Your own book of business: private hire and chauffeur booking software for independent UK operators

Most booking tools ask you to trade a slice of every job, and a piece of the customer relationship, for the privilege of being listed. Zenithly is built the other way round. The booking page is yours. The customer is yours. The fare is yours, and it is paid straight into your own account. There is no marketplace commission in the middle.

This is private hire and chauffeur booking software for independent UK operators, from single-car sole traders to small firms, who want to run their own business rather than feed someone else's platform.

Payment goes to you, not through a middleman

Marketplaces typically take a commission on every job and hold the money until they decide to release it. Zenithly does neither. Card payment is taken as a direct charge into your own connected Stripe account. The funds land in your balance. You choose whether to take a deposit or the full fare upfront, anywhere from ten per cent to the whole amount. Your customer pays you, on a page that carries your name, for a price you set. There is no marketplace commission on the fare.

A smart fare engine, not a rate card

A customer who wants a price at eleven at night will not wait for you to reply in the morning, and you cannot safely work out a quote while you are on a job. Zenithly gives the customer an instant online quote from a fare engine you control, so an enquiry becomes a paid booking while you are still driving the last one.

The engine works out the price from your own rules: distance rates that are route aware, fixed fares for airport runs, and fixed prices for the destinations you name, such as a hotel or a venue. It handles hourly and daily hire alongside point to point transfers, and it applies your unsocial hours rate automatically when a job falls in the window you set. Journey time is traffic aware, so the quote reflects the real road, not a straight line on a map. You set the rules once. The engine quotes every customer the same way, day and night.

A booking page that is yours

Your booking page carries your name, your palette, your copy and your imagery. On Executive and Signature it runs on your own domain, so a customer never sees anyone else's brand. Signature carries no platform attribution at all. You control the headline, the landing sections, the vehicle galleries and the trust signals, so the page reads as your firm, because it is.

Records that stand up to scrutiny

Independent operators still have to keep proper records, and Zenithly keeps them for you. You hold a register of your vehicles and drivers, and against each booking you record the vehicle that did the job, the driver, and the driver's PHV licence number. Those details are for your records only and are never shown to the passenger. When you need to produce your book, every tier can export the full booking record as a CSV, on demand, with no cap on what you are entitled to see.

Everything else the job needs

The platform runs the rest of the operation without fuss.

Taking bookings. Customers book online through the four step wizard, and you can also take a booking by phone yourself, set the fare, and send a payment link. Blocked leads are kept in a simple lifecycle so an enquiry that did not convert is not lost.

Managing the day. Set your service radius, airport reach, minimum notice and inter job buffers, and the platform holds to them. Block out time when a vehicle is unavailable. Every booking lands on one screen with the passenger details, the route map, the traffic aware journey time and one tap calendar entries.

Airport work. Every airport booking captures the flight number and terminal where the customer gives them, with a one tap link to check the flight. It records the number and terminal and links out; it does not track flights or monitor delays.

Keeping people informed. Email notifications reach you and the passenger. From the booking screen you can also send the passenger an SMS when you are on your way and when you have arrived at the pickup, so they know where things stand.

Working as a team. Invite the people who help you run the business, with a seat limit, and revoke access when you need to. A record of who was invited and whose access was changed is kept.

Getting found. Download a QR code directly from your dashboard that points at your booking page, as a vector SVG or a 2048 pixel PNG, for business cards, livery and printed material.

Presenting your services. Show the work you do, airport transfers, corporate travel, weddings, events, as a set of cards on your booking page, each with its own description and image, so a customer sees your full range at a glance.

Who it is for

Independent UK chauffeur and private hire operators who would rather own their booking page, their customer and their fare than rent a spot on a marketplace. You keep the brand. You keep the customer. You keep the fare. Zenithly runs the booking and the money in the background, and stays out of the way.