Booking software with zero commission on your fares
There is a difference between paying for software and paying a share of your revenue. A subscription is a cost you can plan around; a commission is a partner you did not choose, taking a cut of work you found, priced, drove and got paid for.
On this page
- Three things get called commission, and only one of them is
- The job, as your dispatcher sees it
- Every way work reaches you
- What each one actually costs over a year
- Priced by your rate card, on the server
- What a subscription costs instead
- A payment page per booking
- Rentals, with the paperwork attached
- How to check what you are really paying
- Your brand, your domain
- What zero commission means here, precisely
- How a booking moves
- What comes with it
- The test to apply to any platform
- Frequently asked questions
This page is about where commissions hide in a booking stack, how to tell a genuine commission from a card-processing fee, and what it costs to run a desk that pays neither to a software vendor.
Three things get called commission, and only one of them is
The first is a genuine software commission: a percentage of the fare taken by the platform your business runs on, on bookings you generated yourself. This is the expensive one, and it is the one worth refusing. It scales with your revenue, it never stops, and it is entirely unrelated to what the software costs to run.
The second is card processing. Every card payment costs something to accept, whoever you are with, and a rate of a couple of per cent plus a fixed amount per transaction is the normal shape of that. It is not a commission — it is the price of taking a card, and it exists on every platform including ours. What differs is whether you negotiated the rate or inherited it.
The third is a marketplace fee: a platform sends you a job you would not otherwise have had, and takes a cut of it. That is a lead cost rather than a software cost, and it can be perfectly good value. The mistake is confusing it with the first kind and concluding that paying a percentage on your own bookings is normal. It is not.
The job, as your dispatcher sees it
One record holds the passenger, the route, the flight, the assigned driver and the money — so nothing about the ride lives in somebody’s phone.
M. Weber · 2 pax
FRA T1 → HOTEL JUMEIRAH, FRANKFURT
LH 402 · on time · Business Van
THOMAS S. · Accepted · 4 min ago
€ 89.00
Paid
Every way work reaches you
Website, widget, WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger, Telegram, live chat, email, phone and marketplace partners — all landing in the same place.
What each one actually costs over a year
Take a desk turning over a hundred and twenty thousand a year in fares, which is a modest two or three-vehicle operation. These are the shapes, not quotes from any particular vendor.
| What it is | On that turnover | Reasonable? | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Software commission at 5% | A share of every fare you find yourself | Around six thousand a year, rising with every good year | No — you are paying for growth you produced |
| Software commission at 2% | A smaller share, same structure | Around two and a half thousand a year | Still a revenue share for a fixed-cost service |
| Flat subscription | One published monthly price | Around twelve hundred a year and it does not move | Yes — the cost of the tool, not of your success |
| Card processing | The cost of accepting a card, whoever provides it | Depends entirely on your negotiated rate and card mix | Unavoidable — but negotiate it, and hold it yourself |
| Marketplace lead fee | A cut of a job the platform actually found for you | Only on the jobs they sent | Often yes — judge it as marketing spend, not software |
Priced by your rate card, on the server
The route is measured once and every vehicle class is priced from your own rates, so no channel can quietly undercut you.
Priced live from your own rate card · fixed, no surprises
What a subscription costs instead
The flat-rate alternative, at your own volume. Card processing is shown as its own row for exactly the reason above: it is a real cost that exists everywhere, and folding it into a software comparison would be the same sleight of hand this page is arguing against.
| RideDesk | Limo Anywhere | Moovs | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plan at this volume | Pro | Core | Standard |
| Base, per month | $99 | $129 | $149 |
| Per-trip fees, per month | None | $30 (120 × $0.25) | None |
| One-time onboarding | None | $299 | $299 |
| Card processing | Your own processor rate | Your own processor rate | 3.4% + $0.30 |
| First year, all in | $1,188 | $1,847 | $2,087 |
| Every year after that | $1,188 | $1,548 | $1,788 |
Competitor figures are published list prices, read on 2026-08-28 from: Limo Anywhere pricing · Moovs pricing
Fleet size is asked for because per-vehicle vendors bill on it. RideDesk does not: 4 vehicles cost exactly what one costs.
A payment page per booking
Your own Stripe, PayPal or SumUp account, the full booking summary on the page, and a compliant invoice behind it.
Rentals, with the paperwork attached
Day rates and duration discounts, included kilometres, condition at handover and return, and an agreement the customer signs.
