On – demand food delivery apps like Zomato, UberEats etc had made eating superior by sitting in the solace of your home, watching some show or film or simply chilling with your loved ones or companions and requesting food from your favorite eatery or from the online applications such as Zomato, Foodpanda etc.
Nowadays, on-request food conveyance applications have become a big hit among the people, regardless of what segment they have a place with. The hassle – free way to order food from the comfort of your home and immediate delivery is the big success of the online food delivery system.
Nowadays, big discussions are happening about the development of food delivery apps and software. However, the development is not an issue but the real challenges are associated with the maintenance of the platform.
Aahan Technologies experts has shared some of the challenges that are somehow faced by the food delivery apps are:
1) The food delivery market has a great potential but the giants such as UberEats and others are getting more market share making it hard for the startups to capture the market. People are more likely to trust the known brand and not the new name.
2) For the newbies, it is hard to turn your name into a brand and to keep visiting customers on a regular basis if your app will not provide the required options to the people. They will simply lose the interest and switch to another one which gives them more options like – If they don’t find their favorite restaurant in the app they prefer to switch to another app.
Treating regular customers with coupons and discounts and new audiences with special deals will make them stay with you and loyal for longer.
3) Unreliable delivery is one of the problems which bothers customers. Nobody tolerates it when their food is getting late or arrives cold. The problem causes due to lack of employee training, road traffic issues leave a negative mark and degrade the brand productivity.
4) The logistics issue is also a major problem which apps face such as determining the number of vehicles needed for the persons, delivery areas, keeping food fresh and hot when delivering to far areas.
Adding a real-time location tracking system will keep your customers updated with the required time.
5) Startups may face problems with the large volumes of the orders, this leads to increased delivery time. In this case, the data analytics tool may help startups about analyzing the demand of growing food.
6) As the giants are already present in the market and are in partnership with the big names, convincing them may be a challenge to the startups.
How does the Food delivery App work?
Food delivery business is already a competitive market nowadays. There are many food delivery apps available in the market, the business continues to expand and digital ordering and delivery have grown 300% faster than dine-in traffic since 2014.
Things to keep in mind while preparing the flowchart of a food delivery app
The first step is to collaborate with the vendors or restaurants to give your customers abundant options to choose from. There is a joint effort of both. Once the order is delivered to the customer, the profit margin is split between the restaurant owner and the businessman. There are a lot of factors that need to be kept in mind by the business owner while developing a food delivery app.
Components in the app:
The restaurant Panel:
1) Dashboard: This is for the restaurant owners, where the owners can track the incoming orders, pending orders, completed ones and complete summary of the customer orders.
2) Order state: Here, the user may cancel the order if it takes longer time to accept by the restaurants. This also depends on the availability.
3) Managing Accounts: This is for the restaurant owners who can set up an account for the restaurant by setting up restaurant images, food menu, hours of operations and many other things like price, expected delivery time and more.
4) Payment Mode: This is for the users to give them options to transfer money via bank accounts, UPI and other apps.
The rider Panel:
1) Login Form: Here, the rider receives login details from the admin to enter the application.
2) Request for the order: Here the order appears with customer ID, his name and address. It’s on the rider whether he accepts or rejects the order based on availability
3) Delivery of the order: Once the order is accepted, it will deliver to the customer location and mark status as completed.
These are the main points which need to be notice.
For the user panel:
Here the customer needs to register itself and login into the app.
1) Login Panel: Here customer can login himself via social media integration or email.
2) Location: Based on the user location, all the available restaurants will be shown in the customer portal.
3) Menu: The customer can select, add or delete the options into the cart and required details to make the final payment.
4) Review: This is for the customer to write comments about the delivery, restaurant and food.
5) Past Order: This is for the customers to redo the purchase.
6) Offers: The customer is able to see all the offers and discounts.
7) Track delivery: : This section will let customers track the location of the delivery boy and his real-time.
Things to Take Care of While Building a Food Delivery App
After a brief introduction and understanding of how to build a food delivery app, there are some critical factors to take care of while getting started. Because of the considerable rise in demand of the food delivery apps, the business owners should find the right app development companies that would take their business to the intended users. Before you start it is necessary to remember your goals.
2) The budget:The first thing first is to decide the required functions into your app and to make a prototype of it. Preparing a flow chart is necessary to put your requirements in front of the developer easily.
2) The Business Model: Decide your budget before approaching any app developer. It is vital that your developer is able to match your specific budget and provide you the optimum results.
3) User-friendly Interface: Know your customers. They need very clear, easy and no load time. If they fail to get connected with your app quickly, they will find other alternatives and may not come to your app again. Tempting customers is vital by providing them an easy interface.
