StayCraft for Taxi & cab services

For taxi and cab operators who run airport drops, local hire, sightseeing days and outstation trips. You get your own website that puts your fares first, an admin where you quote, confirm and give each trip a driver, and pings on your phone when a trip request arrives. Choose it because a passenger sees what the trip costs before they message you, asks for it on your own site, and you pay no commission on any trip.

What every site gets

These are on every plan, from the smallest up, and work while your plan is paid.

• A listing on the StayCraft Experiences directory (staycraft.co.in/experiences), which links to your own site, once your plan is active.
• Your own website at yourname.staycraft.co.in, in the Meter design: taxi yellow on black, the fare first, your routes as a price list, your cars by class and your packages by the hour. The site moves a little: the first screen opens with a slow push-in, and headings and photos rise as a visitor scrolls. Still for anyone whose phone is set to reduce motion.
• A fare finder. A visitor types both ends of the trip and the fixed fare for that route appears.
• Your Fares page, with every fixed route, every package and your car classes, and the trip request form under it.
• Trip requests from your site, with the pickup and drop as an area and a landmark, and an optional pin on the map.
• A trip board in your admin to quote, re-quote, confirm, give a driver, mark done and cancel.
• Your drivers and cars on file, with a weekly email when a permit, fitness certificate, insurance or driving licence is about to run out.
• A trust strip on your site that is worked out from your own records, never typed in.
• Enquiries, a WhatsApp button, a photo gallery, reviews, nearby places, a blog, and SEO & Google tools with a health score.
• Enquiry follow-up: every enquiry moves through New, Replied, Quoted, Won or Lost, with a day to follow up on, a "Follow up today" tab, and one morning ping on your phone when something is due. On every plan.
• Google review cards and QR landing pages you design and print yourself.
• Social posts: turn a review, an offer, a nearby place or a festival into a finished picture and caption in your own colours and fonts (a post, a story or a square), in English or Hindi, and share it to your WhatsApp status from your phone. On every plan; nothing is posted for you.
• Visitor numbers: traffic, top pages, and where your enquiries and trip requests came from.
• Backup: download your whole site and your records whenever you like.
• Staff logins for a dispatcher and your drivers (how many depends on the plan).
• Phone pings for new trip requests and enquiries (see the phone section below).
• Make the bill for a confirmed trip: a line for the fare you quoted and one for each thing you added to it, once, with GST if you are registered (5% to start with: confirm it with your accountant). On every plan; your dispatcher can make it too.
• No commission on any trip, on any plan.

Plans and prices

Cab services buy from the same six plans as homestays. Prices are per year.

Plan	Price per year	Who it suits	What it adds over the plan below
Website	₹9,000 (₹750 a month, billed yearly)	An owner-driver who wants fares online and trip requests coming in	Everything in "What every site gets". No staff logins, 1 management user (you). Three designs made for your kind, 1 design change a year. 1 GB.
Basic	₹12,000 (₹1,000 a month, billed yearly)	An operator with a dispatcher and a few drivers	Your own brand colours on the site. 3 staff logins, 2 management users. Every standard design, 2 design changes a year. 2 GB.
Growth	₹15,000 (₹1,250 a month, billed yearly)	An operator who wants to see which Google searches bring passengers	Search insights from Google. 5 staff logins, 2 management users, 2 design changes a year. 3 GB.
Plus	₹18,000 (₹1,500 a month, billed yearly)	An operator serving foreign tourists, on its own web address	Your site in 8 languages and your own domain. 8 staff logins, 2 management users, 3 design changes a year. 5 GB.
Team	₹25,000 (₹2,083 a month, billed yearly)	A fleet run by a team of managers	10 staff logins, 3 management users, 4 design changes a year. 10 GB.
Pro	₹30,000 (₹2,500 a month, billed yearly)	The biggest fleet in town	Alerts on your phone for every new trip request and enquiry. Change your design any time. 20 staff logins, 5 management users. 25 GB.

GST. Plan prices are what you pay. StayCraft is not GST-registered, so no GST is added.

Add-ons. Your own colours, Search insights, the 8 languages and your own domain can be added to a smaller plan as add-ons. There is no public price for them: ask us and we quote for your business.

How paying works. No free trial and no card up front. We agree the plan and the price with you first. You pay by UPI or bank transfer to the account we send you, and we switch the plan on the same day the payment reaches us. A plan does not renew by itself: you choose to renew, and we send reminders before it ends.

Changing plan. You can move up to a bigger plan at any time and pay the difference for the time left. A move to a smaller plan waits until your current year ends.

Staff logins are counted without the owners. A login you switch off takes no place.

