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White Label Taxi App – Recent Case Studies in Brief

The past couple of years enabled CabStartup to widen the global client-base by attracting ride-hailing startups and established taxi companies from various regions of the world. The projects in Australia including Water Taxis and MooV expanded our client-base to every inhabited continent. The diversity of projects allowed us to restructure CabStartup white label taxi app platform adding incredibly higher flexibility.

Although there are dozens of established businesses which are leveraging CabStartup technology, yet this article specifically shares the projects that we worked on since the start of 2019. Most of these businesses are up and running successfully while a couple of them have launched recently. MooV is expected to launch soon.

CabStartup Subscribers Network

CabStartup offers subscriptions as well as one-time payment solution. Following are the companies leveraging our platform through subscription-based model.

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    1. BlackStar Taxi – Mykonos, Greece

    Many CabStartup case studies suggest that our client-base predominantly belongs to metropolitans. However, BlackStar Taxi is one of the instances reflecting clients in smaller regions.

    Mykonos – one of the famous Greek islands providing scenic beauty to travelers – lacked a ride-hailing service. While the absence of competitors is beneficial, it also carries a disadvantage of absence of a similar case.

    BlackStar offers three types of vehicles including Standard, SUV, and Van. The customers are able to view the precise fare during scheduling. This company quickly moved on top of all the ride-hailing options available on the island. BlackStar enables its customers to pay by cash as well besides credit card or e-wallet.

    2. eDriverz LLC – Tucson, Arizona

    eDriverz started only seven months back in February 2019 with a goal to address the growing demand of rideshare services in Tucson, Arizona. The efficiency in operations allowed this company to emerge as one of the top choices for Arizonans.

    With the remarkable growth in the first few months, the leaders felt motivated to expand into other states. CabStartup also assisted in scaling up the taxi dispatch software platform to accommodate more drivers and sustain more traffic. Consequently, eDriverz is one of the fastest growing startups in the US.

    The companies uses entire platform of CabStartup including separate apps for drivers and passengers, a dispatch panel, and an admin panel. This cloud-based platform enables eDriverz to effortlessly scale-up as much as they want.

    3. KinderCarGo – Calgary, Canada

    The widespread success of Ride-hailing services like HopSkipDrive and Zūm in the US encouraged entrepreneurs of KinderCarGo to introduce a similar service in Canada as well. The service currently available in Calgary would be expanded soon in other cities.

    KinderCarGo required extra bit of security features since it is particularly branded as transportation for children and families. Thus, CabStartup developers ensured that this white label taxi app does not only provide features for surveillance of drivers but also enable parents to verify once the children reach destination.

    Learn more: How Taxi Dispatch Platform Ensures Security?

    Parents can also communicate with children during the journey. The app provides verification to administrators once a driver picks up and drops off the passenger.

    4. Lady for Lady – San Tiago, Chile

    This is an all-women service recently uploaded on app stores. The development was not as challenging as branding because the client wanted this service for a specific niche. Our designers and developers collaborated to make multiple prototypes. Each prototype offered a range of options for app design, theme, and logo.

    Also read: How to Enhance User Experience in Taxi Management Apps

    Lady for Lady uses entire taxi management software including driver and passenger apps and admin modules. The administration staff is able to view business insights in an interactive form featuring graphs, tables, and charts.
    This innovative idea is expected to grow bigger due to the shortfall of women-only ridesharing services. One major reason for limiting it to women is to ensure security. Thus, CabStartup developers ensured that each driver gets registered after a significant amount of verification.

    5. Let’s Drive – New York City

    The growing needs rideshare market in New York City encouraged Let’s Drive leadership to introduce this startup. CabStartup is in contact with Let’s Drive executives for the past few months. Our developers worked in close collaboration with their leadership so that white label taxi app for driver and passenger can be rebranded precisely as per the client’s requirements.

    Also read: Rideshare Software to Implement Multiple Businesses

    The app was uploaded on App Store and Google Play two weeks back in September 2019. Apart from usual features including real-time tracking, route optimization, profiles of users, user analytics among others, the app also carries some unique features.

