‘Ola Rentals’ simplifies city travel with affordable hourly packages on Lux, Prime & Mini
Rentals currently offered in 35 cities, to be scaled up to 100 cities soon
- Addresses unique travel needs of India Inc; streamlines the whole process of booking to reimbursement for Corporate executives
- Ola Rentals enables customers to hire a cab on disposal for back to back meetings, sightseeing, shopping trips amongst others
New Delhi, August 10th 2016: Ola, India’s most popular mobile app for transportation, today announced the launch of ‘Ola Rentals’; to simplify intra city travel with affordable hourly packages on Ola Lux, Ola Prime Sedan & SUV as well as Ola Mini. It addresses the unique needs of Ola Corporate customers and working executives who move from one meeting to the other during the day as well as individuals who want to have the convenience of having a cab on disposal for diverse needs like local sightseeing, shopping trips etc. With the integration of ‘Ola Rentals’ and ‘Ola Corporate’, the experience of booking, travelling, billing etc. becomes extremely efficient and streamlined for businesses. ‘Ola Rentals’ is available in 35 cities currently and will soon be rolled out in 100 cities across India.
Raghuvesh Sarup, CMO and Head of Categories at Ola said, “We have built ‘Ola Rentals’ to address the unique needs of working executives and individuals who’d like to have a vehicle at their disposal, waiting on them, as they move from place to place. Launched recently, the category is already growing at a rapid pace and we are now taking it to the next level by introducing it for our customers on the Ola Corporate platform. Ola Corporate has thousands of enterprise customers, who benefit from an integrated mobility platform offering on-demand cabs, shared cabs and now rental cabs as well for their employees.” He further added, “The Ola Rentals offering brings luxury vehicles, sedans and SUVs as well as high rated drivers along with all in-app safety features like SOS button and live tracking of rides, just like the regular Ola that millions of Indians prefer to use for their daily mobility needs.”
‘Ola Rentals’ enables users to save the effort of booking a cab time & again within a single day. The category comprises of vehicles audited for high quality and best rated drivers, who have been handpicked and trained to offer a consistently superior experience for customers. The launch of ‘Ola Rentals’ makes Ola the only mobility platform in India that provides luxury A/C cabs at hourly packages.
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More about Ola Corporate
Ola Corporate can be accessed by executives on their regular Ola app, once authenticated by their employer. For executives who have been authorized to use Ola Corporate, a new toggle option ‘Book as Corporate Ride’ appears on the confirmation screen at the time of booking. On enabling this, the ride gets billed directly to the user’s corporate account, without the user having to pay the fare in cash or through their personal Ola Money wallet. All in-app features like Share Ride Details, Emergency Contacts, SOS and Number Masking are active for users of Ola Corporate as well. Ola Corporate users can choose from the wide range of categories across Ola Lux, Ola Prime (Sedan and SUV), Ola Mini and ola Rentals in their cities. Administration teams can register for Ola Corporate at http://corporate.olacabs.com.
About Ola
Founded in January 2011 by IIT Bombay alumni Bhavish Aggarwal and Ankit Bhati, Ola (formerly Olacabs), is India’s most popular mobile app for transportation. Ola integrates city transportation for customers and driver partners onto a mobile technology platform ensuring convenient, transparent and quick service fulfilment. Ola is committed to its mission of building mobility for a billion people. Using the Ola mobile app, users across 102 cities can book from over 450,000 vehicles including cabs, auto-rickshaws and taxis. Ola has also introduced a range of shared mobility services on its platform like Ola Shuttle and Ola Share for commute and ride-sharing respectively. The app is available on Windows, Android and iOS platforms. For more information please visit www.olacabs.com and https://www.olacabs.com/media
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