For Ride-Hailing Startups
If you're going up against Uber, Bolt, or Careem in a growth market — Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt, the Gulf, the tourist islands — TaxiDex Starter gives you a complete business-in-a-box for a Branded apps, dispatch, payments, AI auto-dispatch. Keep 100% of your revenue.
14 days
From signup to live
$1,500
One-time setup
0%
Commission on your fares
40+
Startups launched
Founder pain points
Building a ride-hailing business from scratch is hard. We've helped 40+ startups launch in the last 24 months. Here's where they all stumble — and how we solve it.
The problem
To build dispatch + 2 apps + web booker + payments + admin in-house takes 12–18 months and $400k–$800k. Most founders don't have that runway, and the team you'd hire to do it is the team your competitors already have.
The TaxiDex fix
TaxiDex Starter ships the dispatch console, branded iOS & Android apps for drivers and passengers, web booker, and payments — from £11 per active driver a month — Live in 14 days. You focus on driver acquisition, not engineering.
The problem
Many startup ride-hailing platforms charge 5–15% of every transaction. The faster you grow, the more they take. By month 12, software is your second-biggest cost — and it scales up exactly when margin matters most.
The TaxiDex fix
TaxiDex charges £11 / £9 / from £9 per active driver a month — never a percentage of your fare. 100% of marginal revenue stays in your business, so every ride you add is yours to keep.
The problem
Stripe doesn't work in your market. M-Pesa requires Safaricom integration. Paystack and Flutterwave have different APIs. Each one takes 4–8 weeks of engineering before you can take a single payment.
The TaxiDex fix
TaxiDex Enterprise ships with native M-Pesa (Kenya), Paystack & Flutterwave (Nigeria), Fawry (Egypt), and STC Pay (Saudi). For Starter customers, we wire in your local gateway during onboarding — alongside Stripe, Apple Pay, Google Pay, and native cash handling.
The problem
Uber pays referral bonuses. Bolt advertises everywhere. As a startup, you can't outspend them — you have to out-experience them. Drivers won't switch for the same app they already use.
The TaxiDex fix
Drivers earn more per trip (no commission cut) and see live earnings updates. Daily payouts, transparent tipping, in-app coaching. The wallet UX is your single biggest driver-acquisition lever — and it's built in from day one.
The Business-in-a-Box
Everything you need to run a serious ride-hailing business. Add modules as you scale.
Published to the App Store & Google Play under your company name. Your logo, your colors, your name. Book now or scheduled, live ride tracking, multiple payment methods, and ratings — the full rider experience customers expect from Uber or Bolt.
iOS + Android in your colors. Turn-by-turn navigation, one-tap accept, instant payouts, an earnings wallet, an SOS panic button, and offline-tolerant trip handling so a dropped signal never loses a job.
For your dispatchers: a live driver map with status halos, drag-and-drop assignment, queue management, and real-time alerts. AI auto-dispatch handles 90%+ of bookings without manual intervention.
For customers who don't want to install anything. Embed one HTML snippet on your homepage, hotel partners, or university sites. Apple Pay and Google Pay work right inside the browser widget.
Live revenue, fleet utilization, top routes, and peak hours at a glance. Driver verification, document-expiry alerts, and AI fraud detection keep your operation clean as it scales.
Stripe is wired in globally out of the box; regional gateways like M-Pesa, Paystack, Flutterwave, and Fawry are added on request. Cash payments are natively supported for markets that still run on it.
Inside the box
No mockups. This is the real TaxiDex console and the apps your drivers and passengers download — the same platform that runs established fleets, sized to a startup budget.
From day one your dispatchers work from a single live operations map. Driver markers with status halos show who is free, en route, on a job, or off shift, and SOS panic alerts surface on the same screen the instant a driver triggers one. You see your entire fleet at a glance instead of guessing over radio or WhatsApp.
The AI auto-dispatch rules engine assigns the routine 90%+ of bookings without anyone touching them, matching each ride to the nearest suitable driver. When a human call is needed, the drag-and-drop dispatch board lets you reassign jobs, pre-assign contract work, and rebalance a neighborhood in seconds — so a two-person team can run a real city.
Pricing is where startups quietly lose money, so TaxiDex hands you an enterprise fare engine on the Starter plan. You draw zones on a live map, set zone-to-zone pricing, and layer on surge rules, surcharge rules, and per-region tax rules — the same toolset large operators use, configured for your single city.
The policies are strict and predictable: multipliers stack with caps, fixed fares stay fixed no matter what surge is doing, and every fare is computed on the backend — never in an app a driver could tamper with. Promo codes and coupons drive your launch campaigns, and every quote is auditable, so a disputed fare is a lookup, not an argument.
You won’t outspend Uber on referral bonuses, so you win drivers on experience and money. Drivers watch earnings accrue per ride in the branded app, commission plans are applied transparently instead of hidden in a black box, and settlements run on a schedule everyone can see. Payouts go out daily through Stripe Connect — to a debit card or bank account — and tips are paid out instantly.
Card payments run through Stripe and Square, including Apple Pay and Google Pay, and native cash handling keeps cash-first markets covered. The same finance suite gives your office P&L, AR invoices, and accounting exports from day one — so back-office work never becomes the bottleneck that stalls your growth.
Honest startup pricing
No hidden fees. No revenue share. Cancel anytime.
£11/driver/month
Up to 2,500 trips/month. $0.15 per overage trip. Cancel any time.
Scaling to 10,000+ trips/month? See Professional and Enterprise plans.
What's included
One flat fee, the whole platform. Add Professional and Enterprise modules as your fleet outgrows the box.
FAQ
Typical fleets go live in 14 days. We migrate driver data, historical bookings, and customer accounts from Autocab, iCabbi, Cordic, or any legacy system with zero downtime.
Yes. TaxiDex Enterprise includes flight tracking, hotel concierge web booker, B2B corporate invoicing, and VIP workflows specifically designed for premium chauffeur and corporate transport operations.
Stripe (default global), Worldpay (UK), Trust Payments, Apple Pay, Google Pay, plus regional gateways: STC Pay & mada (Saudi), Paystack & Flutterwave (Nigeria), M-Pesa (Kenya), and any custom merchant on request.
No trip overage. TaxiDex is priced per active driver — about £11 ($14) per driver a month on Starter, £9 ($11) on Professional, and from £7 ($9) on Enterprise. That is at least 20% cheaper than Autocab, iCabbi, Cordic and TaxiCaller, and white-label apps, setup and migration are all included.
Yes. The TaxiDex Web Booker is an embeddable booking widget for desktop and mobile browsers — perfect for hotel concierge desks, airports, and corporate intranets. One HTML snippet to embed.
30 minutes. We'll walk through the full launch plan: timeline, app-store submission, driver onboarding, and your first 100 rides.
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Dispatch, drivers, fares, payments and reporting — live in 14 days, in your brand.
