Taxi through the application (call application) is a new model of the well-known taxi business. Applications installed on the phone for calling a taxi quickly gained popularity due to their unique advantages - calling a taxi with one click, automatic geolocation, preliminary calculation of the final cost, the ability to specify additional options such as a child seat or arrival time. And, as it turned out, such programs have opened up a whole niche for making money.
To simplify the description, consider this business idea on the example of Uber, although all similar programs work in similar ways.
The principle of operation of all applications for calling a taxi is the same. The client selects the point of departure and destination, indicates additional options, sees the cost of the trip and, if he agrees, presses the button to call the car. The program automatically finds the driver, transfers the order to him and "accompanies" the trip (for example: leave a review about the driver, follow the route, etc.)
That is, these programs are designed to replace dispatch services in a taxi. The niche of such applications is so large that large players, such as Yandex with its Yandex.Taxi application, paid attention to it.
How to make money as intermediaries without cars
As you know, all such applications, including Uber, are not taxi companies. They are intermediaries. Offering all taxi companies and individuals their services to find customers. Everything is positive. Uber is not responsible for the transportation and services of counterparties. Counterparties, in other words, intermediaries, receive a flow of customers without their own dispatch service, advertising and other cost items.
The main condition for the counterparty (executor) is the availability of a taxi license and the presence of a legal entity.
This is where your car-free Uber business starts. Or any other company like Gett, TapTaxi, Rutaxi, Yandex.Taxi, etc. What is required of you? You need to organize a counterparty, that is, a taxi company. For this you need:
- Register LLC (indicating in OKVED activities taxi service);
- Open a current account;
- ... everyone, thought more?
Of course, each company with a calling application has its own requirements for such intermediaries, but we have listed the main points.
After all the formalities, you must connect to the application system: submit Required documents to the company, if approved, get access to the agency functionality, where you will connect contractors, receive reports and conduct your business. Except accounting. By connecting to the system you will start earning.
What is it for and how does it work? The essence of business
By opening an LLC with a taxi license, you can provide transportation, delivery and other similar services. Customers are provided to you by the Uber system. You attract performers to Uber. That is, car owners who want to earn money in Uber.
For Uber, you are valuable in that you preliminarily and independently weed out drivers and their cars that do not meet the requirements of the system, regulate controversial issues, prepare documentation, and connect the contractor to the system.
For drivers, you are valuable in helping them connect to Uber without any paperwork. That is, you accept the driver to your job. He does not need to open an individual entrepreneur or LLC, obtain a taxi license for transportation and other complex bureaucratic obstacles.
The whole process is as follows - the driver gives you all the necessary data, after checking them, you add him to the queue for an interview at Uber. After a successful interview, the driver connects to the system, and you sign a contract with him.
Your earnings are the percentage of paid orders completed by the contractor. Payment from Uber goes to your account once a week, you, minus your%, send money to your employees. The commission of the system itself is 20%, but bonuses and additional payments are provided for drivers (and therefore your %) who work during rush hour and other busy hours, when the number of orders increases significantly.
Who will work with you? Everyone who wants to work for Uber: professional taxi drivers, ordinary car owners who work at their main job, but want to earn extra money, and other drivers who need money.
How to look for clients? Firstly, many people know about Uber, and secondly, you can open your own website, advertise and announce that you are connecting to Uber, paste over your own car with appropriate inscriptions, leave vacancies and look for job seekers on job sites. Buy your own car park and look for drivers without a car. Here you are limited only federal laws about advertising and local requirements.
By the way, you can open a similar business in every city where Uber is available. For each city, you will have to go through the path again - from registering a legal entity to connecting performers, even if they already work for you in another city.
The average number of drivers connected through you, ensuring the break-even of the enterprise, is 30-40 people. Payback of business comes in 6 months. But, these figures depend on the specific city.
Hello! In this article, we will talk about how to make money on Uber.
- How much can you earn: 100-150 rubles per hour.
- Minimum Requirements: to be subject to regional requirements.
- Is it worth doing: do not recommend .
What is Uber and how does it work
Uber - an intermediary program that connects a taxi driver and a passenger.
