In the present time, entrepreneurs from the food Industry seem interested to invest in food delivery app development.

Why? Look at the statistics shown below.

It clearly shows that

A major part of Total food industry Revenue is coming from platform to consumer delivery.

Platform to customer delivery means that the customer has placed an order through the food delivery app present in his or her phone. However, a customer visits a restaurant and places an order in Restaurant to consumer delivery.

Moreover, It is experts at statista predict that food industry revenue coming from platform to consumer delivery is going to increase at a faster pace. Look at the tables shown below, it will make it more clear.

Hence, revenue coming from Platform to consumer delivery is predicted to increase at a faster rate than the same coming from Restaurant to consumer delivery. So, on the basis of these statistics, entrepreneurs find investing in food delivery app creation quite interesting and profitable.

In case you are an entrepreneur from food industry and want to create a BIG in your business, then you can contact a food app development company. They will provide you a food app having all the features of your choice in a month or two.

Cost of a food ordering and delivery app development ranges from US$12000 to US$20000. Now, let’s look at the

Core features of a food ordering & delivery app

Features for Customer’s App

Search
This feature allows app users to search various restaurants, cafes, pubs, cuisine and bars by location.

Order

This feature allows users to place an order of selected dishes and food with just a few simple clicks on the screen of a smartphone. They just need to add their preferred dish and proceed to check out.

Real time tracking of Driver

With the help of real time tracking feature, it becomes easy for your users to track delivery drivers and know their real time information. Users can check how much time a driver will take to reach.

Payment Gateway Integration

Integrate your app like GrubHub and UberEats with Payment Gateway such as Braintree or Stripe and allow users to pay by credit/debit card. Make sure that you give multiple payment options to your users.

Ratings & Reviews

This feature allows users to give ratings and share reviews for the restaurant, food and delivery driver’s service. Ratings and reviews have an important role in enhancing overall service.

Real time availability

With the help of this feature, your app users can get information on the real time availability of the tables in various restaurants and make the bookings with just a few simple clicks.

Features for Delivery Driver App

Registration & Login

This feature allows drivers to register and login to the application using various social media networks such as Google or Facebook. By entering simple details, drivers can register and login in the app.

User Profile

This feature allows users to maintain their entire profile information including name, email address, contact number, photos and other important information.

Update & Alerts for New Order

This feature gives push notifications for the new order which is assigned. Even when the app is closed, drivers will get a sound notification for the assigned order.

Manage more than one food deliveries at a time

It becomes easy for drivers to manage multiple food deliveries at a time. Moreover, they can easily respond to all the requests coming from other delivery locations.

Route optimization

With the help of this feature, drivers can deliver the food in minimum time by finding the most efficient route for the destination.

Map to view delivery route

This feature allows drivers to select the shortest and fastest routes to reach the location.

Features for Restaurant app

Profile Creation

This feature allows restaurant owners to register and create profile following a few simple steps. In order to complete a profile, owners can include information such as restaurant address, complete menu with price, delivery and contact details.

Order Management

This feature allows owners to manage all the orders at one place, including ongoing, dispatched, pickups and scheduled ones. Owners can easily get a complete view of the orders in a single click on their smartphone screen.

Menu Management

With the help of this feature, restaurant owners can manage a complete menu of the restaurant by adding and updating the list, prices, items, today’s special dish and minimum order account.

Manage Promos & Deals

This feature allows restaurant owners to create and add new discount deals and offers. Also, it helps them to reward their customers to get benefits on ordering food.

Push notifications

Alert or notifications will notify restaurant owners about the new order, status of received or shipped orders, payment received online and other important updates about the delivery driver and customers.

Real time tracking of Driver

Restaurant owners can easily track the location of the delivery driver with the help of this feature. Moreover, owners can check the total delivery time and route that driver preferred to deliver the food.

Features of Admin Panel of Food delivery app

Managing Restaurants

It allows you to manage all the restaurants by adding, updating and removing any restaurant or cafe from the list. Also, you can check the active status of any restaurant.

Category Management

It allows you to manage all the restaurants based on the type of cuisine, pricing, delivery options, and various offers to optimize business. You can manage multiple restaurants with types at this single platform.

Performance Monitoring

This feature helps you to Monitor all the drivers, deliveries, ratings & reviews of drivers, cancelled orders, and other important data related to the driver's performance.

Analyzing & Reporting

With the help of analysis & report feature, you can get real time insights of reports and other accounting information that helps you to recognize the growth and opportunities to expand reach.

Real time updates and Alerts

Admin can get real time updates and notifications about the drivers and restaurant owners when they update their profile, restaurant information and made changes in the availability.

Payment & Commision Management

This feature allows you to set payment and commision rate and manage it directly from the panel with every single partner and make payments.

Wrapping up

Hence, we are clear that there is a need of food delivery apps in the market and it is worth to invest in development of food ordering and delivery apps.

In case you make up your mind to develop a food ordering and delivering app for your restaurant or any food business, you can contact top mobile app development company in India and can hire them to create the app for you.