How Much Does It Cost To Build A Taxi App?

Do you own a taxi startup or an established taxi business and are looking to launch your taxi business online and grow its reach? An online taxi booking app will fulfill all your needs. Wondering how? This blog will contain all the answers.

You may have heard about the major market players who provide online taxi bookings, like Uber, Ola, and Lyft. These apps have transformed traditional taxi booking.

You also need a taxi booking app to launch your taxi business online. You may be concerned about how these apps will work for your business and how much it costs to build a taxi app.

Well, we are here to answer this. This article will explore the cost factors for taxi app development.

Current Market Stats Of Taxi Booking App Development Services

• Statista predicts that the ride-hailing and taxi industries will have 1,665.3 million users by 2026. Investing money in taxi apps now will enable your company to expand.
• The anticipated ARPU (average revenue per user) from the online taxi business is USD 247.00.
• The ride-hailing and taxi industry will generate 55% of its total revenue from online sales by 2027.

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Before diving deep into the development cost, let us first explore the types of online taxi apps and their business models.

Types Of Taxi Applications

When you create a taxi booking app, you should decide on a business model as one of the first things. The business model sets the app's development process and associated costs.

There are two primary categories of taxi apps - dedicated taxi booking apps and taxi aggregator apps.

Dedicated Taxi App

A dedicated taxi app is a great model for businesses with an established taxi business. They would have a group of taxis and their respective drivers. Developing an app enables businesses to take their taxi service to the next level. Customers can easily book their services using these apps.

It also opens a gateway to a larger pool of potential buyers.

The taxi service doesn't need an intermediary between them and the customers. Customers specify their desired pickup location and car type. The taxi service dispatches a driver who picks up and drops off the customer at their designated destinations at a predefined fee.

Aggregator Taxi App

Apps like Uber and Ola have popularized this business model. Taxi companies and independent drivers list their services and connect with riders through the app, which acts as a marketplace.

Taxi aggregators team up with individual taxi drivers to provide rides. Typically, the aggregators will impose a fee for their services.

Both individuals and organizations can use this model for simple and on-demand application development.

Simple Taxi Booking App: These apps don't require a server. A single app allows taxi drivers to advertise their services, and riders can order rides directly from the app.

On-demand Taxi Booking App: On-demand taxi booking app requires a mandatory server-based architecture. Two apps are necessary here, one for riders and one for drivers. This model has many advanced features.

Taxi-hailing apps are proliferating and expanding their operations using these business models.

Experts project that ride-hailing services will generate an annual revenue of $126,521 million globally by 2025. It's the perfect time to invest money in developing an online taxi service.

Benefits Of On-Demand Taxi Booking App

For Drivers

• Drivers won't have to waste gas all over town looking for passengers. With on demand taxi booking apps like Uber, drivers can wait in the car until someone books them, and they can depart to the desired location.
• Most transactions now occur digitally or through mobile wallets, relieving drivers of the burden of carrying large amounts of cash or change.
• The on-demand taxi booking app allows drivers to rate and comment on passengers. If any passenger's behavior is not good, drivers can give them a low rating and help other drivers with the hassle.
• These GPS-enabled applications can help drivers find passengers quickly.

For Passengers

• The app notifies riders about the taxi's location and estimates arrival time.
• People can schedule their trips without leaving the house.
• Digital payments eliminate the need for customers to carry money. Users can link their digital wallets to the app or use debit or credit cards to pay fares.
• The app allows taxi riders to rate and review their drivers.

How Much Does It Cost To Build A Taxi App?

Mobile app development never has any predefined rates. How much money it will cost to make a taxi app depends on several variables.

Depending on the factors considered for taxi app development, it could cost around $15,000 to $55,000.

Keep reading the blog as we break down how much developing a taxi booking app will cost based on several factors.

Features

Every successful app has a solid foundation of features, and taxi booking apps should do the same. We will make the app more useful by building more sophisticated features into it. Three factors determine the cost of making a taxi booking app: the apps used by riders, taxi drivers, and admin. If you are familiar with these components and their features, you can understand development costs fairly.

Additionally, using API integration to add more features increases the overall costs of Development.

Tech Stack

Creating mobile apps with different technologies significantly impacts the final cost. Selecting a cost-effective and flexible technology stack from the designing process through the Development of the front and back ends of the application is the best approach.

To create a taxi booking app, you need the following technologies:

Google Maps	Swift	Java	AWS
ExpressPay	Redis	Visa	Paystack
MTN	Stripe	PostgreSQL	PayPal
Android Studio	Authorize.net	RDS	S3
Jersey	Twilio	Payfort	Citrus

Complexity Of The App

Completing a project with complex requirements will require more time and money.

