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.
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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.
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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
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Start-up requirements
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Start-up Expenses
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Office rents(1 year)
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$1080
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Tables/Chairs(3
tables, 3 chairs)
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$100
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Internet and
Utilities(Bills)
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$800
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Computer (1)
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$100
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Marketing(
Banners/flyers - $900, Television, radio and newspaper adverts - $900, social
media publicity -$20)
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$2000
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Stationery
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$100
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Operating Cost
(Transport and communication costs)
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$200
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Salaries(4 permanent
staff and 4 temporary staff)
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$8000
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License/Registration
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$1000
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Development and
testing of product
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$1000
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Total Start-up
Expenses
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$14,449
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Start-up Assets
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SMS credit purchase
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$500
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Total Assets
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$500
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Total Requirements
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$14,880
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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.