The functionality of this program includes:
- Order acceptance.
- Driver's choice.
- Order transfer.
- Travel cost calculation.
All these functions are performed by the program. The taxi driver receives the order, enters the destination and starts work.
Uber has a driver rating system. After each trip, the passenger can give the taxi driver points. For a low rating, they can issue a warning or ban an account.
There are three different car segments in the app:
- Uber X - economy class.
- Uber Select - comfort class.
- Uber Black - business class.
Uber is a service that made taxis not a luxury, but a banal means of transportation.
Uber earning opportunities
Uber provides an opportunity to earn money for almost everyone. In order to start working with Uber, you need:
- Provide information about yourself.
- About the car.
- Watch a 20 minute video.
- Pass a test of knowledge of the company's service.
After you pass the test, you can get to work. For the first time, you will be able to use the training program and receive an additional payment as a beginner. This is done in order to attract as many drivers as possible.
After 1 to 2 months, the beginner program will end and your income will drop.
If you work for Uber, you need to register as an individual entrepreneur and obtain all the necessary licenses. Or you can be an employee of the city taxi company.
If you do not have your own car, you can rent one from the city taxi company. It's pretty convenient. You pay rent and don't care about the condition of the car. The rental price per day is from 800 to 2,000 rubles.
How much can you earn on Uber
Uber is American company who went to Russian market active . After the merger with Yandex and the provision of services jointly with Yandex.Taxi price policy didn't change at all.
In fact, the income with Uber fluctuates around 100 - 120 rubles per hour in cities that do not belong to millionaires. it net income, which you have after you pay interest to the company, pay for gasoline and car cleaning. Therefore, for a typical working day at 8 hours, you can earn 800 - 900 rubles.
Uber customers most often want to save on trips, so they very rarely leave tips.
As a result, we have the following picture: driving on the counter, with virtually no tip for 100 rubles per hour. That is, in order to reach a normal income, you will have to work 12 hours a day without days off.
How to make money on Uber
The main principle of Uber is that the fewer cars, the higher the cost of one order. This is done in order to ensure constant loading throughout the city.
However, it is not uncommon for there to be zones with increased coefficients. The trip here is more expensive, and you earn much more. If you have the opportunity, use these zones to the maximum.
Odds also change depending on weather conditions. If it's raining, the odds are higher. Frost is an increased coefficient. That is, in bad weather conditions, you can earn more.
If you fulfill a certain norm of orders per day/week, you will receive an additional payment of 1-2 thousand rubles.
Bonuses vary by region. AT small towns you need to complete fewer orders every week than in the capital.
These little chips are exclusively related to the work of Uber. But experienced taxi drivers are well aware that the matter is not limited to one application. In fact, there are many more additional ways to increase your own income.
Work past the checkout. This is the main profit for taxi drivers. Some customers, after the first trip, turn to the taxi driver with a request to leave a phone number so that in which case they can call and arrange a trip. This is convenient both for the client - a familiar face with whom it is guaranteed that you can get home, and for the driver - you do not need to pay a commission to the taxi company and the application.
Working only with your clients is difficult. Sometimes work takes you to the other end of the city and there is simply no physical opportunity to pick up your friend. But in other cases - a good way to save on commissions.
Private driver services. If you work on a medium and executive class car during the day, then you have the opportunity to earn extra money as a private driver. There are clients who use taxi services regularly, and they need a car "at N hours in this place." Such orders are paid not at the standard rate, but already within the framework of “day services”.
To sum up: with Uber you can earn more. But for this you will have to use all the features of the application, as well as look for regular customers.
Difficulties with Uber
There are two main difficulties for the driver in Uber:
- Clients.
- Low wages for drivers.
Due to the fact that Uber is mainly used by people who want cheap and high-quality service, various unpleasant situations arise. There are frequent stories from drivers that customers are starting to be rude, proving something to the driver and complicating the life of taxi drivers in every possible way.
Low earnings- Another rather significant problem when working with Uber. Most taxi drivers, before the arrival of the Uber app, were used to the fact that they earn much more. And as soon as Uber enters a new region, it provides big bonuses to new employees. Bonuses are over - there is low earnings.
