Your dashboard

Step 1

With a standby vehicle selected, home is a full-screen map with your details across the top: your level, your rating, your wallet balance, and today’s daily fee — whether it has been taken, and how much it is for your vehicle.

Step 2

The map shows one vehicle, and it is yours. Other drivers are never drawn on it, so a quiet-looking map is a normal map rather than a fault.

Step 3

There is no menu button in the top corner. Everything else in the app — vehicles, wallet, jobs, history, support — is behind the Menu tab along the bottom.

This catches nearly everybody once. If you are hunting for something, look at the bottom of the screen rather than the top.

Step 4

The panel over the map carries the standby toggle, the vehicle currently live with its registration number, whether your first trip today is still free, the way into directional travel, and your trips and earnings so far today.

Step 5

Select a bus or a private vehicle instead and home is a different screen altogether. It has a route card, a running duration and distance, the vehicle type and number below the card, and two buttons: Start Journey and End Journey. No standby map, no toggle — those vehicles are not hailed.

Step 6

A public bus pays no daily fee at all. A private vehicle is charged monthly rather than daily.

Step 7

If a GPS tracker is fitted and the ignition is on, the journey has already started before you open the app, and the screen offers you End Journey.

The device does not lock you out. Start Journey and End Journey work from this screen whatever the tracker is doing, in both directions.