Tap a Taxi

[Taxi driver42]

Is there any work

[John m]

So does this app take the fare from the passengers account or do you take cash or card payment?

No in app payments as yet,but plans in train, I believe. All drivers, as you know, are obliged to have a c card facility, and many, like mise have the Revolut app.

So Big Dommo has Sharon Begley over for Dinner and she has 16 double vodkas and wants a taxi home from the flats to her gaff .Big Dommo being a Gent says let me get a taxi for you and there is no way for him to pay the fare on his booking even though being a gent he wants to pay sharons fare ..Now If I am a Corporate Client who wants to set up an account for my Staff and the fare to be deducted from my business account I cannot do that ?

  I wonder are they actually licenced by the Central Bank to hold Personal Financial details or act as an Intermeditary .?

[Rat Catcher]

Could he not just pay the driver on pickup?

[John m]

Could he not just pay the driver on pickup?

Fixed Fares they dont do them ?


Security obligations if you handle card data

If your app touches card numbers at all, you must implement things like:

Encryption in transit (HTTPS, TLS)
Encryption at rest (if storing PAN)
Strict access controls (need-to-know only)
Logging & monitoring access
Secure development practices
Regular security testing

These come from the 12 PCI DSS requirements

[John m]

GDPR (Irish / EU law)

If you store card data, it is also personal data, so:

Under GDPR, you must:

Have a lawful basis for processing
Minimise data (only store what’s necessary)
Protect it with appropriate security
Report breaches

⚠️ A breach could lead to fines up to €20 million or 4% of turnover

[John m]

Practical reality (what most apps do)

Because of the complexity and risk:

[Rat Catcher]

They mightn't do fixed fares but they provide an estimate and the driver will know what he wants for the job.

There's loads of card payment processing firms that take care of all the GDPR and security stuff for you. Before Sumup came along I used Stripe which is an excellent cost effective solution with out of the box APIs for Android, IOS, www, etc...

[Bob Shillin]

Is there any work

Yes.
But what are you expecting?
Statistics are not going to be broadcast here on a public forum
It's trying to take market share from billionaire USA corporate apps who are 10+ years established, and who have already wiped out most traditional taxi firms.
It will require a significant element of committment to the project, and to go a little beyond where one might go normally.
It will take time to establish a balance between, supply and demand, and distance required to travel to cover the jobs.
When the above is established hopefully it will result in client loyalty
The current impressive membership is presumeably divided between an average of 3 working shifts per day.
The share purchase price is a steal, to have a serious go at the established apps, and has attracted a significant number of drivers.
My biggest worry would be 1200 drivers, each with an opinion, but everyone has a vote at an AGM.
With the corporate apps their vote is imposed upon us, and this is the only alternative to fight back.
Are ya in, or wha?

[Taxi driver42]

Ok sounds good
A fighting chance

[Rat Catcher]

Excellent progress to date. A good start is half the work.

[John m]

Robbie you are looking at this ALL WRONG .Big Dommo and Billy the Bastard and The One We dont mention went to the IDA for a Grant .They took an existing product a Whore .Sent her to a Plastic Surgeon got a pair of Tits built on to her back .Their Business Proposal was the one Whore could now increase business activity by 100% operating both sides and the Anal would cost 5% more to off set the cost of surgery .A brilliant piece of Economic increase utalising existing resources to drive Profitability .Great Idea on Paper but nobody wanted it .

Thats the Difficulty with Business you need to identify your market .With a taxi app it is Passengers .They want door to door transport .Nowthey have than Street Hail or App hail or dial up hail .So this new app is not offering them anything they do not already have .So what is its selling Point ?

This is successfully being sold by its developers to its market Taxi DRIVERS .that is not the same as taxi CUSTOMERS .I have already told you for this to be a Stand alone App the sums are 17 jobs per driver per shift .17x1250=that is 21.250 jobs per day or 148.750 per week or 7 million 735 thousand per year .Those are the figures for a fleet of1250 Drivers Nationally .Does that seem realistic ?

The answer is No it cannot compete with others offering bonus payments to drivers and discounts to passengers because there is no stand alone taxi App .UBER is not a Taxi app it is a Data harvesting app .Taxi services was a decoy to put tracking devices in customer phones access their data so they can sell on that data for profit to advertisers .Google Maps do the same its live on your taxi app in your pocket tracking you .Spotify does the same .This App cannot and willl not work because it is selling a service already saturated and has no alternative revenue stream as they do not own the App or store the Data themselves .