    Proximity search is one of the notable features that allowing drivers to find the nearby drivers. Besides, it also enables them to find the areas where demand is excessively higher than number of available vehicles. Using this ability, drivers can move to a nearest region where the probability of finding a passenger is higher.

    6. Mobili360 – Conakry, Guinea

    With a turmoil-filled history and low human development index of just over 0.459, it is fairly challenging to successfully introduce a ridesharing service. Like BlackStar, Mobili360 project also lacked a similar case. Thus, CabStartup experts performed a wide-scale research to understand geographic and demographic differences before rebranding software.

    The results of this research revealed a poor public transit system. Moreover, it also pointed out huge flaws in local taxi system which remained the only choice for commuters. Population with low per capita income had no or little option to pay higher taxi fares.

    CabStartup branded its white label taxi app platform for Mobili360 in a way that it corresponded to the native requirements. Mobili360 after beginning in the capital Conakry is prepared to expand in the neighboring countries as well.

    7. Money Cabs – San Antonio, Texas

    Money Cabs made its way into the Mainland US when Uber and Lyft were operating in every stretch and corner of the country. It was challenging to pitch against the existing giants of ride-hailing industry.

    Nevertheless, CabStartup white label taxi dispatch platform enabled Money Cabs to attract a massive customer-base. The membership options for users allow them to enjoy exclusive benefits if they continue to use Money Cabs services regularly.

    Also read: Also read: Advancement in Ride-hailing

    Apart from on-demand taxi services with varying rate, Money Cabs also offers pick and drop services to airport on flat rates. Customers can also access SUVs and luxury class vehicles.

    An incredible growth in the US followed by decent mark in the UK enabled Money Cabs to earn a price tag as high as $20 million when estimated by independent auditors.

    8. Roadrunner – Los Angeles, California

    Roadrunner slightly varies from other ride-hailing services in that it provides shuttle services whose destinations are public areas only. The company initiated 28 years back to facilitate passengers with shuttle service. It remained one of the primary choices for commuters during all these years until the arrival of on-demand services.

    As Roadrunner started to fall out of favor, the company leadership sought assistance from CabStartup for technology acquisition. Our experts rebranded the taxi management software to enable Roadrunner in starting on-demand shuttle service.

    The company strengthened its ground in Los Angeles and surrounding cities including Ventura and Santa Barbara. Now, it is starting to offer services in other US states as well. Apart from shuttle service, it also provides minibuses, luxury cars, and sedan with private drivers.

    9. Water Taxis Australia – Sydney, Australia

    Each of the previous cases along with the ones not mentioned in this article present the effectiveness of CabStartup platform for land-based taxi and ride-hailing services. This case of Water Taxi Australia demonstrates the flexibility of CabStartup to work as good for water taxi startups as for land-based ones.

    Passengers can seek this service in all notable coastal areas. The booking process is as simple as scheduling a ride on Alianza or any other efficient ride-hailing service. Moreover, the app also enables passengers to pay via digital in-app wallet.

    Water Taxi Australia pushed CabStartup white label taxi app platform to new limits. This case also indicates that you can expand the nature of your startup by offering more kinds of services using the same taxi dispatch software system.

Enterprise Solution Clients

Apart from companies acquiring our white label platform on subscription basis, many startups and enterprises acquire it through one-time payment. Following are the cases from 2019.

    1. Alianza Taxi – Tucker, Georgia

    Taxi companies acquired CabStartup Taxi dispatch software in the past to compete the rising on-demand ride-hailing startups. However, Alianza Taxi is one of those few companies which branded itself as a taxi company despite the fact that ride-hailing companies appeared more lucrative.

    The companies initiated in an already severely contested market of Tucker, Georgia in 2015. Nevertheless, the efficiency of CabStartup platform combined with effective marketing strategy of our team enabled Alianza to grab a significant market share relatively quicker. In a small period, the company introduced services to other cities in Georgia including Lawrenceville and Decatur.

