CabFare vs CTMerchant
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CabFare
Accept contactless payments directly on your iPhone without extra hardware. This app is designed for professional drivers to quickly process debit, credit, and digital wallet transactions. Get instant access to your funds and issue digital receipts.
- Accept contactless payments on iPhone
- No extra terminals or hardware needed
- Instant access to funds
- Issue digital, taxi-compliant receipts
- Set up extra fees
- Monitor earnings in real-time
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With Tap to Pay on iPhone in the CabFare app, you can accept in-person, contactless payments, right on your iPhone, from physical debit and credit cards, to Apple Pay and other digital wallets, no extra terminals or hardware needed. It’s easy, secure, and private. CabFare allows professional drivers to get started in minutes: • Sign up and start accepting payments quickly • Access your funds in 30 minutes with Instant Payouts, any day of the week • Fully compliant with taxi, rideshare and limousine industry standards • Issue digital, taxi compliant receipts instantly • Set up extra fees (levies/charges) as fixed or percentage of fare, applied with one tap. • Large-button tipping screen increases earnings. • Access transaction history and monitor earnings in real time The CabFare app modernizes in-car payments for professional drivers, eliminating the need for traditional terminals. Drivers benefit from a simpler, more efficient way to accept payments using just their iPhone. Getting started is quick. Download the CabFare app, sign up, and begin accepting payments. All you need is an iPhone XS or later, running the latest version of iOS. Join the next generation of for-hire-vehicle payments. Download CabFare today and experience the ease of Tap to Pay on iPhone.
CTMerchant
This platform helps limousine, hire car, and premium cab services manage customer bookings and records. It facilitates peer-to-peer booking management and nationwide offload coordination with a companion app.
- Customer management
- Booking management
- P2P booking system
- Nationwide offload management
- Reporting and record keeping
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CTMerchant app is platform for limousines / Hire cars and Premium Cabs which enables them to manage their customers & bookings. CTMerchant is interconnect to CTMember app which enables them to manage their off load nation wide and beyond. CTMerchant is perfect tool for P2P booking management system and for reporting and keeping record.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: CabFare at monthly against CTMerchant's every 5 months. CTMerchant's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.4). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for CabFare against 5.0 for CTMerchant. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
CabFare ships an update monthly, CTMerchant every 5 months. Both last shipped on November 2, 2026.
| Parameter | CabFare | CTMerchant |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 123 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | CabFare | Creation Team Pty Ltd |
Customer experience
CabFare
CTMerchant
In-app purchases
CabFare
No in-app purchases
CTMerchant
No in-app purchases









