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Empower Your Employees with Seamless Commute Insights

Empower Your Employees with Seamless Commute Insights

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Imagine your entire company staying ahead of the commute!
With Clever Commute Premium, all employees using your company’s email domain get instant access—completely covered by your organization.

Key Benefits:

  • Reduce stress and improve productivity by giving employees all of the amazing Premium features.
  • Boost satisfaction with a practical, daily perk that makes commuting easier.

Simple, Affordable Pricing: Cost of the annual subscription is based on your team size.
However, all per-person prices are at least 50% less than the $49.99 app store fee.
Special additional discounts are available for non-profits.

Get Started Today: Reach out via the Contact feature of the CleverCommute website.

How Clever Commute integrates the official info from transit providers

How Clever Commute integrates the official info from transit providers

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As users of our Premium service, know, Clever Commute can be much more than a place for crowdsourced info. (ref: The five data sources)

And, as commuters know, the transit providers continue to try to share timely info directly with their commuters.

Clever Commute can bring both of these together in the app.

For years, "official info" was a Premium feature. During the covid crisis, we will make this content available to all users,

Here's an example:

Understanding the economics of Clever Commute

Understanding the economics of Clever Commute

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Summary: I try to be fair. I love running Clever. It's passion of mine...but I need your help covering the costs.

If you are having second thoughts about the actual dollar cost of subscribing to the Premium version of Clever Commute, please read this and consider upgrading by using the Premium feature of the free app.
More info: Overview and Feature List

The Clever Commute guy is an everyday NJT rider, who has been running this service for 14 years, using his own funds. See the table below to understand the costs to design, build and maintain a scalable app/service such as this.

Back-of-the-envelop math will show you that simply selling the app for $1.99 (or $2.99, or even more) is not a tenable model...especially when you remember that Apple/Google keep 30% of that right off the top.

Regarding banner ads: I have previously said they are a way to make nickles and dimes. Trust me: that statement is only a slight exaggeration. Therefore, a subscription model is the only way to build and maintain a scalable robust solution. I've been doing this since 2006. Yes, I am in this for the long haul 🙂

Summing it up: I am a 5-day-a-week commuter. I have a full-time job in NYC. I run Clever as a passion project.
Your financial support helps to defray the costs of running this service. I really appreciate each and every subscriber.

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Start by recognizing that the App Stores take 30% of revenue right off the top.

But with all that being said, here are other things to think about

  • I personally spend over $400 a month on my commute. How about you?
    Four bucks or so for Premium won't "move the needle" on that monthly cost we all have ...but it will help you and reduce your stress.
    Click here to see what other commuters say.
  • We give you 30 days of Premium when you first sign up. That's a promotion.
    But we also give you another month free when you convert to Premium.
    (Note that any grace period for other apps is rarely a full month. Most do 7 days...maybe 14)
  • We give away free memberships as a matter of practice
    (our policy covers the unemployed, students, recent grads, people returning to the workforce, military, senior citizens, people who are disabled, pregnant or have any kind of mobility or material health issue)
  • We regularly donate Clever Commute subscriptions to charity
  • We take down our paywall as needed to ensure all commuters have a safe trip home
    (e.g., due to weather and other emergencies)

My point: I try to be fair. I'm OK to run Clever as a public service...so I need your help covering the costs. Please consider upgrading by using the Premium feature of the free app. Overview and Feature List.

Look at the ComplexityUnderstand the Dollar Costs
Technical integration with at least 5 transit providers

We provide solutions for iOS as well as Android

We offer paid as well as free versions

We support 5 categories of data (not just crowdsourced)

Maintaining a presence for the app in 2 app stores

Our app communicates/publishes via e-mail, push notifications, web, RSS/XML and Twitter

We also manage a presence on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and TikTok

It starts with the cost to build and maintain all these features. But it also includes the cost of vendors/providers I pay for ...

  • Sending e-mails
  • Sending push notifications
  • Web/App Hosting
  • Backups
  • Data storage
  • Geolocation/Mapping license
  • Security tools
  • App Store-related APIs
  • Automation/Scheduling
  • Uptime monitoring

 

Managing the “Good News” alerts at the start of your commute

Managing the “Good News” alerts at the start of your commute

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This page explains one or more of the dozens of amazing features found in Clever Commute Premium.

The Heads-Up feature sends Premium users the official view of their commute at the user’s stated travel time.

Some riders want to suppress those alerts. To accomplish that, they may use another Premium feature: the ability to stop notifications from any given user. How to:

  1. When you see such a message in Recent Alerts, tap on the actual Reported By: name
  2. On the subsequent screen, tap on Stop notifications

A longer (and older) video about this feature is here

The implemenation (and pros/cons) varies by provider per the table below

ProviderNicknameNote
LIRROfficial_LIRRThis will also stop notifications for intraday official LIRR alerts
Metro-NorthOfficial_MNROther intraday notifications come from Official_MetroNorth…so user can decide to suppress one or both
NJ Transit TrainsOfficial_NJTOther intraday notifications come from line-specific accounts…so user can decide to suppress one or both

 

 

MTA “Service Status” Reader

MTA “Service Status” Reader

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This page explains one or more of the dozens of amazing features found in Clever Commute Premium.

Our robots scan MTA's Service Status to identify emerging problems with the in-process commute.

 

Our algorithms identify "status" patterns to highlight looming trouble that the transit providers won't tell you about!

When a problem is severe enough, and it affects multiple branches, our bots let you know.
(something simple like "Planned weekend work" does not make the cut)

Premium users can opt-in to being notified via Settings => Comms and And Config
See notification options under Alerts/Bots/Probes.

We will also publish such alerts to the News you Need section of the app.

Note: Our implementations (NJT vs LIRR) are tailored to the differences between the data provided to developers by the transit providers. The MNR version is still in beta.

Here is an example of what Clever Commute Premium LIRR riders receive.

The 6 hour snooze button