    Now, the company is all set to hit the ground in Atlanta and other US states. CabStartup continues partnership with Alianza Taxi to provide taxi software technology.
    Learn more: Alianza Taxi Service

    2. MooV – Perth, Australia

    The development of this startup concluded recently. The launching of this service is expected in October 2019 in Perth. MooV is not only going to be an on-demand taxi service. Rather it will offer shared mobility and car rental as well.

    There are multiple options to choose from while booking a ride. The riders can order a compact car or an extra-large one with separate space for luggage. Besides, it also enables passengers to acquire luxury vehicles.

    Prior to this project, CabStartup developed on-demand car rental apps from scratch. However, the developers enabled white label taxi booking app platform to allow integration of car rental services as well.

    3. Rapid Taxies – Colombo, Sri Lanka

    The emerging ride-hailing market in Sri Lanka requires immaculate service and extensive marketing to ensure that customers prefer your services above others. This island country might be small in terms of area but its population of 21.4 million individuals provides a strong market.

    Unlike usual ride-hailing businesses which hire gig workers, Rapid Taxies offer full-time employment with benefits. Thus, the company implements an extensive recruitment criterion before getting a driver on-board.

    The driver app ensures all the features regarding security and background verifications. Moreover, the app also facilitates drivers with medical insurance acquisition and credit card integration.

CabStartup is successfully realizing its vision of assisting startups and governments in developing shared mobility networks. The success and sustainability of these recent case studies and the ones prior to 2018 reflect our commitment toward goal achievement.

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Industries and Use cases for On-demand Dispatch Software

On-demand dispatch software remains at the core of most of the startups which emerged in the ongoing decade. May it be food delivery from Grubhub and Uber Eats, same-day logistics from Postmates, Homey app for home chores, or ride-hailing services from Uber and Lyft, every on-demand business requires corresponding dispatch software.

Some of the features of such software systems remain identical irrespective of the industry. However, there are variations as well. This text explores various case studies where on-demand dispatch software can be applied. It also provides specific instances by mentioning successful startups.

Taxi Management Software

Ride-hailing industry is arguably the pioneer in introducing on-demand mobile apps. It is also the first to bring on-demand startup unicorns. Since the start of Uber and other ride-hailing apps, the taxi businesses are either facing disruption or evolution.

Those taxi companies which are reluctant to incorporate management software apps are ceasing to exist. In contrast, the ones who understand the significance of such software systems are evolving to the level of Uber.

Alianza Taxi provides a successful case study. This traditional taxi company started to struggle after the advent of Uber and Lyft. Taxi industry is already reaching the saturation point in metropolitan areas of the US. However, the company reemerged after acquiring dispatch software from CabStartup. Similar are the success stories of Yugo Cabs and over a dozen other clients.

The business owners can enable their customers to schedule a ride within seconds. Moreover, they can facilitate them by picking and dropping off at the location of passengers’ choice. Thus, taxi services powered by management software have become the preferred choice of passengers over traditional taxi rides.

Delivery On-demand Solution

The arrival of smartphones and the corresponding on-demand economy allowed delivery and logistics businesses to address the challenges of last-mile and same-day delivery. The companies now ensure that customers receive and send the parcels at their doorstep.

E-commerce platforms are among the primary stakeholders. They enable manufacturers to reach distributors and retailers in time. Besides, they also allow marketplaces to flourish. Services like Amazon Marketplace enable peer-to-peer buying and selling. The smooth-running of these operations require seamless delivery services.

Another area in logistics where on-demand solution is making significant gains is the food delivery industry. Multiple startups in the US alone are on their way to becoming a billion dollar prodigies.

The service providers cannot merely rely on same-day delivery in food delivery industry. Instead, they need to ensure same-hour delivery. Moreover, there are frequently occurring cases when one agent has an excessive number of pending tasks while other remains idle. Dispatch software also allows efficient planning of task scheduling.

Shuttle Dispatch Software

Ride-hailing and taxi industries allow booking of an entire vehicle merely to carry a single passenger. This model is highly inefficient as passengers occupy more space on roads. For instance, 50 passengers traveling alone will occupy 50 vehicles.

