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QuickTicket: Re-imagine travel in Africa.

A new approach for interurban public transport in Africa. Help us simplify travel for commuters and travel companies, impacting thousands of daily movement.

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QuickTicket: Re-imagine travel in Africa.

QuickTicket: Re-imagine travel in Africa.

QuickTicket: Re-imagine travel in Africa.

QuickTicket: Re-imagine travel in Africa.

QuickTicket: Re-imagine travel in Africa.

A new approach for interurban public transport in Africa. Help us simplify travel for commuters and travel companies, impacting thousands of daily movement.

A new approach for interurban public transport in Africa. Help us simplify travel for commuters and travel companies, impacting thousands of daily movement.

A new approach for interurban public transport in Africa. Help us simplify travel for commuters and travel companies, impacting thousands of daily movement.

A new approach for interurban public transport in Africa. Help us simplify travel for commuters and travel companies, impacting thousands of daily movement.

Acha Nelson
Acha Nelson
Acha Nelson
Acha Nelson
1 Campaign |
Buea, Cameroon
$15 USD 1 backers
0% of $14,880 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal

Welcome to QuickTicket!

Inspired by the relative difficulty encountered in purchasing and making ticket related arrangements in many parts of Africa, and complemented by our search for innovation in solutions to our everyday problems, we developed QuickTicket. 

Thanks for stopping by. - Absalom and Nelson.


Introduction

QuickTicket, is a web-based platform that will serve both travelers and travel agencies, providing a real time connection between these by allowing users to:

·  Check bus schedules,

·  Reserve or purchase tickets,

·  Preview each bus plan and choose favorable seats,

·  Monitor the status of buses they book for,

·  and check for parcel deliveries, all online.

·  They will also receive bus status updates and information about their parcel deliveries     via SMS.

QuickTicket also aims to provide administrative, accounting and data analysis services to bus companies for inter-agency co-ordination and better management. 

We hereby create the very pertinent, but at the moment, non-existing link between commuters who are far from, and travel agencies, as they can now communicate with one another especially from afar, through the services listed above.


The Impact

There are currently 18 bus companies in Cameroon, with branches in multiple towns around the country. Bus travel is the major means of transport used in Cameroon, with over 90% of the population employing this means of transport according to our market research.

Public

Every commuter, regardless of if they wish to reserve a ticket and travel at a later date or on the same day, has to be present at the agency concerned to purchase their ticket. This is often very inconvenient as it may require that they spend a lot of money to travel many kilometers, usually through congested towns, to achieve this. Often, they go through all of this effort only to realize that their agency of choice is over-booked. They are also usually not certain when their bus is leaving and therefore have to spend hours at the agency waiting, otherwise they risk missing the bus.

Agencies

At the moment, most branches of various bus companies are separated and hence do not function as a single unit. This allows for inconsistencies and lapses in the management of these branches. Record keeping, accounting and data analysis is therefore a major issue that each bus agency encounters. This is compounded by the increasing number of travel companies and their agencies that are usually operating in the same areas usually with branches in multiple towns around the country. 

QuickTicket offers a solution to wipe out these inconveniences, save money and provide a channel through which commuters can have a real-time connection with these agencies. They can make the necessary reservations from anywhere online and receive SMS alerts notifying them of the status of their scheduled bus and its departure time.


We are working in collaboaration with some of these travel companies to create a most adequate platform both for them and their potential clients. We are also registered at a technology incubator, www.activspaces.com


What We Need

Start-up requirements

Start-up Expenses

Office rents(1 year)

$1080

Tables/Chairs(3 tables, 3 chairs)

$100

Internet and Utilities(Bills)

$800

Computer (1)

$100

Marketing( Banners/flyers - $900, Television, radio and newspaper adverts - $900, social media publicity -$20)

$2000

Stationery

$100

Operating Cost (Transport and communication costs)

$200

Salaries(4 permanent staff and 4 temporary staff)

$8000

 License/Registration 

 $1000

Development and testing of product

$1000

Total Start-up Expenses

$14,449

Start-up Assets

SMS credit purchase

$500

Total Assets

$500

Total Requirements

$14,880

How You Can Help

Please, select one of the perks from the right column of the page.

Other Ways You Can Help

Visit our website www.quickticket.co, like our facebook page, www.facebook.com/getquickticket, follow us on twitter @getquickticket and, support us on www.vc4africa.biz/quickticket. follow us on www.angel.co/quickticket and share any of our pages with your friends and contacts to spread the word.

Please feel free to contact us directly too.

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Choose your Perk

Starter

$15 USD
Get a thank you message on our Facebook or Twitter page.
Estimated Shipping
November 2013
0 out of 20 of claimed

Supporter

$30 USD
You get a free travel ticket for any agency of your choice, to travel within Cameroon.
Estimated Shipping
October 2013
0 out of 20 of claimed

VIP

$100 USD
You get 3 free travel tickets for any agency of your choice, to travel within Cameroon.
Estimated Shipping
November 2013
0 out of 100 of claimed

Mentor

$500 USD
You get 5 free travel tickets for any agency in Cameroon, and you are enlisted as a sponsor of the project. Your logo would be printed on the QuickTicket campaign t-shirts if you wish and you will be sent one signed by the team.
Estimated Shipping
November 2013
0 out of 40 of claimed

Sponsor

$800 USD
You get 5 free travel tickets and are enlisted as one of our sponsors. Also, 5 natives in Cameroon will get a 50% discounts to buy an ecofriendly solar lantern each. One of their carbon emitting kerosene lanterns would be collected and mailed to you along with a QuickTicket t-shirt signed by the team. Your logo would be printed on the QuickTicket campaign t-shirts if you wish and you will be sent one signed by the team.
Estimated Shipping
November 2013
0 out of 10 of claimed

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