Ride-hailing apps are getting more funding than ever before. Many people want to make an app like Uber to get a piece of the action from the on-demand market. In this blog, you will understand the design workflow of the Uber Clone to get a clearer picture about driver’s and customer’s app effectively.
Introduction
Uber is a good example to follow when making a similar app. Such an app could make a lot of money for your ride-hailing business. However, adding all the needed features and services through coding is extremely difficult. It requires incredible patience and hard work. First, you must understand the workflow. How does the app operate from start to finish? Next, consider the user experience. What will people see and do when using the app? You also need to know what situations the app must handle. After understanding all these things at once, you can see the final product. The final product will be different from existing apps.
How Does Uber Clone Work?
First, there is a tracker that knows where all the driver cars are. The drivers’ phones send their location, and the tracker updates where each vehicle is. Next, there is a trip request system. When someone wants a ride, they send a request to this system. The system then assigns one of the nearby drivers to pick them up.
Once a driver accepts the trip, another system figures out how long it will take the driver to arrive for pickup. After the driver picks up the rider and the trip starts, two main things happen:
- A recorder saves the path the car takes using GPS.
- A calculator figures out the total distance and cost of the trip.
There is also a system that lets riders see cars that are currently near them before requesting a ride. All the car locations are stored in a particular database that can be quickly looked at. The riders’ app checks this database to show nearby cars or pick one when requesting a ride.
Updating driver locations
The app tracks where each driver is as they move around. Their location information is stored in an extensive database.
Showing nearby drivers
When a rider opens the app, it looks in the database to find drivers that are currently close to the rider’s location.
Requesting a ride
The rider requests a ride from their location to where they want to go. The app then assigns one of the nearby drivers to pick them up. Once a driver accepts a ride request, the app estimates how long it will take the driver to arrive for pickup based on the route, traffic, and weather.
During the trip
The app tracks the car’s location using GPS as the trip happens. It also records the route taken. After the journey ends, the route information is used to calculate the total cost.
Number of Platforms To Develop For Uber Clone Business
Clearly, to make an app like Uber for getting rides, it must have these things:
- People who want rides can see drivers who are close by.
- People who wish to get rides can ask for a ride from where they are to where they want to go
- Close drivers will get a message about the ride request, and one driver will say yes.
- People who ask for the ride will know when the driver will come to pick them up.
After the trip is done, people who took the ride will see information like the path they took, how much they paid, and other details. To build an app for getting taxi rides, the app needs to have different parts that work for both the people taking rides and the drivers at the same time.
The whole point is that your Uber Clone is able to track driver locations before the trip, assign the best nearby driver when requested, estimate the pickup time, track the route and area during the trip, and calculate the total cost at the end based on the route taken.
To start an entire ride-hailing business like Uber, you need:
4 Mobile Apps:
- iOS app for drivers
- iOS app for riders
- Android app for drivers
- Android app for riders
6 Web Panels For:
- Drivers
- Riders
- Partner taxi companies
- Manual dispatching of taxis
- Billing/accounts
- Hotels/tourism offices
1 Main Admin Panel and 1 Website
Building all of this custom from scratch would take a very long time, around 1 year. You’d need to hire designers and developers, do extensive testing, and customize the architecture for iOS and Android. It requires a lot of resources and money.
If you don’t want to wait that long in this competitive market, the faster option is to buy a ready-made “Uber Clone” app. Some companies sell pre-built ride-hailing apps with 100% source code that you can customize. Established companies with experience offer high-quality, scalable Uber Clone apps along with robust admin panels.
Why White-Labeling?
Building a full ride-hailing app and all the systems from nothing takes a really long time – over a year. You’d have to hire many developers and designers. This costs a ton of money.
Instead, you can buy a pre-made “Uber Clone” app from a company that has already built all the rider apps, driver apps, websites, and backend systems. This is called “white labeling.” Going the white-label route saves you a vast amount of time. Instead of waiting over a year, you can get started in just 1-2 weeks since everything is already built.
Moreover, you only pay one fee to the professional white-label firm instead of having to hire and pay a whole development team for over a year. Plus, the white-label companies have already worked out all the kinks through years of testing and improving their apps. You get a proven product right away.
And in a competitive business like ride-hailing, being able to start quickly is really important. White-labeling lets you get out there and operate while competitors are still building their apps.
Most good white-label companies also keep updating their apps with new features, which you’ll get automatically. In other words, white-labeling an “Uber Clone” saves enormous amounts of time and money compared to building from scratch. Additionally, it lets you start your ride business way faster with a fully working app and system.
Conclusion
Staying within budget is one of the biggest challenges when building an Uber-like app. With more money, you could easily add ride-sharing, book taxis with chauffeurs, and many other features. That’s why getting help from a professional white-label company is the best next step. These firms allow you to evaluate current market trends. You can also see how competitors are doing before making your next move. Working with experts gives you important insights before expanding your business.