And another problem related to earnings - work on loan. Since approximately 70% is cashless, taxi drivers do not immediately receive money in their hands. Withdrawal in the system - 1 time per week. So, you need to calculate your finances so that there is money left for gasoline, washing and work for 1 week.
In general, working with Uber is difficult. The application is very convenient for passengers who can get to the other end of the city for literally 200 rubles. But for the drivers - the next difficulty.
my first experience with Uber
How did I find out about Uber?
Half a year ago, the crisis in Russia began to flare up with renewed vigor. I, like many Russians, lost my usual job - they reduced it. What to do, where to go, I looked through tons of vacancies and companies, but the job either didn’t suit me at all, or I didn’t fit the job. My family expenses: food, clothes, car, did not disappear, and the savings were running out. Suddenly I realized that you can earn extra money in a taxi. Working on a private car- a pleasure for me, I love my swallow. But how and where to get a job?... Once my friend told me that he joined UBER and earns an additional 30-40 thousand rubles a month in addition to his basic salary. Uber is like a taxi, but not quite. No need to paint the car, no need to register an individual entrepreneur and mess with accounting, the license is done by the partner company itself. I thought about it and realized that if I devote 8-10 hours a week, the same schedule will come out as at the old job. But wages at UBER, even with gas costs, were higher than before. So, I was determined to join UBER.
connection to uber.
Before connecting to the system, it was necessary find an UBER partner. I went all over the Internet, read the websites of many companies, many had very tempting conditions for drivers. Some connected without interest at all, others have a commission of 5%, and others have 10%. But I decided to look into it. UBER partner is entity, company. We have a minimum income tax in Russia - 6%. Plus various insurance premiums, payment to banks for money transfers, other expenses. How can an UBER partner pay a driver everything they earn? I did not understand this at all, and then it came! This is a dishonest partner. The company cannot work at a loss, for sure the driver is not paid bonuses, or even thrown in 2-4 weeks (there are also many such stories).
I found a partner Fresh Staff. Commission "floating" from 11 to 16 percent. The manager and I agreed that the most profitable for me is to work 8-10 hours a day, at certain hours. Manager Ruslan told everything about all the bonuses and peak rates, we made a schedule (at my request, in general, the schedule of the UBER driver is free) and I would start earning 20-30 thousand rubles a week. The cost of gasoline is about 4 thousand per week. In total, I planned to net earn 60 - 90 thousand per month.
At the meeting, Ruslan took copies of the documents necessary to connect to UBER, we signed an agreement and I started to wait to be invited to activate and send the credentials.
job as an uber driver.
The first thing I want to say to all the "thinkers" - guys, UBER is not a taxi. The driver in UBER is a personal driver. You must behave politely and tolerantly towards everyone. Passengers are mostly all adequate, polite, but you never know.
I started working 4 days after meeting with Ruslan. I left the house in the morning, got behind the wheel, turned on the application and waited for the order. After 10 minutes, the coveted sound of the order. Hurray, let's go to the first passenger, his name is Nikolai.
I drive up, I'm a little worried. Here I am at the restaurant. A guy comes out, can he? No. The girl is definitely not. After 3 minutes, a man comes out, solid. Sits down. Of course, I introduced myself "Hello, my name is Alexander, I am your driver." Nikolay smiled, also introduced himself, said the address and off we went.
We drove for about an hour. The distance was 10 kilometers. We drove without communication, since Nikolai was talking on the phone all the time. When we arrived, I politely said goodbye and Nikolai got out of my Kia Rio. That's all, the first UBER passenger was satisfied and reached his destination with my help.
How much did I earn?
Nikolai paid 700 rubles for this order. Let me tell you about this amount. 700 rubles is what the passenger paid. This figure is calculated by the UBER program. And it's not my money! 20% is what the passenger paid to UBER for using the program. But already 560 rubles, i.e. 80% is what I earned. Here's my money.
