Kairo vs Dever
Dever's DISPATCH has been running chauffeur, private hire, airport, cruise and ferry transfer and courier fleets since 2013. If published pricing, AI-drafted quotes and a fixed-price migration matter more to you than raw breadth, here's how the two compare, fact for fact.
What Dever is genuinely good at
Dever Software sells DISPATCH, a generalist ground-transport platform that covers chauffeur and limousine work alongside private hire, airport, cruise and ferry transfers and courier work. It has been trading since 2013, leads on breadth and simplicity rather than any single technology story, and promises one flat monthly price with no contracts and no limits on drivers, vehicles, customers or bookings. It is a genuinely deep, mature system for an operator who wants one tool across several kinds of ground transport work, not chauffeur alone.
Source: https://deversoftware.com/
Side by side
| Kairo | Dever | |
|---|---|---|
| Published pricing | £99 / £199 / £299 a month by fleet size, on the website, before you speak to anyone | Not published. The only figure anywhere on Dever's site is a customer testimonial mentioning £90 a month, which is one operator's bill, not a rate card. Call 01962 774237 to find out what you'd pay. |
| Contract / minimum term | Monthly or annual billing, chosen at signup | Not stated. Dever advertises "No Contracts", but its published terms and conditions set out no minimum term, contract length or notice period. |
| Self-serve free trial | 30 days, self-serve, start it yourself | A trial exists, but it's arranged by phone or contact form, not a self-serve signup, and no duration is published. |
| Done-for-you migration | Switch-On Sprint: £495 +VAT, 14 days kickoff to live | Not published. Dever's site describes no import or migration process for bringing in existing clients, drivers, vehicles, tariffs or bookings. |
| AI quoting from an inbound enquiry | Reads the enquiry and drafts the booking, ready for you to price and send | Not claimed. Dever's pricing automation applies rules-based tariffs to a booking someone has already keyed in; nothing on their site claims AI or written-enquiry parsing. |
| Per-mile + per-minute tariff engine | Yes, per-mile plus per-minute with vehicle-class multipliers, VAT shown either way | Yes, and genuinely deep: cumulative mileage bands, standing charges, minimum fares, point-to-point and multi-leg journeys with via points, plus hourly as-directed work, all variable by customer, vehicle type, zone, date, day of week and time of day. |
| Driver app | Driver app live on both the App Store and Google Play | Yes, iOS and Android driver and passenger apps. Note the main operator console (Dispatch) is a downloadable desktop app via the Mac App Store or a Windows download, not browser-based. |
| Partner / subcontractor job flow | Built in: dispatch jobs to your partner fleet, they accept or decline, you track the split | Yes. The Tier 2 Management module receives and allocates work to subcontractors and raises the corresponding invoices or payments. |
| Xero + Stripe | Native Xero sync and Stripe payment links | Export only. Invoices, credit notes and driver pay export to Xero, Sage or QuickBooks; no native Stripe payment links are described. |
| Getting your data out | Ask us. We'll export your tenant's data for you | Manual. Written request, then a seven-day download window over FTP or SFTP. |
Every Dever claim above is drawn from published, source-linked material (see Sources below) and stated as at 22 July 2026. Where Dever publishes nothing on a point, we say so rather than guess.
Where Dever may still be the better fit
Over a decade in the market. Dever has been selling DISPATCH since 2013 and the operator community knows the name. That's real, and no amount of newer technology substitutes for a system that has already survived ten years of VAT returns, PCO renewals and Christmas party season.
The tariff engine is genuinely deep. Cumulative mileage bands, total-mileage rates, standing charges, minimum fares, point-to-point, multi-leg journeys with via points and hourly as-directed work, all variable by account, customer, vehicle type, zone, date, day of week and time of day. If your rate card is unusual, Dever can almost certainly express it.
Driver pay and payslips are built in, including reimbursable expenses and recurring driver expenses, and payslips export to your accounting software. Kairo does not produce driver payslips. If paying your drivers out of the dispatch system matters to you, that's a straight gap on our side.
Broader vertical coverage. Dever sells the same platform into courier work and cruise and ferry transfer alongside chauffeur and private hire. Kairo is built for executive chauffeur operators and does not cover courier work at all.
Flat pricing with no limits on drivers, vehicles, customers or bookings, and no contracts. Kairo's tiers step up with fleet size, so above a certain fleet an uncapped flat fee can simply be cheaper. Do the arithmetic on your own numbers.
A passenger booking app on iOS and Android, letting your customers get an instant quote, book, pay by card and track the driver from an app. Kairo offers a client portal and passenger tracking links, not a branded passenger app.
Multi-language support, with the Mac App Store listing stating 11 languages. Kairo is English only. For an operator with non-English-speaking staff or overseas passengers, that's a practical advantage.
Unlimited support and training included in the monthly price, with remote support over TeamViewer. Some operators simply prefer a supplier they can telephone in Hampshire and have someone take over the screen.
Who should stay put
Stay on Dever if you run courier or cruise and ferry work alongside your chauffeur cars, need driver payslips produced inside the dispatch system, or run a fleet large enough that an uncapped flat monthly fee beats Kairo's fleet-size tiers, because those are things Kairo does not do today and no amount of AI quoting makes up for them.
Moving off Dever
The Switch-On Sprint moves your clients, drivers, vehicles, rate cards and active bookings out of Dever and into Kairo, rate cards rebuilt and signed off, fourteen days from kickoff to live, with the first week run in parallel with Dever so nothing gets dropped.
The guarantee
If the win-back campaign hasn't brought in £495 of new bookings within thirty days of go-live, we refund the difference.
Comparing something else
Sources
Every claim about Dever on this page was checked against the live pages below on 22 July 2026. Vendors change pricing, terms and features, so confirm current details directly with Dever before you decide.