Look at other food apps such as Foodpanda, Zomato their apps are appealing and attractive with a clear navigation. Moreover, all the deals, coupons, offers and discounts must be visible to the users to tempt them.
4) Identify your Customers:No matter what your business is. It is always essential to identify your target audience from the beginning of your development process. It helps owners to fulfill demands of their targeted audience. Start market research of your targeted audience, their likes/dislikes to have a clear idea about them.
5) Live order tracking:This is to keep your users updated with their food. The required time for cooking, delivery, live location of the delivery boy helps customers to give estimated time.
6) Unique Selling Point (What is your USP):As there are already well established giants present in the market which makes it crucial to know the unexplored paths of your business to compete with them. Knowing the right way to put your brand ahead, your marketing strategy is the USP.
7) A pre-launch plan:This is to catch the potential customers’ attention by making a pre-launch marketing plan through marketing experts who can enhance your business reach to the potential customers.
8) How to start:Always start from a small scale to measure the efficiency of your success. This will help businesses to find and fix the issues at small scale.
9) Secure Payment Options:: Everyone is concerned about their security nowadays and it is your responsibility to offer your customers a seamless and secure payment gateway through multiple methods which retains the trust.
Some Advanced Features includes:
1) Push Notifications:It is necessary to keep your customers updated with the incoming offers, coupons and other updates so the potential customers never miss a chance.
2) Geo-location feature/Real-time GPS tracking:: This is an essential feature to search within the app and find restaurants, favourite dishes by entering related keywords. Also, the GPS allows customers to track the live location of the delivery boy and food.
3) Booking & Ordering:The Zomato, swiggy and other apps give users choice to book a table ahead of time. This is in an offer to diminish the burden of showing up at a completely stuffed eatery and to cut holding up time.
4) Social Media Integration:With social media integration, users can easily share pics of dishes so that they can make most of use of their social media. Also, one plus point can be businesses can make new customers by sharing rewards and invitations.
Pricing & Budget of Apps for Ordering Food
Aahan technologies always strive to deliver the best possible results for their clients within their budget. Everything is getting digitalized from shopping to ordering food online. Therefore, to make an application that serves your customer the best is our duty. We provide all kinds of application development solutions based on our clients requirements. As the food delivery app can cost depending upon the functionalities you want in the application, here is an estimated price which cost around:
For Basic app:With very simple features of UI/UX and functionality can cost upto $10,000 for the development.
With advanced features:: Which includes custom UI/UX, support, in app payment options, social media integration, push notifications and more can range upto $25,000.
For Complex apps:Which includes audio, video processing, custom graphics, third party API integrations and many other advanced things can cost above $25,000.
Depending upon your required functionalities and budget, you need to hire a developer which matches with your budget and provide you the required results.
Market Research & Target Audience
Research said that the market share is forecast to be worth USD 14,679 Mn by the year 2024, growing at a CAGR of 9.5%. The very first step for any development is to refine the research and develop a market plan to target your audience. You need to perform several A/B tests and insights based on the demographics and latest trends to identify what your competitors are doing to lure their audience.
Always Know your USP
Once your target audience and area are defined, next is to know what your audience demands and what are the areas that are still untouched by your competitors. Defining your USP will give you the clear insights and best marketing plans to value your users.
Social Media for your Business
In today’s era, social media plays a major role to enhance your branding strategies. Everything is online nowadays and thanks to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram which makes it enable to spread awareness of our brand by using powerful marketing strategies.
Here are strong marketing channels to boost your results
Blog:Blogging is the best way to spread awareness of your brand. Content is the King and with the right content your brand value increases and so the website’s traffic.
Landing Page:You should have a website that directs users to your app for the best experience. The more personalized the connection the more will be interaction. You can advertise your mobile app with the landing page for faster downloading of the app.
Social Media:Social Media Marketing, a strong way to boost your likes, installs, promotions and more just by right marketing strategy. Nearly 90% of the users use social media to communicate with the brands
One of the best methods of food delivery apps can be to partner with celebrity chefs on social media to influence foodies across the social media. This is a popular method for advertising. Once you identify your influencer, you can work with them in many ways.
Promotions:Share promotional offers and stay ahead of your competitors. This is another way to drive traffic on the website and app.
Email Marketing: Connect with your users and keep them updated with the regular offers. Share promotional rewards and discounts to your users so they return to your app. This also enhances relationships with prospects and customers and turns first time buyers into a recurring audience
Why Choose Aahan Technologies
We ensure that our clients always stay ahead of their competitors. We bring a diverse background of technology experience that will not only remain to the development. Our team has IT experts that understand the client requirements, their target audience and goals and make strategies accordingly. Our IT professionals do development while keeping close eyes on the client budget.
