Steps to Build a Taxi App Combined with Delivery
You cannot have imagined ten years from now that one could avail of rides and deliveries just at the tap of a few fingers on your smartphone or iPhone device. Thanks though to Uber that came into creation in 2009, rides and deliveries became a cakewalk.
With a few taps on the smartphone or iPhone device, users could avail of a ride and delivery service together all in one app.
So the question that arises is how did Uber make rides and deliveries possible all at one place through one single solution?
Here’s answering the same below.
Reasons How Uber Made Rides and Deliveries a Cakewalk for Riders
With Uber’s creation in 2009, rides no longer were a matter of worry. As soon as riders placed a few taps on their smartphone or iPhone device they were ensured convenient rides.
Soon it decided to merge deliveries into its services and today it also food deliveries to customers through its solution UberEATS.
Talking about UberEATS, customers simply need to add their location, upon which they would get a list of all the restaurants nearby. Thereafter they need to choose the restaurant of their choice and select the meals and order them. Within a few minutes, the food would be delivered to them.
This in turn captured the attention of new business owners who wanted to build similar solutions so as to ensure both smart rides as well as smart deliveries, all at the same time.
Here are some steps that you should follow when you build a taxi app merged with delivery so that you can ensure smart rides and deliveries both at the same time.
Guideline for Building a Taxi App Combined With Delivery
SMS/Text – With the help of this feature, the customer and the delivery driver need not remain active or online to know the whereabouts of each other. They can communicate smoothly through SMS/text chats and know each other’s location.
In-App Calls – To ensure that the privacy of the user and driver is maintained at all times, the in-app call feature is what you can include. With this feature, the user and the driver can remain connected with each other by placing a call through the internet thereby ensuring that the private numbers of neither of the two get revealed to each other.
Wallet – To ensure safe and secure payments for the user at all time, you can include the wallet inside your app. This will make sure your riders can make payment for the rides or deliveries through the wallet present in the app thereby reducing the risk related to payment frauds.
Real-Time Tracking – To ensure the driver and user can know the whereabouts of each other in a reasonably easy way and the expected time of arrival of delivery too, the real-time tracking feature is a handy feature you can include in your app.
So concluding, ensure you have these features when you build a taxi app combined with delivery. This will ensure smart rides and smart deliveries. Also, it shall ensure your app to gain maximum number of customers in the shortest duration of time.
