How to Develop a Grocery Delivery App like Big Basket

BUSINESS LIKE A
SUPERMARKET WITH
GROCERY DELIVERY
APP

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Preface

Greetings from Kody Technolab!
We have made this book after leaving no stone unturned. The e-book has
written focusing on the online grocery delivery business for ambitious
entrepreneurs who have a mindset like Apoorva Mehta (Instacart founder)
and Thomas & Andrew Parkinson (Peapod founder).
We are ensuring that you will have inside out details regarding the “Grocery
Delivery App Development” in this e-book. To be a gig who knows how to

Table Of Content

1. Introduction
2. Chain of Features - basic & advanced
3. Effective Revenue Model
4. Tour of Development process
5. Ideal development service
6. Cutting-edge Technology stack
7. Track Time & Cost
8. Final words

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Introduction

Groceries are an integral part of the kitchen that includes from oils to spices,
meat to seafood, bakery to dairy products, Cearels to vegetables, Eggs to
snacks, healthy soups to cold drinks, and many more items with that your
kitchen too might have filled today. Storing such things in the kitchen is
essential to cook instantly anything, anytime at home whenever hunger
attacks you. In the meantime, it can give a hard time to stock each thing, and
buy all it from the supermarket is so tiresome activity as well as a lot of time-
consuming.
To save today’s millennials from such a dilemma, technological gigs have
introduced a way easier and convenient online services with developing a
grocery delivery application. A grocery delivery app has made the shopping
of all essential groceries effortless and it delivers all ordered items at the
customers’ doorsteps with hassle-free online payment methods.
A single Grocery delivery app can collaborate with multiple grocery stores’
vendors to list them on the app and lets users order from their nearer grocery
stores. When it comes to developing such an app, it requires you to think over
3 types of panels: 1-Users’ panel where users can browse and order their
required grocery. 2-Vendors’ Panel where grocery merchants can register
their stores on the app and serve the users’ orders. 3-Admin Panel lets you
analyze the revenue ratio generated through the app and enables you to
manage users & vendors of the application.

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Chain Of Features

Three sites require three types of features to perform respective functions for
their respective users and further make the app interaction smooth and
soothe the needs. So, let’s have a glimpse of such features that you can
incorporate to make your Grocery Delivery App efficient for everyone.

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Previous Order history
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Merchant Panel:
Registration/ Login
Order Management
Pending order status
Add a new product
Delivered order list
Customer support
Sales Analytics

Admin Panel:
Login
Dashboard
Payment Management
Vendor accounts Management
Manage Notification
Real-time overall Analytics
Add or Remove vendor
Monitor feedback

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Tour of Development Process

So, now it's time to take a tour of the development process of the Grocery
Delivery application. It is necessary to understand why your application
should differ from others and what things you need to keep in mind.
Lean Canvas:
If you are creating a business from scratch, then it is necessary to have a
complete understanding of the app and its unique features. Here lean canvas
can help you to generate a portable business model and provide a clear
picture of the business.
You can get the lean-canvas model online and brainstorm with your team.

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Create User Stories:
A well-written user story can provide an understanding of informal, natural
language description of one or more features from the end-user perspective.
A user story describes the type of user, what they want and why they want.
It works as a guide for designers, developers, QA, and other development
team members to work on shared understanding from the user perspective.
Create SOW:
The next in the development process of an app is to create the Scope Of Work
document. For creating SOW, you need to check your competitors' or similar
apps and list down the features you wish in your app. You can also
brainstorm with the team for new and advanced features.
Write down the features and their functionality what action it will take in the
application in a few words.
Decide Technology Stack:
This is the most crucial part of app development, and if you are not tech-
savvy, it is suggested to consult the expert who has experience in developing
similar apps for guidance. Wrong technology can cause many issues like
slow speed, reloading, no result found while searching, and sluggish app.

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Development Method:
Developing a great application requires huge efforts, and you must select the
right approach to develop your app. Success of your project depends
majorly upon a perfectly running app, and that's why you should choose it
wisely.
1. Develop an app with Inhouse team
It is the best way to develop your application as you can have control over
everything aa well as you can have a birds' eye view on each development
process. You can make your team by hiring the right people based on your
needs and start developing the project.

