There has been tremendous growth in the taxi booking app solutions. From a mere one-player market to a successful and global market, this segment has grown and redefined convenience. Apart from the regular players in the market, we saw a key player rising and raising funds to move the market one notch higher towards convenience.

Let’s take a look at how a taxi booking app helps overcome certain challenges.

How Can You Manage Challenges with Uber-like App?

Let’s look at life before the ride-hailing services. You had to wait till you could find an empty cab on the road, stop them and take their services. The cost of hiring a cab in these cases would be high, and sometimes unnecessarily expensive. If you need a cab at night, there are chances that you won’t find one.

Here are a few challenges that you face when you don’t have a taxi service.

• The fleet goes empty and the overall fleet optimization is zero. With the cab service app, your fleet owner will know how many cabs are in service, and how many are running empty at the moment. Accordingly, they can optimize the service and improve the offering. The mobile app will also tell them where the cab is at present and will help improve with fleet management
• With the right mobile app solutions, you can enhance the cab services and improve the driver’s ability and response. The ride services will tell you whether the driver can take more rides or not. Accordingly, you can notify them about new rides and improve their productivity
• The speed with which customers can hire a cab service increases with the mobile app. the users can easily hail a ride from their mobile phone, and increase the agility of these services. Commuting is made simple, effective and efficient
• When the taxis move around the town, the drivers are not aware of the traffic in that particular place. However, the app can make their ride efficient by signaling route optimization and helping them with the ideal route. The GPS will accurately help them take the right route, thus overcoming the traffic and reaching the destination fast.
• Finally, the mobile app solution also helps overcome the maintenance challenges posed by the vehicles. With the smart solutions, you will get insights into preventive maintenance, which will help you know whether your taxi needs to go for service, or not. It will help increase the longevity of the car.

We have been working in the taxi app development for a while, and have understood the driver and rider perspective, which has helped us deliver off-the-shelf, completely ready and manageable mobile app solutions. 

What Our Ready-to-Use Solution Includes?

We have developed a completely ready to use taxi mobile app solution, which you can use for your business requirements. We can even customize it to suit your business objectives.

#1 For the User

The solution contains the following aspects for the user of the mobile app, i.e. the customer hailing the ride.

1. The ride schedule includes mentioning the pickup and drop-off locations for the user. This will allow the app to find a ride near the pickup location, and ensure minimal waiting time for you. 
2. The user can find a ride that matches their location, the type of ride they want to take, the affordability and other details. In some cases, they can even share the ride with other people.
3. The car’s current location and the ETA are given once the cab has been booked. The real-time movement of the cab is also shown on the map. This allows the user to track the driver and know when they will reach their location
4. Once the ride is complete, the user can pay through the app or using cash, depending on their preferences
5. The user can, on completion of the ride, offer ratings and reviews that will help the company know how good the driver was
6. The app also calculates the approximate fare for the user, so that they know how much they will need to pay for the ride
7. In case the user wants to check the ride details, rates, and other things for a particular ride, the user can check into the history

#2 For the Driver

1. The driver will get an alert when some user is looking for a ride. In case the driver is in that location and wishes to take the ride, then they can accept it
2. Once accepted, the driver will know all the details related to the ride. They can use the map to reach the location
3. The driver will get all the details pertaining to the rider, including their name and ratings on the app
4. The driver can rate the user at the end of the ride
5. They can check the earning for the week, and even transfer it into their bank accounts with the app
6. They can check into their ride history and other specific details with the app

#3 For the Admin

1. The admin should be able to assign the driver and should be able to allocate drivers to the riders with greater efficiency
2. The app should allow the admin to check the profit/loss statements and other financial details to know how the app is faring

Top App Features for the Startup

As a startup mobile app business venturing into taxi app solutions, you need to include these basic features

• Easy Scheduling: The first thing you should enable is scheduling. You should allow users to schedule the rides with ease and in a hassle-free manner. 
• Payment Integration: When your user gets down at their location, allow them to pay via the payment system most convenient to them. you can allow them to use the wallets, cards or other payment methods
• Real-time Tracking: This feature is essential so that the users know the exact wait time for the cab, and can track the movement from its location to your location. 

