As the fastest-growing car-sharing and car rental app in Australia, Drive mate continues to offer a more enjoyable and profitable experience to both car owners and renters. As we keep striving to make the journey hassle-free for our customers, they, in turn, continue to support us in our journey through their feedback, reviews, recommendations, and suggestions.
Thanks to the inputs from hundreds of customers like you, we are happy to present Drive mate app 2.0. After months and months of our developers working together to enhance the Drive mate app experience, we are bringing you a range of brand-new upgrades. The new upgrades will offer an even better and more intuitive experience for both our hosts and guests.
Here’s a comprehensive list of Drive mate app updates in 2022.
WHAT’S NEW FOR GUESTS
A new interface
Drive mate App 2.0 introduces a new intuitive interface. It makes your search for hourly, daily, or monthly car rentals simpler and quicker. Once you choose a car, the new interface allows a seamless and intuitive journey during your entire trip.
WHAT’S NEW FOR HOSTS
A personalised dashboard
The actions that you need to take as a host are now at your fingertips. Keep track of the ongoing trips, and booking requests and respond to inquiries through an easy-to-use, personalized dashboard.
Convert your car’s garage time into cash with the free, comprehensively protected and absolutely secure listing. After a quick and simple listing process, you can start sharing the car with your peers, who are looking to rent a car. With Drive mate app, you have complete control over the usage of your car.
Manage your rentals from one place
The new app update provides an improved experience for managing your car rentals, as you can do it all from one place.
Updated inbox
The inbox, where you can send and receive messages from guests, has been updated. Now it comes with helpful filters so that you can always stay on top of your rentals. Managing communication is now more seamless and better than ever.
Car location visibility
Want to know the location of your car when it’s not on any active trips? All you have to do is open the new Drive mate app and check your car’s location.
In-app car locking and unlocking
Drive mate app now offers an innovative and secure keyless access technology, super-convenient for both hosts and guests. Hosts can remotely lock and unlock the car with a simple touch of a button, while guests do not have to wait for hosts to hand over the car keys.
Guests can access the car from their smartphone when they reach the scheduled car pick-up location. In addition, it completely eliminates the hassle of keeping track of the keys in the entire car-sharing and car rental experience.
Blocking car rental during specific hours
Your car is, first and foremost, your car. You have its complete ownership when you need it for yourself. The new Drive mate app update enables you to block a few hours in a day when you need your car. It prevents the listing of your car for rental during your specified time.
Improved calendar management
It doesn’t need to be a hassle to earn a few extra bucks by renting out your car during its garage time. Drive mate continues to make your experience as a host simple and less time-consuming. The new and improved calendar management provides you with hourly blocking and weekly schedule options.
HERE’S A REASON TO BE HAPPIER!
Since you have been reading till here, we are guessing that you may be interested in making the most out of your Drive mate experience as a host. So allow us to tell you more about one of the most prominent features we are introducing with the Drive mate app 2.0.
The industry-first innovation Drive mate Go offers you more earnings, convenience and security, all with a simple one-time installation process.
What is Drive mate Go
To answer in short, it’s an industry-first innovation - All set to change the way we share and rent cars across Australia. Every time you share your car with guests, you must hand them over the car keys. Besides, you also need to rely on them to take care of your car keys. Guests have to wait for hosts to get the keys and also need to return them after the trip.
Now here comes Drive mate Go. It completely eliminates this hassle, enabling you to lock and unlock your car right from your app, wherever you are.
Secure technology for remote access to your car
Drive mate Go is a highly advanced technology that provides remote access to your car. It is designed to be completely safe and minimizes all possible risk factors.
With Drive mate Go, both hosts and guests are able to eliminate the car keys from the entire car sharing and rental process, making it easier at both ends. With such a hassle-free experience, guests give a higher preference to Drive mate Go cars. For hosts, it means more earnings and more convenience.
Getting Drive mate Go is as easy as 1-2-3
Hosts need to go through a simple one-time process to get Drive mate Go installed in their car.
Get the Drive mate GoTM device installed in your car.
Download and open the Drive mate app on your smartphone.
Try locking and unlocking the car using the new Drive mate app.
Voila! That’s it. Now you are all set to share access to your car with your guests, safely and conveniently, from wherever you are.
Simple and quick installation
After you contact our support team, you can schedule a time and get the device installed in just one hour. There are no modifications to your car’s electrical components. No impact on the car’s regular operations.
As there are no physical alterations in your car, the installation does not affect the car warranty in any way. Moreover, the installation is completely reversible if you wish to remove it in the future.
Free for two months.
Guaranteed returns on monthly subscription third month onwards.
Drive mate GoTM installation is complimentary at present. There are no charges during the trial period for the first two months.
Following the trial, there is a monthly subscription fee of $30, along with a reimbursement guarantee. If you don’t earn 2x guaranteed returns, that is $60 per month with Drive mate GoTM, we reimburse the balance amount to you.
NOW THERE ARE MORE REASONS TO GO DRIVE MATE
When you share your car with Drive mate, you are likely to earn 20% more as compared to similar car-sharing and car rental platforms in Australia. Try our earnings estimation tool here.
We provide a hassle-free car-sharing experience with comprehensive insurance coverage by locally operated players. All Drive mate guests are verified on the strict eligibility criteria. The newly introduced advanced proprietary technology allows keyless access, tracking, and immobilization.
All in all, Drive mate hosts have an excellent way to build a passive income source through unused hours of their car. On the other side, guests enjoy a more affordable car rental experience Australia-wide. A win-win on all sides. So get going. Go Drive mate.
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