Fairgo

What a driver-friendly ride-hailing app actually looks like

Seven rules, each one written into Fairgo's Terms of Use, each one checkable. No promises about community or respect — mechanics.

Last reviewed: 4 September 2026.

Fairgo is a ride-hailing app that connects riders with licensed independent drivers: riders pay the fare and nothing on top, and drivers keep at least 99% of it and every tip.

Seven rules that are mechanics, not marketing

“Driver-friendly” is cheap to say. Fairgo (the ride-hailing app at fairgo.website) would rather list the rules that make it so, because a rule can be checked against the Terms of Use and against the app.

1. The fee is 1% — and 0% where it cannot be collected

Fairgo charges the driver a technology service fee of 1% of fares. Not 20%, not 25%, and not 1% plus a booking fee that the rider actually pays and the driver actually loses. In a market with no card payment, Morocco among them, the fee is 0% and nothing is ever collected. Riders are charged nothing on top of the fare.

2. Nothing is deducted from a trip

The 1% is never skimmed off a ride and never invoiced. It accrues on the driver's account and is recovered from the driver's next card payment, capped at 10% of that single payment. Your day's takings are your day's takings. Across all your fares Fairgo never takes more than 1%.

3. Fairgo never holds your money

The rider pays you. Cash changes hands in the car. Card fares settle to your own Stripe account: you are the merchant of your own rides. There is no wallet, no float, no weekly payout and nothing for Fairgo to withhold, delay or freeze.

4. Declining costs nothing

You can decline any offer. Declines are not recorded against you, there is no acceptance rate and no hidden score. An offer you do not want moves to the next-nearest driver and that is the end of it.

5. No exclusivity

Fairgo requires no exclusivity. Run it alongside Uber, Bolt, inDrive, Yango or a taxi radio. A driver who can leave is a driver a platform has to treat well.

6. Dispatch you can explain in one sentence

The offer goes to the nearest driver who is online, active and not already on a trip; that driver has 45 seconds to answer before it moves to the next-nearest. There is no paid placement, no priority tier and no way to buy better ranking. Fairgo's Terms describe the ranking under Regulation (EU) 2019/1150, the platform-to-business rules.

7. Your price, where the market allows it

In driver-set markets — the model Fairgo prefers — each driver sets their own tariff, and the price the rider is shown is that driver's price. In platform-priced markets the fare is computed centrally and any surge is shown to the rider with its multiplier. In meter markets the meter decides.

Tips

100% of every tip, in every market, always. Tips are cash and are never part of the fee base, so the 1% never touches a tip.

Getting activated

A Fairgo driver account is activated only once every document the market requires has been checked and approved. Documents are read automatically and anything that does not pass cleanly is reviewed by a person. That is a friction, and it is there on purpose: riders are told they are getting a licensed driver, and drivers are told they are competing with licensed drivers. Fairgo is professional private-hire transport, not carpooling.

What a driver gives up, honestly

Scale. On 18 August 2026 Fairgo was open in Czechia, Finland, Germany, Morocco, the Netherlands, Peru, Spain and Sweden; every other country was closed. A driver in Casablanca or Berlin has a market; a driver in Paris or London does not, yet. Card acceptance depends on Stripe operating in your country and on completing Stripe onboarding, and where it does not operate the market is cash only. And there is the matter of the apps themselves: As of 4 September 2026 neither Fairgo app is on the App Store, there is no public TestFlight link and there is no Android version. See Get the app for the honest current state and how to be told when that changes.

Compared with the alternatives

The 2026 comparison sets Fairgo beside Uber, Bolt, inDrive, Yango, Lyft and Empower on commission, who sets the fare, cash, tips, payout timing and markets, with sources and “not verified” where a figure could not be confirmed. The short version: inDrive at 10–12.99% and Empower's subscription model are the nearest in spirit; nobody else in the list runs at 1% as a standing rule while refusing to hold the fare.

Frequently asked questions

What is Fairgo's commission for drivers?

A technology service fee of 1% of fares, charged to the driver and never to the rider. In markets with no card payment, Morocco among them, it is 0%. Drivers keep 99% of every fare, 100% where the fee is 0%, and 100% of every tip.

Can a Fairgo driver refuse a ride?

Yes, without penalty. Declines are not recorded, there is no acceptance rate and no hidden score.

Does Fairgo require exclusivity?

No. Drivers may use other platforms at the same time.

How does Fairgo decide who gets the ride?

By distance from the pickup point. The nearest available driver gets the offer and has 45 seconds to answer. There is no paid placement.

When do Fairgo drivers get paid?

Immediately, because Fairgo never holds the money. Cash is yours in the car; card fares settle to your own Stripe account. There is no payout cycle.

What documents do I need?

Every document your market requires for private-hire transport; the app lists them for your market. Accounts are activated only once all of them are checked and approved.

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