Conversely, Shuttle dispatch software allows passengers to share rides. Although public transit systems also enable travelers to share rides, yet rideshare model is different. It emphasizes efficiency so that each seat of the vehicle remains occupied for most of the operational hours.

Besides, customers can book a seat and hop on to the ride from nearest location. Local transit systems have prefixed pickup and drop-off stations. The vehicles do not stop in-between two stops. In contrast, shuttle dispatch systems also have dynamic stopovers. This implies that the vehicles update their stops depending on the pick and drop locations of each passenger.

UberPool and recently launched Express POOL are examples of rideshare apps. Via, founded in 2012 – two years earlier than UberPool, is the pioneer of rideshare services. Analysts consider shuttle dispatch as the most suitable investment in ride-hailing industry owing to its ability to acquire governments’ support.

Bike Taxi Dispatching Software

After facilitating passengers by reaching their choice of location, the ride-hailing industry is facing the challenge of inefficiency. This is why not only rideshare services but two-wheeler dispatch systems are also thriving. Bikes are not as good a solution to tackle environmental problems, but they provide a decent alternative to reduce traffic.

Moreover, the trend of electric bikes is also gaining momentum which will eventually address environmental issues. The dispatch system for bikes remains almost identical to those for taxis. The difference lies in navigation and route planning. The maps for bike route optimization require more details because, unlike cars, bikes can drift through narrow alleys.

On-demand dispatch software from CabStartup enables bike taxi service providers to assign the most appropriate bike agent for the ride requesting customer. Meanwhile, it enables the customers to track their ride while the agent heads to the location.

Paratransit Dispatch System

While transportation is paying strong emphasis on efficiency to avert damage to environment, inclusiveness is another prominent factor. All notable companies are starting to offer services for individuals with a disability. For instance, Uber offers UberWAV for wheelchair access vehicle. Similarly, Lyft also offers wheelchair enabled vehicle.

Research reveals that wheelchair accessible ride requests are constantly increasing. The rate of increase in median age indicates that paratransit request rates will keep on increasing for decades. Besides the US, the trends of increasing median age are reflecting in entire North America and Western Europe.

The potential of paratransit also mirrors in the efforts of top ride-hailing companies. They are not only offering WAV but also replicating autonomous taxi services in this sector. Most of the paratransit companies are operating on the rideshare model. Thus, they operate within a radius and employ dynamic stations.

CabStartup Cloud-based Platform

Considering the similarities and variations in the mentioned and a bunch of other industries, CabStartup provides a platform to business owners. The owners can rebrand our white-label taxi app software as per their business needs.

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Taxi Operator Software Enabling Owners to Compete Uber

The life of taxi business owners was relatively free of worries until there was no app for ride-hailing. But then Uber hit the market with taxi operator software followed by Lyft at the close of the previous decade. Consequently, these apps started to divide the share of taxi industry and soon managed to grab the larger proportion.

Yes, the above paragraph only states the obvious. However, whether you are a taxi business owner or a ride-hailing startup aspirant, you need to remind yourself some facts over and over again. Do you have trouble remembering facts? Say no more – CabStartup documents them for you.

Why taxi management software is inevitable for taxi companies?

You must have heard enough about the significance of mobile apps for taxi business. In case you missed it by any chance, here is a brief recapitulation on how apps can transform your business.

Consumers’ Choice

Let us keep things straight. Passengers do not care if the taxi company they choose has a license or not. For them, that is a matter of concern for owners and regulators. What they need is a service which picks them at their doorstep and charges them less.

Until now – and till an indefinite time in future, ride-hailing apps will continue to rule the transportation industry. The primary reason is the fact that the apps enable riders to pay relatively lesser for a similar journey. Besides, they facilitate the passengers by picking them from the point of their choice.

Taxi apps also ensure to reach the passenger in mostly less than five minutes. Customers can pay effortlessly through a bunch of payment methods. Each of these functions requires only a few clicks on smartphones.

Cost Efficiency

Despite charging less than traditional taxi services, app-based rideshare businesses are more cost-efficient. These apps enable the drivers to adopt the most optimized route considering distance and traffic volume on various roads.

