Getting Started
Introduction
What Online Ride Booking is and how the pieces fit together.
Online Ride Booking is a premium WordPress plugin for taxi, limousine, shuttle, and chauffeur businesses. It puts your whole operation on your own website: a multi-step booking form for customers, dispatch and fleet management in wp-admin, online payments, and self-service portals for customers, drivers, and corporate agents.
The three surfaces
The booking form is what your customers see. You place it on any page with a shortcode. It walks the customer through trip details, vehicle choice, and payment, calculates the price live on a Google map, and creates the booking.
The admin area is where you run the business. After activating the plugin a Ride Booking menu appears in wp-admin with everything from the dispatch dashboard to invoices, driver settlement, and email templates. Every screen in that menu has its own page in this documentation.
The frontend portal is a single page on your site (created automatically at /portal) that signs customers, drivers, and agents into their own dashboards — no wp-admin access needed.
Requirements
- WordPress 5.8 or newer
- PHP 7.4 or newer
- An active license from onlineridebooking.com
- A Google Maps API key for address autocomplete, route maps, and distance pricing
- Optional: Stripe, Authorize.Net, or Square account for online payments; Twilio for SMS
Where to go next
- Install the plugin
- Connect your license
- Configure Settings — currency, maps key, payments
- Add your Vehicles and Drivers
- Put the booking form on a page and take your first booking