Say what you need
A cylinder, a shopping list, a leaking pipe. We remember it, so the next time is two taps.
Lagos · Accra · Nairobi · Dar es Salaam · Kampala
Gas finished?A full one, at your gate.
Safety-checked, the empty carried away, and a rider you watch the whole way. Then water, groceries, food, salon and repairs — same app, same rider, one delivery fee.
How it worksPatride, Patride Vendor and Patride Rider — on iOS and Android
Chat to order
Say what you need. That is the order.
No searching, no basket, no six taps to find the size you always buy. Type it the way you would say it to the shop on your street — “13kg refill and a crate of eggs” — and Patride works out who has it, what it costs today, and how soon it can reach your gate.
- It understands the brands and sizes people actually ask for.
- You see the price before anything is confirmed.
- Change your mind in the same thread — it is a conversation.
Order
What you need, at the price the shop charges
Cooking gas first, because it runs out at the worst possible moment. Then water, groceries, food and the plumber who never picks up. One app, one rider, one delivery fee.
- The shop’s own price, by size and brand, before you confirm.
- Your gate, described the way you would describe it to a driver.
- Pay in the app, and the empty cylinder goes back with the rider.
The rider
Jobs are offered, not assigned
A delivery goes onto a board with what it pays already on the card. The rider reads the area and the money, and decides. Nothing is pushed onto anybody, and nobody finds out what a run was worth after riding it.
- One job at a time, with the stage it has reached across the top.
- The shop and the customer are both one tap away — what saves a delivery is usually a phone call.
The handover
It is not delivered until you read out the number
Your app shows four digits. The rider types them in at your gate, and the job cannot be closed without them — so “delivered” means somebody actually put it in your hands, not that a photograph was taken of a doorstep while you were out.
A photograph and a signature do the same job where a code will not work — a delivery to a locked reception, a customer whose phone has died.
For shops
Take orders on the phone already behind your counter
An order arrives, you accept it with one tap, and a rider comes for it. No listing fee, no monthly charge, and every naira you are owed is itemised by order.
A person reviews your shop before customers can see it — slower than a sign-up form, and the reason a customer trusts a name they have never heard of.
Everything the house runs on
One app, one rider, one delivery fee — at the prices the shops and tradespeople on your own street already charge.
Gas refill Groceries Plumbing Electrical Cleaning Laundry Carpentry Appliance repair Painting Errands Water delivery Gardening Restaurant food Hair stylist Nails Barber Make-up Bakery
Three steps, whatever you asked for
Someone nearby takes it
A vendor on your street, a rider on your road, a tradesman your neighbours have already rated. You see the price before anyone sets off.
It arrives, and so does the receipt
Watch them come on the map. Pay in the app before they set off, and the empty cylinder goes back with them.
Five markets, each on its own terms
Prices, payment rails and languages are set per market, by the people who run it. What works in Kampala is not what works in Lagos, and pretending otherwise is how a platform becomes useless in four countries to be convenient in one.