For some individuals who own little food organizations in Indonesia, “everything is dealt on their own, so I extremely needed to make a framework so they can have better tasks and get greater personal satisfaction,” Shearer explained. 

His startup, Wahyoo, was established in 2017 to support little restaurants, called warung makan, digitize and computerize more undertakings, from requesting supplies to overseeing funds. 

Today, Wahyoo declared that it has brought $5 million up in Series A financing driven by Intudo Ventures, an investment firm centered around Indonesia. 

Different speculators in the round included Kinesys Group, Amatil X (the corporate endeavor program of Coca-Cola Amatil, one of the world’s five biggest Coca-Cola bottlers), Arkblu Capital, Indogen Capital, Selera Kapital, Gratyo Universal Indonesia and Isentia Hioe. 

The capital will be utilized on employing, building up Wahyoo’s tech stage, and extending past the Greater Jakarta region. 

In a press articulation about the speculation, Intudo Ventures establishing accomplice Patrick Yip stated, “Little and medium undertakings speak to one of the significant motors of financial development in Indonesia and are being changed through new inventive organizations like Wahyoo, carrying more noteworthy monetary success to entrepreneurs all through the nation. 

Through the organization’s digitization endeavors, Wahyoo’s exceptionally focused on help for warung makan organizations is making positive financial and social effects for Indonesia’s average workers.” 

Wahyoo propelled its application precisely a year back and has onboarded around 13,800 warung makan up until now. 

The organization’s prime supporters are Shearer, the CEO; head working official Daniel Cahyadi; and boss innovation official Michael Dihardja. 

With around 268 million individuals, Indonesia is Southeast Asia’s biggest markets, and there are as of now new businesses, as Warung Pintar and BakuWarung, that emphasize aiding warung, or little corner stores, digitize a greater amount of their tasks. 

Shearer said he needed to concentrate on Indonesian restaurants specifically because “my experience is in the food business and I love anything identified with food. 

Second, the potential is enormous because nobody has taken advantage of this sort of warung previously. 

Everybody centers around retail, yet nobody takes advantage of the culinary business.” 

Wahyoo as of now utilizes around 170 individuals, remembering for the-ground groups who meet with warung makan proprietors. 

The diners are “generally run by a family, from age to age,” with practically all undertakings performed physically, remembering accounting and going to business sectors right on time for the morning to purchase fixings, Shearer said. 

Wahyoo’s highlights incorporate a following day staple delivery service from its stockrooms and joining with Go Food, a well-known conveyance application. 

The startup likewise runs a training program called Wahyoo Academy, with financial courses to help warung makan proprietors increment client traffic and income, and offers publicizing and brand organizations. 

For instance, an eatery on Wahyoo’s foundation can gain cash by setting advertisement pennants or leaflets in their stores. 

That is one of the ways Wahyoo adapts. 

It is allowed to use for eatery proprietors and makes income by taking a level of brand commissions. 

Another income stream is Wahyoo’s singed chicken establishment, which gives warung makan proprietors the choice of opening a little slow down before their stores. 

It at present has around 350 slows down and minimizes expenses by banding together with one of Indonesia’s biggest poultry providers. 

Shearer said the organization will likely expand the number of slows down to 1,000 before the current year’s over. 

While restaurants on Wahyoo saw a drop in their business in April and May on account of the COVID-19 pandemic, Shearer said that it started to recoup in June and July, and is currently back to typical, mostly due to the stage’s Go Food coordination. 

Later on, Wahyoo may confront rivalry from other warung-centered new companies if they chose to extend their administrations to eateries too, and new businesses that need to take advantage of the business opportunity offered by the 59.3 million little to medium-sized organizations in Indonesia, a significant number of which haven’t digitized their activities yet. 

Shearer said Wahyoo’s offer is its arrangement of corresponding administrations. “We are essentially making a biological system,” he included. 

“We are concentrating on the flexible chain, yet additionally our image. We have the seared chicken brand and later on, we will take advantage of money related innovation and the providing food business also.”

The Peroration 

Developing an app that gives a platform to local businesses and at the same time mobilizes their resources can be very fruitful. It creates an impactful business opportunity in the market with a pinch of social cause.

If you are willing to get your hands on such business ideas, get in touch with our app developing team to learn more.

