{"id":2070,"date":"2016-06-04T16:39:30","date_gmt":"2016-06-04T16:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/YourChennai.com\/?p=2070"},"modified":"2016-06-04T16:39:30","modified_gmt":"2016-06-04T16:39:30","slug":"meru-cabs-now-available-on-facebook-messenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/2016\/06\/04\/meru-cabs-now-available-on-facebook-messenger\/","title":{"rendered":"Meru Cabs now available on Facebook Messenger!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Social Media users can now book Meru cab rides via Facebook messenger<\/em><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meru Cabs, India\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s most preferred cab service, today announced the integration of their cab booking system with Facebook Messenger to provide automated cab booking facility. Meru\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s entire range of taxi services will now be accessible to Facebook users via Facebook Messenger and will allow them book cabs through key words, intelligent chat bot and conversational question- answers through the service called <strong>Meru Messenger Bot.<\/strong> With this new development Meru Cabs becomes the<strong>first<\/strong> cab services provider in the world to go live with implementing Facebook\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Bot services.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Adopting the latest technology, Meru aims to widen their customer base by providing convenient and seamless cab booking access to its users.\u00c2\u00a0 Facebook messenger users can simply search \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Meru Cabs\u00e2\u20ac\u009d on Facebook Messenger under \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcBots and Business\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 section and begin interaction. After the initial mobile number verification (one time), the user starts a normal chat with <strong>Meru Messenger Bot<\/strong> to book a cab. Once the location is shared on the chat box, the user is then directed to choosing sedan (Meru) or hatchback (MeruGenie) cab available for the trip with the ETA (Estimated Time of Arrival). Once confirmed, the Meru Messenger Bot responds on real time basis with the cab details along with the chuffer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s mobile number. The bot enables the user locate his\/her cab &amp; check the fare details.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Commenting on the technology implementation, <strong>Mr. Siddhartha Pahwa, Group CEO, Meru Cabs<\/strong> said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Simplifying our customer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lives and addressing all their requirements is our priority at Meru. With this new feature, the process of booking a cab has become as convenient as chatting with a friend on Facebook messenger. Now, Meru Cabs is available to 150 million Facebook messenger users to book cabs in India.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Commenting on the technology implementation<strong>, Mr. Nilesh Sangoi, CTO, Meru Cabs<\/strong> said,<em> \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We are very happy that our system was accepted by the Facebook Developer platform and instantly integrated in the Messenger. We will continue to adopt unique technology products to de-clutter our user\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lives, ensuring convenience &amp; accessibility of our services to them.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social Media users can now book Meru cab rides via Facebook messenger Meru Cabs, India\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s most preferred cab service, today announced the integration of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,30,95],"tags":[1023,2355,2353,2356,2354],"class_list":["post-2070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-companies-economy","category-news-business-political-national-realestate","category-technology-mobiles-startup","tag-facebook-messenger","tag-meru-cab-rides","tag-meru-cabs","tag-meru-messenger-bot","tag-social-media-users"],"views":1398,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/How-to-book-Meru-Cabs-on-Facebook-Messenger.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2072,"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2070\/revisions\/2072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}