Society Rides
Getting Started
You've joined your society. Here's everything you need to know to make the most of it.
You've joined your society. Here's everything you need to know to make the most of it.
Tap Search Ride in the bottom navigation bar. You'll search by destination, date, time, and how many seats you need.
Tap the To field — map opens with your society in the center. You can type your search destination or indicate exactly on map. Set your date, time, and number of seats needed.
The search also lets you set a destination distance tolerance — so a ride going within 2km of your stop will still appear. You can filter for female drivers only, Gold tier drivers only, or cars only.
Each result card shows the driver's name, photo, vehicle, route, seats available, departure time, and whether a fuel contribution is expected. Tap Request Seat to ask for a seat, or Details to see the full ride information and driver profile first.
If a search finds nothing, don't close the app and forget. Tap Create a Ride Alert at the top of the Search screen. If a matching ride gets posted later — even the next day — you'll be notified automatically. Alerts applicable for rides upto 3 days ahead.
Society Rides is not just for daily commutes. Any journey a resident makes — or returns from — can be shared with neighbours who need exactly that route.
Every ride on the platform falls into one of three types. Understanding these helps you both find and post rides more effectively — and opens up use cases well beyond the morning commute.
Any journey that starts at your society and goes anywhere — to work, to the market, to the airport, to a hospital, to a family gathering across town. Post your route and any neighbour who needs a seat along the way can request one.
Journeys that end at your society — coming back from the airport, from the city in the evening, from a hospital visit. Post that you're heading home and bring a neighbour along who needs the same return trip.
Any journey a resident makes anywhere — from one part of the city to another, from an office to a meeting, from a hospital to a market — regardless of whether it starts or ends at the society. These rides also appear on the home screen for any neighbour who needs exactly that route at that moment.
If you're driving somewhere, post your ride and let neighbours come along. Tap Post Ride in the bottom bar.
For outward rides, your starting point defaults to your society. For point-to-point rides — journeys that don't begin or end at the society — you can set any starting location. Choose your destination by typing or picking on the map. Set the date, time, and available seats. The app then fetches route options from Google Maps — pick the route you'll actually take. This matters: the system matches ride seekers to points along your chosen route.
Commuting the same route regularly? Tick Repeat this ride (14 days) and it posts automatically for a fortnight. You can choose Mon-Fri or specific days of week. Tick Ask me to confirm 24 hours before and you'll get a reminder — useful if your plans sometimes change.
Return rides are not posted from the Post Ride screen. They are managed from Profile → My Posted Rides, which shows all your currently active rides — including rides up to 6 hours past their departure time.
On any active outward ride card, you have two options: Mark Complete, which moves it immediately to Trip History, or Return Ride. Tapping Return Ride works in two stages. The first tap registers your intention privately — no commitment, no time given, nothing visible to other members yet. This keeps the return ride protected from the system cleanup that runs 6 hours after departure.
When you are actually ready to head back, you tap again to confirm — specifying your assembly point. Only at this point does the return ride become real: riders from your original outward journey are notified, and the ride appears on the Home tab for other society members who can then request a seat. The confirmation window stays open for up to 18 hours from the original departure time — enough for a full working day in any city. If you never confirm, no ride is posted and no one is inconvenienced.
This design was deliberate: a driver should never feel obligated to commit to a return time before he knows when he is leaving. Confirm only when you are ready to go.
You need at least one vehicle added before you can post a ride. Go to Profile → My Vehicles → Add Vehicle.
Enter your vehicle type, model, colour, registration number, and available seats. The insurance section asks for your policy expiry date and whether it's Third Party or Comprehensive. This information is shown to ride seekers — comprehensive cover (passengers covered ✅) makes your ride more appealing to safety-conscious neighbours.
Your standing in the community is tracked through karma points and a tier system. This is how trust is built — and how you unlock more of the app.
The Profile tab shows your karma score, your current tier, and your riding statistics — separately as a driver and as a rider. Both are rated independently over five parameters each after every ride.
Your tier rises as your karma grows and your ride and review history builds up. Drivers with Gold tier get more ride requests — riders are more confident in high-tier drivers. Some drivers restrict their rides to Gold tier members only.
Found in Profile → Emergency SOS. Requires GPS to be active. When triggered, it records audio, captures your GPS coordinates, and sends notifications to nearby society members. Use only in a genuine emergency.
The Quick Actions menu in your Profile tab gives you access to all major features in one place — your posted rides, bookings, vehicle list, trip history, ratings, notifications, settings, help, and your society's member directory.