Iraq has 44 million people, three major metropolitan areas, and a ride-hailing market still dominated by informal arrangements. Waslni's platform handles the cash-first reality, the Qi Card / Zain Cash / AsiaHawala payment options, and the multi-region (federal Iraq + Kurdistan) dispatch needs natively.
Iraq is the largest under-served ride-hailing market in MENA. Forty-four million people, three major metropolitan areas — Baghdad, Basra, Erbil — and a transport environment still dominated by informal arrangements and traditional taxi fleets. Most global platforms either avoid the market or serve it minimally.
Two realities define ride-hailing in Iraq. First, cash is the dominant payment method. A card-only app captures maybe a tenth of the addressable market; an app that treats cash as a first-class payment with clean wallet reconciliation captures all of it. Second, the country is effectively two payment ecosystems: federal Iraq with Qi Card / Zain Cash / AsiaHawala / cash, and the Kurdistan Region with its own well-developed local ecosystem.
Waslni's platform handles both natively. IQD currency, Arabic-first UI with Kurdish-language option for KRG operators, cash as a first-class payment method with daily or weekly reconciliation, Qi Card / Zain Cash / AsiaHawala integrations, and a multi-region dispatch architecture that supports running federal Iraq and the Kurdistan Region as either one tenant or two. Four weeks gets you from kickoff to apps in the Iraqi App Store.
Cash is the dominant payment method and is treated as first-class. Qi Card (the major Iraqi government salary card) for card-paying riders. Zain Cash and AsiaHawala for mobile-money users. Visa/Mastercard for the small card-default segment.
Driver document checklist preconfigured: national ID, Iraqi driving license, vehicle license, vehicle inspection. Document expiry alerts with automatic offline-mode.
Multi-city geofences with separate pricing and peak windows. The Kurdistan Region (Erbil, Sulaymaniyah, Duhok) operates as a federal region with its own dispatch settings if needed.
Arabic is the default language across rider, driver, and admin. Kurdish (Sorani / Kurmanji) added as a per-tenant language option for Kurdistan Region operators.
iOS + Android, IQD fare quotes, cash as primary payment, Qi Card / Zain Cash / AsiaHawala options, scheduled rides, Arabic-first.
Smart assignment, navigation, transparent earnings in IQD, settlement runs that handle the cash-first reality, document upload, demand heatmap.
Multi-city dispatch across Baghdad, Basra, Erbil. Role-based permissions. IQD finance reports with cash-reconciliation reports.
Tenant with IQD default, Arabic-first UI, your launch cities as geofences.
Service types your fleet runs. IQD per-km and per-min. Peak windows for Baghdad evening rush.
Qi Card + Zain Cash + AsiaHawala integrations activated. Cash workflow validated end-to-end. 50-driver pilot onboarded.
iOS + Android apps in Iraq-locale stores. Soft launch in Baghdad or Erbil; expand to additional cities.
Yes. The platform is configured for the Iraqi market: IQD currency, Arabic-first UI with Kurdish-language option, multi-city dispatch including the Kurdistan Region, cash as a first-class payment method, integrations for Qi Card / Zain Cash / AsiaHawala, and a driver compliance workflow tuned to the local environment.
Cash is the dominant payment method and is treated as first-class. The app calculates the fare in IQD; the driver collects cash; the trip is recorded in the driver wallet; daily or weekly settlement runs reconcile cash collected against platform commission owed. Drivers can also top up their wallets with cash at partner agents.
Yes — the Kurdistan Region operates with substantial autonomy on commercial registration, transport licensing, and de-facto payment ecosystem. Waslni supports separate tenant configurations for KRG-region operations if needed, including Kurdish-language UI and KRG-specific document workflows.
Careem operates in Iraq with limited city coverage. Local operators have meaningful share in Baghdad and Basra, and the Kurdistan Region has its own well-developed local ride-hailing market. The opportunity for a focused new entrant is in the cities and segments the incumbents under-serve.
Payouts settle to Iraqi bank accounts or to a Qi Card on a weekly cycle by default. Cash-collecting drivers reconcile against platform commission at end-of-shift or end-of-week. The platform supports both flows in parallel.
14 days free. IQD currency. Arabic UI. Cash-first workflow validated end-to-end.