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The customers want the app to be simple and easy to use. They do not care what technology is used to build the app. It should be easy and smooth to order their favorite food, and the on demand food delivery apps adopt these features like zomato and swiggy.
So in this post, we have discussed the features of the best food delivery apps, how much it will cost you to design such apps, and how they earn money through these delivery apps, things you need to consider while building these apps.
With the rise of the Pandemic, there have been profound changes in the lifestyle of people. Pandemic had compelled people to stay indoors. Whenever people craved for some fancy dish, they just had one option, to order online. That is the reason for the rise of the revenue of the food delivery market up to $30 billion in the U.S, even in the middle of the Pandemic.
- They have all possible delivery options such as PayPal, google pay, net banking, and cash on delivery.
- The food delivery app zomato can explore food places nearby and view restaurant pictures along with it.
- Zomato app also has a feature of booking a table at a restaurant of your choice that would save customers' time.
- Discount codes and coupons can easily be applied, and cashback can be earned swiftly without any hassle.
- Ordering a specific dish has been made easy with the filtering option in the app. You can directly search for the food you want, and you get all the places that particular dish is available in all the restaurants near you.
- Reordering is simple. Food can be scheduled for a particular date.
Before knowing the working and cost of delivery apps, it’s crucial to know how these service providers earn through food delivery apps.
- 1) Sharing Revenue from Restaurants
- The delivery apps bring orders for the restaurants. So, it's obvious that they would share the revenue with restaurants to be a win-win situation for both the delivery service owner and the restaurant.
- 2) Charging the delivery fees on food orders from Customers
- If you have ever ordered from zomato, Swiggy, or Eat24, you are surely aware that you have to pay extra delivery charges along with the price of the food. So these delivery charges go to the delivery service owners. During rainy seasons or when the weather is not good, they add extra to the delivery charges. This can be considered the basic earning of food delivery apps.
- 3) Marketing Fee from restaurants
- Along with the revenue share, restaurants also pay food delivery apps for marketing their restaurants. You might have experienced that as you open your zomato app profile, each time, the same specific restaurant gets highlighted. These are restaurants that have paid extra for getting more highlighted on the profile of people in the same city as the restaurant. This is how the zomato app earns money for marketing restaurants.
- So these are the ways by which Swiggy, Eat24, and Zomato food delivery apps earn money. So now, let's understand the functionality of the apps before knowing the cost of designing them.
- 1. Login as Admin
- 2. Restaurant Management
- 3. Application management
- 4. Management of order
- 5. Payment
- 6. Payment management
- 1. Signing up and registering feature.
- 2. Easy search features for finding your cuisine, restaurants, cafes, etc.
- 3. It Lets you view real restaurant images, menu card scanned images, ratings, and genuine reviews of the customers and location.
- 4. Customers can easily access their history of the ordered food.
- 5. Tracking driver feature.
- 6. Apps like Swiggy also allow you to contact the restaurant owner in case of any issue.
- 7. 24/7 availability.
- 8. Order in advance feature.
- 9. These food delivery apps integrate their social media handles for creating their profiles on the food delivery apps.
- 10. Rewards, loyalty, and coupons are other great options for users in these apps.
- 1. Information on the Trip.
- 2. Route Navigation.
- 3. Option to Contact customer or restaurant.
- 4. Route optimization.
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The apps for admins, delivery persons and customers have different-different features as described above, and based on that, their costs vary. But the basic factors on which the costs of all these apps depends are:
- 1. Application Requirement
- 2. Concept of the project
- 3. Designing of UI
- 4. complexity of UI
- 5. Developers
- 6. App testing
The cost of the food delivery apps can be divided into
- Licensing fee - up to $300
- Developers fee -the major part
- App hosting fee - approximately $99/ app
So, the major part of the cost of an app depends on its development. Developing basic versions of apps like Swiggy and Zomato for customers may cost $ 3500- $ 9500. While building or designing all three types of apps for a user, admin, and delivery person, it may cost up to $7000- $10,000. The cost of designing basic versions of advanced apps like EAT 24 can go up to $20,000. depending upon the features and scope of the mobile app development project. A good mobile app development company has to be hired to consider the right approach to those results in applications.
If you want to design the exact app like zomato or EAT 24, it might cost up to $40,000. Like I have mentioned earlier, the complexity of UI might increase the prices.
Looking at the design costs, are you confused about whether to design a delivery app for your restaurant or not? Let me tell you one thing. If you haven’t designed it until now, you have already missed out on a large number of sales. So don’t wait anymore to hire a professional app developer to build you an app like zomato, Swiggy, or Eat24 and increase your restaurant’s revenue in the long run.
