CabGrid WooCommerce Add-on Setup Guide
How to install and configure the CabGrid WooCommerce Add-on. This add-on allows you to use WooCommerce to process taxi journey bookings and payments.
How to send a payment link with the booking acknowledgement message
Want to include a payment link in the booking acknowledgement email. There are number of ways you can construct a payment link and include it in the acknowledgement email. Here’s a couple of suggestions…
Reset all prices, places, vehicle or extras with one click
CabGrid Pro version 5.9.4 adds an option to reset all prices, places, vehicles and extras with one click.
Require Payment After Taxi Booking Submitted
Want to make payment mandatory when a customer submits a taxi booking request in CabGrid Pro? This is something occasionally requested by our users. Unfortunately, this is not directly possible. However, we have some suggestions…
Airport meet and greet name plate print out with your logo
The Nameplate feature is part of the CabGrid Booking Management Add-on. The NAMEPLATE button is located in the MANAGE column next to each booking. If the CabGrid Driver add-on is installed, a driver will receive a link to the nameplate page for that booking when...Logo Image
The logo field in options allows a company logo to be specified. This is to be used in default/generic emails and other places across the system – such as the airport greeting card.
Booking Reference Seed
The Booking Reference Seed option allows you to define or adjust the booking reference assigned when a booking is requested.
Highlighting Price Variation Options
Whilst CabGrid cannot currently automatically update the price based on booking form input, we have some recommendations for drawing your customer’s attention to the price variation buttons…
Automatically Accept CabGrid Booking Requests
The Booking Management add-on cannot automatically accept or confirm bookings. However, it is possible to give this illusion to your customer by re-wording the email and messages shown during the booking process…
Add your logo to taxi booking notification emails
How to add a logo or image to notification emails sent from CabGrid Pro or the CabGrid Booking Management add-on
Invoicing, Accounting and Bookkeeping with CabGrid
CabGrid features to help with accounting, bookkeeping and invoicing customers.
Booking form unexpectedly shows mandatory information missing
Problem: when trying to summit a booking, the message “Mandatory information missing or invalid. Invalid fields have been highlighted.” always appears, even when all required fields are completed.
Hook CabGrid events on the front end with JavaScript
How to manipulate the CabGrid calculator and booking form when certain events occur through Javascript.
How to use CabGrid Pro v5 Alt Styles
CabGrid Pro version 5.8.14 includes a new set of built-in styles. Selecting these styles means custom CSS for these styles need not be entered in the custom CSS box. To use these styles, select ‘Alternative Styles v5’ under BASE STYLES in the OPTIONS tab of the CabGrid Pro WordPress admin panel.
Troubleshooting the CabGrid Stripe Integration Add-on Plugin
The CabGrid Stripe Integration add-on adds Stripe payment processing to the CabGrid price calculator and booking plugin. If not properly configured the Stripe add-on may not function as expected. Here are some things to check if the Stripe payment option is not offered at the end of the booking process…
Re-initialise/Reset CabGrid Pro to solve layout or loading errors
In certain circumstances the CabGrid Pro can fail to load required files after an update. This can result in the taxi calculator losing its layout and styling. This article provides details on how to reset and re-initialise CabGrid Pro.
Cash Payment Options
This article and accompanying video tutorial describe mechanisms for offering customers a cash payment option in CabGrid.
Changing the Return/One-Way Icon Button with CSS Styling
CSS code snippets for Cab Grid Pro version 5 and above that change the appearance of the one-way/return button icon shown in the plugin calculator interface. These snippets can be added to the Custom CSS box under the OPTIONS tab in the Cab Grid Pro WordPress admin page.
Driver Dispatch Add-on Setup
The Cab Grid Driver Add-on plugin allows drivers to be added and managed through the WordPress admin interface. Drivers can be assigned to taxi bookings and sent notifications by email or SMS text message. Customers can also be notified when a driver is assigned to their booking.
Disable Floating Price Bar with CSS
How to disable the floating price banner displayed in the footer using CSS
Cache/Optimisation Plugin Configuration Recommendations for Cab Grid
Cab Grid is already built for speed, but site owners may still want to optimise their sites using a cache plugin. Often, these plugins change or minify code, and alter the order in which resources are loaded. Because of this, we recommend these plugins are configured to avoid interfering with Cab Grid.
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 CabGrid Blocks for the WordPress Gutenberg Editor
CabGrid now includes dedicated Gutenberg editor blocks that allow the basic taxi price calculator, the CabGrid Pro calculator and booking form, and the CabGrid 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.
