Field testing Android Taximeter 55 beta version side by side with iOS's.

 Interested in using Android beta version for the app? Drop us a line at support@blocoware.com!

Taximeter 55 - Android beta version is available!

 🔥 Looking for the Taximeter 55 Android version? Great news – it’s now available in beta! Start using Taximeter app on Android! Tap here to join our Android beta program and help us make the Android version even better!

🔥 Procurando a versão Android? Ótimas notícias – agora está disponível em beta! Comece a usar o aplicativo Taxímetro no Android! Toque aqui para se juntar ao nosso programa beta Android e nos ajude a tornar a versão Android ainda melhor!

🔥 ¿Buscas la versión Android? ¡Excelentes noticias – ahora está disponible en beta! ¡Comienza a usar la aplicación Taxímetro en Android! Toca aquí para unirte a nuestro programa beta de Android y ayúdanos a hacer la versión Android aún mejor!

🔥 Ищете Android версию? Отличные новости – она теперь доступна в бета-версии! Начните использовать приложение Таксометр на Android! Нажмите здесь, чтобы присоединиться к нашей Android бета-программе и помогите нам сделать Android версию еще лучше!

🔥 Suchen Sie die Android-Version? Großartige Neuigkeiten – sie ist jetzt als Beta verfügbar! Beginnen Sie mit der Taxameter-App auf Android! Tippen Sie hier, um unserem Android-Beta-Programm beizutreten und helfen Sie uns, die Android-Version noch besser zu machen!

🔥 Android版をお探しですか？朗報です – ベータ版で利用可能になりました！AndroidでTaximeterアプリを使い始めましょう！ Androidベータプログラムに参加するにはこちらをタップ Android版をさらに良くするお手伝いをしてください！

🔥 Vous cherchez la version Android ? Excellentes nouvelles – elle est maintenant disponible en beta ! Commencez à utiliser l’application Taximètre sur Android ! Tapez ici pour rejoindre notre programme beta Android

Taximeter 55: Added documentation page for the soon coming options for creating a taxi trip directly in the Fare Calculator.

 http://hdocs.blocoware.com/en/taxi/v42/

Adding support for creating a taxi trip directly in the Fare Calculator (MENU > FARE CALCULATOR).

• In the fare calculator select the preferred route, tap on ‘Create trip’ button:

• Now add/manage extras for the trip, use Receipt button to adjust the total, note or collect the payment.
• If you don’t need the calculated trip, swipe on the delete button to delete the trip.
• If you keep the calculated trip, you’ll find it later in the trips log (MENU > TRIPS LOG). This should enable new business scenarios when you need to give a fixed price estimate and issue a receipt exactly for the estimated price.

Fare calculator

Taximeter 55: Getting closer to releasing beta version with new options for creating a taxi trip from the fare estimator.

Recent focus was on getting extras management right for the estimated trip and adding swipe to delete button.

Taximeter 55 app - version 4.1 - The first one with custom button colors, others to follow.

 Version 4.1 - What's new?

Custom color for buttons. (Settings > Advanced > Button colors).

This should provide more options for improved visibility of buttons in bright sunlight and potentially assist in cases involving vision color deficiencies.

You can now pick colors for all of the buttons in the app with following exceptions:

• Buttons in popups are having system blue color.

All other buttons will have the color that you pick here.

Integrating the latest version of SumUp SDK (5.0.0) as SumUp has the following important updates for you:

• Support for the Solo Lite card reader.
• Support for the Australian Dollar and Mexican Pesos currencies.

Miscelany

• Bug fixes and optimizations.

Taxi Cab meter app for iPhone and iPad - Square Point of Sale integration is now available!

Version 1.7 adds Square Point Of Sale integration which adds ability to take credit card payments (in U.S., UK, Canada, Australia and Japan) and print receipts via supported by Square mobile printers (in English, Spanish, French and Japanese).

Use "Payment-Square" button on receipt screen to switch to Square app:

By tapping on "Payment-Square", given you have Square Point Of Sale installed, you'll be transferred to it with receipt data from Taximeter. Currently following information is being transferred to Square app:

• Total to pay, including currency
• Note from the receipt
• Tip or discount information from the receipt

Taximeter also assumes that you have setup Square with appropriate and available to you tender types. This is in the "Advanced" settings, down to the bottom:

Square app returns quite meaningful errors back if something is wrong and taximeter offers you to open Settings in response to adjust them and retry. To avoid errors ensure that:

• Square app installed and you are logged into it
• Square app (your account) is configured to accept currency that is default for your iPhone (based on regional settings). You can see this currency in the Advanced settings (image above).
• Tender types you have setup in the taximeter (Cash+Card by default) correspond by tender type accepted for you by Square. E.g. if you setup Card in taximeter and Square doesn't support card payments for your account, you'll get an error.

Tapping on "Payment-Square" will transfer you to Square app where you can take/register the payment and print the receipt using mobile printers that Square app supports (Star Micronics (SM) bluetooth printers).

Related information:

General information on Square Point Of Sale app integration

Square Point Of Sale settings.

Square tender types.

Taximeter. Advanced Settings.

Taximeter. Currency for receipt and logs. 

Taximeter for iPhone - Square Point Of Sale app integration is in beta now

Version 1.7 of the taximeter app will feature Square Point Of Sale app integration which adds ability to take credit card payments and print receipts via supported by Square mobile printers.

