We hope that everyone did receive the incentives details on your registered emails. For this holy week, there’s a chance that you can increase your income up to P9k in Uber Manila. That’s hefty of income for a two days program.

Here's the incentives detail:

If you haven’t received the said email, don’t fret, there’s something good coming. The only problem we are seeing at the moment is the supply and demand. This holy week, it is sure that the supply is greater than the demand as most the passengers were out of the city and probably enjoying their vacation somewhere outside Metro Manila.

One thing for sure is that there’s a new incentive scheme that’s coming, Uber hasn’t disclosed the information to us yet but we will definitely post it once we have the confirmation in the mean time, take the chance to increase your income this Holy Week as P9k is up for grabs (just check your email for more details).

Things you should know for this holy week Uber Manila incentives:

Let us know what you guys think? Will this two-day program will help you on your business? Uber on!

Since we are receiving a lot of email from other partners and also since we have said that this 2016 we will be more transparent regarding our strategies as operators, we will also be posting our Uber Manila Operator monthly income starting from February 2016 onwards.

We hope that Uber Partner-Operators can make those data useful for them to boost their income. As much as we want to share information, we are also restricted to discuss some delicate information for our protection as well, but rest assured that if you have questions, we will be here to answer them as long as it is Uber Manila related and not intervening a person’s privacy.

To begin with, we have 7 vehicles under our fleet. We have 4 Uber X vehicle (we’ll be adding up another vehicle this April) and 2 Uber Black vehicle to service passengers within metro manila.

Our Uber Manila Monthly income for Uber X this February per vehicle is posted below:

Vehicle # 1 (Vios): Php 14,285.60 Net
Vehicle # 2 (Wigo): Php 15,008.20 Net
Vehicle # 3 (Accent): Php 14,102.80 Net
Vehicle # 4 (Innova): Php 14,827.05 Net
Vehicle # 5 (Altis): Php 8,223.44 Net ß this vehicle is mainly for testing for new strategies so it has low earnings and only work once or twice a week.

Our Uber Manila Monthly income for Uber Black this February per vehicle is posted below:

Vehicle # 6 (Fortuner): Php 22,950.11 Net
Vehicle # 7 (Everest): Php 18,194.20 Net

So all in all, for the month of February we have earned a total of Php 107,591.4 this month is a pretty good month for us. There’s a slow downtime and there’s a lot of surges. Drivers were happy and we provided additional incentives for their hard work and dedication.

As we have said, we will be adding a new vehicle for the upcoming month April and hopefully, everything will keep going great, we will be posting our Uber Manila Monthly Operator’s Income for March this coming April and we are hoping that this month will be a good month for us too.

If you still have no idea, Uber Manila will increase its service free from 20% to 25% for new Uber partners registering from March 14 and onwards, also for the existing partners who still haven’t complied for the TNVS application till March 30, 2016.

For this, we will be creating a new income report for those partners or existing partners who haven’t complied with the LTFRB’s TNVS program.

Let us say that the partner is also driving his car, and this month demand over supply is lower the average trips that an Uber driver can make as an average is 15 trips per 8 hours and the average Uber billed to passenger is P120 per trip (not yet deducted with Uber service fee) and let us say that the partner is driving six days per week.

So let us compute the average income of an Uber driver after the 25% service fee of Uber for April and onwards.

So basically, an Uber driver's net income per month will be P18,800 if he already owns the car. Remember that the partner still needs to shed at least P2000 per month for the maintenance of the car.

Comparing it our monthly income report we did last January it is a lot of difference. Since supply is much higher than the demand this month is slower than in the past few months. Almost P11,000 difference.

We won’t include the income report for the operators since we all can now see how this thing will go for them.

Well in our own opinion, well yes it is. It’s a much lower but still all earnings are treated as incomes. The best thing to do is work smart and build a new strategy that will increase your income. 

Most of the new partners are experiencing this problem at the moment. We all know how long it takes before you get your PA, CPC and TNVS Franchise. It usually takes about a month or two, and if you are unlucky, it may take more than two months.

Most of the partners already have an active account, and the only hindrance is the PA/CPC/TNVS franchise. So we tried reaching out on Uber’s support and asked them if we still could and here’s what they said.

Here's their reply below.

So basically, Uber is still in contact with LTFRB regarding the TNVS accreditation for all partners, and we all know that since LTFB is slow in processing the TNVS franchise, Uber can walk us out as long as you already have submitted the documents and are currently in the process of your PA/CPC/ TNVS.

In case you get apprehended, you may contact Uber Philippine’s support team at partnersmanila@uber.com on which Uber Philippines currently monitors the partner questions 24/7 regarding the TNVS accreditation and apprehension. 