Moreover, the presence of taxi apps eliminates the need to employ large teams to respond to every ride request. The apps are capable of connecting the requesting app user with the nearest driver. Ride-hailing companies only need staff to address the queries and complaints of passengers.

Taxi apps also prevent the requirement of purchasing or leasing cars. Instead, the companies acquire vehicles from private owners while returning them a part of earning.

Reaching Consumers

Every effort in regards to the marketing of taxi business becomes a whole lot easier with app at your disposal. Any product or service with a tag of discount on it prompts the consumers to acquire it. They do so even if they have to download the app.

Getting a customer to download your app is the first step on way to winning consumer trust. Moreover, the discount does not damage the revenue count because the number of ride requests rises significantly during the times a company is offering free rides.

You may argue that traditional taxi services may also provide discounted rides. True – but the absence of route optimization already costs them enough. The discounts, in the presence of lower rates from ride-hailing app companies, will further hike the costs.

Taxi App Software Integration is not Free of Challenges

Ride-hailing industry, as well as many taxi companies, is demonstrating massive progress with the integration of taxi software. However, a number of cases indicate that the companies failed to gain value even after integration. Following two are the primary reasons for failure of software.

Performance Setbacks

Frequent crashes, lack of smooth in-app transition between different pages, and taking excessively longer to process requests are some of the performance setbacks which lead users to quit app. Thus, you need to ensure that taxi dispatch software facilitates users in every respect.

While building an app or acquiring platform-based services, be sure to evaluate the app under various conditions. CabStartup provides full access to the system for a trial period of 15 days so that taxi business owners can test it well enough.

Competition

It barely takes a minute or two to download a taxi app. If a consumer does not like the experience of using your app, one will most likely switch to another. In such competitive circumstances, you can outperform your competitors by offering seamless services with standout features.

How much does a taxi dispatch system cost?

Taxi software vendors often vaguely mention the costs to acquire surcharges later. CabStartup has unambiguous pricing policy. The taxi owners attain full access to all features of passenger, driver, and admin panels. The price is inclusive of the dispatcher as well.

Moreover, CabStartup facilitates passengers by allowing them to make one-time payment. One-time payment offers in-app wallets for drivers and passenger apps. It also offers access control levels.

How CabStartup defines the benchmark for best taxi dispatch software?

The number of successful case studies and the diversity of challenges addressed in each of them indicates the experience of CabStartup in developing and improving startups and the taxi industry, respectively. We understand the intensity of competition and ensure that our customers remain ahead of their rivals.

CabStartup offers distinct app modules for passengers, drivers, administrators, and dispatch staff. While some of the features are mutually occurring in each module, most features are disparate.

Why going in the theoretical details when you can evaluate each feature and app efficiency yourself. Start the free trial right now.

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Selection between Cloud-based Taxi Dispatch and App Clone

It is very frequent for the readers to find companies advertising an Uber clone. Many of them are able to replicate the Uber application successfully to attract rideshare business aspirant. However, the factor which makes Uber and other top taxi apps successful is not the appearance and interfaces of app. Instead, the most notable link in the chain is cloud-based taxi dispatch software.

Before diving into the details of cloud-based software, you need to know the shortcomings of taxi app software clone.

  1. It is highly probable for taxi company owners to increase the number of vehicles and corresponding drivers with time. However, app script does not provide the ability to scale up.
  2. Cloned system runs on a local server. The owner has to renew the hardware to accommodate increasing data. This hardware includes servers for storage and its associated devices. Moreover, they also require an administrator to ensure the smooth running of this system.
  3. Taxi company owner is responsible for data security. In case of breach, owner has to pay the penalty.
  4. Scripted app lacks the ability to enable the owner to deploy and configure the app and underlying software.
  5. Being a taxi business owner, you will have to pay for upgrading and maintenance of app. Consequently, you end up on the mercy of developers who charge your wallet until it dries up.
  6. The clone code is strictly scripted to address few needs of the business. If at some point you need to add more features, the script will disallow due to lack of reusability. Thus, the flexibility of code remains a problem with app clone.