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According to the survey released by Consumer Intelligence Research Partners, amongst the consumers who have used restaurant delivery in the past 90 days, Uber Eats was used most recently by 34% of consumers, followed by DoorDash (33%), Grubhub (21%), and lastly, Postmates (12%). 

Edison Trends has also released a study of over 190,000 transactions made in the US food delivery market in April, shows that 47% of them belong to DoorDash, followed by Uber Eats at 26%, and then, Grubhub with 23%.

As soon as Bloomberg reported about the potential merger, the Uber’s shares hiked by 2.4% and the Grubhub shares surged 29%. Uber has already tie-ups with the major food chains, from McDonald’s to Starbucks in the market. 

Apart from this, the US-based technology research company Technavio has released its report on the on-demand food delivery services market, and it is poised to grow by USD 104.45 billion during 2019-2023, progressing at a CAGR of over 15% during the same forecast period.

In this rapidly consolidating food delivery app market, you need to advance the app according to the trending technology, to stand the other side of the competition. Let’s have a look at the top 10 trends in the on-demand food delivery industry.

The food delivery medium:

With the help of technology, the future of the food delivery industry will deliver the food via robot, drone, parachute, etc. The best part of these delivery methods is that, they come with their own tracking system which allows users to track their orders easily. 

Melbourne-based Jafflechutes introduced the first-ever float-down eatery. Food delivery through parachute will become the norm in the future. The system has successfully tested with Jafflechutes delivering toasted sandwiches to customers by mini parachute. When customers order their sandwiches, they are asked to wait at the drop location, and at the given time, customers will see the parachute-drop and can catch the package. The company is now working on developing the food delivery tracking system so that the customers can know the exact time of the food delivery.

Eat24 created a custom food delivery robot in association with Marble and Yelp, which is said to be the next big thing. The food delivery robot is about the size of a coffee table and is equipped with a 3D map of the city, sensors, and advanced cameras, which allows the food delivery robot to determine the routes and select the optimized route based on traffic to avail customers the food delivery on-time. The robot automatically selects the most accurate route based on its wheel’s capabilities to avoid entities like bumps, cars, humans, pets, cycles, or other delivery robots.

Zomato is an India-based restaurant aggregator and food delivery startup, which has successfully tested its custom hybrid drone food delivery technology. Drone food delivery is the best way to beat the heavy traffic and deliver food on time. Zomato reduced its current average delivery time of 30 minutes to 15 minutes through this smart solution. 

Multi-delivery channels:

A user-friendly food delivery service is the need of an hour to retain customers. The goal of any food delivery service should be to simplify the online food ordering process and optimize the delivery process. The future of the food delivery industry will see the infusion of new delivery channels for the same reasons.

A glimpse of it is already visible. Recently, Pizza Hut has developed an in-car food ordering system that allows users to buy pizzas while on the road, through which one can place an order by voice and eliminates the need to check the screen, by collaborating with Visa and Accenture.

Domino’s Pizza has partnered with social media giant Twitter and created a platform that allows users to order pizza by simply tweeting the ‘pizza’ emoticon through their custom pizza Twitter profile on Domino’s online delivery service by linking their Twitter account and saving their default order as ‘Easy order.’

People having smart TVs now can order food while bingeing movies and Netflix. Papa John’s Pizza has merged with Apple TV that allows users to browse its entire menu, view order history, customize the order, and place the final order.

➣ Explore new domains:

To increase the exposure and expand your market you can explore the different prospects in the new domain that will ensure a huge audience hit.

➣ Food waste management apps:

As per the researches, almost 35% of the food produced around the world gets wasted. The app-based startups can solve this problem by launching the food waste apps, that tackle this leftover food and provide it to the needy at a lower price. 

Food for All is a similar app offering unsold meals from local restaurants or cafes with a 50% discount, with which one can grab a delicious dinner for $3. Here, the user needs to place an order through an app and takeaway from the restaurant at a given time. 

Food Rescue is the US-based volunteer-driven platform determined to food rescue movements. It supplies over 50 million food-insecure Americans with fresh food from restaurants and grocery stores. 

➣ Pet food delivery apps:

Almost 68% of American families own a pet and over 40 percent of Americans are dependent on online food purchases. Pet food delivery apps are prevalent among the people who are looking for a complete convenient, customizable option, and healthy treats for friends. This increasing demand for pet food has given birth to the number of pet food delivery apps in recent times.