A note on the pricing page. The comparison table is written for homestays. Several lines on it do nothing for a cab service: "Requests + payment proof", "Availability calendar", "Packages & experiences", "Restaurant & bar", "Online card/UPI payments", "OTA channel sync" and "Premium designs". Your trip requests, fare packages and drivers are on every plan anyway. Do not sell a plan on those lines.

Features in detail

Website & design

• Meter design. Made for cab services: the fare finder on the first screen (on a laptop a dashboard under your name: the road map, the fare, the cars and the button), then fixed routes, car classes, fare packages, your drivers, what your business offers, gallery, area guide, reviews, your story, map and an enquiry form.
• Its own touches. The enquiry form is styled the design's own way (ruled lines, soft cards, ink outlines, paper, glass or a stamp), a small hand-drawn mark of the design's own sits between the sections and draws itself in as a visitor scrolls, and facility icons are drawn in the design's own hand. What the form asks and does stays the same.
• Edit it yourself. Drag sections into order, hide the ones you do not want, change the headings and text, change the cover photo, with a live preview. No designer needed.
• A video on the first screen. Paste a YouTube, Vimeo or Dailymotion link and the site shows a Watch the video button.
• Your logo in the header and as the browser tab icon.
• What your business offers, ticked from a list (24×7 phone, airport pickup board, child seat on request, roof carrier, GPS-tracked cars, cashless payment), shown on your site.
• Questions and terms. Your questions and answers, and your cancellation terms. Add a "Good to know" section in the editor to show the questions on your home page, folded so a long list does not scroll forever.
• Fare terms. Write what the fare does not include (tolls, parking, state permits) and what waiting costs. They print, with your cancellation terms, on the request form, on the passenger's trip page and in the fare you send.
• Start from a demo. A ready demo cab service fills a new site, so it is not empty on day one.
• Your own colours (Basic and above).
• Your own domain, such as yourcabs.com, with HTTPS set up for you (Pro, or as an add-on).

Fares, cars and drivers

• Fixed routes. A one-way fare between two places for a class of car, with distance and journey time if you want them shown.
• Fare packages. Local hire, sightseeing day or outstation: hours and kilometres included, the price, the rate for extra kilometres and extra hours, and the driver's allowance.
• Outstation by the day. An outstation package is a rate per day, so the opening quote is the rate times the days the passenger asks for.
• Car classes. Hatchback, sedan, MUV, SUV, luxury sedan, Tempo Traveller or bus, each car with its seats, fuel and transmission.
• Add another like this. A second car of the same model starts with its class, seats, fares, photo and description filled in; its plate, permit and papers are its own to enter.
• Car papers. Each car's permit (state tourist, All India Tourist, contract carriage or stage carriage) and the dates its permit, fitness certificate and insurance run out.
• Driver profiles. Photo, years driving, years on hill roads, the languages they speak, KYC and police checks, licence number and expiry, and a short bio. You choose which drivers show on the site.
• The trust strip. Lines such as "KYC-verified drivers", "Police-verified", "Licences checked and current", "All India Tourist Permits" or "Insured and fitness-certified" appear only while every shown driver or car really meets them. Add a driver without the tick and the line comes off by itself.
• Expiry email. Every Monday morning you get an email listing papers that run out in the next 30 days, so nothing lapses by surprise.

Trip requests and quotes

• What a passenger asks for. A fixed route, a package, or their own trip; the date and time; how many people; and where to pick them up.
• A pickup the driver can find. The pickup is an area and a landmark ("Old Manali", "the temple gate"). The passenger can also tap Use where I am now or paste a Google Maps link; your email then has Open on the map.
• The published fare comes with it. A request for a fixed route or a package arrives with that fare already as the opening quote.
• Quote and re-quote. Send the fare with a message. It is emailed to the passenger if they gave an address, and WhatsApp sends it there too. Add tolls, parking, waiting or extra kilometres to the fare as lines of their own: the passenger sees each with the total, and the bill carries each.
• Confirm, Done, Cancel. Confirm once they agree, mark the trip done afterwards. Cancel sends nothing, so tell the passenger yourself.
• Add a request yourself for a trip booked over the phone.
• The passenger's own page shows what they asked for, the published fare where there is one, and their driver once you choose one.
• Assign a driver on any new, quoted or confirmed trip, and change it later.

Payments

• No gateway needed. Your UPI ID, bank details and payment instructions are kept in Settings.
• The fare is paid to you directly, in cash or by UPI, as you do today. The site does not take an advance or a payment for a trip.

Customers

• Every request in one list, with the passenger's name, phone and pickup, and one-tap WhatsApp.
• Enquiries from your contact form are saved even if an email fails, and you reply by email or WhatsApp.
• Privacy, handled. Each request records when the passenger agreed to your privacy notice. If someone asks you to delete their details, Remove details clears their name, phone, email and pickup and drop from every finished record of theirs.
• Reviews. Add reviews you received on WhatsApp or in person, and choose which show on your site. Save your Google Place ID once and you get a review link, a code to print and a WhatsApp message ready to send.

