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OwnDesk Taxi

Original price was: $179.00.Current price is: $129.00.

Software for a taxi business or small cab fleet: a dispatch board that texts each ride to the driver with a map link, booking by text with a QR code, card payment links through your own account, weekly settlements for commission and lease drivers, monthly account invoices, maintenance by mileage and taxi accounting with profit per cab, in one offline file. No subscription, no account.

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Description

What it does

A dispatch board that texts each ride to the driver

See the day in one column per driver, each with a status you set, plus the rides nobody has yet. Assign a ride from a drop-down and your messages app opens with the time, pickup, drop-off, passenger and phone, fare, payment, cab and a Google Maps route link already written. You press Send. Confirm with the rider, send a payment link and mark the ride done from the same card. Drivers need no app, and the app never sends anything by itself.

Booking by text with a QR code, and card payments through your own link

The app makes a booking link and a QR code for your website, Google profile, cards and cab stickers; riders get a text to your dispatch number with a booking form already typed. Paste the reply, or a plain sentence, and it becomes a ride. Paste a payment link from your own Stripe, Square, PayPal or Venmo account and the app texts it with the fare. The money goes straight to you.

Weekly settlements for commission and lease drivers

Each commission driver’s share of the fares, card tips, fuel and tolls they paid and their share of account rides, minus the cash and app payouts they hold and any tickets charged to them: pay or collect, then mark the week settled. Lease drivers get weekly charges in one click, payments, deposits, damage deductions, late fees and a running balance. Statements print or go by text.

Taxi accounting, maintenance and renewals

Shifts record cash, card and app payouts, tips, miles, fuel and tolls; the company share follows how each driver is paid. Reports show profit and loss, profit per cab, a tax set-aside estimate with the standard mileage rate and a Schedule C worksheet. Expenses keep receipt photos, maintenance comes due by the odometer, and registration, insurance, permits and hack licenses get alerts and a calendar file.

What you get

  • One HTML file that opens in your browser, with a sample five-cab company already loaded so every screen can be seen full
  • Dashboard, dispatch board, rides, online booking with QR code, customers and monthly accounts, drivers, vehicles, shift log, maintenance, renewals, tickets and incidents, driver settlements, lease ledger, account invoices, expenses with receipt photos, and reports with taxes
  • Printable invoices, driver statements, a dispatch day sheet, a booking card and the profit and loss report with a Schedule C worksheet, CSV export of every list, JSON backup and restore, and an optional automatic backup file in Chrome and Edge
  • Text message by default, WhatsApp if you prefer, light and dark themes
  • A quick-start guide included in the download

Before you buy

What is software for a taxi business, and what does this one do?
It is the program a cab company runs its rides, drivers and money in. This one gets each ride to a driver by text with a map link, books riders by text with a QR code, settles commission and lease drivers every week, invoices hotel and clinic accounts monthly, tracks maintenance by mileage and renewals, and keeps the books with profit per cab and a tax set-aside estimate. It is one file that works offline.
Is it dispatch software for taxi businesses with a driver app and GPS?
It is a dispatch board for a small fleet. Rides reach drivers as a text from your own phone number, so drivers need no app. There is no live GPS map, no automatic ride matching and no passenger app.
Is it accounting software for a taxi business?
Yes. Shifts, leases, account invoices and expenses add up to profit and loss and profit per cab, with a tax set-aside estimate and a Schedule C worksheet for your preparer. It is a planning estimate, not tax advice, and it does not file anything or connect to a bank.
Can it handle lease drivers, as taxi rental software for a limo business?
If you lease cabs or limos to drivers by the week, yes: charges, payments, deposits, damage deductions, late fees and balances. It is not a reservation system for renting vehicles to the public.
Can it take card payments or send texts by itself?
It opens your messages app with the text written and you press Send; it never sends anything on its own. Card payments go through a payment link from your own Stripe, Square, PayPal or Venmo account. The app does not process cards or run payroll.
Can several people use it at the same time?
No, and it is worth knowing before you buy. There is no cloud sync and no shared database, so it is one computer at a time. Another computer can work from a copy by restoring a backup file, but the two copies do not merge.
Is there a subscription?
No. One payment for the file, no account, no server, no fee per car and no monthly fee. Your records stay in your own browser and nothing is uploaded anywhere, so keep a backup file somewhere else.