From this amount I pay partner commission. Because I earn a lot - my commission is 13%. It turns out I earned 560 (trip) +80 (bonus) - 13% = 556.8 rubles. And you can catch 10-15 such orders per day (taking into account UBER peak rates and bonuses). Those. my Uber driver salary in my example is much more than my expectations. On average, I earn 90-130 thousand rubles a month in UBER. But future drivers should understand that earnings directly depend on the time you are willing to devote to this work.
If you are looking for additional income, a part-time job at UBER, then these numbers are not for you. In this case, you can receive 20-50 thousand. I work for UBER as my main job.
So, friends, if you think - to connect or not, definitely connect. Even if you do not work, the account will not go anywhere and you will always have the opportunity to earn extra money if there are a few free hours. And of course, I advise UBER's partner - Fresh Staff LLC.
How the usual processes are arranged on the reverse side - we analyze the example of VipUber.
Irina Cherepanova, development director of the uKit website builder, spoke with the owners of the intermediary company Uber.
We meet at Starbucks in the east of Moscow. The coffee house near the metro is one of the points from which two young men of about twenty-three run their business. They started bringing drivers to Uber a little less than a year ago. They call their current staff of 40 active taxi drivers “average” for small intermediaries in the capital.
“There is no money, but you hold on”: the first investment
Eugene and Ilya are friends from school and "forced" entrepreneurs. The first worked in a private company, but the company closed during the crisis. The second after the institute could not find a well-paid job in engineering.
Ilya and Eugene
“We have been thinking about our business since our institute days. For example, they tried to distill used cars from Europe. - says Eugene. “But by the end of 2014, because of the exchange rate, it was not so profitable to do this.”
Young people began to look for a new niche. The “taxi through the app” model attracted them both as ordinary users and as entrepreneurs. Almost all business with contractors can be conducted remotely. Yes, and the entry threshold seemed low.
« We did not fit Yandex and Gett: you need to come to them with a dozen or two cars. At Uber, to start, it was necessary to have only a current account and a legal entity in order to conclude contracts with performers, the founders say. “A driver needs a scheme with an intermediary so as not to bother with registering his own individual entrepreneur and to get a taxi license faster if he doesn’t have one.”
To start, the guys pulled 170 thousand rubles from their savings. The budget was laid with a margin to insure. For example, one hundred thousand were provided for the payment of salaries to drivers in case there were delays in transferring money from.
The first expenses were:
- For registration of an LLC (with the activity of a taxi service specified in OKVED) - 4800 rubles,
- For opening an account with Promsvyazbank - 5,000 for opening an account and certification of documents, plus about 1,000 per month for maintenance;
- For the creation and support of the site - the site was assembled by ourselves on the constructor, paid 2700 for premium functionality and 600 rubles for the domain for a year in advance;
- For paid functionality - 1500 per month;
- For the paid functionality of HeadHunter - 1000 per month for publishing vacancies and 3000 for access to the database of applicants;
- For expenses for drivers - 20 thousand (payments from Uber occur once a week, and when the car just leaves, the driver sometimes needs a deposit: for gas, washing, etc.).
The connection to the system itself took place in two stages. At first, remotely: it was enough to send documents to the company and account data. “After checking, we were invited to the Uber office, we exchanged contracts and details, and received a partner account in order to enter applications for connecting performers and receive reports,” the guys recall. That was the only time a meeting was required: since then, all business has been conducted over the Internet.
A mutual friend began to conduct accounting for entrepreneurs. The first driver came a week after the start. The first money came in two weeks later.
“VK users don’t bomb Uber”: attracting drivers
By the end of the second month, the guys already had 15 drivers. First, taxi drivers with experience were pulled up, then dismissed managers of private companies, civil servants who were laid off, and even an ex-policeman went. Now drivers are divided into two categories: half are those who taxi professionally and constantly; half go on the line several times a week to earn extra money.
The first well-performing channel became Avito. “A job advertisement for a driver can be published there in two sections - both as a vacancy and as a service. There is a context and retargeting. Plus, until now, once every two weeks, we make a selection of new ads from applicants and call people. But the conversion is quite low, around 5%. Not everyone is ready to work through the application.”
Due to constant questions with Avito, the guys urgently had to develop the site: start a FAQ, publish examples of documents for connection, news about Uber and articles why being their driver is good. According to Ilya, who took care of all digital issues, minor updates take place almost after each call to applicants.
