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Minimum fare: how to set your floor price

It is the verdict's first test — before price per kilometre even gets looked at. A floor set too low lets through the rides that eat your day.

4 questionsUpdated on August 19, 20263 min read

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What is a minimum fare, concretely?

The amount below which you decline a ride without even looking at its price per kilometre. It protects the incompressible time every ride consumes — the approach, the wait, the manoeuvring, the return to a useful zone — which no kilometre ratio can measure. In the verdict algorithm, this test comes first, before the €/km calculation.

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How do you compute your floor amount?

Multiply your hourly revenue target by the time a short ride really takes up. A ten-minute ride often occupies thirty, approach and return included. If you aim for €50 of revenue per hour, half an hour is worth €25 — that is your floor. Aim lower and it drops; what matters is that it comes from a calculation, not a feeling.

The site's default setting — €25 — matches exactly that scenario: €50 an hour over half an hour occupied. It is not a universal recommendation, it is a starting point to replace with your real target.

Careful: it is a revenue target, not an income target. Costs and contributions will come out of it — the real-income guide shows how much.

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Why does a floor set too low cost more than it brings in?

Because a ride occupies a slot, and a slot is only available once. Accepting €9 for thirty minutes makes unavailable the half-hour in which a ride at your floor could have arrived. That shortfall shows on no statement — which is why you cannot feel it, and why it takes a rule.

On top come the ride's own real costs: fuel, wear, approach kilometres. A ride below the floor loses twice — on what it pays, and on what it prevents.

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Should the floor be the same at every hour?

Not necessarily. The floor protects your time, and your time is not worth the same at 3 p.m. on a Tuesday and on a peak Saturday night. Raising the floor when demand rises is consistent; lowering it off-peak can be too, as long as the ride still covers your costs. What matters: an explicit rule per time slot, never a feeling.

In the application, the minimum fare is set once and the verdict applies it to every offer — the rule holds even at the end of a shift, when fatigue negotiates downwards.

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