Perks and Privileges of Cloud-based Taxi Dispatch System

Incorporating a taxi dispatch system hosted on cloud brings an incredible volume of advantages at your disposal. Cloud-based software also offers mobile app, but the back-end functionality remains entirely different. Following are some of the areas where SaaS solves the problems arising in cloned taxi apps.

Drawing Lines for Data Security Responsibility

Data security remains one of the chief issues for companies which host data on web. Every violation of data intends to compromise one or more of these three attributes of security:

  • Integrity
  • Confidentiality
  • Availability

Breach of any of these attributes results in hefty penalties and lawsuits from regional administrations and app users respectively.

The most significant challenge during penalizing the violators is to identifying the responsibility. Taxi owners might end up paying the price for the bugs in app which make the system vulnerable to breaches.

The benefit of employing cloud taxi dispatch system is the fact that it provides excessive data security, thereby reducing the fear of violation significantly.

In the event of violation, which is extremely rare with cloud platform, a comprehensive disaster recovery system prevents loss.

Besides, the cloud system provider is accountable for data security. Thus, taxi business owner does not have to care for securing data.

Avoiding Overhead of Installation, configuration, and Maintenance

You may not have technical teams who can assist with installing and deploying the system. Even the presence of technical employees will not help because they will have to quit their assigned tasks to work on installation and configuration.

The developer will not assist if the app gives the signs of a bug. Instead, you will have to hire another developer to fix bugs.

Fixing code written by another team is always a hard nut to crack. Thus, the business will soak into delays and hiked costs instead of generating more profits.

With cloud-based taxi dispatch system, the cloud service provider is responsible for installing, configuring and maintaining the system.

The code remains with the provider who remotely fixes the problems. Therefore, businesses can minimize costs at many levels.

Seamless Scalability

Scalability is one of the core attributes of taxi business. The owners intend to expand the operational area and number of vehicles to increase revenues.

To scale-up the business based on cloned apps, owners often have to redefine infrastructure with more storage space.

Cloud-based taxi dispatch software prevents owners from changing infrastructure. Instead, they request vendor to update their package with as many vehicles as the owners wish.

How is Cloud-based Taxi Dispatch Software Overcoming Challenges?

Cloud computing and its associated systems are around for over a decade now. In the initial years, the businesses were reluctant to acquire cloud-based services for the following reasons.

-> Lack of internet speed
-> Excessive cloud spending
-> Unavailability of a regulatory framework

Here is how a decade of development addressed these problems.

Utilizing Remarkable Internet Speeds

Cloud is as good as internet speed because the system is located on remote servers accessible through internet. A decade back, internet speed lacked significantly.

However, the arrival of 4G internet and corresponding mobile devices drastically improved the speed of cloud. Verizon is starting 5G internet services in two weeks. The services will expand to most parts of the world before the end of 2019. Thus, the internet speed is now a thing of the past.

Cutting Cloud Spending

Users were unaware of effective cloud utilization. Many businesses at the start of the current decade complained about increased costs after incorporating cloud.

Cloud provides the ability to pay only as much as one consumes. There are multiple subscription packages which allow owners to acquire the one that best suits their business needs.

However, cloud service providers exploited the fact that most customers were unfamiliar with this system. Therefore, they charged the customers big time. Now, a technical understanding of the subject is unnecessary. Anyone can compare and evaluate cloud services.

Moreover, cloud is now powered with several automation tools. These tools enable the owners to reduce reliance on large workforce and perform tasks that would otherwise take many employees.

A comprehensive Framework in Place

Companies and governments barely had any legislation before 2012 for cloud-based services. Fortunately, administrations worked extensively in subsequent years to develop a robust and globally accepted framework.

Now, companies can comfortably generate a governance hierarchy to look after cloud affairs.

CabStartup Leads Your Way to Success

A decade back, the taxi app clone might have worked better. However, it will be highly unwise to purchase clone instead of cloud-based taxi management software.

For these reasons, CabStartup offers cloud-based dispatch system to taxi owners with separate apps for passengers and drivers. Grab your free trial right now.

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