This is the development blog for TaxiMap.co.uk - our online taxi fare price calculator and booking system for UK (currently) minicab and taxi firms.
Here we will discuss the development of the TaxiMap system and post news and updates about the service. Enjoy!
In recent versions of the TaxiMap plugin we’ve been working with geolocation features available to certiain devices and browsers, namely Firefox and GPS enabled mobiles phones like the iPhone, Android and
Blackberry devices. With the release of version 3.8b we’ve strealined the way this system works.
TaxiMap is a top quality and unique service which really brings taxi websites to life radically increasing both online taxi bookings and offline bookings. It provides an intuitive and pleasing user experience, delivering full control in to the hands of cab company controllers. However, many taxi firms and drivers wanting to use the service do not currently have a web site. They need a simple web presence in order to promote their business and implement TaxiMap.
That’s why TaxiMap is proud to announce domain registration and website building services. TaxiMap Domains lets members register .com domain names from as little as £8.49. The service also includes a host of additional services including our easy online website builder.
Great! You may say – Finally a means to add fixed pricing to TaxiMap, but is it a step too far we ask ourselves….?
Making it this easy to provide fixed price journeys may mean the price per mile model becomes neglected, misused, and misunderstood, but it is a vitally important part of the system as it takes care of all those other journeys.
Let’s consider both fixed and flexible price calculations beginning with the new TaxiMap Zone to Zone pricing feature….
As part of our series looking at the differences between online and traditional taxi operations, this article focuses on dealing with taxi booking requests made online (via website or app) and how responding to those requests in good time is key!
It is easy to assume that an online system can do absolutely everything automatically. This is wrong – online is just another way your customer can contact, order or buy from you. You should expect to expend a similar amount of energy on it as any other point of contact with customers, though typically it provides a means to streamline the process and shorten interaction with staff, freeing them to do more. Read more…
Taxi Minicab Business Cards with Fixed Prices
In our post earlier this year, “A fixed price taxi booking system this ain’t….,” we examined how TaxiMap calculates prices based on the distance of any journey, and the advantages this provides over a fixed price model. In this post we aim to show why fixed pricing is an out-dated concept, especially when it comes to online taxi bookings and price calculation….
We’re always adding and refining features and functionality within TaxiMap and as we get more members we get more and better suggestions. This is enormously useful and helps us build a system that is truly useful and of massive benefit to taxi companies across the UK.
With so many new features being added all the time it seemed appropriate to put up a list with a small description of each…. Read more…
Well, it seems we’re getting registrations from all kinds of people who have all kinds of uses for our system. So, I thought I’d write a quick post detailing some of the uses our members have found for the TaxiMap system…. Read more…
Taking online payment for a pre-booked taxi journey is a feature of TaxiMap we’re striving towards. At the moment customers making bookings are offered the choice of making payments only by cash or account, but soon minicab companies will be able to take payments for bookings through TaxiMap.
We’ve been putting a lot of thought into how to do this. Read on to find out more…. Read more…
As more and more taxi companies sign up to use Taximap it’s becoming apparent that virtually each and every one has a slightly different pricing model. Providing accurate journey price quotations for every pricing structure is something we’d love to achieve, but this will come at a price of its own: Complexity.
With each update the interface is becoming more complex and we’re desperate to avoid the situation where it becomes unusable. With this in mind we thought it timely to remind our readers of our goals – what Taximap is for and what we’re trying to achieve.
With Taximap on your website you’re providing your customers with an innovative new tool that provides a competitive advantage over your rivals.
As part of our mission to provide a high quality, well-rounded service to taxi companies we’ve begun work on our directory: find-taxi.co.uk
This directory service will list all TaxiMap’s members in one convenient location providing direct links out to their own websites and the booking system which we provide. Read more…
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