New increase

[stonethecrows]

Revolut may not be approved by the NTA as a method of CC payment !

[mercenary for hire]

You can have a card facility but push Revolut to the passengers as a preferred payment.As long as you get paid there's no problem.

Fast forward a couple of years and cash jobs on freenow that get paid by card means you'll be paying 12% commission plus 2.75 to Sumup.So 14.75% commission before Freenow up their fees to 15%.Then it will be 15+2.75 for the cash jobs.Lovely stuff.Uber aren't even riding their drivers that hard.

[Shallowhal]

You can have a card facility but push Revolut to the passengers as a preferred payment.As long as you get paid there's no problem.

Fast forward a couple of years and cash jobs on freenow that get paid by card means you'll be paying 12% commission plus 2.75 to Sumup.So 14.75% commission before Freenow up their fees to 15%.Then it will be 15+2.75 for the cash jobs.Lovely stuff.Uber aren't even riding their drivers that hard.

I've had passengers do that and i've told them it's a no no....you either have a card registered with them or pay cash...or for those tourists who want to pay by card and who have had a taxi ordered for them using FreeNow.....input a lower fare value to offset the SumUp commission.

[dalymount]

Ken it's a pity they would not tackle all the illegality within the industry without trying to make legal drivers conform to their demands .in view of my belief of what the future holds for us,I will not be part of this industry.i would NEVER allow a third party like a dispatcher detail me in the course of my dutys.and btw I do agree that the public deserve a good service from us,but by the same token taxi drivers have a right not to have to compete with illegal drivers,unvetted drivers,unlicenced drivers,double jobbers etc etc

[Belker]

Ken it's a pity they would not tackle all the illegality within the industry without trying to make legal drivers conform to their demands .in view of my belief of what the future holds for us,I will not be part of this industry.i would NEVER allow a third party like a dispatcher detail me in the course of my dutys.and btw I do agree that the public deserve a good service from us,but by the same token taxi drivers have a right not to have to compete with illegal drivers,unvetted drivers,unlicenced drivers,double jobbers etc etc

With all that said DM, how can the NTA determine who is legal and who is illegal ?
The NTA as I see it are doing their best to keep the "illegal drivers,unvetted drivers,unlicenced drivers,double jobbers etc etc" out of the industry, and We as full time Legal drivers will have to jump through the same hoops to prove that we are legal drivers.
If'n you want the industry Cleaned up DM then you will have to jump through the Hoops or would you rather go back to the 'Good old days' ?

[Bob Shillin]

Thanks Ken I just found it in my inbox.It's gonna be hard to argue against an increase.Twitter is gonna be raging.

The only positive thing I see is 100% cards will loosen Freenow's grip on our testicles.

You may get drivers who are fans/devotees of FN, when they get a street fare wanting to pay by card, directing them to "Pay with FN" which is commsion free, thereby increasing FN usage an popularity even more.

[Dr. Martin Gooter Bling]

FOR FUCK'S SAKE.

What's wrong DMG ?

the meters were only recalibrated and resealed 18 months ago.
if the powers that be want to constantly interfere they should unfuck the plates can't be sold between parties bollocks.
that was implemented 5 years ago.

[Lizzzy]

What happens if you're in the middle of connemara with no reception and some hayseed wants to pay with credit card.

[dalymount]

Ken I've always supported a fully legal, fully compliant, fully licenced, industry consisting only of full time drivers in fact I have been complaining for a long time now that this is not the case. The mere fact that I, and others have continuesly made such complains for this length of time , bears out the fact that the NTA have failed miserably to address the issues

[Dr. Martin Gooter Bling]

you're the biggest bleedin gangster on here dalymount.

[Bob Shillin]

So they estimate the commission on credit cards to be half a percent,when they used to allow you charge 5% extra?(ten times as much).
Sum up charge 2.75%(except it's free through FreeNow till the end of the year)

You get .5% on all fares, cash, FN, and CC, to compensate for 2.75% on CC fares.

I worry about the possible increase in FN's commission. All these big companies are ever chasing "growth". As it stands their only growth possibilities are NTA fare increases, recruit more drivers, or increase commission. When do they reach "churn" on new drivers, i.e. no further growth possible, and what do they do for growth when maximum commission is imposed?

[dalymount]

Oh Dr Martin , I shocked at your assertion, please qualify your remarks

[watty]

Download the app.Take a photo of yer identification(drving licence) and wait to be verified.

When a passenger has it it works kinda like Pay with Mytaxi/free now.Customer opens their own Revolut app and the phones GPS shows a list of other Revolut folks in their immediate vicinity who they can forward payment to.Money goes from one phone to another.Very fast.No fees on it.

Thanks for that.  Sounds interesting.

How do Revolut make money then?  Do they charge an annual fee or something?  Do you pay the Irish credit card tax on it?

[Dr. Martin Gooter Bling]

Oh Dr Martin , I shocked at your assertion, please qualify your remarks

I'm pulling your wire big guy.
have ye had any more punters giving you fascist salutes recently.

[Shallowhal]

Said it before...they better take into account the possible abolition of daylight savings when meters need recalibrating.