Monster Pet Supplies has launched its pet food delivery app in the UK to offer a hassle-free shopping experience. The app also offers free delivery and order scheduling in case of repeat delivery.

➣ Kitchen display system:

Kitchen Delivery System is an information display screen present in the kitchen backend area. This device directly gets information regarding orders from the restaurant admin panel, which reduces the communication gap and speed up the delivery process.

The latest KDS can get inputs from both the panels and inventory details will also be displayed on the screen so as to decide on the menu. This will increase the overall efficiency irrespective of the type of business model.

➣ Ghost kitchens/Virtual kitchens:

The virtual kitchen is a unique concept introduced by Uber. Uber Eats lists new eateries, snacks, and meals that are only available on their app. This way, UberEats is helping restaurants to dodge the expenses of starting a new physical place by providing convenience to use their kitchen space to serve extra meals.

In the near future not only the ghost kitchens will go mainstream, but mobile kitchens will emerge as well. Take Zume, for example, which launched Zume’s mobile kitchen fleet. Pizza Hut also unveiled a mobile pizza factory prototype last year.

As consumers are mostly relying on food delivery apps, new methods for getting food closer to the end customer is going to evolve. Mobile kitchens will be able to move to where customer demand is highest and meet changing consumer preferences. 

➣ Modern customers:

Your on-demand food delivery app must be based on the target audience. The millennials are said to be the highest consumers of prepared food services. According to reports, more than 60% of millennials visit quick-service restaurants for takeouts or order online for food delivery. 

Keeping this in mind your app should be built in such a way that accommodates their requirements, which include gamification, one-step checkout, instant delivery, effortless ordering, and an advanced delivery tracking system.

➣ Hybrid cloud approach:

Cloud computing is a boon to the on-demand industry. Since a lot of user data is involved in this service, there is no better way to store it than the cloud. Now, hybrid cloud technology has come to the fore, which is nothing but an enhanced version of the cloud. 

In a hybrid cloud approach, more emphasis is given on data security and safety. The fluctuations in data transfer and scale the business can also be handle effortlessly using a hybrid cloud. 

➣ 5G service:

Latency is the time taken to exchange data packets between any two devices, and the lesser the latency, the more is the network speed. 5G is said to have the lowest latency so far and it is expected to be made mainstream by the end of 2020. 

This can substantially lower the speed at which delivery agents are assigned and orders approved by the restaurants. Real-time delivery updates will become more accurate.

➣ Crypto food orders

The rise of blockchain technology will bring a new service niche in the future: crypto food orders. By using cryptocurrencies for orders, companies can eliminate fraudulent activities and enhance the overall UX. 

The food delivery companies that are supporting crypto payments today, are Papa John’s Pizza, Feastly, Lobster Gram, Levy Restaurants, BlockFood, Ufoodo, and Takeaway.com. They use smart contracts to provide transparent transactions. 

➣ Big data

Big data will revolutionalize food delivery services and make them more efficient. Food providers can collect and analyze a huge scope of data including traffic on the road, the impact of temperature on the food, market trends, customer behavior, feedback, and reviews. This way food delivery companies can accurately estimate the delivery time and immediately react to customer complaints, if arises. 

How we can help you to develop on-demand food delivery app

As the food delivery businesses are mushrooming all over, Coruscate will help you build the outstanding food delivery app, with our immense experience of delivering app in the same industry all over the world. 

Partner with Coruscate and you will be able to integrate all the best features or create a few new ones to beat this cut-throat competition. If the idea of a food delivery app business is simmering in your head, all you need to do is contact us. Our team of engineers will get back to you with a customized solution, live demo, and personalized quotations for your idea.

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In recent times, the food delivery service has transformed from an auxiliary service to an essential service. One in every five smartphone users has at least one food delivery app installed on it. Even a lot of restaurants are now solely dependent on it for their business-volume and revenue. All this speaks a lot about the popularity and growing market for on-demand food delivery service. Let’s check it out the newest ordering methods in the USA since covid-19:

Food delivery platforms such as GrubHub or DoorDash, allow customers to view menus and place orders from different restaurants with no extra costs, door-step delivery. Google has also teamed up with companies like GrubHub, to allow customers to place an order directly from the Google Maps app. 

