A one-minute guide to building an on-demand groceries delivery app

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Pandemic has drifted people towards home-made, fresh, and healthy food. This in turn has led to an exponential surge in on-demand grocery delivery. There is no better channel than the mobile that accelerates and fuels the on-demand groceries delivery to customer’s doorstep and establishes a revenue-generating business as users actively rely on their Smartphones for all their shopping needs.

How to Develop a Grocery Shopping App?

Here is a list of primary things that you need to focus on prior to building your grocery delivery app:

• Conducting research on your target audience is useful when building any technology product.
• Conduct proper research on things that interest your audiences w.r.t to grocery delivery. Get some people to give authentic feedback on certain existing grocery apps and which user needs it fails to address.
• Note down the areas that you wish to serve and figure out existing services in the niche and also the total internet or mobile users in those areas. Aim for areas that have low servicing in terms of online grocery delivery.
• List the products, and associated risks in terms of logistics to design terms and policies for your customers.
• Check out and analyze how much you want to charge your customers over the market price for your home delivery services. This should also include your delivery costs, alongside statutory and service costs.

Key Features of On Demand Grocery Apps

The list of features that make a grocery app successful is as follows:

Customer Side Application

• Product Listing
• Search and Filter Bar
• Cart & Check-Out
• Payment Options
• Wallet integration
• Coupons
• View order history

Feature List Of Delivery Side App

• Notification for Delivery Request
• Map Navigation
• Updating Availability of a driver
• Delivery Time Bars
• History of Work
• Earning & Reports Analysis

App’s Admin Side Features

1. User Analysis/Management
2. Product Analysis/ Management
3. Delivery Management
4. Driver Administration

Besides all these features, there will be common features for all three roles namely, sign up/sign in, password recovery, notification system, real-time tracking of orders, etc. To begin with, get in touch with an enterprise app development company.