You should know how to manage the project and how many resources will be
required to execute the project in a well-manner. Moreover, it requires a huge
investment as each task requires a different skillset, and you need to hire
them inhouse. Usually, the entire development project requires 2 to 5 months
to complete, and after successfully developed, it will reduce the requirement
of resources.

You can not spend your full time in development as you have to take care of
a lot of things like sales, marketing, operation, meetings, etc.
Pros:

- Everything under control
Cons:

- Too much expensive
- Required some project management knowledge
- Different tasks require different skill sets.
- Full-Time attention will required
Suggested when:
- You have project management expert in your team
- You have strong financial backup

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2. Develop an app by hiring a team of freelancers
This is cheaper among all, and instead of hiring an in-house team, you can
hire freelancers for a specific period. Hiring freelancers will provide great
freedom compared to the in-house team, and you can release the app as
soon as work is completed.
But it can increase uncertainty in the project as you can not know everything
about the development process and which skills are essential for the project.
Hiring without knowing the accuracy and skill, is not the solution that you
can afford at the moment.
Sometimes freelancers are careless, and as they work individually, they don't
have someone when they stuck with any problem. Also, you have to manage
all the freelancers and assign them appropriate tasks with a deadline, and
take follow-up with everyone.

Pros:
- A cheaper option among all
- You can hire them for a specific time

Cons:
- Increase uncertainty
- They don't have experience of working with each other
- You have to manage everyone
- Careless attitude of freelancer
- When stuck in a problem they don't have someone who assists them
- Reviewing their work required testing & quality analysis on each stage

Suggested when:
- You have a very low budget
- A very small project like a small website
- You have great technical knowledge

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3. Develop an app with partnering with a development company
This is an intermediate option when you don't want to hire an in-house team
and want to get the benefits of the in-house development team. The main
advantage of a development company is the team has experience working
together and multiple skill set you can find at one place.
You just need to be careful while choosing the development company by
checking their past projects and domain expertise. Also, check that the
development company is following the proper development method, their
design skill, quality assurance, and documentation skills.
The best thing about the development company is you don't require project
management knowledge as their in-house project manager will take care of
your project and single point of contact for progress and updates.
Pro:

- Experience of working together
- Multiple skill-sets at one place
- Cost-effective then inhouse team
- You can expect long term support
- No project management skill required
- Provide their inputs based on experience
Cons:
- Choosing the wrong development company miss lead your project
- Suggest you when:
- You have a medium budget
- You don't want to spend your time in managing development
- You want an accurate working application
Suggested when:

- You have a very low budget
- You want a quality product
- You have less technical knowledge
- You don't want to manage product development

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Ideal Development Process

"A good process produces a good result"
― Nick Saban

If you want a polished product, it should pass through the proper
development process for that, then only it will perform like a champion. Here
you will get the perfect recipe for developing a champion app that rules the
market.
1. Prepare SOW document
This is the first step of the development process. You need to make sure that
you cover only essential features at the moment. Brainstorm with your team
and create a list of features you want in the application.
If you hire the development company for your project, You can share the
document having raw requirements, and business analyst can polish the
requirements as per standard.
2. Freeze The Requirement
It's necessary that once you are done with SOW, freeze the requirement as
soon as possible, so you move to the next step. Many founders stuck at this
step because they keep coming with new requirements without starting the
development.