Fast-food restaurants in the USA, like Shake Shack and Sheetz convenience stores have also launched their mobile apps where customers can place their orders in advance. Domino’s has also introduced ordering via text, smartwatch, Amazon Echo app, or its zero clicks required app. 

Innovative ways of Food delivery in social distancing times:

Since we all know and now the WHO has predicted that this social distancing era will not end very soon, food delivery companies are already experimenting with new technological ways to deliver food in new normal via parachutes, drones, or robots to avoid direct human contacts.  

Let’s have a look at how the food delivery companies are dealing with this no-contact delivery situation: 

⮞ Artificial Intelligence:

Johnson-Roberson is co-founder of Refraction AI, is one of the fastest-growing startups that aim to deliver food in the tamper-proof compartment of a robot on wheels. Some big players are also entering this business,  such as Amazon (Amazon Scout), Postmates, etc. 

Milton Keynes (a town in the northwest of London) and George Mason University in Virginia, use the Starship Technologies Robots to fetch groceries and meals. Hungry folks in California and Denver receive their food through Kiwibot. 

Johnson-Roberson’s team has designed REV-1 robots that operate in the bike and car lanes so that the bots need not use the sidewalk right of way. 

In China, the delivery app Meituan Dianping has launched its autonomous delivery robots for the first time. Starship has also expanded its delivery area in Milton Keynes to offer service to the additional 180,000 people. 

Kiwibot has added face masks, gloves, and hand sanitizer to its regular menu of takeout food options to ensure the safe delivery of food.

⮞ Delivery through Drones: 

Delivery service through drones has begun many years ago when the Tacocopter bringing tacos to the customer in San Francisco. Burrito Bomber and trial of the Domicopter by Domino’s in the UK happened in the same period. The drones can make the deliveries within minutes, but they carry limited weight per order. 

According to the recent report by Bloomberg, Alphabet’s drone delivery service, Wing is seeing a big uptick in orders of the essentials such as medicine, baby food, toilet paper, toothpaste, canned tuna, etc., in the Christiansburg, Virginia. Wing claims that the volume of deliveries has doubled amid the pandemic. The Wing has its pivot projects in Australia as well as Helsinki, Finland.

Customers place the order through an app, a drone, then receives the message to fly to a delivery facility to pick up the orders packed in a specially designed cardboard carrier. The drone, then flies to its destination at an altitude of seven meters above the ground to deliver its cargo. Then the package is lowered and automatically released through the rope. There is no human contact involved throughout the process of delivery.

Wing works with Walgreens and FedEx to deliver household essentials. Now the local bakery Mockingbird Cafe is using Wing for delivering orders. A coffee shop named Burgh Coffee has also signed up for the Wing service to deliver its cold brew. 

Flytrex has also successfully launched its drone delivery service in Israel, North Dakota, and Iceland to quickly transport meals and other consumer goods to remote locations. 

How you can advance your food delivery apps during the times of no-contact delivery: 

⮞ Big Data: 

The first and foremost thing in running any delivery business is the customer experience. Big Data helps in enhancing the customer experience in the food delivery businesses by tracking customer behavior, such as customer preferences, average orders at a particular time, complaints, etc. 

Food delivery giants like Zomato, UberEats are also using big data to understand the latest trends and make necessary changes in the app or in the operations, so that the drivers, customers, and restaurants have a great experience while using their platform. 

⮞ Payment through Cryptocurrency:

If you devel a food delivery app, that can make the payment using cryptocurrency, it will be a uniques feature in the future to enhance the user experience. More than that, the cryptocurrency payments are highly secure, so no fraud can happen while making the payment. 

⮞ Eco-friendly packaging/Green packaging: 

Today, customers are becoming more environment-conscious than ever and expect eco-friendly and zero-waste packaging. 

Fast-food giant McDonald’s is already on it and will go 100% recyclable packaging by 2025. Many European delivery service giants have launched reusable cotton bags for delivery. UberEats has cut down on disposable utensils/straws. 

⮞ Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality:

AR/VR helps brands to increase social engagement with their customers by uploading live videos on social media or delivery apps. It is an important aspect to look out for food delivery businesses in the coming days.

This feature is the best opportunity to increase mobile food ordering. Customers can see delicious burgers, pizza, and other foods floating into their mouths using their mobile camera. 

