Disable Floating Price Bar with CSS
How to disable the floating price banner displayed in the footer using CSS
Handling Unlisted Destinations – An Alternative Approach
What happens when a customer is looking for a journey to or from a place that isn’t listed in the AREAS tab? New features in Cab Grid Pro open scope for new techniques to handle these journeys by providing a streamlined process to request a custom quotation…
Customise taxi booking form based on user input
Ever needed to hide or show booking form fields based on the destination or passenger numbers selected by your customer? In Cab Grid Pro v5.5 dynamic CSS classes are added to the main Cab Grid element allowing subsequent manipulation of content through CSS.
Dedicated Cab Grid Blocks for the WordPress Gutenberg Editor
Cab Grid now includes dedicated Gutenberg editor blocks that allow the basic taxi price calculator, the Cab Grid Pro calculator and booking form, and the Cab Grid Pro Price Table to be positioned as block items within any WordPress post or page.
Make Built-in Cab Grid Pro Booking Form Fields Optional
Whilst NOT RECOMMENDED, it is possible to disable Cab Grid’s built-in booking form fields. This article describes how to use advanced settings (Defaults add-on or _settings.php) and CSS to hide built-in fields that are mandatory by default.
Adjusting Cab Grid Taxi Fare Prices Based on the Number of Passengers
This article explores ways taxi fare prices provided by Cab Grid may be adjusted based on the number of passengers, for example, when applying a surcharge for extra passengers or a discount for large groups.
Cab Grid is Built for Speed
Cab Grid passes Google Lighthouse performance audits with a perfect score of 100…. Google places significance on page speed and customers have limited patience loading websites. WordPress plugins and themes can slow load times if they’re not built with speed in mind. However, Cab Grid is built for speed….
Advanced Destination Selector on Mobile
Force mobile devices to use the searchable destination select box offered with the Cab Grid Pro desktop experience…
Hide Unsupported Destinations
Populate the destination list based on the selected pick-up location…
Cab Grid Pro v5.2 now supports the option to disable destinations where no price has been configured. Customers select a pick-up location (origin) and the destination list will adjust dynamically to only show journeys that have a price set.
Email notification configuration
How to configure a dedicated Cab Grid Pro email address distinct from the main WordPress Admin email address. Useful for auto-responders or dedicated booking processing.
Local currency support
Cab Grid can process online payments via Paypal (built-in) or other payment gateways (via add-ons). But what if your local currency is not supported by any of the payment gateways we offer?….
One solution is to use the deposit/surcharge field to convert the local currency price to a currency supported by the chosen payment gateway…
Cab Grid Pro Admin Error/Warning Messages
Cab Grid generates error or warning messages when it encounters a misconfiguration. Detailed error/warning messages are usually only displayed to WordPress admin users. They are not displayed to regular users or customers. This article details some common error messages or warnings and what possible solutions might be…
Direct journey link syntax
Need to offer customers direct access to popular routes or journeys? Build a custom link that pre-populates the Cab Grid Pro price calculator…
Tool-Tips to help customers complete booking form
Tool-tips can be enabled to provide customers with further assistance when calculating a journey price and completing the booking form…
Dedicated User Profile
Personalise the Cab Grid experience for registered users by pre-populating their primary address and offering a discount unique to them….
How to use Send Grid & WP Mail SMTP to improve taxi booking notification email deliverability
Cab Grid sends notifications to both customers and administrators via email (and text). Use Send Grid and WP Mail SMTP to improve email deliverability. This article discusses steps to configure.
Individual WordPress User Discounts in Cab Grid Pro
Cab Grid Pro version 5 allows a dedicated discount formula to be defined for individual users logged in to your website. When a logged-in user calculates a journey fare price, their dedicated discount is automatically applied.
Discount formulas are defined in the user’s profile page. This article describes how to set up dedicated user discounts.
Mailpoet Integration
Cab Grid Pro version 5.1 introduces the ability to offer a “Join our mailing list” checkbox on the taxi booking form. When checked, a customer’s name and email are added to the designated list.
MailPoet is a free WordPress plugin that provides mailing list management and scheduling from within the WordPress admin.
Require International Dialling Code in Taxi Booking Form
Cab Grid Pro offers the option to have customers select their international dialling code when entering their phone number on the booking form. This can be disabled by setting it to off in the Twilio SMS text message section of the OPTIONS tab on the Cab Grid Pro WordPress admin page.
Cab Grid Taxi Fare Price Currency Symbol
The currency symbol is set under the OPTIONS tab in Cab Grid. It is displayed along side any price that is calculated. The currency symbol field can accept individual symbols or HTML codes.
How to remove the shadow from the new Cab Grid Pro v5 styling
The new version of Cab Grid Pro automatically applies a drop shadow to the taxi price calculator box. This can be disabled by adding a simple line of CSS code to the STYLING CSS box under the OPTIONS tab on the Cab Grid Pro WordPress admin page: .cabGridPro:after {display:none;}
Set the priority/order of places and vehicles
When Cab Grid’s own logic does not meet requirements a special (hidden) feature allows the order of places in origin or destination drop-down lists, and the priority of vehicles to be defined.
Embed Cab Grid in External Web Sites or Services (e.g. Facebook)
Cab Grid Pro v5 provides a template that allows the taxi price calculator or taxi price table to be embedded in another website or application such as Facebook. This article describes the steps to generate the Cab Grid Pro embed page.
Combine Calculation Modes in Cab Grid Pro v5
Cab Grid Pro 5 introduces the ability to combine calculation modes. This is useful where the choice of vehicle should be offered (rather than determined by the system).
Modes are combined by adding comma-separated values to the layout attribute of the Cab Grid Pro shortcode as follows. At this time, the only possible combinations are Vehicle and Time layout, and Vehicle and Ticket layout.
Import & Export Fare Price and Destination Data to Cab Grid Pro
Location and price data can be imported to Cab Grid Pro from an external source (CSV file). This can be especially useful if there are large number of places and prices.
