Monthly Archives: March 2013

Spread love, ride free!

We asked ourselves, how could we make your paying process rewarding and easy? Rewarding, so that you can gain by spreading the love. Easy, so that you don’t have to leave behind those 33 bucks with the driver simply because you didn’t have change! More on the making it easy part later.

Spread love, ride free!

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Ride – Whenever, Wherever

Like we promised, we are going to take one new feature of the new version of our app at a time and run you through it so that you make the best of it. The first and most notable feature here is the Pick me up option replaced with the Ride now and Ride later options. This addition brings many additional possibilities to you against the only option you had with the older version.

Your all new Ola App v2.0

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Your all new Ola App v2.0

So the buzz is already out around the new Android and iOS upgrades for your favorite app! We are so excited about its awesomeness and are sure that one post is just not going to be enough to delve into every new feature. So let us quickly brief you on the new features and what it means to you and then dedicate one post each, to a feature. Promise us that you’ll ask questions and make it interactive!

What's your App-etite?

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Looking back on Feb 20, 21 in Delhi & Bangalore

In the wake of the 2 day auto strike in Bangalore and Delhi, we decided to ply and at auto fares to top that. This wasn’t a very tough call to take against capitalizing on the occasion to rake in the moolah. We just did an internal check on what was our purpose of existence. It was loud and clear- solving the ground transportation problem. And such a day, was not the right day to capitalize. We were conscious about the fact that emergency needs in these two days would be hit- women, kids, senior citizens would face the brunt and we wanted to give it all we had, if possible more.

Feb 20 & 21, by all fair standards were two days of hyperactivity at Ola. Let’s list down for you, what what multiple teams were upto in these two days.

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