TaxiCloud Garage
Gamified onboarding that gets your taxi fleet live — faster.
TaxiCloud Garage turns the setup that usually stalls a free trial into a game your team actually finishes. Complete quests, earn XP, unlock badges and keep a streak going — and every step leaves you with a real, bookable fleet, not a half-built account.
- Add your first driver+120 XP
- Set your pricing+150 XP
- Publish your website+200 XP
- Connect payments+180 XP
7-day streak
Setup momentum
Key takeaways
- TaxiCloud Garage is a gamified onboarding cockpit: new operators earn XP, levels, badges and streaks for completing the setup steps that get a fleet live.
- Activation quests break launch into finishable wins — add your first driver, set your pricing, publish your website, connect payments and take a test booking.
- Every quest maps to a real, revenue-ready capability, so 'progress' always means a more bookable fleet, never busywork.
- The Garage Activation Score (0–100) shows exactly how close a trial is to going live — one shared readiness number for your team and ours.
- It is built to move the metric that matters: turning more free trials into activated, paying fleets.
TaxiCloud Garage is the gamified onboarding layer inside the TaxiCloud dispatch platform. When a taxi or private-hire operator starts a free trial, the Garage greets them with a set of activation quests — practical setup tasks like adding the first driver, setting tariffs, publishing a booking website, connecting Stripe payments and taking a first test booking. Each completed quest awards XP, moves the operator up the level ladder (Rookie Operator to Dispatcher to Fleet Captain to Cloud Commander), unlocks badges and builds a setup streak. Behind the game is a serious goal: activation. Fleets that finish the core quests reach a live, bookable state faster, and a clear Garage Activation Score keeps everyone honest about how ready a trial really is.
Garage, by the numbers
from first driver to first live fare
one shared readiness number
our design target to take real bookings
the lift we are building toward — illustrative, not a measured result
The Garage Activation Score and go-live threshold are real product mechanics. The 3× trial-to-paid figure is an internal design target that steers the roadmap — it is illustrative, not a measured customer result.
What is the Garage?
The Garage is the first thing an operator sees after starting a free trial — a gamified onboarding cockpit that replaces a blank dashboard and a 20-page manual. Instead of guessing what to do first, operators get a clear board of quests, a live XP bar and a level to climb. It reframes 'setting up dispatch software' as a series of small, satisfying wins, each of which quietly turns the account into a real, bookable taxi fleet.
- A quest board, not a blank dashboard
- An XP bar and level that show real progress
- Badges and streaks that reward momentum
- A Garage Activation Score that says 'you are ready to go live'
How does gamified onboarding speed up activation?
- 1
Start your free trial and the Garage opens with your first quests already queued.
- 2
Complete a quest — add a driver, set your pricing, publish your site — and earn XP the moment it is done.
- 3
Level up, unlock badges and build a setup streak as the core quests fall into place.
- 4
Hit a Garage Activation Score of 80+ and flip the switch to take live, paying bookings.
Which quests get a taxi fleet live?
Every quest is a real setup step with a real payoff. Finish the core eight and you have a fleet that can take a booking, dispatch a driver and get paid.
Add your first driver
Invite a driver, send the app, and watch them appear on the live map.
Set your pricing
Configure tariffs, fixed fares or metered pricing so every quote is right.
Publish your website
Generate and launch a branded booking site with the AI builder in minutes.
Connect payments
Link Stripe so you can take card payments and pay drivers out.
Take a test booking
Push a job through the cockpit end to end before you go live.
Invite your dispatcher
Bring a teammate into the cockpit so the desk is always covered.
Brand your driver app
Add your logo and colours so drivers and riders see your fleet.
Go live
Take your first real booking and clear the final quest.
How do levels, badges and streaks work?
Every quest awards XP. XP moves you up the level ladder, unlocks badges for milestones, and — if you keep coming back to finish setup day after day — builds a streak that nudges you to the finish line.
- 1Level 1 · 0 XP
Rookie Operator
Fresh trial. First quests queued.
- 2Level 2 · 300 XP
Dispatcher
Drivers added, pricing set — the desk is taking shape.
- 3Level 3 · 700 XP
Fleet Captain
Website live, payments connected, test booking done.
- 4Level 4 · 1,200 XP
Cloud Commander
Fully live and taking real bookings. Fleet activated.
Badges to collect
Why operators finish setup in the Garage
Momentum, not manuals
A quest board and an XP bar beat a wall of documentation. Operators always know the single next step that moves them forward.
Every point is real progress
There is no busywork. Each quest completes a genuine dispatch capability, so 'levelling up' and 'going live' are the same journey.
Streaks that beat drop-off
Most trials die from a stalled setup. A daily setup streak and gentle nudges pull operators back to finish what they started.
Does gamifying onboarding really drive trial-to-paid conversion?
Activation is the moment a trial becomes a real fleet — and it is the strongest predictor of whether that operator ever pays. The Garage is engineered around that moment: it shortens time-to-first-booking by making the path obvious and rewarding, and it surfaces a Garage Activation Score so both your team and ours can see exactly which trials are ready to convert.
- Time-to-value: quests collapse a sprawling setup into a handful of finishable wins, so operators reach a live fleet sooner.
- A shared score: the 0–100 Garage Activation Score flags stuck trials early, so success outreach lands before an operator drifts.
- A design target, not a promise: we are building the Garage toward a 3× lift in trial-to-paid activation — an internal target used to steer the roadmap, not a measured result.
FAQ
Gamified onboarding — questions answered.
- Is the Garage just badges, or does it actually help?
- Every badge and XP reward is tied to a real setup step — adding a driver, setting pricing, publishing a site, connecting payments. The game layer exists to guide operators through genuine activation, not to add fluff. Finishing the quests leaves you with a live, bookable fleet.
- What is the Garage Activation Score?
- It is a 0–100 readiness metric TaxiCloud calculates from the quests an operator has completed. It gives your team and ours one shared number for how close a trial is to going live; our design target is that a score of 80+ means the fleet is ready to take real bookings.
- Do my drivers see the gamification too?
- The Garage is built for the operator setting up the fleet — the person turning a trial into a working dispatch operation. Drivers use the standard TaxiCloud driver app; the quests and XP are part of the operator onboarding experience.
- Can I go live without finishing every quest?
- Yes. The quests are a guided path, not a gate. You can take live bookings as soon as the essentials are in place — the Activation Score and remaining quests simply show what is still worth doing to get the most out of the platform.
- Is the Garage included in TaxiCloud?
- Gamified onboarding is part of the TaxiCloud platform, alongside the dispatch cockpit, AI Copilot, the AI website builder, payments and the driver and passenger apps. See pricing for plan details.
Start the trial. Finish the Garage. Go live.
Kick off your free trial and let the quests walk your fleet from empty account to first live booking. No card required.