How to check what you are really paying
Take last month and work backwards from your bank. Add the subscription, every per-booking fee, the processing on your card takings and anything a platform deducted before paying you out. Divide by the fares you invoiced. That percentage is what your booking stack actually costs, and it is almost always higher than the number anyone quoted you.
Then split it: which part is the software, which part is accepting money, and which part is somebody else finding you work. The first should be a fixed number you can forecast. The second should be a rate you negotiated with a processor you chose. The third should be judged like any other marketing spend — by whether the jobs were worth what they cost.
If the first part is a percentage, that is the one to change. It is the only one of the three where the cost keeps rising and the service does not.
Your brand, your domain
Your colours, your logo and your sending address, on a hostname you own. Customers never learn what software you run.
Booking page, panel & emails — 100% your brand, none of ours
What zero commission means here, precisely
Stated as commitments rather than adjectives, because this is the kind of claim that deserves specifics.
No percentage of any fare, on any plan
Including the free plan. The subscription is the entire software cost — there is no revenue share, no success fee and no per-booking charge anywhere in the product.
Your payments never pass through us
You connect your own Stripe, PayPal or SumUp account. Money moves from your customer to your account directly, at whatever rate you negotiated, and we are not in the flow to take anything out of it.
Bank transfer and cash are first-class
Not every fare should carry a card fee. Bank transfer, SEPA and cash are proper payment methods in the product, recorded and reconciled the same way as card payments, not awkward exceptions.
Marketplace jobs are labelled as what they are
If a booking arrives from an outside source, it is tagged with that source so you can judge each channel on what it actually earns you. Your own bookings are yours, whole.
The price is published
Three plans on a public page, month to month, no minimum term and no onboarding fee. If a plan changes price, you will read it there rather than find it on an invoice.
How a booking moves
Arrive, get priced, get a driver, get confirmed, get paid — the same path whichever channel it came from.
Create your organization, set your rate card, connect your domain and drop in your logo and colour.
Point your website at RideDesk, plug in the API, forward marketplace jobs, or add them by hand.
Approve, assign a driver or partner, send the pay link, and let the automations handle the rest.
What comes with it
The capabilities that turn a booking list into a business you can run from one screen.
Built-in CRM
Every booker becomes a customer record — history, documents, billing details, lifetime value.
Two-way inbox & WhatsApp
Reply to customers by email or WhatsApp from inside each booking. No separate app.
Live flight status
Airport pickups track the flight automatically — delays surface before the driver leaves.
Bookable by AI agents
A per-tenant MCP endpoint lets AI assistants get a quote and book — priced by your rules, never theirs.
Quote-to-booking analytics
See what visitors entered, which class they picked, and where they dropped off the funnel.
Automations & reminders
Confirmations, driver reminders, payment chasers and a morning digest — on autopilot.
The test to apply to any platform
Ask one question in writing: if I take a booking through my own website, from a customer I found myself, and they pay me by bank transfer, how much does your company receive? The answer should be the subscription and nothing else. Any other answer is a revenue share, whatever it is called on the pricing page.
Frequently asked questions
What does zero commission actually mean?
That the software vendor takes no percentage of your fares, on any plan. You pay a subscription for the tool and keep the whole fare. It does not mean card payments are free to accept — that cost exists everywhere and belongs to your payment processor, which is why you should hold that relationship yourself and negotiate the rate.
Is a commission ever better than a subscription?
When the platform is genuinely finding you work, yes — that is a lead cost, and paying a share of a job you would not otherwise have had can be excellent value. It is a poor deal when the platform is charging a percentage of bookings you generated yourself through your own website and your own customers.
How do I compare a commission platform with a subscription one?
Convert both to an annual number using your own turnover. A five per cent commission on a hundred and twenty thousand in fares is around six thousand a year; a flat subscription on a published plan is a fixed figure you can look up. Then repeat the exercise using the turnover you expect in two years, because that is where the two shapes diverge sharply.
Does RideDesk take a cut of payments made through the pay page?
No. The hosted pay page runs on your own Stripe, PayPal or SumUp credentials, the money settles into your account, and the only party taking a fee is the processor you chose at the rate you agreed with them. This is true on the free plan as well as the paid ones.
What about the fees on marketplace bookings?
If you accept work from an outside marketplace, that marketplace sets its own terms and takes its own cut before the job reaches you — that is between you and them. RideDesk records the source on the booking so you can see what each channel earns after its fee, and adds nothing of its own on top.
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See it with your own rides
Set up an account, load a handful of real bookings and see how they move through dispatch. No card needed to look around.