Corporations.
In-house travel programmes. Policy applied at booking, duty-of-care tracking and one coded invoice.
For corporationsStrategic partnerships
Put chauffeur transport in 1,200 cities inside your own booking flow, your own brand and your own loyalty currency.
Ground transport is the last unsolved leg in most travel products because covering it properly means contracting a licensed operator in every city. That work is already done. You integrate once.
Revenue share on every completed ride, or net rates you price yourself. Either way it is incremental revenue on a journey your customer is already taking, usually with somebody else.
Your brand, your checkout, your loyalty currency, your relationship. We do not market to customers who reach us through a partner, and that is a contractual term rather than an assurance.
A ground transport partnership lets a company offer chauffeured transfers to its own customers as part of its own product, using RYDES supply, pricing and operations underneath. The partner controls the customer experience, the branding and usually the price; RYDES fulfils the ride through licensed local operators in 1,200 cities.
It is distinct from a business account, where an organisation books ground transport for its own staff or guests. A partnership is a distribution arrangement: the rides are sold onward to the partner's customers, integrated into the partner's booking flow, and settled through a commercial agreement covering revenue share, data and service levels.
If you operate vehicles and want to receive bookings from RYDES rather than send them, you are looking for the supply side. That is Drive with RYDES, where licensed chauffeur companies apply to join the network.
Ordered roughly by how long they take to launch. Most partners start at the top of this list and move down it once the volume justifies the engineering.
| Model | What the customer sees | You control | Time to launch |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deep linkThe starting point | A branded RYDES page reached from your product | Placement and the offer | Days |
| Referral and affiliate | A tracked link, attributed to you | Where and when it appears | Days |
| White label | A booking flow in your brand, hosted by us | Branding, pricing, content | Two to four weeks |
| Embedded API | Nothing of ours at all; your own interface | The entire experience and the price | Four to eight weeks |
| Loyalty earn and burn | Points earned on rides, or rides paid for in points | Earn rate, redemption rate, eligibility | Six to twelve weeks |
| Bundled benefit | Transfers included with a fare class, tier or card | Who qualifies and for how much | By agreement |
A deep link can be live this week and will tell you whether your customers want the product at all. We would rather you learn that cheaply than commission an integration on a hypothesis.

You sell the flight, the room, the rail ticket or the card. Then the customer walks out of a terminal at eleven at night and solves the last forty minutes themselves, badly, with somebody you have no relationship with.
That leg is bought on almost every trip and sold inside almost no travel product, because covering it properly requires licensed operators in every city rather than a software integration. The supply problem is the barrier, and it is the part that is already finished.
Anyone whose customer is about to make a journey they have not booked a car for.
| Partner | The opportunity | Usually starts as |
|---|---|---|
| Airlines | Ancillary revenue on a leg every passenger takes, plus a premium-cabin benefit | Deep link, then embedded API |
| Online travel platforms | Attach rate on a product you already have the intent data for | Embedded API |
| Rail operators | First and last mile either side of the train | White label |
| Cruise lines | Home-to-port transfers, sold at booking rather than at the quayside | White label or embedded API |
| Card issuers and private banks | A tier benefit that is used rather than admired | Bundled benefit |
| Loyalty programmes | A redemption that costs less than a seat and feels like more | Earn and burn |
| Hotel groups | Consistent guest transport across properties in different countries | Group agreement, see hotels |
| Corporate travel platforms | Ground alongside air and hotel inside your own tool | Embedded API |
| Private aviation and FBOs | The one part of a private itinerary still left to chance | Deep link or white label |
Everything the booking flow on this site does, and a few things it does not need to.
Firm pricing for any route in any covered city, by vehicle class, with the components broken out so you can display or repackage them however your product requires.
Which classes are genuinely available for that city, date and time, so you never show a customer an option that cannot be fulfilled.
Create, modify and cancel, including passenger details, flight numbers, add-ons and special requirements, with the cancellation window returned on the booking.
Chauffeur assigned, en route, arrived, passenger on board, completed, plus flight status changes. Pushed to you rather than polled, so your own notifications can be yours.
Live vehicle position and status for the journeys you are entitled to see, presentable inside your own app rather than through a link to ours.
Completed rides, fares, add-ons, cancellations and revenue share, in a machine-readable form that matches the statement your finance team receives.
A full test environment with deterministic scenarios, including the awkward ones: delayed flights, cancellations, no-shows and waiting overruns.
Reference documentation, a named technical contact during integration, and a shared channel rather than a ticket queue while you are building.
Worth being explicit early. Most partnerships that fail do so because one side assumed the other was handling something.
| RYDES provides | You provide | |
|---|---|---|
| Supply | Licensed operators, vetted chauffeurs, vehicles in 1,200 cities | Nothing |
| Pricing | Net or retail rates, and the quoting engine | The price your customer sees, on net rate models |
| The interface | API, white label or a branded page | Your own front end on embedded models |
| Fulfilment | Dispatch, chauffeur assignment, flight tracking, the ride itself | Nothing |
| Customer support | 24-hour dispatch for the ride, in your name if you prefer | First line, if you would rather own it |
| Marketing | Assets, copy and imagery for your channels | Placement, traffic and the customer relationship |
| Data | Ride data back to you; no marketing to your customers | The customer consent your own terms require |
| Settlement | Statements, revenue share and reconciliation files | A finance contact who reads them |
Six stages. The pilot market matters more than any of the others, because it is where you find out whether the product sells.
Where your customers travel, what you already know about their trips, and which of the six models actually fits your product. An hour, and it usually rules out four of them.
Revenue share or net rates, territory, data terms, service levels and who fronts customer support. Short-form agreement rather than a treaty.
Credentials the same week the agreement is signed. Deterministic test scenarios including delays, cancellations and waiting overruns, so you build against the hard cases first.
We review your implementation before it goes near a customer, particularly cancellation handling and how you present price and waiting terms. It protects both brands.
A single city or route pair, real customers, real money. Enough volume to read conversion and attach rate, small enough that nothing is at stake if the answer is no.
The pilot data decides. If it works, coverage opens across the markets you want. If it does not, we would both rather know after one city than after twenty.
Loyalty programmes have a supply problem at the low end. Members hold balances too small for a seat and too large to ignore, and the alternatives are magazines, luggage tags and gift cards nobody remembers.
A chauffeured airport transfer sits precisely in that gap. It costs the programme a fraction of a redemption seat, it is used on a day the member is already travelling, and it is remembered. Earn works the same way in reverse: points on ground spend that was previously invisible to you because it happened at a kerb.

