Why Viacurso is free (and what that means for you)
5. 8. 2026
Viacurso is free. All of it — every feature, unlimited dispatchers, drivers, vehicles and rides. You never enter a payment card, no invoices or reminders arrive, and the account never expires.
The first thought when reading that is usually: where is the catch? That is a fair question and it deserves a straight answer.
What exactly is free
Everything you find in the application:
- the dispatch overview — bookings, assigning drivers, ride states
- a live vehicle map and chat with drivers
- customer cards with favourite addresses, notes and monthly ride limits
- the driver's app on a phone — nothing to install, a browser is enough
- monthly reports in PDF and Excel as backing documentation for the funding authority
- operations statistics by month, year or all time
- a link to a phone system — the caller's card opens as the phone rings
- hosting on a server in the Czech Republic (EU), domain, certificate, daily encrypted backups
- updates and new features as they arrive
No feature is reserved for a higher tier. No per-vehicle charges. No limit on the number of rides.
What you pay for yourself
Two things, said up front, because it is only fair to know in advance:
A phone number and a phone system, if you want the caller's card to open by itself when the phone rings. That needs a VoIP number (a SIP trunk) from a provider and an exchange — the exchange software (Asterisk, FreePBX) is free, but you pay the provider for the line. An ordinary mobile will not do it, and it is better to know that now than after an hour of trying.
Bespoke changes beyond what the application does — by arrangement.
That is the whole list.
So where is the catch
There isn't one. But there is a reason, and it is worth saying out loud.
I started writing Viacurso for municipalities and smaller operators — for services where rides still lived in a notebook, a spreadsheet and the dispatcher's head. Those are exactly the people who will not buy expensive software. Offering it to them for hundreds a month would mean they would not buy it and nothing would change.
Running it costs me little: the application runs on one server and has no team, no marketing budget and no investors it has to earn for. And I get more out of the service genuinely making somebody's work easier — and out of hearing from the people who use it what is missing.
What this is not
It is not a trial. Nothing expires, nothing switches to read-only and nothing starts asking you for money.
It is not a cut-down version. There is no paid variant, so there is nothing for it to be worse than.
It is not data in exchange for a service. Your data is not passed on, not sold and not used for anything other than running your application. The website has no tracking cookies and no third-party analytics — which is why it has no cookie banner either. The data sits on a server in the Czech Republic.
It is not "free until we lock you in". You can download a copy of your whole database with one click and export your reports to Excel. If you leave, you leave with your data.
And if that ever changes
People have every right to ask, so it is written into the terms (Article 3):
- the service can only be made payable going forward,
- with at least 60 days' notice by e-mail and in the application,
- never retrospectively, and never for data you already have in the application,
- until the change takes effect you may leave without any penalty and take your data with you.
That is not a marketing line — it is a commitment in the terms I am bound by.
What I would like in return
Nothing obligatory. But two things would help:
Tell me honestly what does not work for you. I build the application around what services actually need, and a few sentences from a dispatcher who uses it daily are worth more than a month of my guessing.
And if it serves you well, let me say so. Councils and care homes buy what somebody they trust already uses. A name among the references helps me more than anything else.
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