The ride-hailing industry hasn't been flat lately!
Recently, Suzhou, Jiangsu, Qingdao, Shandong and other places have successively issued announcements, Suzhou City announced that it will cancel the business licenses of five local online car-hailing platforms, which are Rose Travel, Sweet Potato Travel, Boyo Travel, Shaanxi Water Travel, and Henghao Ride.
Qingdao announced a notice on the list of companies to be transferred for revocation (cancellation) of online ride-hailing platforms (the first batch), in which the licenses of five local ride-hailing platforms will be revoked.
Prior to this, other cities have announced the list of platforms to be cancelled. In the list, a list of local platforms that have not been operating for a long time after obtaining a license has been announced. As more and more cities begin to pay attention to these online ride-hailing platforms that have been slow to carry out business after obtaining licenses, the era of those who were able to increase the valuation of enterprises by obtaining licenses has come to an end.
For those platforms that used to win or lose based on the number of cards taken, the inflection point of the industry in 2024 may be a new reshuffle. For the online car-hailing market in 2024, it may be difficult for small platforms with weak financial strength to survive under the sweep of low prices, small orders and small cities.
These small platforms that used to be parasitic on the aggregation platform and can get very moisturized by relying on the order flow on the aggregation platform after taking the cards, I am afraid that they are also feeling the chill under the sweep of low prices.
The freight rate level of the online car-hailing industry continues to decline, and for the aggregation platform with multiple parties involved in the distribution of benefits, the situation this year has become more and more difficult, the map software has to be drawn, the SaaS platform has also been drawn, and the cost of franchisees and car captains is also rising, after deducting invoicing taxes and fees, the profits left to these small platforms have been minimal.
Therefore, in 2024, small online car-hailing platforms will usher in a new round of bankruptcy, and some media have recently reported that some small platforms have been delayed in withdrawing money, and this situation has become more frequent this year.
In 2024, the business of online car-hailing platforms will not be good, and the safety of drivers' funds also needs to be guaranteed in a timely manner.
The inflection point of the online car-hailing industry in 2024 has arrived, and a new round of reshuffle is kicking off.