Every taxi business needs an efficient dispatch system for operations and management. You can either develop a software from scratch or buy a ready-to-use one.

Most companies use apps for their drivers and passengers — but building an app from the ground up requires significant resources, time, and money. This has made personal custom software a risky venture.

That considered, a ready-to-use but customizable booking and dispatch system like SmartMove Systems is the best yet affordable option. They offer subscription-based software with powerful features that can be tailored to fit your fleet operations.

Integrated and Scalable Call Center Service 

SmartMove offers access to support agents that can handle calls, chats, emails, and more. For scalability, you can choose the pricing structure that works best for you.

Apart from the 24/7 call center support for your team and the flexible call taking options, SmartMove has an interactive voice response (IVR) integration called SmartVoix.

With SmartVoix’ call routing option, common tasks are automated and data entry errors are eliminated. As a result, your call center support can increase efficiency, reliability and traceability.

SmartVoix also helps:

• Identify the caller via the phone number
• Identify previously recorded caller details including name and addresses
• Provide advanced call queuing to prioritize important callers
• Allow you to take more accurate bookings and offer advanced functionality
• Record all calls and link them to the original booking. This provides an exceptional quality control measure.

Watch Video: SmartVoix Guide for Dispatch Operators

Ready-to-Use and Customizable Features

SmartMove Systems offers many customization options for your fleet’s unique needs. With the tailored software solution, you’re sure to get exactly what you need within your budget.

You can customize:

• Reports and create new query reports specific to your requirements
• Dispatch zones and site profiles.
• Fleet rates and tariffs
• Addresses — can be imported from a range of sources to eliminate double handling and user error.
• Multiple fleet profiles easily and create specific regulations for individual fleets
• Employee profiles and records and employee access levels.
• Promo Codes & Vouchers
• Easy integration with call centers
• SmartHail passenger booking app — can be easily branded to your fleet

Being a cost-effective dispatch system, you can use SmartMove’s dynamic pricing to cater to your fleet’s workload.

Comprehensive Reporting and Record Keeping

To make your job easier, SmartMove provides a platform to easily access all ride information, driver jobs, financials and more for auditing and accounting.

SmartMove reporting includes:

• Access your own data anywhere, any time
• Eliminate paper-based record keeping, and support your drivers with intuitive digital data entry and prompts
• Easily generate and send account invoices efficiently to customers
• Equip drivers and owners to easily retrieve their own end of shift reports or invoices
• Create and save custom reports for front line staff or management use

In addition, SmartMove streamlines your entire book-keeping process, from accounting to legislative and quality insurance requirements. Which is why we call these innovative features DocketKiller as they eradicate paperwork.

Through these tools you’ll be able to optimize your fleet operations, identify cost saving areas, streamline rosters, and more.

Driver and Passenger Solutions

On top of being a cost-effective dispatch system, SmartMove also offers solutions for your passengers and drivers. You can rest easy knowing that your drivers and passengers have a full suite of reliable tools to make their ride comfortable, safe, and secure.

Scalable and Low-Cost Dispatch System

Whether you’re operating a small fleet or multi-state transportation, our dynamic pricing options, simplified regulatory and safety checks, and reduced paperwork make managing taxi operations easier and budget-friendly.

Best Features in Review

SmartMove has a ton of great features that’s worth exploring, so you know what you’re getting. There are four dimensions to consider when thinking about taxi cab technology, and that is: the fleet operations and accounting tools, owner or operator management access, passenger app and experience, and driver app and workflows.

Fleet Operations

The best feature among the rest is the DocketKiller tool that saves you a lot of time and money as well as integrating the accounting right as the transaction happens. It does this by recording the details of the payment at the end of each job while also auto-generating the invoice in the form that the client needs for regulatory compliance.

SmartMove’s reporting and tracking tools provide a unified approach to taxi fleet management, providing insights to improve operational efficiency and fleet performance, identify cost-cutting opportunities, improve rosters, and much more.

Any recorded date can be checked for regulatory compliance. You can also set a warning time frame and an action, for example. If the vehicle registration has expired, prevent account or vehicle use.

With how the DocketKiller keeps track and prevents potential headaches, this is definitely one of the best features in our review.

Owner/Operator

One of the best features for owners and operators is that you have unlimited and complete access to all of your data at all times — at no extra cost — letting you make better, more informed business decisions. We also provide customized and centralized reporting to ensure you have access to information when and where you need it and reporting tools to help you streamline your paperwork and reduce manual data entry.

Unlike other services we won’t hostage your data in additional fees.

Another feature for owners is the live mapping functionality that tracks all cars live and shows their status whether vacant or currently engaged as well as the booking details.

Driver’s App

There’s a lot of features for drivers to like, and the best among them is hard to pick.

A potential life and money saving feature of SmartMove is the duress panic function called SmartMove Track. In a nutshell, this will inform other drivers nearby, as well as the call center, and will send a text message to the designated number. The duress panic button would be installed somewhere inconspicuous and pressing it will have the cab be monitored by the call center in a one way call without the passenger’s knowledge. Once the emergency passes, the call center will have a two-way call with the cab to ensure everything is okay and possible next steps.

Another contender for best feature for drivers would be the electronic logbook that keeps track of work done. This helps in preventing any record conflicts as well as recording extra work and adding notes on each job.

What ties in all these benefits together is the SmartDriver App that lets you access all the above features and much more, and that’s the best kind of feature.

Passenger Experience

The best feature when it comes to the passenger experience is also a tough pick, with so many of the conveniences that passengers have come to expect from SmartMove. In curating the user experience, the SmartHail App that handles the passenger side of booking can be white labeled to match the branding that your taxi company wants to achieve.

On the company side of the customer experience, SmartMove provides support to any type of payment method thus ensuring that there’s no lost business on account of payment method.

Best Features in Taxi Cab Technology

While it seems all the above features are standalones, SmartMove does it smart by integrating them in an all-in-one package that accounts for your business needs the way you want it. Any and all transitions would be assisted by our capable team.

With our extensive experience in the business, book a demo and make the SmartMove today!