How to Create An On Demand Delivery App?

On Demand Delivery
  • Ankit Patel Ankit Patel
  • July 25, 2017
  • 3 min read

With the likes of eCommerce websites, people now can order things like groceries, apparels, and other items just by sitting at their homes and they will get the ordered item delivered at their doorsteps. But it takes days to get the items delivered as there is a whole lot of process involved in shipping and mass fulfillment. You are not the only one ordering items from that site; there are hundreds and thousands for people ordering items at the same time as you do. Thus, the whole delivery mechanism is a time intensive process and the companies have to keep all the customers happy. In the recent times, there is a tradition of providing on demand delivery app development services to the customers. These are basically applicable for those who are in the food business and the retail shop owners.

Moreover, the on demand delivery will depend on the product you bought, if it is something related to fashion and apparel, on demand delivery services will not be possible, and if it is groceries or food you ordered, your items will be delivered to your location immediately, like in one hour. The on demand delivery applications provide a platform for small vendors to increase their business efficiency and productivity by reaching to the mass. There are many challenges involved in on demand delivery app development and hence, you have to keep certain things in mind.

• Partnering with the local business owners and building healthy business relationships with them :

It is the necessary step to consider before on demand app development. You have to think about the services you are going to offer to the audience. That is whether you are going to deliver food with the app or groceries or both. Therefore, you are required to meet the local retail shops and restaurants and cafes and other business in order to display the products in your mobile application. You are just the medium between the vendor and the customer; it is not that you are going to make food and then deliver it to the customer. The local vendors will provide you with the list of items they sell, and you will place it in your application.

• The audience is what matters :

The on demand delivery apps are built with the assumption that people are very busy these days and these apps provide the convenience of having their ordered items delivered to their doorsteps. If we take an example for other e-commerce websites, you can buy almost everything from it, and this is the reason they are so popular among the masses. The on demand delivery application you provide should also include everything within your reach, like if yours is a food delivery application, it should mention all types of food as there are people with different food preferences and in order to make your mobile application more useful and prominent amongst the masses, you should include everything based on the products you sell.

• Deciding on the fact that how will you deliver the items people ordered :

The delivery of the ordered items is the most important aspect, and for that, you are required to hire drivers. There are two ways to find drivers, one; you can contract freelancers like other eCommerce websites do and second, you can hire your own fleet of drivers. You can find someone who is interested in this part-time job.

• Giving your application the right set of features :

When developing on demand app, the necessary thing to do is provide it with the necessary features for performing the tasks it is developed for. For on demand delivery apps, features like customer registration, payment modes, order details and more should be included.

About: Ankit Patel

Ankit Patel is a Director of Sales & Marketing at XongoLab Technologies LLP and PeppyOcean, A leading mobile app development companies. In his free time, He likes to write articles about technology, marketing, business, web, and mobile. His articles featured on YourStory, E27, Datafloq, JaxEnter, TechTarget, eLearningAdobe, DesignWebKit, InstantShift, Business Magazine, SimpleProgrammer, and many more.

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