Top App Features for Established Businesses

Apart from the regular features, you should also include the following features to your app for the established business.

• Social Signup: You should allow your users to sign in to the app or register using their social login or Google account
• Reviews and Ratings: The users should be able to rate the drivers and vice versa. This will give you a good insight into the drivers and their ride history. It will also help you know if the rider or user is good or you should cancel the ride
• Fare Estimator: The app should calculate the approximate amount for the ride and let the users know. This will help them to take the decision on whether they want to go ahead with the ride or not
• History: The users as well as the driver app should contain this feature. It will allow both sides to check on their rides. The driver will know their earnings, while the user will get details on the past rides.

Advance App Features for your App

• Vehicle Listing: When your business grows, your fleet will grow too. You will have cars and vehicles that fit into various categories. You should allow the users to choose from these segments
• Dashboard: When the app goes to the advanced level, you can include a dashboard from where the driver can automatically view all the details pertaining to his ride including earnings and total number rides and reviews
• Automated System: With the use of current technologies and better handling capabilities, the system can be automated to manage the rides efficiently. From ride allocation to fleet management, everything is automated with the app solution. 

Cost of App Development

When you enter the taxi sharing app development market, you are concerned regarding the cost of developing this app. Coruscate delivers the off-the-shelf app solution within 55 business days under $10k. we have the right team and the expertise that helps us build and deliver the right solution for your needs.

We include all the above features, a well-defined driver and rider app, and brilliantly communicating backend to make sure your app is just the right fit for your business.

Summing Up

Coruscate offers able solutions for your ride-sharing taxi mobile app needs. we work on your business objectives, understand the premise for developing a capable solution, and accordingly define your mobile app.

We partner with businesses, and provide them with a technology edge, using our experience of working on current technologies and the knowledge of current trends. If you have an on-demand business idea, connect with us for a full-fledge, ready to deploy a mobile app solution. 

Note: We do not make clones of any exact application, clone means to us is how better we can execute your app idea with existing app features and experience.

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 With the inception of many new taxi booking startups, successful funding rounds and big players showing interest in newbies, the global taxi booking app market has been witnessing an upward tendency.    

 According to Bloomberg, Indonesia’s on-demand service app Gojek has announced that they have purchased a minority stake in the local taxi operator Blue Bird for a whopping $30 million. People with the knowledge of the matter said that Gojek has bought a 4.3% stake in Blue Bird.

Though this is significant news for the global taxi booking app providers and entrepreneurs planning to build taxi booking app, this isn’t the first time when a big player has shown interest in local taxi booking app startup. In the past, many global taxi booking app providers have acquired local startups in astonishing deals.

But, such news clearly depicts the potential of the local taxi booking apps. Gone are the days when local taxi booking apps couldn’t break even after 1 year of the business. Now, it is a child’s play to put your taxi booking app business on the radar of investors, users and big players.

 Sensing the opportunity, if you are planning to build a taxi booking app like Blue Bird, you’ve come to the right place. In this blog, we will discuss everything you need to know to build a taxi booking app like Blue Bird, along with the cost of development.

What is so earth-shattering about Blue Bird?

Blue Bird is the Indonesia-based taxi booking app, launched by Blue Bird Group. After experiencing the initial success, Blue Bird Group has extended its services, from regular taxis to executive taxis, limousines and car rentals, bus charters, and logistics. Currently, Blue Bird is running its taxi booking app business in 7 major cities of Indonesia such as Jakarta, Bandung, Semarang, Surabaya, Bali, Medan & Lombok.

 Blue Bird is Indonesia’s largest taxi company with more than 30,000 vehicles and around 50% of market share. It has managed to win the trust of the users by providing taxi drivers with the training and professional development courses.  

What are the new features Blue Bird has added in the app?

Despite the fact that Blue Bird has launched Indonesia’s first GPS-enabled taxi booking app back in 2011, it started losing its novelty after the inception of many other similar apps. So, the Blue Bird team has recently decided to revamp its app to add missing features and meet the new laws imposed by the government.

 Now, users of the Blue Bird app can choose to pay the drivers with or without cash. To facilitate easy payment options, Blue Bird has tied up with Gojek for its GoPay service. 

They have also added some more privacy features. One of the most groundbreaking privacy features is the hidden customer mobile number on drivers’ app. 

