Most of us rely on our apps over smartphone to book a cab or a ticket or simply for ordering food. This happens when we as users get what we are promised. True. What measures will you take to make a successful taxi booking app like Uber, Lyft, and Grab? These are, after all, biggest taxi service providers in the industry.
As Uber recently invested in starting a new line of business – Uber Health, which is newly launched service that delivers a ride-hailing platform
Uber has precipitated from a simple cab ride platform to providing customized department specific services, recently for healthcare providers, available particularly for hospitals, clinics, and rehab centers etc., and assigning easy rides to patients and clients from centralized dashboards. The riders do not have to specifically own a smartphone or an Uber taxi booking app to enjoy the service.
Venturing into a completely new line of business can be a task, more when you are unsure whether to invest or not and not clear about which business model to pursue. We adjust to our current lines of business by sensing our target customers and opportunities, after earning several years of experience.
Here, we suggest you define your target audience first, understanding their needs and accepting them as they are. Going with the old saying, as such, “If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck then it must be a duck”.
Taking the example of taxi booking app, Uber provides on-demand app solutions and has diversified in food delivery with ‘Uber Eats’ that helps you locate local food restaurants near you and deliver your delicious food to you with just a click. Furthermore, Uber has tied up with Jet Airways to carry customers safely from home to airport and vice-versa after their flight. It’s easy to book a ride, downloading the Jet Airways Mobile App and select ‘Uber’ within the navigation menu. After you are able to successfully book your flight, you can even schedule an ‘Uber ride’ based on your travel date. That is easy. ‘Uber trucking’ and ‘Uber delivery’ are other similar examples.
Considering this huge success of Uber, a lot of businesses wish to build a taxi booking app like Uber. What matters the most is that who utilizes their unique talent in terms of quality, price and on-time delivery to give to others.
If you are trying hard to develop your own ridesharing app, you must ensure that it has some of the unique features that will help it stand out from other apps that are prevalent in the market. While you look towards developing your taxi app, attempt to consider these top 5 unique features that will make your app tap-dance and be audible amongst the crowd and be as successful as Uber, Lyft and Grab:
1. Managing Trip Parameters
It must be easy to place special requests within your ride like availability of a wheelchair for elderly customers, a baby seat for parents who are traveling with their toddlers,
2. Car Pooling
Bike rides or easy Car Pooling that will allow passengers to share a ride with other passengers. This as an option will enable budget travel for regular passengers.
3. Prime Membership for Riders
Hire App developers to build a taxi booking app that is technologically enhanced and enriched with features like facility of prime membership for the riders that can enable them to choose or buy one membership plan according to their needs and enjoy free rides daily. Such rides can be configured according to number of kilometers for free ride and validity of the offer.
4. Packages of the Day
Keep an option to provide your customers with packages that suit your convenience. Give them an option to book their car with a personal driver for a specified time. Configure different day packages with an allowed number of kilometers and time period in your application. Charge your customers according to the number of kilometers traveled. This feature will help to make your application stand out from other taxi booking apps and give your riders the experience of driving their own personal car.
5. Outpost Component
Give an option to outstation passengers to book a taxi for another city in advance in an economical one way or round trip, with a different vehicle and trained drivers to choose from.
See Also: Car rental Apps like Turo
Cost of an app like Uber, Lyft, Grab
Estimated total hours required for development, graphics design, QC/testing and project management of this project will be:
- 469 hours for user’s iOS application
- 226.8 hours for Drivers’ iOS Application
- 575.4 hours for User’s Android Application
- 273 hours for Drivers’ Android Application
- 511 hours for Web Services (API), Frontend & Backend Websites
Ending Up
Don’t surge your prices when demand increases. On-demand app solutions like Uber are supposed to find a golden medium wherein supply of driver matches with the demand at an economical and basic price. This strategy seems to be outrageous to some of the riders and it eventually results in churning out lot many customers who always look towards finding alternatives at affordable prices.
With the rising number of surge free taxi riding applications, the one factor that is surely going to convince people in diverting their attention towards your taxi booking app is cost. Thus, it is important to consider cost factor for your cab service solution to enhance the experience of the ride back home.
Apart from this, some other very essential features for Uber, Lyft, Grab like App Development can be:
- Fixing up a budget for development of the app
- Decide upon the timeline for developing the application
- Have to Decide – Whether a single app will work for both drivers and customers or have to create separate applications for both?
- Is the app going to work on multiple platforms?
- Is it possible for the drivers and customers to communicate on chat over the app?
- Try to think of new ideas, like a taxi booking app exclusively for women and children that are driven by women drivers. Serve only those features that ease the booking process between women and women drivers.
Get in touch with us for your Taxi Booking App Development and keep a cold shudder to popular options in the market. We will help you fulfill your requirements so your app can rule the roost with existing Lyft, Uber and Grab.