If you haven’t submitted your documents to Uber you will be liable to any of the apprehension, so make sure before you hit the road you’ve already submitted the necessary documents. Make sure to bring photo copies of the documents whenever you are in operation. 

Only LTFRB enforcers are authorized to implement LTFRB Regulations and not MMDA traffic enforcers or Police Officers.

For more information on TNVS, please go to http://driveonuber.com/tnvsinfo

UPDATE:

We receive a totally different email today. Some partners have emailed us that what we receive is purely a robotic response from Uber Support and thus that's what they receive when they try to email Uber and ask about the related question regarding PA/CPC/TNVS application.

So we still tried our best to get more information about the said problem and we were amused when a real support did email us about our question and answered it on the right manner which is not really a computer generated response.

This is the content of their reply:

Hi,

Geraldine here, answering on behalf of my colleague. Happy to help!

Due to stricter implementation of the LTFRB guidelines, we can only activate vgehicle(s) whose TNVS requirements have been validated and submitted to the LTFRB. They've been strict when it comes to our accreditation that's why we need to be very careful before allowing you to get on the road. We just need to comply with the correct process to avoid issues. This means that you can go online while waiting for your PA and PAMI as long as we have secured the validity and submission of your requirements.

We appreciate your patience and understanding. If you have other questions or concerns, feel free to reach out.

Best,
Geraldine

Now this is clear as day, you can go online while waiting for your PA and PAMI as long as you have submitted your requirements (once they validated it and have submitted it to LTFRB).

Now in case you get apprehended while your PA/PAMI/CPC/TNVS is on process, just contact Uber and they will help you out!

Have you ever experienced Credit Card Deemed Invalid? It is very frustrating if you are in a hurry and suddenly your Uber rider account will flash that kind of error message. You’re not the only one, in fact, around 20% of riders do suddenly experience this at any time of the day.

Some of the riders have done this, and they shared it with us and in a little less time Uber did fix their invalid card in Uber system. Although this fix are working but sometimes it could take a while before an Uber representative could reply, so we advice that you should bring a lot of patience with you when contacting Uber's Support.

We had experienced this on hand and for a debit card it may take a while, it took us 24 hours before our account gets reinstated since we are using a debit card. Debit card users are prone to this error almost every week.

You might want to check this article “how to fix invalidcard for debit card in Uber”.

Your card is maxed out, or Uber’s payment processor is experiencing a system error. For debit card users, Uber’s system is flagging it as a fraud transaction because a debit card is not designed for debit automation, so it automatically turns your account into the invalid card (card deemed invalid) error.

Here’s a quick fix for the invalid card in Uber as 80% of our passengers had done to get rid of the invalid card error.

Remove your card in your Uber rider account and scan it again. This fix worked for 80% of who experienced the invalid card error problem. If you already have done this fix and it didn’t work, you
might want to try the procedures above.

Some of our clients had emailed us about our point of view about the rider’s rating. Well, we think most of the new Uber drivers doesn’t care about the passenger’s rating as the ridership is a little bit low nowadays but as an uber driver, some of us do check the passengers rating before we accept the ride.

We think 30% of the Uber Drivers had experienced a terrible passenger on their uber driving career and mostly came from 3 stars or below rider ratings. We too had an awful experience with a passenger you can check the story by clicking here.

To sum it up, ratings are really important, this is how we drivers assume what type of passengers you are. Of course, sometimes we may give consideration, and most of us like to gamble like who’ll be the next jack-in-a-box.

Drivers do rate their passengers accordingly so given a rating three stars or below means that you are something, but for a four start passenger mostly you are doing okay for us, and we’ll be glad to accept your request.

In the past two years, some of our drivers have already cancelled around 80 requests because of the ratings. So be sure to respect your driver and treat them like he or she is a family. Good rating = Good passenger that’s the only logic we see when we look at your request.

Well actually it’s just a gut feeling or if we need to make more trips, but for us, a three-star rating is a bit 50/50 and lower than that it’s a big nope.

We always give the utmost respect to our passengers, and we rarely give four stars below unless they had treated us like slaves. Do also mind our doors, don’t bang it like it’s the end of the world when you are closing the door it hurts us as our beloved vehicles are experiencing pain.

Always mind the next passenger that will ride the vehicle after you, so don’t just leave your trash, you may ask your driver if he/she has a trash bin and if the driver doesn’t have one, you just need to bring your trash and throw it in a proper place.

Aside from that, it’s always a 5 star for you. Don't forget to check this out Win a Garmin Dash Cam™ 10