lalamove, the leading professional on-demand delivery service throughout Asia, has added new features to its mobile and web application to handle increased delivery demand in Bangkok during the upcoming holiday season.
"The holiday season is a busy time for gift-giving and many companies struggle with ensuring that their gifts are delivered on time and handled with care – which are two areas that lalamove has extensive experience with" said Santit Jirawongkraisorn, Co-founder and managing Director of lalamove Thailand.
"We have added more bikes, MPVs and pick-up trucks to ensure timely deliveries during the busy holiday season. We have also introduced the "route optimization" feature, which saves clients time in having to plan the routing.
"With this feature, clients just have to type in the addresses where the gifts need to delivered and within minutes, the app with automatically schedule the quickest and shortest route. This is most practical especially when companies are looking at delivering corporate gifts or perishable goods like food hampers and festive cookies to their clients," added Santit.
Hiring freelance couriers or motorcycle taxis can be tiresome and sometimes unreliable, but thanks to lalamove, clients now have a delivery service which is fast, cost-effective, transparent and professional.
lalamove allows personal users and businesses to quickly find a professional driver anytime of the day to help move their goods with a few clicks on their smartphone. By typing the vehicle type, location, destination, the weight of the physical goods, and other information and special instructions via the app, users will be notified within minutes if a driver is available.
In addition to the driver verification feature, lalamove also has a driver rating system, a GPS tracking which allows full transparency on the route, on-demand booking and an insurance protection of up to Baht 2000 for each delivery, ensuring that delivery via lalamove is both easy and safe. It is also the only delivery app offering 24/7 service and advance booking.
In September, lalamove secured an investment of USD 10 million led by Mindworks Ventures as well as AppWorks, Crystal Stream and individual investors. lalamove is preparing for the advanced stages of its expansion -- adding 50 cities throughout Asia to the company's delivery network by the end of 2016.
The number of registered users regionally has grown to 435,000 while over 23,000 drivers have been registered. The app has been downloaded more than half a million times in the past year.
In Thailand, the number of download is currently 27,000 with over 1,600 drivers registered drivers.
During November 1st- 30th, lalamove is offering Baht 100 discount for first-time users who type in "lalaholiday" in the promo code area. This offer is valid for the first 100 orders only.