Apple has approved the beta version and here is information for beta testers:

Use "Payment-Square" button on receipt screen to switch to Square app:

By tapping on "Payment-Square", given you have Square Point Of Sale installed, you'll be transferred to it with receipt data from Taximeter. Currently following information is being transferred to Square app:

• Total to pay, including currency
• Note from the receipt
• Tip or discount information from the receipt

Taximeter also assumes that you have setup Square with appropriate and available to you tender types. This is in the "Advanced" settings, down to the bottom:

Square app returns quite meaningful errors back if something is wrong and taximeter offers you to open Settings in response to adjust them and retry. To avoid errors ensure that:

• Square app installed and you are logged into it
• Square app (your account) is configured to accept currency that is default for your iPhone (based on regional settings). You can see this currency in the Advanced settings (image above).
• Tender types you have setup in the taximeter (Cash+Card by default) correspond by tender type accepted for you by Square. E.g. if you setup Card in taximeter and Square doesn't support card payments for your account, you'll get an error.

Tapping on "Payment-Square" will transfer you to Square app where you can take/register the payment and print the receipt using mobile printers that Square app supports (Star Micronics (SM) bluetooth MFI printers).

Related information:

Square Point Of Sale settings.

Square tender types.

Taximeter. Advanced Settings.

Taximeter. Currency for receipt and logs. 

Taxi/fare meter for iPhone/iPad - version 1.6 is here!

More options for fare/tariff

Fare editor screen has been reworked (and yes, it is now Fare, not Tariff - thank you Zach!):

New options added:

• Include minimum mileage in the Entry/Base fare (previously only minimum fare may have included min mileage).
• Handling time before the minimum mileage provided by base/entry or minimum fare has been reached is moved from "Advanced settings" to a fare editor. Now each of your fares can define its own rules for handling the entry/base or minimum fare. Rules in the "Advanced settings" stay as a default for creating new fares or for these where you have not explicitly expressed your preference.

For each of the screens I touched I tried to change it in a way so it "tells its story". Screen above describes you how time and entry/base/min fare is handled in plain English (I hope:)).

Separate screen for fare time rules + new options

Here is the new screen for setting time handling rules:

New to time handling in version 1.6 is ability to setup some "waiting time at trip start". Idea here is that you come to the pickup address, start the trip and if you have 5 minutes waiting time in your starting fare, the app will start the count down from 5 minutes down to zero without touching the meter. When waiting time is exceeded, time charge is added per the fare rules. This whole thing is totally optional.

Separate screen for min/entry rules + new options

New as well is a "Fare rules" screen. Here you can define what minimum or entry/base fare includes (if anything) and how to handle time fare before the minimum mileage included in the base/entry/min fare has been reached:

Top row allows you to pick from following options:

• Minimum fare includes extras and fare up to its own value
• Entry/Base fare includes limited mileage (new in 1.6)
• Minimum fare includes limited mileage

Then you set the mileage included and rules for handling time until this included mileage has not been reached:

• Hide until min mileage is reached. Add to meter on reaching it.
• Add time fare to meter instantly regardless of reaching the min mileage.
• Deduct the equivalent value of min mileage left.
• Until min mileage is reached throw the time charge away

For "throw the time charge away" time handling option you can set the max time you allow to waive away.

Fares list/picker has also been improved to tell a better "story" (I hope) for each fare line:

Library of fares to grab pre-canned fares from

If you read this page on your iPhone/iPad you can just visit library and add fares to the app with one tap. You may need to adjust fare values as these vary per country/town and change over time. What library tries to achieve is to describe different scenarios of mileage/time handling and make them installable with one tap.

Library is work in progress and always going to be I guess. If you want to have your fare added here, please use "action" button in the fare editor screen and pick "send fare to Stan to include into library". I'll review the fare, may ask you for the country/town where the fare applies and add it to this page, so you and your colleagues will be able to add this fare to the app with one tap. Can also be used as a fare "backup" mechanism.

Share fare by email

Use action button in the fare editor screen to send fare by email to your colleague, yourself for backup or there is an option to send fare to the app author (me) for inclusion to the library of fares. 

Changes in receipt

Breakdown receipt has been changed a bit to include a row on a minimum fare:

Changes:

#1 - "First X mi/km" now shows "Included in min. fare" or "Included in entry fare" if there is some mileage included in these.

#2 - If min.fare was used, a row added to show what the minimum fare was.

#3 - All notes on fare are now placed into the single "fare notes" row - can be hidden, if needed.

Tip or discount in simple receipt

Now tip/discount can show on the simple receipt as well. Use Total button (while trip is running) to change the trip total and thus the tip/discount. Name used Tip/Discount - is customisable in advanced settings.

Advanced Settings > Hide leading zeros in fare, custom text for 'received with thanks'

Setting "Show leading zeroes" to NO in advanced settings will stop the app from showing leading zeroes in front of total fare:

Here is an example of how big fare numbers can get with this:

One more thing requested from Australia was ability to either change or hide the "RECEIVED WITH THANKS" text on a receipt. This is now possible in the Advanced Settings:

Keep it empty if you want to remove this section from a receipt.

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I hope you'll like the changes! 

Yours, Stan.

Our dedicated Taxi-cab Meter iPhone and iPad app is now available on AppStore!

We are excited to introduce a new app - Taxi and Cab Meter for iPhones and iPads:

You can still use and configure taxi meter in the speedometer app. If taximeter is the only function you need from speedometer, then you can be better off using the dedicated, single purpose app.

Here is a link to the AppStore download: https://itunes.apple.com/app/id1038944803

User manual and troubleshooting pages: https://sites.google.com/a/blocoware.com/speedohelp/taxi

We hope you will like this new app from us!