“We went with paid posts to public about inexpensive foreign cars, tried retargeting - but only drained the budget. Users of VKontakte do not seem to be bombing Uber, Ilya believes. - Taxi forums are a different story. It is easy to run into negativity there, including from competitors: they say, hucksters. After all, we take 7 to 4 percent of orders for ourselves, depending on the experience of the driver, the frequency with which he goes to the line, and the channel through which he came ... ".
Negative towards intermediaries on an unofficial forum
The highest conversion gives enticing. It looks like this: Ilya calls the car and tries to talk to the driver during the trip. If it turns out to find out on what conditions a person works, he offers a 4% commission. According to him, every third driver shows interest.
To switch from one intermediary to another, the driver just needs to write a short letter to the Russian representative office of Uber and wait 1-3 days to reconnect.
Working with drivers: recipes and problems
Competitors do not remain in debt. The recruitment process looks like this: the driver sends an application and documents to the intermediary, the data is checked, the person is added to the queue for an interview at Uber. In two or three days he should be on time for the meeting.
“Once we received a lot of applications that we passed on - but almost none of the drivers came to the meeting. As a warning, our partner account was blocked for two weeks,” says Evgeny.
If the interview goes well, the driver receives an account in the application from Uber, signs an agreement with an intermediary, and can go on the line.
Driver Application
The second key point after hiring is technical support line drivers. Ilya took over. The main problem for a beginner is to understand the system.
The guys say: “Now, at interviews, they often put on a video that explains how to use the driver application. The person, it seems, understood everything, but when he goes on the route, questions may arise. It also happens that after app updates, bugs come out - either the button disappears, or something else. They are quickly corrected, but it's hard to figure out when a person calls you, and you have an iPhone. So we are thinking of moving everyone to one model of smartphones.”
The guys have already completed one "transplant": in order to speed up payments, they issued Tinkoff cards to the executors and transferred the business there themselves.
Standard contract between an intermediary and a contractor
The week at Uber starts and ends at exactly 04:00 every Monday. Funds deducted from passenger cards are initially accumulated with the company. Once a week, she sends drivers and resellers a detailed statement of orders and transfers earnings minus her commission.
The system commission is officially 20%, but part of it goes to bonuses for drivers: for work during peak hours and in peak zones.
“Bonuses usually cover from half of the Uber commission and above,” says Evgeny. Judging by the forums and blogs of other intermediaries, it happens when the commission is completely offset by bonuses. So far it looks like an investment in .
After receiving funds to the account, partners deduct their percentage and send the rest to the performers.
In addition to bonuses from the service, “compliments” from an intermediary help to keep drivers: for example, discounts on car wash and maintenance in car services.
Eugene says: “Having worked in cleaning and in car dealerships, I can say that the cost of a regular car wash is low, and dry cleaning is even lower. We went and agreed with one of the points in the east of the capital. A car service can cut margins at a car wash, but it is guaranteed to receive a flow of customers: drivers regularly have to clean the interior, and the whole car must be clean - this is the rule.
Rules and Perspectives
It was possible to recapture investments by the beginning of the fourth month: then 30 drivers were already working with partners. Then came the profit: new year holidays Uber raised rates and temporarily closed new car registrations. But then there was a lull. The two partners admit that it is a highly competitive market, and it is difficult to hold positions and expand here without serious injections.
“We tried to offer Uber participation in regional development- that we will go out to a new city for them, set up all the processes. But they don't franchise. The company itself opens offices in cities and launches the first intermediaries there. And it’s hard to get into their number, ”says Evgeny.
Recently, the guys found out that some of their drivers are going to work in the South in the summer. Now they are opening a branch in Sochi, where Uber is already operating - hoping for a surge in domestic tourism in the summer and a flow of skiers in the winter.
A driver or partner registered in one city cannot just take it and start working in another: you need to register a new legal entity and link cars to it. In general, go through the whole process of starting again.
The second option for scaling that they are considering is Eastern Europe: since the time of the car hauling business, they have an acquaintance in Varna, Bulgaria.
