Taxi App Development Guide 2020

Ride-hailing business is in trend worldwide. We all have used taxis to commute for our daily works. People prefer taxi’s over buying their own car, as it is easily available and no worry about the maintenance of the car. There are several big names in the taxi industry like ola, Lyft, Hailo, Gett, Grab taxi, etc, but this industry is ruled by Uber. They are the ones that have brought a revolution in the taxi industry. Ride-Hailing business works on simple algorithms, that is to connect the rider and driver together. By this concept, Uber has turned out to be a Billion dollar company. Such a great concept, huge demand, great profit ratio have attracted many young minds and startups to give a try in the taxi industry. 

To compete with these big names you need to develop your own tailored uber clone app. Building an application is not an easy task, if you are a startup then it is recommended to go for a white-labelled Uber clone script as it is less costly compared to building an application from scratch. Learning from competitor mistakes and coming up with new developed feature-rich applications, is what people love to explore.

The Functionality of Taxi Clone App

Ride Request: Your custom application can be downloaded on iOS and android platform. The signup/registration process is smooth and developed in such a manner that non-techy can also easily register with their social media accounts or just a phone number. On successful login, users can generate a ride now or ride later request.

Accept Request:  Whenever a ride request is generated driver application automatically sends a notification popup. Drivers have the option to accept or reject the ride.

Ride Begin: On successfully accepting the ride request, Users receive a driver’s phone number, vehicle number, and current location. The driver can locate the rider pick up location with the GPS system built within the application.

Payment: Application has a built-in advanced payment gateway, Now users can pay in multiple ways like cash, cards, e-wallets.

Findings

The earlier taxi booking process was a difficult task, but now it is easily accessible over the phone application. It is the right time to invest in taxi app development. Such feature-rich and specialized applications need years of experience to develop such a perfect clone application. It is recommended to invest in an app development company or experienced app development team for such a mobile application.