Moreover, an ‘advance booking’ feature is yet another feature they have accommodated in the latest version of the app.

How can you start an online taxi booking business by building a taxi booking app like Blue Bird?

Starting an online taxi booking business like Blue Bird is easy if you follow a few simple steps. These steps include a market study, business plan, permit, funding, app development, and management.

• In the market study, you have to study the characteristics of the market. You have to identify the top rivals, potential users, opportunities and challenges associated with the market. This market study will help you to draft the best business plan.
• In the business plan, you have to draft the possible ways to overcome challenges as well as ways to seize the opportunities. You also need to find the loopholes in your rivals’ top business processes. Additionally, you must decide on the business model. You are also required to list out the requirements of the potential users and features which can do justice with their requirements in the best possible way. While listing out the features, you have to take driver app features, user app features and admin panel features into account.
• Once you have an extensive business plan, you can apply for the permit. In the permit application, you have to fill out information of your business which you have already drafted in the business plan.
• Once you acquire the permit, contact the investors and bag the decent amount of funds as you will need money to build a taxi app, run a marketing campaign, bring drivers on board, and manage other day-to-day operations.
• Later, you can hire a modern taxi app development company which can build the unsurpassable taxi app without charging too much. After running a pre-app-launch marketing campaign, deploy the app in the market.  
• You are not done yet. Once you start getting users and drivers, you have to maintain an appropriate supply-demand ratio. If the demand in one area is very high, and your drivers are serving in other areas, you will surely lose users. (Advanced features like Surge pricing and heat map help you to achieve an appropriate supply-demand ratio. )

Will your online taxi booking business be successful? Validate now.

Generally, two types of people jump into the taxi booking business market. One is entrepreneurs and another is fleet owners. Both of these business seekers have different resources but the same goal. Entrepreneurs do have only a business idea and a hope to close funding rounds. Whereas, fleet owners do have existing users, funds, drivers and even vehicles. But fleet owners lack the idea. Talking about the business goal, they both want to be profitable and dominate the market.

But do you know what it takes to be profitable and dominate the market? You need the fusion of the resources an entrepreneur has and the resources a fleet owner has. Which means, one can easily be successful in the ever-growing taxi booking app market if he owns an idea, funds, users, and drivers. (Here, idea and funds you require before kicking off online taxi booking business and users and drivers you require after kicking it off.)    

Do you have queries or are you lacking any one of the resources? Let us help you.

How can we help you to collect all resources and be profitable from the first month of the business?

Coruscate is the top taxi app development company which has entertained many queries related to taxi app business planning and development. We accommodate 100+ app developers, app designers, business experts, and success managers who do not only develop and deliver taxi apps but help you to plan and deploy business strategies.

Our business experts and success managers help taxi booking app startups to study the market, get the permit, draft the business plan and decide on the business model. Whereas, our app developers and app designers utilize the latest technologies to come up with the flawless and feature-packed taxi app.

The cost to build a taxi app like Blue Bird depends on the approach you choose.

 To develop the custom taxi app with all custom features, we charge somewhere between $15000 to $25000.

• And the cost to develop the clone version of some popular taxi app starts from $10000.

 Feel free to contact us for a personalized quote. You will be rewarded with free taxi app demo and consultation.

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However, these Uber-like apps aren’t as successful as the native Uber app due to very obvious reasons. Many of them didn’t get the operational license from the governments, Google pulled down many clone taxi apps from the PlayStore, and many other taxi apps fought an uphill battle to acquire the initial users.

Thus, it now becomes vitally important to think beyond the Uber. Now, the fundamental requirement you need to satisfy before developing any taxi app is to bring innovation in it and make the app stands out.

Looking at the urgency, we will talk about three taxi apps which work similar to Uber but satisfying different purposes and have a few groundbreaking feature sets.

1) Onward

 
Onward is the Los Angeles – based taxi booking app providing company for only older adults. It was founded by Adam Singer and Mark Lewis.

While Lyft and Uber weren’t developed justifying the requirements of older adults who need a little help to get out of the houses or need someone to get them to and from the doctors, Onward app comes to aid.

