UberEvents is coming out of beta and going national. The service, which kicked off in New York City at the end of September and then expanded to five other cities, allows event planners and hotels to offer pre-paid rides to their guests.
“This is the first time we’re launching anything that allows people to pay for others in a time bound way through codes,” says Max Crowley, Uber for Business Lead. “We’re also allowing people to put some restrictions around these codes—making it good for one use or a certain number of uses, capping the spend per ride, or setting a geofence to limit where someone can go.”
For hotels, this means securing ride passes ahead of an occasion and emailing them out as a dedicated promotional code to guests with a set limit to how many guests can use the code.