You are buying a share in delusion like the fella buying a share in a Piedball  gelded pony you wont win the race and you have no Stallion Possibilities .If you are going to invest in business at least understand Business .

  I was surprised at the Clontarf Cavalier who understands Crypto Currencies and Crypto wallets getting involved .All the real Taxi Apps are Data harvesters nothing to do with taxi hailing .They could give the service away for nothing .This New Venture has no Cost variables to work with no other stream of income .Uber built out their own Dynamic Mapping and Pricing based on tracking you showing them the routes .By offering fixed fares they accustom the users of their Driverless Product to how their cost structure will operate when you hail a driverless vehicle .

  I knew an old Millionaire you would not think this lad could afford to eat .He built the little housing Estate on Bluebell Avenue and Bought the old cottage where the new housing estate is across from the Circle K on the Canal Bridge in Clondalkin .I remember sitting in his kitchen and he gave me advice I chose to ignore .He said " John you are a very clever man but an idiot ,you spend all your time fighting and winning some battles but you never focus on the War " So think about that .What do drivers want ? They want to be paid for all the Work they do and paid the right price as in the Metered fare .So to do that they should be looking at removing the Apps not adding to them .Keep your eye on the Target not the days battle .

[John m]

Excellent progress to date. A good start is half the work.

Its designed to lose so I suppose still running is progress until it dosent .

[Octavia1]

Robbie you are looking at this ALL WRONG .Big Dommo and Billy the Bastard and The One We dont mention went to the IDA for a Grant .They took an existing product a Whore .Sent her to a Plastic Surgeon got a pair of Tits built on to her back .Their Business Proposal was the one Whore could now increase business activity by 100% operating both sides and the Anal would cost 5% more to off set the cost of surgery .A brilliant piece of Economic increase utalising existing resources to drive Profitability .Great Idea on Paper but nobody wanted it .

Thats the Difficulty with Business you need to identify your market .With a taxi app it is Passengers .They want door to door transport .Nowthey have than Street Hail or App hail or dial up hail .So this new app is not offering them anything they do not already have .So what is its selling Point ?

This is successfully being sold by its developers to its market Taxi DRIVERS .that is not the same as taxi CUSTOMERS .I have already told you for this to be a Stand alone App the sums are 17 jobs per driver per shift .17x1250=that is 21.250 jobs per day or 148.750 per week or 7 million 735 thousand per year .Those are the figures for a fleet of1250 Drivers Nationally .Does that seem realistic ?

The answer is No it cannot compete with others offering bonus payments to drivers and discounts to passengers because there is no stand alone taxi App .UBER is not a Taxi app it is a Data harvesting app .Taxi services was a decoy to put tracking devices in customer phones access their data so they can sell on that data for profit to advertisers .Google Maps do the same its live on your taxi app in your pocket tracking you .Spotify does the same .This App cannot and willl not work because it is selling a service already saturated and has no alternative revenue stream as they do not own the App or store the Data themselves .

You are buying a share in delusion like the fella buying a share in a Piedball  gelded pony you wont win the race and you have no Stallion Possibilities .If you are going to invest in business at least understand Business .

  I was surprised at the Clontarf Cavalier who understands Crypto Currencies and Crypto wallets getting involved .All the real Taxi Apps are Data harvesters nothing to do with taxi hailing .They could give the service away for nothing .This New Venture has no Cost variables to work with no other stream of income .Uber built out their own Dynamic Mapping and Pricing based on tracking you showing them the routes .By offering fixed fares they accustom the users of their Driverless Product to how their cost structure will operate when you hail a driverless vehicle .

  I knew an old Millionaire you would not think this lad could afford to eat .He built the little housing Estate on Bluebell Avenue and Bought the old cottage where the new housing estate is across from the Circle K on the Canal Bridge in Clondalkin .I remember sitting in his kitchen and he gave me advice I chose to ignore .He said " John you are a very clever man but an idiot ,you spend all your time fighting and winning some battles but you never focus on the War " So think about that .What do drivers want ? They want to be paid for all the Work they do and paid the right price as in the Metered fare .So to do that they should be looking at removing the Apps not adding to them .Keep your eye on the Target not the days battle .

" A fool who believes in himself....  will win every time over  an army of doubters .....

Benny hill


 

[John m]

There are none so blind as the Deaf .Ignorance is the easiest education to carry{Quote by me nobody else's words of wisdom .}

[silverbullet]

There are none so blind as the Deaf .Ignorance is the easiest education to carry{Quote by me nobody else's words of wisdom .}

Ya need to work on it.