7 Steps To Build Grocery Apps

1. 7 Steps To Build Grocery Apps Easy steps to build a successful grocery app

2. Introduction If building a grocery app seems complicated, then this is for you. With our guide, building grocer apps will become easier than ever for you.

3. Step 1: Understand The Business Model Of Grocery Store Apps

4. Step 2: Trinity Of Grocery Apps- Buyers, Sellers And Driver’s

5. Step 3: Important Factors To Design Your App

6. Address The Customer Pain Points Like with the development of any other app, you need to understand and address the pain points of your user. Once you understand why apps are more preferred by the user, you need to plan and figure out how you can make their shopping experience even better Analyze The Competitors you need to consider your competitors before you even begin the planning phase. Once you know how the competitors app works, you’ll know you are ready to start planning your app

7. Design Attractive UI/UX And Layout Attractive UI/UX design goes a long way when it comes to on demand grocery apps. A beautiful layout is necessary to attract users. Consult an experienced UI UX design agency to manifest your grocery app idea. Personalize The User Experience When it comes to grocery store app development, personalizing your app to the user is kind of a big deal. Suggest them products they frequently buy. Personalizing the app according to the user’s need is going to make them more loyal users.

8. Step 4: Features To Implement

9. Step 4: Features To Implement

10. Creating A Shopping List There is a good enough chance that the user might forget to add one or two items on the cart. Which is why you need a shopping list feature.With this, the app user can create a shopping list of all the things they need and search accordingly. Quick And Easy Search With the quick and easy search option, it’ll be easy to search and find products on your app. Customers need to be able to find their products easily, Otherwise there is really no point in using it. Make sure that all the products are categorized well on your app. With a proper category, you can make it easy for the user to find their products

11. Add To Cart With this feature, you can Allow the users to add things in their cart. They might buy it right then, or maybe later. But once they add it to the cart, they won’t forget to buy it. Popular And Favorite Items You can add the suggestion section where you can show the user popular and their favorite items based on their recent purchases

12. Special Deals, Offers, And Rewards Giving the users special deals and offers on their frequently purchased product is a feature that’ll have a positive effect on your app. With such deals, you can make sure that the users return to your app for buying their groceries again. Push Notifications To let the users know about the deals and offers going on in your app you need the feature of push notifications. Not only for offers, the users can also set up reminders to buy certain items or to notify them when a certain item is on sale

13. Order Tracking And Status This feature will let the user track its progress and status. With this feature, they would be able to track the progress of their orders Secure Multiple Payment Options It is important that your grocery store app have multiple options for payments in your app. You can also add different payment methods like Paypal, PayU, Quickpay, etc. by adding these payment methods.

14. Scheduled Delivery Times It is better to integrate the scheduled delivery times feature into your app. With this, the user can schedule the delivery time for their groceries. This way they can have the groceries delivered to their doorstep at a convenient time for them. Ratings And Reviews With this feature, consumers can leave ratings and reviews on different products and shops from where they ordered the product. They can also give reviews to personal shopper or deliveryman

15. Nutritional Value Of What is Offered For the health conscious this is a neat feature. They can check out the nutritional value of the food items they are ordering Plan A Meal Order The Ingredients With this the users can plan a meal, upload it on the app, and the app can simply list all the ingredients required to make that meal. This feature is extremely handy for those who love to cook but barely have enough time to go for shopping

16. Emergency Delivery Of Products With the emergency order and delivery feature, you can help the users solve this problem easily. In case of emergency, the user can order something to be delivered quickly, from the closest source available.

17. Step 5: Monetize The App

18. Upcharging The Item you can always upcharge the item on the app. It is a usual monetization strategy used by all on-demand grocery store delivery apps. Delivery Charges The delivery charges are another obvious way for you to monetize your app. Many grocery apps charge their users for delivery.

19. Comision From Orders This is for the aggregator model. You can ask for a small commission from all the store listed on your app since you are bringing more business to them. Premium Advertising Service You can place special ads for a specific store and get revenue from it. However, if you have a warehouse model; then it won’t work out for you.

20. Step 6: Tech Stack

21. Developing & Deploying The Code writing these codes and deploying them properly is part of the app development tech stack. Apps like Instacart use Github to develop and deploy their codes. It is easy to share, deploy and comment on the code over Github, which is why it is being used by many Programming Languages To Use for android, then the programming language you need to use is Java. for iOS you need Swift. You can also use Ruby on Rails framework to build the front end for the initial iOS version of your app.

22. Delivery Timing with the machine learning algorithm, you can let the user know the delivery timing. The algorithm considers all the factor like the delivery location, order volume, dispatch time to let the users know the estimated delivery time. The Navigational Support For the location of the delivery, you can use Core Location Framework for iOS and Google Places API for Android. For the driver tracking and giving them right navigation details, you can use, MapKit for iOS and Google Maps API for Android.

23. The Payment Gateway You need to use a safe technology to add a secure payment gateway to your app. The most used technologies by the app developers are Stripe, Braintree, Paypal, etc. Make sure to implement more than one kind of payment gateway to your app.

24. Step 7: Cost Of Developing A Grocery App grocery app development cost in India and the US, depends on many different aspects, such as the platform and the kind of business model you choose to go with. On the next slide is a brief timeframe of an on-demand grocery app development. The time frame can, however, change depending on the kinds of feature you want to include in your app.

25. Timeframe of an on-demand grocery app development

26. Conclusion The final verdict will be, yes, they are. With the improvement of streaming technology and a focus on healthy eating, more and more U.S. natives are turning towards home-cooked meals. So if you want to develop a grocery store delivery app, now is the time. With the right strategy, your app can become a new favorite among the health-conscious crowd.