Software for taxis and private hire
Vehicle, driver and office in context: starksoft connects the data and processes that keep your business moving every day – from the shift to the handover to bookkeeping.
01The Vehicle
This is where it all begins.
The data originates in the vehicle: taximeter, TSE, position, driver. starksoft connects the vehicle to your company – via the fiscal taximeter's mobile connection, with no additional device.
02The Driver
Unlock. Get in. Sign in.
With telematics, the driver unlocks the vehicle from the app – no key handover. When the shift begins, starksoft links driver, vehicle and working time. Pre-booked journeys reach the driver as a job in the app – who booked, when and where to is settled before the journey starts.
03The Journey
The journey delivers data. The office needs the context.
Every journey is signed and transmitted by the fiscal taximeter. In the app, the driver adds what the device cannot know: payment method, tip, invoice recipient, receipt. The original remains unchanged – the additions make the transaction understandable.
Software for taxis and private hire
Vehicle, driver and office in context: starksoft connects the data and processes that keep your business moving every day – from the shift to the handover to bookkeeping.
01The Vehicle
The data originates in the vehicle: taximeter, TSE, position, driver. starksoft connects the vehicle to your company – via the fiscal taximeter's mobile connection, with no additional device.
02The Driver
With telematics, the driver unlocks the vehicle from the app – no key handover. When the shift begins, starksoft links driver, vehicle and working time. Pre-booked journeys reach the driver as a job in the app – who booked, when and where to is settled before the journey starts.
03The Journey
Every journey is signed and transmitted by the fiscal taximeter. In the app, the driver adds what the device cannot know: payment method, tip, invoice recipient, receipt. The original remains unchanged – the additions make the transaction understandable.
04Data becomes a system
After the journey, the office work begins: match the service to the job, check price and payment method, create an invoice or a claim to the paying body, look at working time separately. Journey data, working times, taximeter revenue and vehicle data flow over the same connection into starkcenter – the data centre where starkcenter runs.
05starkcenter
A working day in starkcenter, in four views: before the shift, during it, afterwards and at month end. In the browser, from anywhere.
Before the shift
The shift plan shows for each vehicle which driver is scheduled and when – week by week. Your drivers see open shifts in the app and can apply for them.
During the shift
The live ticker shows the revenue curve of the running shifts per vehicle over the day – from the data the taximeters transmit.
After the shift
The operating record lists every shift with licence, staff number, start, end and the working time shown – from taximeter and app, with no retyping.
At month end
At the top, the totals for the chosen period: shifts, total revenue, revenue per shift and per kilometre. Below, every single shift that makes up those totals.
Views from starkcenter with demo data.
06The Operator
The cockpit shows the day against the target, revenue per vehicle, open items such as outdated taximeter data or unmatched card payments – and what comes next. Matching and checking remain your decision; starkcenter makes visible where it is needed.
Example values for illustration – not company data.
07Working time
Journeys, shifts and working times are connected, but they are not the same thing: a free taximeter is not a break. Shift start and end come from the taximeter, breaks are booked by the driver in the app; starkcenter shows the working time per shift and driver – as the basis for the records required under § 17 MiLoG.
08Payroll
The same shift data forms the basis of the staff statement: revenue, working times, supplements, meal allowances and travel allowances are prepared from the operating record. Payroll itself stays with your payroll office – starkcenter supplies the data for it.
09Bookkeeping
Revenue, receipts, cash book and customer invoices keep their link to the original journey. You open the bookkeeping month, photograph or upload receipts – starkcenter suggests account and contra account from your chart of accounts, fetches bank transactions via FinTS, and you confirm. Preparation and handover, not financial accounting.
10Tax advice
At the end of the chain is your accounting firm. It imports the DATEV posting batch from starkcenter, checks and files – around 90 tax advisory firms work with these exports today. The software prepares; the tax work stays with the firm of your choice, for example starktax, which specialises in taxi and private hire businesses.
Tax advice is provided exclusively by the accounting firm. starktax Steuerberatungsgesellschaft mbH is an independent company.
So that individual pieces of information become a traceable operating process: from the job through the journey to invoicing and payment.
The building blocks
Vehicle, driver and office in context: starksoft connects the data and processes that keep your business moving every day – from the shift to the handover to bookkeeping.
starkcenter
starkcenter is the cloud platform of starksoft Deutschland GmbH: the TSE data centre for taxi and private hire companies. The data from your fiscal taximeters arrives signed in the data centre, where it becomes operating record, settlement, analysis and DSFinV-TW export. Seven reasons, in the order in which they keep you awake at night.
