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TaxiPal: booking
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Have you ever found yourself in a situation when you are in a foreign city in need for a taxi but there is none around? Now there is a solution to this problem thanks to an Estonian know-how.
By Anja Zinchenko
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ll you need to do is to have an app TaxiPal on your mobile phone. It will organize your ride to anywhere through its taxi booking service. TaxiPal debuted in February 2010 as a project from R&D and technology solution provider “T+1 Solutions”. For the past two years it has already won a few rewards and was listed in the Top 2011 Red Herring Europe reward which names the most promising private technology ventures every year. Users have already appreciated its true value and nowadays the service already covers 31 countries including European countries, US and Canada with 2500 cities in total. TaxiPal is quite easy to use. It automatically determines your location and gives you information on taxi companies available in your area. All you need to do is to push a couple of buttons to open an order form. The filled form is sent to taxi companies from the data base in the app. Taxi companies answer your request by sending their offers with fares. Moreover, Taxi Pal calculates the optimal distance to your destination. So, you
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just choose the most suitable offer. Also, you don’t have to know the local language to order a taxi. TaxiPal is a multi-lingual service so foreign language cannot be a barrier for you. It even converts the local taxi fares to a currency of your choice so taxi ordering could never be easier for you. In addition to taxi companies’ database, TaxiPal includes an extensive database of local businesses and touristic places of interest. You can choose a destination from this database and TaxiPal takes care of your ride there. The place can be found by its name, its type or its location. TaxiPal also offer benefits for taxi companies. First of all, TaxiPal is a good marketing tool that can allow a taxi company to have its name on every smartphone in the world. So, the name does not necessarily have
to be known since it is in the database. It makes a company more reachable and allows getting more clients. Also, the dispatcher doesn’t have to know foreign language which sometimes can cause a loss of a potential client. Another benefit is that TaxiPal provides reports to taxi company about the ratings and feedback the clients give. As for orders, they are done as electronic requests so mistakes in data entry are minimized. For travelers TaxiPal is a very good offer: the problem of language is solved; there is no need to search for taxi phone numbers and compare their prices. TaxiPal allow you to use only your mobile phone. You can download Taxi Pal from taxipal.com for free as the fare for using the app is withdrawn only from the taxi companies. Nowadays it is available for Android, iPhone, and Symbian phones.
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