JustEat is the best example of using AR features to promote food offerings. 

Advanced features to use in the food delivery app:

⮞ Account creation:

The user accounts need to have all the essential details, should be able to accommodate multiple addresses, keep the records of the user history to make each and every account unique. As it will help in creating customized promotions and maintaining smart analytics. 

The account creation has to be simple and easy for the user. You can also consider giving the users an option to create an account using credentials, like Google or Facebook. 

⮞ Digitized restaurant menu:

Enlisting the restaurants is not enough, but digitizing and updating the menu, according to the prices and availability of each item is important. The restaurant-lists and menus need to be managed with a robust database, preferably cloud, as this would ensure minimal downtime as well as quick contingencies. 

⮞ Search and filter option:

When customers open a food ordering app, they are mostly sure about the type of cuisine they want to have, so if you provide a search or a filter option or both, it makes the order experience efficient. The filtering can be extended to multiple aspects, such as veg/non-veg, ratings, feedback, estimated delivery time/delivery costs, availability of a dish, etc. 

⮞ Payment:

You can avail users multiple payment methods, including cash on delivery, in-built wallets, credit cards/debit cards, Braintree, PayPal, or other forms of internet banking. 

⮞ Live delivery tracking:

With the help of GPS and mapping/navigation tools, you can offer real-time tracking of the order delivery to the customers.

⮞ Push notifications: 

You can keep the customers updated about the delivery, offers, promotions, etc. using SMS and Push Notifications. 

⮞ Ratings and feedbacks: 

The feedback mechanism keeps the food delivery service democratic. It helps enhance customer experience by sharing their experience and service providers can modify their services accordingly. 

⮞ Offers:

The discounted coupons or other offers help service providers in retaining its customers, incentivizing the loyal customers, and delighting the new customers to use the platform.

Summing up:

Food delivery applications are much more than just a convenient tool for people to use for placing and tracking orders, it is also a powerful marketing tool for restaurants to reach new customers and ensure their loyalty. 

As the food delivery businesses are mushrooming all over, the customers are becoming more demanding about getting better service and offers. Make sure your food delivery app is easy to use for placing and tracking orders, or communicating with the executives. 

If you hire the right application development company, then you will be able to integrate all the best features or create a few new ones to beat the competition. Coruscate is here to help you with having immense experience of development in the same industry all over the world. 

If the idea of a food delivery app business is simmering in your head, all you need to do is contact us. Our team of engineers will get back to you with a customized solution, live demo, and personalized quotations for your idea.

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This week, Latin America based leading food delivery company iFood and Hero-owned food delivery company Domicilios.com have declared their merger. The merger still needs regulatory approval, will be expected to take on Bogota based hometown leading company Rappi Inc. Rappi just last year received an investment of $1 billion from Japanese conglomerate SoftBank and became the largest Latin American venture. 

Why global companies are more interested in expanding the business to Latin America?

Certainly, a combination of many factors makes Latin  America a perfect market. Let’s take a brief overview of all the factors.

• Income disparity:

Though wage disparity in Latin America has improved over a couple of years it is still significant. According to the World Economic Forum, the richest 10% of people of Latin America are holding  71% of the region’s wealth. As a result of this inequality coupled with the latest mobile technology, digital on-demand services have got popularity.

• Metropolitan population:

From 47 megacities in the world, 6 are found in Latin America: Sau Paulo, Mexican city, Rio de Janeiro, Bogota, Buenos Aires, Lima. Since people of metropolitan cities are exposed to urban lifestyle enables delivery companies to focus on a particular area as a startup and then expand gradually from city centers outskirts. These efforts of companies lead them the growth in the region.

• Infrastructure:

Since the region is lacking effective public transport infrastructure encourage people to depend on the private mode of transportation which leads to heavy traffic problems. This is the major factor for rising on-demand delivery apps. 

On-demand delivery companies have taken advantage of this traffic congestion and offer speedy delivery by motorcycle, bicycle or walking. This has also reduced the overhead costs of companies. The average delivery charges for a Rappi order is US$1. 

• Technical infrastructure and VC investment:

The technology industry of Latin America is thriving as consumers are coming digital through apps and entrepreneurs are grabbing that opportunity and offers the connectivity. 