Through Onward app, any older adult can book the ride and feel safe to have on board with a trained driver. Onward’s drivers are trained in CPR, dementia, and have a spotless background. Their cars are also inspected more often than Uber.

The idea to develop such app popped in the Lewis’ mind when one day he was talking with his mother-in-law who had Alzheimer’s. He thought how efficient it would be to offer round-trip and door-to-door service with the trained drivers to the older adults.

Taxi app like Onward can attract three types of customers: older adults who cannot drive by themselves, anyone who cannot drive for medical reasons, and caretakers who want to provide reliable and safe transportation to their loved ones.

Recently, Onward has raised $1.5 million in seed funding from Royal Street Ventures, Matchstick Ventures, and JPK Capital.

>> The business model of Onward

 
Though it seems like Onward works on the Uber fashion, Onward is far away from the Uber when it comes to the business model.

The main difference between Uber and Onward is how they pay their drivers. While Uber drivers earn per ride, Onward drivers are paid hourly – as minimum as $20 per hour.

Another innovation team of Onward brought into a business model is how they charge riders for the ride. Onward charges riders per hour, $35. But after one hour, Onward charges riders by the minute.

2) Kango

 
Kango is the San Francisco-based taxi booking app providing company for the kids. It was founded by Sara Schaer, a working mother who had always found it difficult to reach office on time after dropping kids off the school.

The idea was simple. Offer an Uber-like app solution where parents can book the ride for their kids and certified drivers pick them up from the location parents add.

During the initial years of the Kango, they offered peer-to-peer carpooling service to working mothers and fathers. But later in 2015, they rewrote the code and turned the app into kids ride-sharing app.

Considering the fact that Kango is the ride-sharing app for the kids, they put extra emphasis on safety and security. Their all drivers are certified and tracked live by the staff. Unlike Uber, they hire drivers who have some sort of childcare experience. They even let parents track the ride of their kids and share the experience with other parents. Kango is also planning to collaborate with schools and let them track and rate each ride like parents.

>> Milestone achieved by Kango

• Currently, only around 12 people are working for Kango. However, This staff of 12 people monitors hundreds of drivers.
• Started from San Francisco, they have added more than 6 cities to their business operational areas till now.
• Kango was declared the ‘Best Uber for Kids’ in 2017 by San Francisco Magazine.
• In the first month of 2019, Kango has raised $3.6 million in its series A fundinground which was led by National Express LLC.

3) Shebah

 
Safety of riders has always been the concern for ride-sharing companies, governments, and users. Data from the official sources of Uber revealed that Uber has received 170 complaints of sexual assaults in just one year. In fact, in countries like India, Uber had to fight a legal battle against the government after many cases of sexual assault have been recorded.

To address these issues, Georgina McEncore founded Shebah. It is the Australia-based ride-sharing service provider, providing taxi service only for women and children.

Shebah does not only allow women and children to request the ride, but they only register female drivers. In its short life, it has acquired 370 active drivers and more than 12000 users.

Currently, the services of the Shebah is available in Queensland, Victoria, and Sydney. But according to the founder of Shebah, the market for such taxi app is very huge and they are likely to explore it soon.

Though Shebah only allows female riders to ride, there are some exceptional cases in which male can also request the ride.

• Boys over 13 and under 18 can travel only to and from school.
• If not school, boys should have their mother or female guardians with them.
• A male who wants to ride in Shebah must have his female partner with him. However, in such a case, he is required to pre-book the ride via ‘Schedule Later’ app feature.

Do you want to develop a taxi app which is armed with features beyond Uber? Do you have any unique idea like what we have discussed in this blog? If yes, here is the estimated price you need to pay for developing the taxi app.

How much does it cost to develop a taxi app with unique features?

Coruscate is the top taxi app development company which has entertained many taxi app development related queries. Our teams of designers and developers are so clever that they can develop both conventional Uber-like taxi apps and next-gen taxi apps with disruptive features.

With our rapid app development technique, we will develop and deliver your taxi app within 45-55 business days and under $10k.

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By paying $10k or less, you will not only get taxi app but you will get code ownership, legal advice, business model crafting guide and a strategic business partner who assists you to get everything out from the app.

To ask for a free demo of the taxi app and free consultation, connect with our app scientist and business expert today.

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