For business travel, a ride-hailing app is excellent. Right up until the morning you have a nine o’clock negotiation and your ride cancels at 7:40.
That is the whole argument, and it is worth being precise about it rather than dressing it up. An app is a marketplace: it matches you with whoever is nearby and willing. Most of the time that is enough. It is not built for the trips that have to happen.
Assigned, or matched
An executive chauffeur in Bucharest is assigned in advance. A named driver, a named car, a schedule he has read the evening before. If he is ill at six in the morning, that is our problem to solve, not a notification on your phone at 7:40.
The same car, the same driver, the same invoice
For a company, the awkward part of apps is rarely the ride. It is eleven receipts from eleven accounts at the end of the month, and a guest who had to pay for their own transfer and then ask to be reimbursed.
We work the other way: one booking for the whole visit, one contact, and an invoice by bank transfer. Card, cash and PayPal are there for people who prefer them.
When the guest is not you
Booking an app for someone else is where it gets thin. They land, they have your name but not the driver’s, and the first twenty minutes in a country are spent looking at a phone.
For an airport transfer in Bucharest we track the flight, the driver waits inside arrivals with the name on a tablet, and the guest is met before they start looking. A first impression of a country is formed in twenty minutes, in an airport car park.
When the app is the better tool
A single trip across town, no deadline, no luggage, no guest to impress. Use the app. We’d rather tell you that than quote you for something you don’t need.
We don’t sell transport. We sell not having to think about it.