Know your numbers.
Drive a stronger fleet.
Estimate monthly bookings, driver payouts, operating profit and break-even trips for your taxi or private-hire business. Use your figures, not ours.
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Fleet activity
Revenue sharing and variable costs
Example: per-booking support cost
Fixed monthly business costs
Your expected cost, not a Hoppvia quote
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Hoppvia provides passenger and driver apps, live trip tracking and dispatch management for taxi, private-hire and chauffeur operators. Review whether the platform fits your fleet and market.
How to calculate taxi fleet operating profit
Start with gross customer bookings: active drivers × trips per driver per day × days operated × average fare. Subtract the amounts paid to drivers, payment processing fees, other per-trip costs and fixed monthly expenses.
The formula
Monthly operating result = (drivers × trips/day × days × average fare) − driver payouts − payment fees − per-trip costs − fixed costs.
What break-even means
Break-even trips per driver per day is the minimum average activity needed to cover the monthly fixed costs, under the assumed per-trip contribution. If per-trip contribution is zero or negative, no finite trip volume will cover fixed expenses.
Where this helps
- Estimate whether a new taxi, minicab, private-hire or limousine service can support its overhead.
- Compare different fare, driver-share and monthly software-cost assumptions.
- Plan conversations with potential software suppliers using your own figures.
Common questions
Does the calculator use real taxi market averages?
No. The starting values are clearly illustrative, not independent market research or forecasts. Replace every assumption with your operation's actual numbers.
Are the software cost figures Hoppvia's prices?
No. The software input is yours to edit. For current Hoppvia options and a quote appropriate to your fleet, refer to Hoppvia's pricing page.
Can I use this for London, New York or Dubai?
Yes. Select GBP, USD or AED as appropriate, then enter local fares, driver payouts and costs. The calculator does not estimate local taxes or regulatory expenses automatically.
Is anything sent to a server?
No calculation inputs are transmitted to a backend by this tool. The optional share-link feature puts the entered values into the URL, so anyone with that link can read them. Use an ordinary reset before sharing publicly if your figures are sensitive.