For dispatchers
The Welcome Pickups alternative for dispatchers
Welcome Pickups is great for a hotel that wants done-for-you transfers. But it brings its own drivers, and if your hotel adopts it, you lose the account. Odyrides is the dispatcher's way to give hotels that same modern experience while keeping your drivers, your guests, and your earnings.
Welcome Pickups is a marketplace: hotels get free, automated guest transfers and a revenue share, but Welcome Pickups supplies the drivers and owns the guest. For an independent dispatcher, that means being replaced. Odyrides is the opposite: software you run, so your hotels send their requests to you, and you keep the drivers, the guest relationship, and the earnings.
A marketplace vs your own operation
| Odyrides (your operation) | Welcome Pickups (marketplace) | |
|---|---|---|
| Who supplies the drivers | Your own drivers | Welcome Pickups' own vetted drivers |
| Who owns the guest | You | Welcome Pickups |
| Who keeps the earnings | You, the dispatcher | The hotel does, not you |
| Your role | You stay the principal: your hotels, drivers and earnings | Replaced: the marketplace handles the ride |
| Cost | From €0 for you; hotels submit requests free | Free to the hotel (the dispatcher is out of the loop) |
| Local accountability | You, on the ground | Marketplace support |
| Hotel booking experience | Hotels send requests to you; you dispatch | White-label guest booking + PMS integration |
Choose Odyrides if
You're an independent dispatcher who owns drivers and hotel relationships, and you want to keep them. Odyrides gives your hotels a clean way to send you transfers and gives drivers a simple app, so you stay in control instead of handing your accounts to a marketplace.
Welcome Pickups may fit a hotel if
A hotel has no dispatcher partner and wants free, zero-effort guest transfers with drivers, support and tech handled for them, and is comfortable letting a third party own the guest and supply the cars. That's a real fit for some hotels; it's just not a tool for the dispatcher who wants to keep the business.
Keep your hotels. Don't get replaced.
Give your hotels a modern booking experience, and keep the drivers, guests and earnings. Start free.
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