An audit without usable records ends in an estimated assessment. On repeat, your reliability under the PBefG – and with it your licence – is on the line. Every signed transaction stays unchanged, gaps in the chain are flagged by the system itself – and we check before the auditor does.
Clarity instead of paper slips: the driver settlement is built from the real trip data. Card payments and tips are shown separately, trips without the taximeter and no-shows are recorded rather than forgotten. The live ticker shows running shifts and takings.
Record-keeping is mandatory under the ArbZG and the Minimum Wage Act – customs inspect the industry regularly. Working time and breaks are derived from the shift data, the shift schedule checks for clashes per vehicle and driver and warns as limits approach.
Patient transport under § 302 SGB V with prescription, approval, co-payment and collective invoice per insurer – starksoft is registered with the ITSG Trust Center as a reporting office, so you do not need an additional billing centre. Plus job dispatch with driver suggestions, recurring trips for dialysis and rehabilitation, attributes such as “wheelchair accessible” on vehicle and driver, and a partner network for trips you cannot cover.
Capture receipts by photo or scan, recognition assigns them. The cash book keeps itself from the shift data, accounts according to SKR03 or SKR04, handover to bookkeeping via DATEV export – payroll data to DATEV and Addison, everything else as CSV.
Analyses by vehicle, driver and company: revenue per shift, hour and kilometre, share of occupied kilometres, empty trips, utilisation. With telematics your drivers open and lock the vehicle via the app, you see location, mileage and battery voltage, the immobiliser follows the shift schedule, and you rebook a shift to the replacement vehicle. For profitability surveys under § 54a PBefG the operating summary provides the figures.
Vehicles and licences, staff master data, customer base, parking fines, rental taxi with hire-out, return and journal. Set-up with onboarding, manual in the portal, data error inbox with chat to support, assistance via remote maintenance and telephone.
starksoft driver app
One app for Android and iOS, in German, Turkish and English. Every trip, every payment and every receipt is created right at the vehicle and lands in starkcenter without a single paper slip. The business controls the range of functions – there is one app for everyone.
App views with demo data.
The driver signs in to the app with Face ID. The shift starts and ends at the taximeter, the app detects the status and shows driver, vehicle and working time. The driver books breaks in the app. Cash, cash takings, expenses, €/km, €/shift and €/hour on the main view – the business has its record.
Trips straight from taximeter and TSE data, empty trips and idle times. Corrections and cancellations are traceable in line with DSFinV-TW: taximeter data stays unchanged, additions are logged.
Cashless payment, SumUp with Tap to Pay, tips split between operator and staff, health insurer tariffs with co-payment. Receipt via Bluetooth thermal printer or as a PDF receipt with TSE QR code.
Apply for open shifts, report absence, accept or decline jobs via push, call the passenger, hand over to the maps app. Accident report with photos, witnesses and location.
Event-based recording via the smartphone's rear camera: five-minute ring buffer, older segments are overwritten, no sound. The driver saves an event with a tap – as evidence for an accident or dispute, not as constant surveillance.
At the vehicle
The driver records the payment in the app, the terminal takes the card, the printer issues the receipt with the TSE details. Tips are shown separately for operator and staff.
Card payment requires a SumUp merchant account of the business.
Card payment with all common cards, Apple Pay and Google Pay, Tap to Pay. The amount comes from the app, the passenger chooses the tip at the terminal.
€19.90 one-off per driver, set-up included
Receipt and shift sheet via Bluetooth from the app, with TSE details and QR code. Alternatively the receipt goes to the passenger as a PDF by e-mail.
€129.90 one-off, incl. 10 thermal rolls and set-up
For Android and iOS
Driver app in detailTSE & fiscalisation
Your taximeter is an electronic recording system under § 146a AO. Since 2026 the TSE (technical security system) requirement applies to EU taximeters and odometer-based fare meters without a transition period. starkcenter archives the TSE data in an audit-proof way and creates the DSFinV-TW export from the signed raw data – at the touch of a button.
We check every export with the same software the tax audit uses – until no errors and no warnings remain. In the event of an audit we prepare the data and deliver it on a data carrier.
We do not wait for the audit, we check ourselves: the TSE-Check verifies the signed chain, the data error inbox reports gaps and implausible data with licence and timestamp.
During a cash register audit the auditor scans the QR sticker on the vehicle, sees master data and procedural documentation and requests the DSFinV-TW export with their service ID and a time period. The driver approves in the app, the operator does not need to be present. The download is time-limited, every access is logged.
The notification procedure for taximeters and odometer-based fare meters runs directly from starkcenter via the integrated ERiC interface. Changes subject to notification – new vehicle, decommissioning, TSE replacement – are detected.
