How An App Can Make Your On-demand Cab Services Successful

by Rob Stephen getaprogrammer

While on-demand apps are becoming a popular tool for businesses to market their products or services, this article explains how does a mobile app can benefit an on-demand transport or cab services provider to take its business to a new level.

Services providers these days are adopting mobile apps going by the rage of smartphones uses among the people. Some prominent examples are food-delivery, pick and drop by cabs, on-demand beauty/salon, babysitting/pet sitting, and laundry services. Out of all, this article focuses on cab-booking apps development like Uber and how does a service provider can see its revenue soaring up by multiple times with a customised mobile app. Well, ever since, people got the facility of booking a cab that will pick them up from their current location via the leading apps like Uber or Lyft, more of similar services providers and startups are coming up with own apps.

So, here we’ve mentioned the things to consider while you too have a plan to build a cab booking app to start your own service, or make your existing on-demand car services mobile for your customers!

A simple sign up method

A smooth and simple method of user registration is the foremost feature of an app that will provide personalised services to the users. Make your sign up a quick by seeking only necessary details or allowing them to log in by their email, or social accounts. Login is a mandatory feature because the app can initially read the user behaviours, like rides pattern, frequent visits, favourite pickups or destinations and can later provide them with custom offers/ride passes accordingly.

Pooling service

While many customers prefer travelling alone to their destination, there are many who don’t mind sharing it with other acquaintances who have to ride along the same route. There are many reasons for such a preference. It reduces costs, makes the journey a bit interesting, increases safety, reduces carbon footprints and many. Thus, cab sharing or pool service is also a must-have feature for your app. Besides, car-pooling can get your more users, and more accumulated income per ride along a route.

Special packages

Your app must be able to differentiate the user personas who avail the service frequently or almost daily and those who do it occasionally. It must offer the former groups of users who are with specific discounted packages.

Hassle free booking

Ensuring a hassle-free and quick booking of a cab must be a priority while you seek for app development from a partner. The developers should be making the process to book a ride fast with few clicks for the users. The location of pick up should be automatically read and cached, and the users need to just enter the destination, and it’s done!

Real-time status

Within the app and also via push notifications, the users should be able to see what’s the cab’s arrival status, when it just reached their proximity, who is driving, how long it will take to reach the destination, and so forth. Real-time status is necessary because it makes the users rely much on the service providers.

Mobile payments

While cash payment is still a popular and preferred mode for many, there are a lot who does not like the trouble of carrying too much cash on time. They rather like the exact payment to be deducted instantly from their account on completion of the ride. So, make your app more friendly with online payments gateway, through which users can link their bank accounts, credit/debit cards or mobile wallets and subsequently pay for the service.

There’s no doubt that on-demand apps are on the rise and some most-worthy services like cab transportation is definitely going to see an increase in the demand.

Rob Stephen is one of the experts iPad and iOS app developers in Sydney at GetAProgrammer, a leading Australian mobile app development company with a great feat for both Android and iPhone app development services.