Top technologies stacks behind on-demand Taxi Service App

Everything in this world is determined by demand that allows you to drive the supply chain as well as the service industry, whereas the demand-supply ratio is perfect to the world economy and a deciding factor behind the price point of the service. So, every product which is sold and service offered is a result of its demand. So, it same goes for taxi industry where the demand for taxi app created because people need to go from one place to another place. So, if demand is the case, then the quality of an existing service to a degree, which can offer on demand, and then it, becomes an on-demand service. So, in the case of taxis, if you have a significant blend of resource, infrastructure, technology, and accessibility, they can help you to offer this service.

Below are the given on demand mobility solutions which need technology stack to operate under the following categories:

Geo-location

Geo-location services are one of the most primary part’ of any on-demand taxi app solution, from the app picking up your location and sharing it as the pickup location to the driver. To letting the customer know of the drivers where about in real time on a map, so on demand cannot be realized without location technology and indeed it is most crucial technology in the Uber stack.

Notifications

As every on-demand Taxi booking app needs to keep, their user updated with daily notifications like service, email, alerts, and push notification, so your send across should be best and delivered on time. Therefore, the notification can be divided into two functional types, which is Push notification and text notification. Push notification is highly efficient as they are noticeable or appealing form of messaging, but if in case internet is down or a user is offline, then text notification helps to ensure for delivering the message. For SMS notification Twilio is a market leader with clients like Netflix, Uber, Hulu, and Lyft in its kitty.

Notifications that app in an on-demand cab solution receives are given below:

Driver: Accept or decline the ride

Rider: Ride accepted/canceled

Rider: Ride Arrival

Rider: Surge Pricing Over

Rider: Fare Updated

Inter-app communication

There are two types of taxi booking app, which are helping to establish communication for users. So, the first one is for drivers’ app, and another is for passengers’ app, where these apps also need to communicate with each other at distinct points so that the service flows and the operation takes place. Therefore, these two apps also act as two interfaces to services by connecting both ends which allow riders to book the service and drivers to provide the service while accessing the app for supporting aids or other assistance. Hence, the communication between these two apps also takes place over mobile data or Wi-Fi. So, that data traveling protocol decides the flow of communication, which could be encrypted or non-encrypted depending upon the provider choice. Thus, the data is also routed through an application server to the destination point where the quality of data entirely depends on the supporting system and data exchange resource.

Payment

Payment is one of the most significant part’ of any on-demand taxi service app, and it is mainly based on the cashless payment system sourced through a payment gateway. Therefore, Braintree is one the prominent leader in the mobile payment segment, and it also has premium clients like Uber. On the other end, Stripe is also payment service option to provide equally dependable and prompt services, so it is also a quite prominent player in this domain. So, these services provider split payment feature to allow billing and payment much more user-friendly.

Storage and infrastructure

To provide solution infrastructure and storage to best coordinate and communicate with back-end services, you need to put a whole range of functional factors and processing entities for providing a complete ecosystem. Therefore, the infrastructure and storage resources served by a close knitted facility of routing and service discovery, languages, virtual machine caching and quenching, app provisioning, and among others.

So, above are the given ideas and technical details for the on-demand taxi service app to help for bringing your business to the desired purpose and shape.