Services · Mobile app development · Taxi apps
Codeeo builds taxi booking apps for fleets, dispatch software companies and transport operators across the United States. Each project covers the rider app, the driver app and the dispatch console, designed so one platform can run in several cities even though each city licenses taxis differently, each state treats ride-hail its own way, and every major airport writes its own pickup rules.
That patchwork is the main reason taxi platforms stall when they expand. We plan for it from the start, alongside the federal rules that apply everywhere: the ADA for accessible service, PCI DSS for card data and the TCPA for text messages.
200+ companies across the US and the UAEFrom a first store to a listed developer
Platform features
In the United States, taxi regulation is mostly local. A city or county licenses vehicles and drivers and sets fares; airports run their own ground transportation programs; states regulate transportation network companies and, in many places, limousines and charter carriers. A platform serving more than one market has to treat each of those layers as configuration rather than code. The capabilities below are built that way, so adding a new city means entering its fare tables, service areas and reporting rules instead of rewriting the app. It also means a rule change in one market never forces a release in all the others.
Each city gets its own fare schedule, service boundary, surcharges, airport rules and tax settings, managed from the admin panel. A trip is priced and recorded under the rules of the market where it starts, so a fleet working in two states never applies one city's rates in the other.
New markets are added as settings, not as new apps.
Some regulators require a taximeter, some allow upfront quotes through an app, and many airports use flat or zone fares. The fare engine supports all three, shows the rider which applies before booking, and stores the method on each trip for audits and disputes.
One engine for every fare model your markets use.
Trips are offered by distance, vehicle type, accessibility, account rules and the license that vehicle holds in that market. Dispatchers can override, batch airport runs or hold vehicles for scheduled pickups, and every decision is logged for later review.
Trips go to a driver who is allowed and able to take them.
Drivers upload licenses, vehicle documents and insurance, and the app tracks expiry dates per market. Background checks run through a consumer reporting agency under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, with the disclosures and adverse action steps that law requires.
Driver records stay current without manual chasing.
The Americans with Disabilities Act and US Department of Transportation rules set duties for taxi and on-demand services, including service animals and wheelchair accessible vehicles. We build accessible vehicle requests, accommodation notes, screen reader support and WCAG-based design across every rider screen.
Accessible trips are planned in from the first release.
Riders pay by card, Apple Pay or Google Pay, with tips, split fares and corporate billing. A tokenizing processor keeps raw card data off your servers to narrow PCI DSS scope, and driver payouts and earnings statements are produced per period for tax reporting.
Riders pay quickly and drivers see exactly what they earned.
Ride confirmations and arrival texts are transactional, but marketing texts need express consent under the TCPA. We keep the two apart, record consent, handle STOP replies and register messaging campaigns with the carriers, so texts are delivered instead of filtered.
Texts arrive and consent is on record.
California, Texas, Virginia, Colorado and a growing list of states give consumers rights over their data, and several treat precise geolocation as sensitive. The admin panel handles access, deletion and opt-out requests by state, and retention rules clear old trip locations on schedule.
Privacy requests are answered the way each state expects.
Most large airports require ground transportation permits, per-trip fees and geofenced staging, and some limit which services may pick up at the curb. The platform supports geofenced queues, airport-specific pickup instructions and trip reporting, so you can meet each airport's program terms.
Airport work runs to each airport's rules.
Hotels, travel agencies, corporate travel tools and other fleets often want to book or receive trips programmatically. A documented API with keys per partner, rate limits and webhooks for trip status lets them connect without your team building each link by hand.
Partners plug in without custom work every time.
Who this is for
National and regional transport businesses come to us at different stages. Some run a single city and want to add a second; some sell dispatch software to other fleets; some are travel companies that need ground transport tied to their bookings. Each fit below describes the starting point and what the first release usually covers, and why the order of work matters more than the list of features.
The platform that works in your home city often has its fares, zones and reports written straight into the code. Before expansion we move those rules into market settings, then add the new city with its own regulator, airport and tax details. Drivers in each market see only the trips and documents that apply to them, and managers compare markets on one dashboard. Shared services such as payments, support tools and the rider account carry across, so a customer who rides with you in one city is already signed in when they land in the next.
Make the platform multi-market before the new launch.
If you license taxi software to independent operators, you need multi-tenant architecture, white-label branding per fleet and configuration each client manages without your engineers. We design tenant separation, branded app builds and admin roles so your clients run their own markets while you maintain one codebase and one release process. Each tenant's riders, drivers and payments stay in separate data partitions, which simplifies security reviews when larger fleets evaluate your product.
One codebase, many fleets, separate data.
Tour operators, travel agencies and hotel groups want airport transfers and local rides inside their own booking experience. We build booking modules that pass trips to licensed carriers in each city, track them live and show them in the traveler's itinerary, so transport stops being a separate phone call or a voucher printed at the desk. Partner carriers receive trips through the API or a simple web portal, depending on how technical they are.
Transport inside the itinerary, carried by licensed partners.
Ride hailing app development in the USA starts with state law: most states license transportation network companies centrally, with insurance requirements that change depending on whether the driver is waiting, en route or carrying a rider, while some cities add their own layer. We scope products around the permits you hold or seek and keep taxi and ride-hail rules separate inside one platform. Insurance status is tracked per trip phase, so claims and reports draw on exact timestamps rather than estimates.
Permits first, product second.
How we work together
Codeeo has delivered 200+ projects across the UAE and the US. Our team of 80+ sits in Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi and works remotely with American clients, with discovery and every review held by video call. National platforms usually begin with a fixed scope build for the first market, then move to a dedicated team as more cities are added, or to a retainer once the roadmap is steady. We are rated 4.7 from 23 Google reviews.
A defined build with a deadline
We agree what the product has to do, write it down with a price and a date, and build exactly that. Changes are priced before they are made, not discovered on the invoice.
A product that keeps evolving
Named engineers who work your hours, join your standups and stay on the codebase. You direct the backlog; we own the quality of what ships.
Something live that needs looking after
A monthly block of hours for improvements, fixes and the small requests that otherwise wait months. Unused hours carry for a quarter.
Technology
Flutter or React Native for rider and driver apps, a web dispatch console, an API layer for partners and cloud hosting in US regions. Maps, payments and messaging providers are chosen to match your volumes and your existing contracts.
01Mobile
02Data and cloud
03Marketing and tracking
It depends on the number of markets and integrations in the first release.
A single-city launch with rider, driver and dispatch apps is the usual first release; adding several markets, multi-tenant support or hardware integrations extends it. We agree the first market, its features and its integrations in discovery, then write dates against that scope. Later cities are planned as separate releases, each with its own timing, so one slow approval does not hold back the rest.
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