Grocery app development made easy with this easy step by step process. Read on to know more.

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
When you are thinking about how to create a
grocery app, you must know that there are four
different kinds of apps. And these are-
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Marketplaces with their own menus,
Aggregators listing all the nearby grocery
stores,
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Grocery chains with multiple outlets across
country
Single standalone stores.

4. Step 2: Trinity Of Grocery
Apps- Buyers, Sellers And
Driver’s
When it comes to on-demand grocery app
development, there are three sides to the app.
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The customer app (for the user)
The administrator app (the side of the app
that is controlled by the administrator of
the delivery app)
● The delivery person’s app. (the side of the
app that is controlled by the administrator
of the delivery app)

5. Step 3: Important Factors To
Design Your App
To make it easier for you to plan your app, you
need to consider some important factors, these
are-
● Address The Pain Points Of The
Customer
● Analyze Strengths And Weaknesses Of
The Competitors
● Design Attractive UI/UX And Layout
● Personalize The Experience To The
Users

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
Every grocery app needs some necessary
features. These are-
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Creating A Shopping List
Quick And Easy Search
Add To Cart
Popular And Favorite Items
Special Deals, Offers, And Rewards
Push Notifications
The next slide contains more features

9. Step 4: Features To
Implement
Here are some more features for your grocer
app.
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Order Tracking And Status
Secure Multiple Payment Options
Scheduled Delivery Times
Ratings And Reviews
Nutritional Value Of What You Are
Offering
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Plan A Meal Order The Ingredients
Emergency Delivery Of Products

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
You can monetize a grocery app in four ways:
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Upcharging The Item
Delivery Charges
Comision From Orders
Premium Advertising Service

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
You need to know the tech stack first to
implement features mentioned above into your
app. These are the tech stacks you need-
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Developing Your Code And Deploying It
Programming Languages To Use
The Payment Gateway
Delivery Timing
The Navigational Support

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
The time frame of the app development process also has a big effect on the app
building process.
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The customer mobile app- for iOS and Android- 20-30 days
The admin app- for iOS and Android- 30 days
Delivery app- for iOS and Android- 30-40 days
API and synchronization- 30-35 days

26. Conclusion
The finalverdictwill be, yes, they are.With the improvementof
streamingtechnologyanda focus on healthyeating,more and more
U.S. nativesare turningtowardshome-cooked meals. So if you want
to developa grocerystore deliveryapp, now is the time. With the
rightstrategy,your appcan become a new favoriteamongthe
health-consciouscrowd.