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Chart of who owns whom in airport transfers: Uber with Blacklane, Expedia with CarTrawler, HBX with Holiday Taxis and ComfortDelGro with CMAC and Suntransfers
Comparisons
6 min read

Who keeps your customer if you only sell through a giant

Uber with Blacklane, Expedia with CarTrawler, HBX with Holiday Taxis and CMAC with Suntransfers: what it means for a local fleet that airport transfer demand is consolidating into four groups.

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The owner of a small transfer company and her driver lean on a black minivan on a Malaga street lined with orange trees, looking at a tablet together on their first morning with the platform
Product
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How to Get Started With TransfersManager: Your First Week, Step by Step

The real path from creating a free account to invoicing your first job: fleet, rates, your booking website, automatic dispatch and the Dispatch Pool, so you don't start with the cars parked.

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Tourists with suitcases and sun hats walk through the arrivals doors at Malaga airport in peak summer while a row of chauffeurs in suits waits behind the barrier
Guides
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The Transfer and VTC Market in Spain: Size, Seasonality and Regulation

International tourism, airport traffic, seasonality by season and by region, and the regulatory framework for taxi and VTC in Spain, with public sources cited and published data kept apart from estimates.

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A chauffeur checks the phone mounted on the dashboard of his black minivan while a family with luggage climbs aboard at the Puerto Banus marina
Product
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What TransfersManager Offers: Features, Plans and Commissions, All in One Place

The whole product explained at once: a booking engine under your brand, auditable automatic dispatch, fleet management, driver and passenger apps, a voice agent, the Dispatch Pool and how each commission is split.

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A chauffeur refuels a black sedan at a petrol station on the Torremolinos coast, holding a calculator and receipts, working out what each kilometre costs him
Guides
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Your Cost per Kilometre, Class by Class: Where to Get the Figure When You Don't Have It

How to work out vehicle cost per kilometre and driver cost per hour for each class in your fleet, which figures are published in Spain and which have to be estimated, with the Ministry's official source for minibus and coach.

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The owner of a transfer company compares three printed quotes next to a calculator, a laptop and a notebook at his desk on the Costa del Sol
Comparisons
5 min read

How Much Transfer Management Software Costs: Setup, Subscription and What the Table Leaves Out

The published prices for Moovs, Limo Anywhere and TransferCRM, what a website costs separately in Spain, and the three line items that are almost never on the pricing page: setup, the website, and commission per booking.

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A chauffeur shaking hands with an elderly tourist couple who book with him again and again, in front of his black sedan and a white Andalusian house with bougainvillea
Guides
4 min read

Living Off a Marketplace or Owning Your Channel: The Sum Worth Doing Before You Grow

What you gain and what you give up working for platforms that bring you the jobs, what that commission actually costs over a year, and why the sensible answer is almost never picking one of the two.

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A traveller on the sofa of a Malaga apartment at night with her suitcase packed confirms her transfer with a single tap on her phone
Product
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A Contact Form Answered Tomorrow Can't Compete With a Live Price

Why operator websites with a plain contact form lose bookings, what a real booking engine actually has to do (instant pricing, vehicle classes, round trips, flight number, extras, payment), and the real cost of commissioning and maintaining a website.

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A driver in a white shirt holding his car keys, proudly standing beside his own black sedan on the Malaga port promenade at sunset
Guides
7 min read

From Driving for Uber to Running Your Own Transfer Company: What Nobody Tells You

VTC licence cost, the car, zero customers on day one, and everything you have to build before your first invoice: website, phone line, dispatch, a driver pool and corporate accounts.

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