Staff & roles

• Dispatcher. Runs the trip board: adds requests, quotes and re-quotes, sends WhatsApp, confirms, gives a driver, marks done and cancels. Reads the drivers list. Cannot change fares, cars or driver records, and never sees Settings or your takings.
• Driver. For a driver with a phone. Sees only the trips you give them, from today on: when, where to pick up, where to drop, and the passenger's name and phone, with a WhatsApp button. No fare is shown, and no other driver's trips.
• How many. Website 1 staff login, Basic 3, Growth 5, Pro 10. Owners are not counted, and you can add a second owner.
• When someone leaves, switch their login off. Nothing they did is lost.

Marketing & Google

• SEO & Google. A health score with a checklist that links to each fix. Your sitemap goes to Google every week by itself, and your site tells Google it is a taxi service, with the languages your drivers speak.
• Area guide and How to reach sections, the writing that helps you rank for your town.
• Blog with live, scheduled and draft posts.
• Visitors and where requests come from, including campaign links you share.
• Monthly report by email: on the 1st, last month's visits, enquiries and (where your plan has them) bookings, payments, QR scans, reviews and top Google searches, against the month before, with one tip and your SEO score. A "Last month" card on the dashboard shows the same. You can switch it off in Settings or with one click from the email.
• Review cards in five designs and five sizes, drawn to the millimetre for printing, and QR landing pages whose buttons you can change without reprinting.
• Search insights (Growth and Pro, or as an add-on): what people typed into Google to find you, the pages they landed on, clicks, impressions and your position. Nothing to set up.
• Google Analytics, if you want it, asks visitors first and loads only after they accept.

Phone app & notifications

• Pings the moment a trip request or an enquiry arrives, and for the weekly papers reminder. Tap it and that record opens.
• On Android, Windows or Mac they work in the browser. On iPhone they work from a StayCraft icon added to the home screen from Safari.
• The dispatcher's phone rings for new requests too. Drivers get no pings.
• A ping can show a passenger's name, never their phone number or an amount.
• A StayCraft Android app is being tested on Google Play and is not yet available to download.

Languages

• 8 languages (Pro, or as an add-on): your site is translated by itself into English, Hindi, Hebrew, French, German, Spanish, Italian and Russian, with a one-tap switcher. Hebrew reads right to left.

Backups

• Download a zip of your site and your records whenever you like: your cars, drivers, fixed routes, fare packages, trip requests, enquiries, photos and settings.
• Restore puts your website content back from a backup. Your trip records are in the download but are never written back over newer ones.
• Your payment keys are never put in a backup file.

What it does not do (yet)

• No online payment for a trip. There is no card or UPI payment on the site for a fare, and no advance. The passenger pays you directly.
• Tolls, waiting and extra kilometres are not worked out for you. You type each as a line of the quote, with its amount; there is no meter or toll lookup. Whether a toll passed on at cost is taxable is for your accountant: tick Passed on at cost, no tax on such a line and it carries no tax; every other line is taxed at the rate you pick under Cab trips in Settings, GST: 5% (to start), 12%, 18%, another rate, or Tax included, which shows no GST on the bill.
• No live tracking of cars or drivers, and no meter. The "GPS-tracked cars" line is something you tick, not something StayCraft provides.
• No automatic fare for a custom trip. The fare finder covers your fixed routes; anything else you quote yourself.
• Drivers are not told when a trip is given to them. Tell them yourself.
• Cancelling sends nothing to the passenger.
• One trip per request. A passenger cannot put several trips in one request.
• No Android app to download yet; pings work through the browser and the iPhone home-screen icon.
• Restaurant menu, OTA calendar sync and online card payments on the price list are for homestays and do nothing for a cab service.

Good to say to a customer

• "Will passengers see my prices?" Yes. Your fixed routes, packages and car classes are the main part of your site, and a passenger types both ends of a route to see its fare before they call.
• "Do you take a cut of my trips?" No. There is no commission on any plan. The passenger pays you directly and every rupee is yours.
• "How do I know a request has come in?" You get an email and a ping on your phone with the pickup, the time and the passenger's name. Your dispatcher's phone rings too.
• "Can my drivers use it?" Yes. Each driver can have their own login that shows only the trips you give them, with the pickup, drop and passenger's phone, and no fares.
• "How do passengers know my cabs are safe?" Fill in your drivers' checks and your cars' permits and insurance. Your site then shows lines like "Police-verified" and "Insured and fitness-certified", only while they are true, and you get an email before any paper runs out.