Gojek Starts Car-Hailing and E-payments Services in Vietnam 

Vietnamese customers can currently use Gojek only to hail motorbike rides, order food, and ship parcels. But very soon they will be able to request for car rides and pay digitally very.

Ride sharing giant Gojek starts car-hailing and e-payments to its operations in Vietnam. These services will increase Indonesian startup’s battle Gojek’s rival Singaporean “Grab” and Vietnam’s Be Group.

As the battle for gaining more customers rages across Southeast Asia, Vietnam’s market is loading with high competition. Under new regulations and Law enacted by the vietnameese government in 2020, it lets the ride-hailing companies expand to key cities and operate nationwide.

There are other platforms like FastGo, Aber and inDriver also run ride-hailing apps in Vietnam, while the biggest domestic player is “Be”.

Basically, with car-hailing and e-payments, Gojek is going add new services on their platform that are already offered by Grab and Vietnam’s Be Group. All these three startups are started with ride-hailing and expanded into other services, such as delivery and bill payments.

Vietnam, one of the world’s biggest motorbike markets, would join Indonesia and Singapore as countries where car-hailing is available through Gojek, whose business also includes payments in the Philippines and delivery and motorbike-hailing in Thailand.

SoftBank, Uber and Didi have invested in Grab; while Facebook, Tencent and Google back Gojek.