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!
We’re pleased to announce our reseller program enabling those wishing to resell TaxiMap to their clients or colleagues to do so buying it in at a substantial discount. Read more…
Illustrates meet & greet implementation
One problem with zone pricing is that it doesn’t suit meet & greet services: Although a surcharge can be applied, the direction of a journey does not determine its use in the taxi journey price calculation. After some consideration we decided that even basing the pricing on the first zone entered would not provide adequate coverage of this service, often offered by Taxi companies providing pick-ups from airports.
TaxiMap now calculates discounts on the fly based on journey distance, offering greater flexibility and control of taxi price calculations….
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TaxiMap Booking Request Email
We have recently updated the email notification system employed by TaxiMap. This means our Taxi booking notification and booking confirmation emails are (hopefully) a bit more pretty and a little clearer to understand.
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…
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