS offices 24/7, automatically books available appointment slots on behalf of customers, and delivers confirmation passes to Apple Wallet or Google Wallet. Covers 27 service types including new driver's licenses, learner permits, Real ID upgrades, ID cards, license renewals, and commercial driver licenses. Priced at $29.99 one-time per search with a 7-day full refund guarantee.

Quantifiable outcome

• Average booking time of 14 hours from search activation
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

AI capability1 record

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• StripecoreTechnology or IntegrationStripe handles all payment processing for the $29.99 service fee. Get DMV Appointments never stores credit card numbers on their servers. Stripe also processes automatic refunds when no appointment is booked within 7 days. Stripe refunds typically appear within 5-10 business days.
• SupabasecoreTechnology or IntegrationDatabase hosting and authentication services. Data is stored with encryption on infrastructure in the United States.
• Smartyz InccoreOthersGet DMV Appointments is a brand operated by Smartyz Inc, a technology company. Smartyz Inc is the legal entity behind the service. Get DMV Appointments is referred to as Smartyz Inc DBA Get DMV Appointments in official communications including SMS terms.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Square Appointments: Booking and payments software bundled with Square's commerce platform. Comparable in combining online booking with Stripe-like payments infrastructure for service businesses; differs in targeting SMB merchants rather than government appointments.
• Calendly: Widely used scheduling automation and booking infrastructure. Comparable as a general-purpose appointment booking layer; Get DMV Appointments effectively built a Calendly-style automated booking flow specialized for a single high-friction scheduling system.
• Acuity Scheduling: Self-serve appointment scheduling SaaS used by SMBs. Comparable as a booking automation platform; Get DMV Appointments is essentially a verticalized version of this concept, applied to a government scheduler rather than a merchant's calendar.
• Zocdoc: Healthcare appointment booking marketplace that matches consumers with available time slots and books on their behalf. Comparable in the consumer-facing "find and book a scarce appointment for me" mechanic, applied to a different vertical.

Emerging players

• Itinero / Appointment Reminder (state DMV alert apps): Niche DMV appointment monitoring and alert services (regional/emerging players). Comparable because they target the same state-DMV scheduling problem; typically offer notifications rather than full automated booking, so they are less complete substitutes but compete for the same user intent.

Direct peers

• DoNotPay: Consumer automation platform that offers automated DMV appointment booking and other government form/queue automation. Directly comparable because it targets the same user pain (long DMV waits) using a similar bot-driven scheduling approach, often priced as a subscription rather than a one-time fee.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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