What are the Much-Needed Features in the Bike Rental App?

Saadhika Devi
Radical Start
Published in
3 min readAug 3, 2020

When customers use the bike rental app to book a rental, certain features help in engaging more users to the marketplace.

A bike rental app bridges the gap between the end customers and bike owners. Users stick to your app if it effectively helps them in finding the right

This blog helps to identify important features to give a fulfilling user experience.

Main Participants in the bike rental app

The bike rental app has three main user groups: Admin, bike owners, and bike renters.

Admin of the bike rental site

They are the owners of the marketplace. They bring together the bike owners and renters in their platform to provide easy renting experience to both the parties.

Bike owners

They are the bike owners who sign into the platform to make a small amount of cash by renting out their property for letting other people use it.

Bike renters

People who need a bike, rent the bike from the owners by booking the property on the platform.

Main Features needed for each user group

Let’s separate the group and find the top 3 features each user group interacts in their app.

Guest

The main process of the guest is booking and paying the service. The main feature customer expects from the app is:

1.Payment Gateway

To pay without any hassle, payment gateways like PayPal and Stripe benefit end-users. Both the payment gateway is widely used around the globe and has the reputation of giving a secure payment. Users don’t have to keep the change in hand while renting it.

2. WishList

Users want to favorite a listing for future reference and share it with their social circle. The wishlist helps in bookmarking their listing and for the quick booking process without taking ample time in searching through the filters.

3. Tab to know promo codes

If the marketplace platform announces any new offers or gives a promo code, a separate tag helps in identifying new offers.

4. Reviews

Reviews are necessary for getting honest feedback from guests to know their rental booking experience and their interactions with the Host.

Host

The main goal of the Host is to list their bike for rental and find a suitable renter. The core features necessary to make them Host stay longer are:

1. Seamless ‘Becoming a Host’ process

The car owners should feel at ease in entering all the details to list a property.

2. Seasonal pricing for Host

To set different prices for the listing at different dates, Host can change the price and earn profit by selecting the dates and setting a special price.

This helps in earning profits as well as managing your pricing comparing to your competitors.

3. iCal Integration

iCal helps the Host in keeping in update with booking dates at different platforms and calendar by syncing the booking details throughout the iCal. So, wherever the Host goes and through any device they use, they can check their booking information through iCal.

Admin

The admin is the owner of the platform. They have a 360-degree view of the overall functioning of the bike rental business and manage all the operations. Features admin like to have on their platform is:

1.Sub-Admin setup

To uplift the admin burden, they can assign a sub-admin in the marketplace and alongside assigning responsibilities. The sub-admin has their separate login id and password and has their own dashboard which is assigned by the Admin.

2.Edit Reviews

Admin can delete unwanted or false reviews from their marketplace platform, to eliminate the fake reviews.

3.Ban Users

Sometimes you need to ban a few users as they never maintained the integrity in renting a service. Worry not! We have a ban user feature to eliminate users from the platform.

Admin has access to ban any users who are a fraud or does any malpractice inside the marketplace.

These are the most common and much-needed features of your marketplace. If you are an entrepreneur reading this, you can check out RentALL — Airbnb Clone for building a customized technical solution for your business.

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