Compatible with fiscal taximeters from HALE, Semitron and Taxitronic via their TSE; telematics via INVERS, card payment via SumUp. Mobile SIM in the device, costs included in the plan. Alert when a taximeter has been inactive for 120 hours.
Telematics
With the INVERS telematics box the vehicle becomes part of the system: the driver opens and locks it from the app, with no key handover. The immobiliser follows the shift schedule, the office sees location and condition and rebooks a shift to a replacement vehicle.
Before the shift the driver unlocks the vehicle from the app, after the shift they lock it. Access applies only to the shift assigned to them – keys no longer need to be handed over.
If a vehicle breaks down, the office rebooks the shift to a replacement vehicle. The driver locates it in the app, drives there and opens it – even at night, without anyone bringing the key.
The immobiliser releases the vehicle because the company has assigned the driver to this vehicle for this time in starkcenter. Without an assignment it stays locked – a separate release by the office is not required, but possible at any time.
Location, doors, windows, mileage and battery voltage at a glance. The location appears in the live ticker and in the operating record, even without a running shift.
The box reports what the office needs to know: collision detected, battery low, fuel low, alarm input triggered. Alarm system and interior monitoring are available as optional extras.
Telematics data as the basis for telematics tariffs of the motor insurer – the premium then depends on actual driving behaviour.
Telematics module €19.90 per vehicle and month, net plus VAT. Requirement: INVERS telematics box in the vehicle, available from the PREMIUM data plan.
Billing
The recorded trip is the starting point. Who the invoice recipient is, which agreed price applies and whether payment has arrived is decided afterwards – in the office.
With patient transport more than the distance counts: prescription (form 4) and approval are attached digitally to the trip, the patient's co-payment is taken into account in the fare, the collective invoice per payer is built from the recorded trips. starksoft is registered with the ITSG Trust Center as a reporting office – you do not need an additional billing centre. Recording, prescription management and collective invoicing from day one, electronic submission once the trial with the data acceptance offices is complete.
Simplified example with fictitious amounts. €6 and €54 are parts of the same service, not additional revenue.
Available as an add-on from the Premium data plan, from €12.90 per vehicle and month, net plus VAT.
Customer invoices are created from the trip records – as PDF, XRechnung or ZUGFeRD according to EN 16931; billed trips are locked and do not appear a second time. Every invoice carries its payment status: finalised, sent, open or paid. So it stays visible what has been billed, who has to pay which amount and which invoice is still open. Pre-bookings run through job dispatch: single trip or series, attributes such as “wheelchair accessible” on vehicle and driver, forwarding to partner businesses.
Job dispatch €12.90 per vehicle and month, net plus VAT, requires the PREMIUM data plan.
Pricing
14.90€ / Fahrzeug · Monat
TSE archive and records
24.90€ / Fahrzeug · Monat
Business and staff
34.90€ / Fahrzeug · Monat
The whole business
All amounts net plus VAT, per vehicle and month, including the taximeter's mobile connection. No minimum contract term, no sign-up or set-up fee. Billing only starts once the TSE is in operation.
Create accountReceipts, bank and accounting firm
The bookkeeping module in starkcenter prepares the bookkeeping. Financial accounting, review and filings with the tax office remain with your tax advisory firm – the one you already work with today, or a new one.
Around 90 tax advisory firms work with exports from starkcenter today.
Photograph a receipt or upload it as a PDF: date, supplier, amounts and the matching accounts from your chart of accounts (SKR03 or SKR04) are suggested by starkcenter. You confirm, and the receipt is posted.
starkcenter fetches bank transactions via FinTS directly from your bank and suggests the matching posting for every receipt – open, matched or ignored stays visible. Fixed assets with depreciation (AfA) and a BWA run on the same postings.
At month end a DATEV posting batch in EXTF format is created, which every accounting firm can import. Cash and payroll data go via their own exports, payroll optionally to DATEV or Addison.
Company
starksoft Deutschland GmbH develops software and digital infrastructure for taxi and private hire companies in Berlin: the TSE data centre starkcenter, the driver app and the interfaces to taximeters, payment services and tax advisory.
Support
Assistance via remote maintenance and telephone is included in every plan. Consulting, support and development work under one roof – whoever calls speaks to people who built the system. The data error inbox in the portal has a direct chat channel to support.
Eurotaximesse 2026
6 and 7 November 2026, Koelnmesse, stand A04. We show the running software with real workflows – and set up the driver app with you right at the stand.
Talk to us about which processes starksoft can support in your taxi or private hire business – on screen, with your vehicles and your questions. No obligation, no slides.