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3. Divide Project in Sprints
You can not achieve a whole product in a single shot like if you are traveling
from New York to Los Angeles by car, then you need to pass through Denver,
Omaha, Etc. Dividing your journey in milestone helps you to measure the
progress, and the same thing happens to the app development route.
When you divide your project in the sprints, you have a milestone to achieve
in a specific time. You can make a 15 days sprint to try to achieve those
milestones. If you have hired the development company, they will divide your
project into multiple sprints to achieve the best result.
4. Takes the Deliverables and Deadline
Once you get the sprint, it's time to know about what are the deliverables
and deadline for the same. It allows you to track your development progress,
where you are lacking, where you are performing good, and based on that
you can take appropriate action to achieve a goal.
Gantt Chart is used to check the progress and deliverable, and a good
development company can provide a grant chart with clearly mentioned
deliverable and the deadline.
5. Create User Stories & Test Cases
As we discussed earlier, the user story will work as a guide for designers,
developers, QA, and other development team members to work on shared
understanding from the user perspective. Also, test cases reduce the chances
of bugs and errors and prevent major revision to fix the issues.
6. Design the Wireframes
Now based on sprint, the module, and features that are part of development
in a sprint prepare wireframe frames for the same. Wireframes provide a
clear idea of the flow of the applications on the layout of the buttons and
information.

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7. Design Mood Board
Your application or project must have an amazing design and colors, buttons,
fonts, etc., in harmony with your brand. Create a design mood board by
brainstorming with your team, displaying the samples of objects in a
composition.
If you hire the company, the chief designer will provide you the mood board
right after understanding your choice and project need.
8. Working Prototype
From this step, the actual UI-UX designing part will start, and you will get to
know how your application will look. It would not be the final application, but
this kind of mockup will help you understand and complete the application. If
you find anything wrong or missing, then you can correct it before the actual
development starts.
The good development company will provide the clickable prototype before
developing the application and also make sure you will get an aesthetic
designed application.
9. Backend development
Backend development is "behind the scene" part of your music streaming app
development. Once the designing part gets completed, developers will take
their command over a coding part to connect the app with the database and
handle user interfaces. The backend development gives a life to your music
streaming app and makes it ready to launch.
10. App Quality Analysis
Before launching the application, it is inevitable to ensure that the app does
not have any single bug or error. To make sure of an accurate quality, the
application needs to go under the Quality Analysis process. If any error or
bug would be found, it can be cured before launching the app.

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11. Deployment or Launch
Bingo! Now, it is time to launch your app finally on the stores of platforms
you have chosen. After dealing with multiple processes like ideating,
validating, making mockups, designing, and developing apps, you’re ready
to publish it.
Platforms like Android and iOS have their standard procedure to deploy the
app on their stores that will be taken care of by the developers.

Cutting-Edge Technology Stack

App Platforms: iOS, Android, Web App
Back-end: Python, .Net, Java, Node.js
3rd Party Apps: Google Maps
Push Notifications: APN, Twilio, Firebase
SMS, Voice, and Phone Verification: Twilio, Nexmo, Sinch
Cloud Environment: AWS
Payments: Braintree & PayPal, E-Wallets, Stripe
Real-Time Analytics: Spark Streaming, Apache Flink
Mandrill: Relevant to emails
Database: Cassandra, MongoDB
Traffic Analytics: Flurry, Google Analytics, etc.

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Track Time & Cost

In order to carry out estimation on the grocery app development cost, you
must keep in mind the following factors, which include, how complex a
grocery app is, the numbers of platforms you want to launch it on, what
country and the audience it targets, etc.

The app developers based in Eastern Europe cost around $30 per hour
to $150 per hour
The grocery app developers based in the S. cost around $50 per hour to
$250 per hour
Indian app developers cost around $10 per hour to $80 per hour
The Cost to Develop On-Demand Grocery App that has a limited number
of features, coding, depends on the following:
Technical documentation costs around $1000 to $2000
QA and testing costs around $2000 to $4000
UI/UX Designing costs around $1500 to $3000
Front-end, as well as Back-end development, costs around $10,000 to
$20,000
In the end, considering the above-presented factors in order to calculate the
Cost to Build an On-demand Grocery Delivery App, on average, for a
single platform such as Android or iOS, it costs about$10,000 to $50,000.
However, the cost goes up as you increase the number of features or more
and hence, make a list of everything you have to integrate into your grocery
delivery app accordingly.

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Final Word

Our journey of profound development process for “Grocery Delivery App” is
ending here with the expectation that you have gained more than enough
details to get started your own journey of grocery delivery app development.
Furthermore, if you require any assistant to initiate your custom app
development journey, we’d love to assist you with our elite services.
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