Uber and UberEats App Development South Africa
The difference between an uber taxi app and UberEats food delivery app will be explained below. Uber and UberEats App Development South Africa is an attractive entrepreneurial opportunity.
The uber taxi app is made out of a driver app, and a passenger app, and powered by an admin dashboard.
The admin dashboard manages the drivers and the passenger requests such as live chat support or emergency.
The UberEATS platform itself has a consumer app, for the hungry customer, it has a merchant dashboard which is typically the restaurant or food supplier, and it has a driver app, which is the actual person picking up the food from the restaurant and delivering it to the Hungry consumer.
In the case of the normal uber taxi flow, a passenger wants to have an immediate on Demand pickup, from drivers nearby. Drivers have the ability to flip a switch to be on duty or off duty. Once the passenger places the ride request, it is sent to all available drivers within a certain radius from the Passenger. This radius ensures speed in terms of reaching the passenger. Whichever driver accepts the ride first, is then assigned that particular ride.
The driver then immediately makes his way to pick up the Passenger and the journey starts. The passenger is dropped off and both have an opportunity to give one another a rating out of 5 stars. The ratings ensure the drivers especially keep their cars clean, are polite and professional.
Normally payment is not made using cash and in-app payment is the preferred method. To facilitate the in-app payment and to allow to save a credit or debit card to their profile, we integrate with local payment processing merchant Peach Payments.
Once a payment gateway is integrated into the app for the user can save their credit card or debit card to their profile in the app. The Credit or debit card is saved on the device, the actual card details are not visible to anyone ever, so it is quite safe to store and save the card on the profile within the app. The saving of the card allows for easy payment to happen automatically. When payment happens so easily, customer experience more convenient and tend to use the service more.
Which means any app that allows seamless in-app payment to occur with credit or debit card details that are saved, will lead to higher conversion in sales. The main purpose of developing your own uber type app is to make money from that app. By making it easier to make payments it also drastically increases the app’s revenue.
According to thenextweb.com it cost approximately 1 million US Dollars to develop the first version of Uber. That translates to about 14 million Rand. If you fast-forward 10 years you can now get your own uber type app for less than 1 million Rand in South Africa. The cost of developing an app like uber has decreased significantly over the years. But even so, there still aren’t that many entrepreneurs in South Africa that are taking the leap to start their own version of Uber.
At the moment we are sitting on Uber type app concepts that are ready to be taken to market. These two Concepts have been and are successful in other countries such as Australia and they have not been implemented in South Africa yet.
Please contact us so we can share a demo with you of these concepts that we believe will be incredibly profitable. Each consumer or individual has a different technical ability to understand apps and how to use them, but somehow, most people are able to understand how to use the uber app. This understanding across the general public and across technical ability can be capitalised on by a clever entrepreneur in South Africa. It is understandable that most entrepreneurs would associate uber type apps as being too expensive to have developed and to launch into the market. But this is no longer the case in South Africa as it has become very affordable.
Uber takes 25% of the transaction value and the driver is left with 75%. Taxify/Bolt takes 15% of the transaction value with 85% going to the driver. Taxify is also cheaper in terms of the base fare and the rate per kilometer. They had to do this as they do not have the First Mover Advantage. Which is a lesson when you consider there are still Uber type app concepts to be launched in South Africa where you will have the FMA.
Both these apps(Uber & Bolt) have scaled operations in numerous countries. Let’s move to the opposite side of scaling a multinational business and look at a hyper-local solution.
If you have your own uber taxi app operating in your own suburb, you can still make a great profit. You have 10 drivers in your suburb each driver doing 10 rides a day, that gives you 100 transactions of which you take 20%. If we are talking short distances the transaction will be about 70 Rand. That is a daily turnover of R7000. Which is a monthly turnover of R210 000. Which leaves a net profit of R42 000 per month based on 10 drivers only. Think of your own uber type business in much smaller terms of your Suburb first. It is still significant money to be made even if you are only 10 drivers to start with. The other benefit of becoming king of your Suburb or your chosen area of operation is that you won’t be seen as a threat to any existing public transport operators.
Uber and UberEats App Development South Africa is on the rise in South Africa.
Your smaller version of uber to serve your community and be a safer and cheaper alternative can be a profitable business for you and create more employment. The same concept can be applied to the UberEATS model. You also focus on a much smaller geographic area, by focusing not only on restaurant delivery, but it can also include any pickup and delivery of any other items and concierge-type services. Inside your UberEATS type app, you will have a variety of merchants. These merchants can be restaurants, grocery stores, liquor shops, vape shops, dry cleaners etc. The facts remain, you as the platform owner, add certain merchants to the app, and app users can get on-demand service from those merchants.
There are still great first-mover opportunities available if you need Uber type app development in South Africa. Contact App Development Ninjas today.