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Thorough background checks and police verification of professionals, plus mandatory standardized training before they can take bookings.

Book 100+ standardized services from home via app/website, with algorithm-based matching and a satisfaction guarantee.

Consumers in metro areas of India, UAE, Singapore and Saudi Arabia who book beauty & wellness, cleaning, repair, and other home services via the app/website.

Independent beauticians, electricians, plumbers, carpenters and cleaners who join the platform for leads/jobs; ~40,000 registered professionals globally as of March 2025.

Automated matching algorithm pairs customers with available, rated professionals; direct customer-professional contact facilitated post-booking.

Paid customer membership program contributed ₹98 crore (8.6% of FY25 operating revenue).

The primary booking and service-delivery channel — customers discover professionals, book slots, track arrival, and pay entirely in-app. Per Urban Company's RHP filed ahead of its September 2025 IPO, the platform had served 14.59 million lifetime unique transacting consumers as of June 30, 2025, with nearly half acquired in the last three years.

A parallel web-booking channel (in addition to the app) listing categories like cleaning, beauty & spa, appliance repair and the Native product line, used for both direct booking and SEO/organic-search acquisition.

A dedicated app-based channel for the supply side of the two-sided marketplace — service professionals register, receive leads, manage schedules and get paid through it. The company describes onboarding via this app as the entry point for its 50,000+ partner professional network.

For its hardware sub-brand 'Native' (smart RO water purifiers, launched 2023), Urban Company distributes through Amazon.in and Flipkart as external retail channels rather than only its own app/site — underscored by its Jan 2025 Delhi High Court petition after Native purifiers were briefly delisted from both platforms amid a patent dispute with Kent RO.

Background/police verification, standardized skills training, and ongoing quality-control/safety compliance monitoring of service professionals.

Running the demand-supply matching engine, lead distribution, and platform/app maintenance.

321,000 sq ft of permanent training space across 175+ training rooms in 14 cities, 280+ trainers, invested ₹138 Cr in training in FY24 (₹524 Cr cumulative); trained/upskilled 35,000 partners in FY2024.

Proprietary app/website plus AI/ML-based matching algorithms are cited as core platform infrastructure.

MoU announced 15 July 2019 to mobilize, train and Skill-India-certify service professionals under PMKVY; targeted training 30,000 new partners in year one.

Tie-up to underwrite Urban Company's Group Medical Cover for service partners: UC Plus partners get Rs 2 lakh family health cover (spouse + 2 children) plus 12 free medical consults/year; non-UC Plus partners get Rs 1 lakh self cover, on top of existing group life and accidental insurance.

Urban Company partners with third-party NBFCs (and, for the home-loan pilot, banks) to originate and disburse instant emergency loans (Rs 3,000-30,000 ticket size) and a home-loan pilot for tenured partners directly inside the partner app; NBFCs/banks handle underwriting and repayment collection.

Urban Company set up the Suraksha Fund with NGO partner Srinidhi Trust, capitalized by contributions from UC employees, management and well-wishers, to give service partners emergency financial support for medical/bereavement needs not covered by the ACKO insurance program; the same trust structure was used earlier for the Mohit Agrawal COVID-19 relief fund.

Commission charged to service professionals on bookings, historically ranging ~8.5%-30% depending on order value/category; cut from 30% to 25% on the top slab in Oct 2021 after worker protests.

Sale of Native-brand smart water purifiers and smart locks to consumers; revenue grew ~300% YoY in FY25 (from ₹29 Cr in FY24).

B2B sale of mandated tools, consumables and equipment to its own service-professional network.

Subscription revenue from the UC Plus membership program.

Largest single expense line item in FY25 (total expenditure ₹1,223 Cr).

Second major cost category in FY25 total expenditure of ₹1,223 Cr.