About Fiafia Ride

Fiafia Ride is a taxi and services app made for Samoa and run by one small office in Apia. Riders and captains use the same app, on Android phones and iPhones.

Get The App Contact The Office

What The App Does

  • Taxis all over Upolu: Standard cars for up to 4 people and Larger cars for up to 6, around town, along the coast and to and from Faleolo Airport.
  • Hire Taxi: a taxi and its captain by the hour, for shopping, errands or a day of visits.
  • Taxi stands: book from a stand near your pickup. Its captains are asked first, at the same price.
  • Rent a car or a bike, rent a house, and buy or sell a car, from local businesses and people. You pay them directly.
  • Takeaway from restaurants and bakeries, collected at the counter, and laundry with a captain both ways.
  • Best Places: beaches, waterfalls and history on Upolu and Savai‘i, with entry fees and maps.

Not yet

  • Taxis on Savai‘i. Car rentals, places and the map already cover all of Samoa.
  • Mobile top-up and EPC Cash Power, once the agreements with the companies are signed.

A Pin, Not An Address

Most places in Samoa have no street address, and people give directions by village (nu‘u) and landmark. So the app never asks you to type an address. You move a pin, and the app names the spot after the nearest place, such as “Near Fugalei Market”.

Place names come from our own list of local places first, then from OpenStreetMap. Samoa’s map data is still thin in places, so the office adds and corrects names as riders and captains report them.

How Captains Join

  1. A driver applies in the app with their name, phone, car, plate and seats, plus photos of their driving licence, their car and themselves.
  2. The office meets every applicant in person and checks the original documents and the car.
  3. Only then can they take rides. Nobody can make themselves a captain.
  4. After every trip the rider can rate the captain, and the office reads the ratings.

Paying

  • Taxi rides are paid in cash to the captain. No card is needed.
  • You see one price before you book. The final fare is worked out on our server from the trip itself, never on a phone.
  • Rentals, houses and cars for sale are paid to the business or seller directly. The app takes no money for them.
  • Card and wallet payments come later: there is no card payment service for Samoa that we can use yet.

Your Data

  • We collect only what a ride or a booking needs.
  • Your captain sees your live location only until pickup.
  • Recorded trip routes and in-trip messages are deleted 30 days after the trip.
  • You can ask the office for a copy of your data, or delete your account in the app.

The full details are in our Privacy Policy.

Still Being Built

  • Fiafia Ride is a working name and may change before the app is in the stores.
  • The app is in testing on Android and iPhone. This site will show the store links once you can download it.
  • A Samoan language option is ready in the app and on this site. It stays switched off until a native speaker has checked every word.