A cutting-edge web-based system is revolutionising business travel for clients of a corporate taxi firm thanks to Plymouth firm Company of Designers England (CODE).
CODE helped city-based Taxibank use the Business Travel Show at London's Earl's Court to showcase the trailblazing EINIX system, created with software development company SWORD, based in Chennai, in India.
Now Taxibank, the UK's leading corporate taxi provider, based at Faraday Mill in Plymouth, is celebrating having gained four new clients after the system attracted major interest at the show.
Simon Hirst, Taxibank's managing director said EINIX had transformed the fortunes of the company and praised CODE's bespoke design of the system.
He said: "We have had first-class support from CODE, from their initial system specification and interface design, the systems development in India, right through to the Earl's Court show marketing. EINIX has quite simply revolutionised our business and I cannot praise CODE enough."
Andy Staples, of CODE, explained how EINIX worked.
"If a business in London wants a cab for one of its employees in Bradford to go to Leeds, rather than wade through Yellow Pages to find a local taxi company, they contact Taxibank who use EINIX to source the least-cost option from their network of businesses they have under contract," he said.
"No matter how many cabs the client company orders in whatever part of the country, it can all be billed by Taxibank under one invoice, saving a huge amount of accounting time and minimising fraudulent claims.
"Taxibank now has 24 high-profile clients, including RAC, Nokia and the Royal Bank of Scotland and access to 90,000 taxis nationwide via the EINIX system, which is helping taxi and corporate car hire go hi-tech for the 21st century."
The system also includes a card payment option, eliminating the need for a cash transaction.
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