Fast and reliable parcel deliveries just a few clicks away with lalamove

Santit Jirawongkraisorn, co-founder and managing director of lalamove Thailand, said the holiday season was a busy time for gift-giving and many companies struggled with ensuring that their gifts were delivered on time and handled with care – two areas with which lalamove has extensive experience.

“We have added more bikes, MPVs and pick-up trucks to ensure timely deliveries during the busy holiday season. We have also introduced the “route optimisation” feature, which saves clients time in having to plan the routing,” said Sanit.

With this feature, clients need only to type in the addresses where gifts are to be delivered and within minutes, the app has automatically scheduled the quickest and shortest route. This is most practical, especially when companies are looking at delivering corporate gifts or perishable goods like food hampers and festive cookies to their clients.

Hiring freelance couriers or motorcycle taxis can be tiresome and sometimes unreliable, but thanks to lalamove, clients now have a delivery service that is fast, cost-effective, transparent and professional.

The service allows personal users and businesses to quickly find a professional driver at anytime to help move their goods with a few clicks on their smartphone. Typing in the vehicle type, location, destination, the weight of the physical goods, and other information and special instructions via the app, users will be notified within minutes if a driver is available.

In addition to the driver verification feature, lalamove also has a driver rating system, a GPS tracking that allows full transparency on the route, on-demand booking and an insurance protection of up to Bt2,000 for each delivery, ensuring that delivery via lalamove is both easy and safe. It is also the only delivery app offering 24/7 service and advance booking.

In September, lalamove secured an investment of US$10 million (Bt358 million) led by Mindworks Ventures as well as AppWorks, Crystal Stream and individual investors. It is preparing for the advanced stages of its expansion – adding 50 cities throughout Asia to the company’s delivery network by the end of 2016.

The number of registered users regionally has grown to 435,000 while over 23,000 drivers have been registered. The app has been downloaded more than half a million times in the past year.

In Thailand, the number of downloads is currently 27,000 with over 1,600 registered drivers.

During November, lalamove is offering a Bt100 discount for first-time users who type in “lalaholiday” in the promo code area. This offer is valid for the first 100 orders only.