Shob Ticket: One Search for Every Bus Operator in Bangladesh
Shob Ticket (shobticket.com)
Overview
Shob Ticket is a ticketing marketplace for Bangladesh. Travellers can search and book intercity bus tickets, university admission-test bus tickets, event tickets and turf bookings on one platform. Chomotkar designed and built the platform from the first idea to launch, and keeps improving it.
The challenge
Tickets in Bangladesh are sold in many separate places. Every bus operator has its own site, seat map and payment page, event tickets are scattered across social media pages, and turf slots are often booked by phone call. Customers lose time comparing, and sellers, especially small ones, struggle to reach online customers.
Admission-test season made it harder. Thousands of students travel to the same cities on the same few days, and they need seats, clear schedules and tickets they can trust.
Goals
- Give customers one place to search, compare and book.
- Help bus operators, event organisers and turf owners sell online without building their own system.
- Make payment easy with the methods people already use.
- Build a base that can add new ticket types without a rebuild.
Our solution
Bus tickets
One search by route, date and passengers. Customers compare operators by departure time, fare and bus type, then book on the operator’s own seat map. Bookings stay in sync in real time.
Admission-test travel
A dedicated exam calendar and search option for university admission test travel, built for the peak days when many students need seats at once.
Event tickets
Organisers list events and customers buy tickets online, with instant e-tickets they can show on a phone or print.
Turf booking
Customers see turf availability and reserve a time slot online instead of calling around.
Local payments
bKash, Nagad, cards and bank payments, so customers can pay the way they already do.
Partner onboarding
A partner sign-up page for operators and organisers, plus WhatsApp support for customers who need help.
How we worked
- Discover. We mapped how customers buy tickets today and where they get stuck.
- Design. We designed a mobile-first flow of search, compare, pay and e-ticket, with the fewest possible steps.
- Build. We developed the marketplace, the operator connections, the payment flow and the e-ticket pages.
- Launch & grow. We set up search-friendly pages and keep adding features as new ticket types are added.
The outcome
Shob Ticket gives customers one trusted place to book, and gives operators, organisers and turf owners a new online sales channel while they stay in control of their own business. Because the platform was built around ticket types rather than only buses, new categories can be added without starting again.