To start a conversation, write to info@rydes.co or call +1 888 881 7933.
A ground transport partnership lets a company offer chauffeured transfers to its own customers as part of its own product, using RYDES supply, pricing and operations underneath. The partner controls the customer experience, the branding and usually the price, while RYDES fulfils the ride through licensed local operators in 1,200 cities. It differs from a business account, where an organisation books transport for its own staff or guests rather than selling it onward.
Six: a deep link to a branded page, a tracked referral or affiliate link, a white label booking flow in your brand hosted by us, a fully embedded API inside your own interface, loyalty earn and burn, and bundled benefits attached to a fare class, tier or card. Most partners start with a deep link and move to an embedded API once volume justifies the engineering.
Typically four to eight weeks for a standard embedded integration, and two to four for white label. A deep link can be live within days. Loyalty earn and burn typically takes six to twelve weeks because it involves your programme's own systems as well as ours. Sandbox credentials are issued the same week the agreement is signed.
You do. Customers who reach us through a partner are not added to our marketing, not sent promotional email, and not contacted after the ride for anything other than the ride itself. That is a contractual term rather than an assurance, because it is the first thing any serious partner asks and it should not rest on trust.
Either you take a share of each completed ride at retail pricing, or you buy at net rates and set your own price, keeping whatever margin you choose. Share is settled on a periodic statement with a machine-readable reconciliation file that matches it. Cancelled and no-show rides do not earn share, and equally are not charged to you. The rate is set out in your partnership agreement.
Yes, on white label and embedded models. Confirmations, notifications and travel documents can carry only your identity. The chauffeur arrives in business dress in an unbranded premium vehicle, so nothing about the ride itself contradicts your branding either.
Both. Earn attaches points to ground spend that was previously invisible to your programme because it happened at a kerb. Redemption lets members pay for a transfer in points, which is a genuinely useful low-tier redemption: it costs the programme far less than a seat, it is used on a day the member is already travelling, and it is remembered. Earn rates, redemption rates and eligibility are yours to set.
Quoting, availability, booking, amendment and cancellation, webhooks for chauffeur assignment and journey status, live tracking, and reconciliation. Fare components are broken out so you can display or repackage them as your product requires, and the cancellation window is returned on every booking.
Yes, a full test environment with deterministic scenarios covering the awkward cases: delayed and cancelled flights, no-shows, waiting overruns and failed payments. We would rather you build against those first than discover them with a customer in a car park.
Your choice. Our 24-hour dispatch can handle it directly, in your name if you prefer, with the outcome reported back to you. Or you can own first line and escalate to us, which some partners prefer where the ride is one part of a larger itinerary they are already supporting.
A periodic statement covering completed rides, fares, add-ons, cancellations and revenue share, with a matching machine-readable file so your finance team is not reconciling a PDF. Currency and period are agreed in the partnership agreement.
We receive the passenger details needed to deliver the ride and share them with the local operator only to the extent required to complete it. Ride data flows back to you. We do not market to your customers. Contractual data protection terms form part of the partnership agreement, alongside our published privacy policy.
We would strongly prefer it. One city or one route pair, real customers and real money, is enough to read conversion and attach rate while nothing is at stake. If the pilot works, coverage opens across the markets you want. If it does not, we would both rather find out after one city than after twenty.
Rarely, and never as an opening position. Category or market exclusivity can be discussed at meaningful committed volume, but it usually serves neither side: it constrains our coverage and it means you are carrying a commitment before you know whether the product converts. Prove it in one market first and the conversation becomes a real one.
Placement in your product, an idea of where your customers actually travel, a technical contact during integration and a finance contact who reads statements. On net rate models you also set the retail price. Beyond that, the supply, the fulfilment and the operations are ours.
No. If you run a licensed chauffeur company and want to receive bookings from RYDES rather than send them, you are looking for the supply side of the network. That is Drive with RYDES, where operators apply to join, keep their own brand and fleet, and take prepaid rides in their market.

Same platform, different relationship to the traveller.
In-house travel programmes. Policy applied at booking, duty-of-care tracking and one coded invoice.
For corporations
Book ground for your clients without becoming the supplier. Commission or net rates, and we do not market to them.
For travel agencies
The supply side. Licensed chauffeur companies keep their own brand and fleet and take prepaid rides in their market.
Become an operatorA deep link can be live this week and will tell you more than a business case ever will.