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Mint Drivers — a chauffeur site that finally quotes the fare

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A Warsaw luxury chauffeur service whose old site opened with a cookie popup and made every price a phone call. Now visitors pick a route and a vehicle class, see the exact fare on the spot, and book — in Polish or English.

A chauffeur service that hides its prices is asking for a phone call nobody wants to make. The tariff is real — so quote it.
🔒mintdrivers.oglife.app
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At a glance

What this rebuild covers.

  • Selling & payments

    An interactive calculator quotes the real fare by route and vehicle class — E-Class through Maybach — so the visitor who sees the number books it instead of calling around.

  • Design

    The dated, cookie-popup-first landing was replaced with a clean, luxury-grade booking surface that finally matches a Maybach-tier service — and runs fully in Polish and English.

  • App builds

    Bookings land in a private admin the dispatcher can work from a phone, each one carrying its own reference number for the call, the driver assignment, and the follow-up.

  • Security

    The admin area sits behind a private access key, so bookings and customer details are visible only to the team.

Receipts — measured

Numbers that moved.

0
Vehicle classes bookable online
was 0
1
Languages served
was 1
1
Phone calls required to learn a fare
was 1
  • Fares quoted on-screen — 0 phone calls
  • 4 vehicle classes bookable online
  • 2 languages, one toggle
  • Every booking gets a dispatch reference

The pixel diff

Overview, then the walkthrough.

Left: everything the legacy site shipped — frozen in place. Right: an auto-scrolling tour of the rebuild, from hero to booking. No slider to fight with.

Before — the overview
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Before — the overview

This is everything the legacy site had to offer above the fold. No pricing, no calendar, no booking — the funnel ended at a mailto.

After — scroll through what shipped
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After — scroll through what shipped

Auto-scrolls through the modern site so you can see the booking surface, the package grid, the pricing table, and the calendar inline — without leaving this page.

The four beats

Problem · Insight · Build · Outcome.

Scroll past the legacy frame. The four beats land in order. At the end, the modern site fades into the same window.

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Legacy
01 · Problem

A luxury service whose first impression was a cookie wall.

The before-captures tell it straight: a first-time visitor to mintdrivers.pl met a consent modal over a dated WordPress theme, and behind it, no prices and no way to book. For a Maybach-tier service, the site was the one shabby touchpoint.

02 · Insight

The tariff already exists — the site just refused to say it.

The company runs on a real net tariff. Exposing it as an interactive calculator converts the highest-intent visitors (airport transfers, corporate accounts) without a phone call, and filters price-shoppers honestly.

03 · Build

Calculator + booking flow + bilingual surface on the proven stack.

Next.js 15 + Railway Postgres, same rails as the sibling EFES build for the same client. Fare calculator on the real tariff, MD-XXXX booking references, token-gated admin, PL/EN toggle, Vercel CLI deploys.

04 · Outcome

Live on staging; 9,900 PLN quote with the client.

mintdrivers.oglife.app is live end-to-end. On quote sign-off, mintdrivers.pl cuts over and the fare calculator becomes the market's only transparent Mercedes-chauffeur pricing in the city.

🔒mintdrivers.oglife.app
Modern
For the technically curiousHow it was done
  1. 01

    Where it started

    Mint Drivers ran on an aging WordPress brochure site. A first-time visitor met a cookie-consent wall over a dated theme, and behind it there were no prices and no way to book — the tariff lived in the dispatcher's head and the site said 'contact us'. For a Maybach-tier service, the website was the one shabby touchpoint.

  2. 02

    The insight

    The company already runs on a real net tariff by route and vehicle class. Publishing it as an interactive calculator converts the highest-intent visitors — airport transfers, corporate accounts — without a phone call, and filters price-shoppers honestly. The site just had to say the number.

  3. 03

    The rebuild

    A fresh booking surface on our hosting platform backed by a managed database — the same rails as the sibling restaurant build for the same client. The calculator quotes actual fares across four vehicle classes, every booking generates a dispatcher-workable reference, and the entire surface — calculator included — runs in Polish and English via a proper language toggle, not machine-translated fragments.

  4. 04

    What runs now

    The new site is live end-to-end on a staging address: tariff-backed fare calculator, booking flow with reference numbers, and a token-gated admin usable from a phone. On the client's sign-off, the main domain cuts over — making it the market's only transparent Mercedes-chauffeur pricing in the city.

Architecture

Old stack
  • WordPress theme
  • Opaque pricing
  • Contact-form bookings
New stack
  • modern web framework
  • Tariff-backed fare calculator
  • MD-XXXX booking flow
  • Token-gated admin
  • PL/EN toggle

What changed, with evidence

Design

A fare calculator built on the real tariff

The calculator quotes actual fares from the company's real net tariff by route and vehicle class — E-Class through Maybach — instead of the sector-standard 'request a quote' black box. Price transparency is the conversion feature: the customer who sees the number books.

Before
Pricing lived in the dispatcher's head; the site said 'contact us'.
After
A visitor self-quotes the exact fare in seconds, in either language.
Retention

Bookings a dispatcher can actually work

Every booking gets an MD-XXXX reference and lands in a token-gated admin — a real handle for the phone call, the driver assignment, and the follow-up, instead of an email thread with no ID.

  • MD-XXXX reference generated per booking
  • Token-gated admin, workable from a phone
Design

PL/EN because the market is both

Warsaw chauffeur demand splits between local business clients and international arrivals booking airport transfers. The full surface — calculator included — runs in Polish and English via a proper language toggle, not machine-translated fragments.

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