Why use TaxiGer alongside your taximeter?
For many taxis today, platform trips make up more than half of the job.
Uber, Bolt, Heetch… These trips alternate with rank customers, phone calls and WhatsApp requests.
The taximeter remains essential for certain rank trips.
But for a large part of modern activity, sending every platform trip through the taximeter quickly becomes heavy.
That is exactly the problem TaxiGer aims to simplify.
More than 50 % of the job often goes through platforms
The taxi trade has changed.
In the same day, a driver may alternate between :
- a trip taken at the rank ;
- a phone booking ;
- a WhatsApp request ;
- an Uber trip ;
- a Bolt trip ;
- a Heetch trip.
For many operators, platform trips are no longer an occasional add-on.
They often represent more than half of the activity.
So the problem is no longer only having a compliant taximeter.
The problem is also to manage simply all those trips that no longer follow the classic rank pattern.
Encoding a platform trip via the taximeter : too complex
On paper, one might think : “I’ll put everything through the taximeter”.
In practice, it is often complicated.
To record some off-rank trips correctly via the taximeter, you sometimes need to :
- manage different tariffs ;
- adapt configurations ;
- change mode ;
- train drivers on extra procedures ;
- lose time between two customers.
Between two platform trips, the driver often does not have time to navigate a complex configuration.
Frequent result :
the action is postponed, forgotten, or done too late.
Compliance then becomes an obstacle course, whereas it should remain a habit.
Not all trips need the taximeter in the same way
Two realities must be distinguished.
For a rank taxi, the compliant taximeter remains an essential piece of regulatory equipment when it is required.
But an Uber, Bolt or Heetch trip, or a trip received directly, does not necessarily need to be “replayed” in the taximeter to be correctly managed and transmitted to Chiron.
In other words :
the taximeter remains useful where it is needed.
TaxiGer is for the trips that do not need that complexity.
TaxiGer simply connects those trips to Chiron
TaxiGer does not replace your taximeter.
It offers itself as a complement for platform trips and other trips that do not need the taximeter.
In practice :
Taximeter → trips that need it
TaxiGer → platform trips and other trips → Chiron
The goal is simple :
open TaxiGer → record the trip → start.
TaxiGer then handles the necessary transmission to Chiron.
Fewer menus.
Less tariff configuration.
Less friction between two customers.
Keep the taximeter, simplify the rest
You can therefore keep :
- your Hale ;
- your A.T.A. ;
- your Digitax ;
- your Cabman ;
- or any other compliant taximeter already installed.
No need to rebuild everything only to send your platform trips to Chiron.
No need either to reconfigure all your tariffs in a new machine for every type of trip.
The driver keeps their habit for trips that go through the taximeter.
And they use TaxiGer for the rest : simply.
For choosing a taximeter or installer, also read : Which taximeter / installer to choose for a rank taxi in Flanders?
One environment for a hybrid activity
When more than half of trips come from platforms, the operator needs a tool that follows that reality.
TaxiGer centralises in one environment :
- platform trips ;
- own trips ;
- direct requests ;
- transmission to Chiron ;
- history of declarations.
The organisation then revolves around your company, and not only around each platform interface or each taximeter configuration.
Less complexity = fewer errors
The more complex a system is, the higher the risk of forgotten actions.
Especially when trips follow one another :
end of trip → new customer → departure
In that rhythm, a tool that is too heavy ends up being bypassed.
A simple tool, by contrast, is more likely to be used correctly on every trip.
That is where simplicity becomes a compliance issue.
For the operator : more peace of mind
In the end, the topic is not only about driver comfort.
It is about the operator’s ability to have applicable obligations respected every day.
They must be able to offer a system their drivers will actually use :
at 8 a.m., at 6 p.m., after ten trips, and when three customers are waiting.
TaxiGer is designed for that :
connecting platform trips and other trips that do not need the taximeter to Chiron simply, without turning every departure into a technical configuration.
In short
TaxiGer is particularly interesting if :
- more than half of your activity goes through Uber, Bolt, Heetch or other off-rank sources ;
- encoding those trips via the taximeter becomes too complex ;
- you want to avoid managing unnecessary tariffs and configurations for those trips ;
- you want to keep your current taximeter ;
- you want to send your trips to Chiron simply ;
- you want to reduce omissions linked to overly heavy procedures.
The principle is clear :
The taximeter stays where it is needed. TaxiGer simplifies the rest.
For many taxis today, that “rest” already represents more than 50 % of the job.
Related: Chiron registration