Basic Complex Features App Cost	$5,000 - $30,000
Medium Complex Features App Cost	$30,000 - $50,000
Large or Advance Complex Features App Cost	$50,000+

Time Required For App Development

It is difficult to estimate how long creating a fully functional app will take. How long it takes to complete the project depends on the number of people working on it and the degree of complexity involved.

User App

Users Android App Design & Development	40 Working days
Users iPhone App Design & Development	40 Working days
Users Web App Design & Development	38 Working days

Driver App

Drivers Android App Design & Development	35 Working days
Drivers iPhone App Design & Development	35 Working days

App Development Platform

The app development platform used to create a taxi app can affect its development cost. Making a taxi app for Android costs less than for iOS. However, the development cost will be higher if you opt for an online taxi app for both platforms.

Geographical Location Of The App Development Company

Another variable that can affect the final price is the location of the app development company. Companies in the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom, and other developed nations charge higher than service providers in India, Bangladesh, Indonesia, and Japan.

• US-based developers charge $150-$250/per hour
• Eastern-Western developers charge $40-$150/hour
• India-based developers charge $10-$80/hour

Updations

Revising requirements or making changes to the app after Development increases the cost of an app development project. When prototyping an application, you should make a list of all the features and functionality it might need.

Taxi Booking App Development Cost Breakdown

Let's calculate the cost of creating an Android and iOS taxi booking app.

Development	Android	iOS
Native Development	$10,500	$13,000
UI/UX Design	$4,000	$4,500
Backend Development	$5,000	$5,500
Admin Panel Development	$4,100	$5,100
Quality Assurance	$7,500	$8,800
Project Management	$3,600	$4,000
Total	$34,700	$40,900

Several variables determine the development cost. It can be negotiated during the final agreement.

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Features of Taxi App that Influences Cost of Development

App for Passengers

User Registration & Login: Users can easily register and authenticate to create and view profiles using social sign-ups or email addresses/phone numbers.

Notifications: Alerts ensure the timely acquisition of information. These include push notifications, in-app messages, short message service (SMS), and email.

Taxi Selection: Criteria for selecting a taxi include a preference for taxi type, desired fare range, and other factors.

Ride Scheduling: Businesses can offer flexible scheduling and on-demand availability easily.

Real-time Tracking: Passengers can track their cab and estimated arrival time. Also, they can track how long it will take to reach the destination.

Payment Methods: Passengers can choose and switch between various payment methods as necessary.

Automatic Fare Calculation: The system calculates taxi fares in real-time after the rider enters their pickup and destination addresses.

Rating: Riders can rate the drivers and provide feedback on the trip experience.

Support: Support helps customers with any questions or problems they have.

App for Drivers

Registration: The administrator requires drivers to sign up and receive permission to provide services.

Profile: Drivers' profiles contain specific information such as name, phone number, license details, vehicle number, vehicle type, and current status.

GPS Integration: A driver can locate the passenger and determine the quickest route to them using GPS upon receiving a ride request.

Notification: Drivers will receive alerts about events, new rides, and other related activities.

Chat: Drivers can connect with passengers via in-app voice calls and text messages after they book a service if required.

Earning Tracker: This app feature allows drivers to summarize their daily and weekly earnings.

Booking Confirmation: The rider can accept or decline ride bookings and provide appropriate feedback.

Admin Panel

Driver Management: This feature allows the admin to manage drivers easily, like validating, authorizing, deactivating, and blocking them.

Passenger Management: Passenger management aims to facilitate better service for passengers.

Support: Admin can provide support and handle complaints from passengers and drivers if they arise.

Trip Details: This feature lets admins view all planned, current, and past trip information.

Revenue Management: Revenue management manages and controls sales and income.

Notifications: The admin can notify drivers and passengers about the rides, new offers, discounts, and any other related activities using this feature.

Report Tracking: Report tracking and analytics enable monitoring of driver activities and earnings with real-time data.

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Why Choose Hyperlocal Cloud for Your Taxi App Development?

Hyperlocal Cloud, a mobile app development firm, has received recognition for its excellence from Clutch, Goodfirms, and Appfutura. Our team provides businesses with comprehensive mobile app solutions to help them expand and grow.

We are the ideal mobile app development partner for your company, regardless of its size.

We specialize in creating apps for taxi services. Clients all over the world have partnered with us to implement effective online taxi solutions, and we have earned a reputation as a leading firm in developing taxi booking apps.

We create a cutting-edge taxi-hailing app that assists you in satisfying your target audience by packing it with useful features.

We will assist you every step of the way in creating your taxi app with our team of designers, developers, QA engineers, and support personnel. We guarantee that you will receive a solution of the highest quality within your specified time frame.

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