In the first half of 2019 VC investment in Latin American startups was totaled USD 2.6 billion. Technology is capturing every industry in Latin America from banking and education to travel and food delivery.

Sustainability of the Latin American market opportunity:

Despite all the current opportunities visible in on-demand delivery businesses in Latin America, the question of sustainability and profitability still remains unresolved.

There are many food delivery apps already holding a significant market share in Latin America. But Softbank’s billion-dollar investment on Rappi and Uber is also showing an interest in Cornershop are signs that the global delivery giants are interested in the region as well.

The on-demand industry will undoubtedly grow exponentially in Latin America. Powerful global players can surely overtake the market with their experience and local players can use region familiarity and local support to not only be the go-to option for consumers but to run profitable and sustainable regional businesses.

How Covid-19 affected the Latin American food delivery market?

The covid-19 outbreak has infected more than 1000,000 people across the globe. To contain this pandemic suspending public activities, allowing work from home and app-based delivery are the common steps that many countries in the world are taking. Latin American countries are no exception to this.

Figures show that Rappi is having almost 200,000 delivery people in nine Latin American countries and seen a 30% increase in deliveries as of mid-march. Most of them are supermarket orders and pharmacy orders. The company has seen a 28% rise in only pharmacy orders in Colombia after the pandemic. 

Brazilian food app iFood delivers ready-to-eat meals said it is too early to measure the impact of the pandemic on its business.

Market challenges in Latin America:

Though Latin America has a wide opportunity for on-demand businesses to grow there are still some challenges that need to keep in mind to establish a profitable business there.

• Cutthroat competition is a big challenge for both local and global players in Latin America. But consumer preferences and digital behavior vary significantly across the region which creates a great opportunity for any startup to be popular in less time. 

• There is poor address calibration and local businesses in less developed areas do not even disclose important information such as operating hours or contact details makes it more time-consuming and difficult to operate efficiently. But crowdsourcing can be helpful to overcome this challenge. 

• Cash is still a prominent payment option in Latin America, so delivery companies needed to establish cash payments as an option as nearly 30% of current on-demand orders are paid by cash only.

• Ghost kitchens aka dark kitchens are most prevalent over there. These are just commercial cooking spaces that provide all the resources to restaurants that needed to cook up more food and deliver it at low prices. DoorDash has opened a ghost kitchen for many restaurants in California. 

• Glovo has launched 7 ghost kitchens across Spain, Argentina, Peru, Italy, and Ukraine. It is also testing dark supermarkets aka SuperGlovos to deliver bread, milk, cereal, and drinks in just 20 minutes. 

Overcoming these challenges may help you to compete in the Latin American food delivery market. Existing delivery services have explored unique ways to deal with these obstacles, but continuous innovation is crucial in this region. The secondary spaces can help reduce congestion and may open the doors for the food industry to operate their businesses exclusively through delivery platforms.  

How Coruscate can help you to start your own food delivery business in Latin America:

Coruscate always practice on the best technologies and accommodate the best features in the on-demand food delivery app. Our team of developers and designers are highly talented to build the whole IT infrastructure for the food delivery app as per your need. 

We offer groundbreaking features such as social media login and profile creation, GPS functionality to get precise location, etc. to make your app stand out in the competition. We also offer integrated artificial intelligence (AI) to make an app more reliable at predicting these things and have your users attracted to great deals and promotions.

Adding these smart features to your on-demand food delivery app can help you in getting more customers and keeping them loyal. We are the experts in the field of developing on-demand apps with the latest technology and amazing user interface. 

So if you are looking for the on-demand food delivery app development, feel free to contact us for a free consultation. Our customizable pricing structure will avail you to save a few bucks. Personalized quotes and app demo is also available.

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]]> Unless you are living in the safe bombproof military bunker, you must have heard and read a lot on how coronavirus is bringing the global economy on its knees. Though governments of all countries are working ceaselessly to rescue the global economy from the coronavirus outbreak, different industries are losing a heap of money with every passing day. According to a report by the UN Conference on Trade and Development, the global economy may see an impact of $1-2 trillion due to coronavirus outbreak. And the fact that the coronavirus vaccine won’t be market-ready before Christmas 2020 also influences the performance of the market severely.

However, the coronavirus outbreak has opened up many windows of opportunities for the on-demand food delivery industry. With government authorities imposing rules to shut down cafes and restaurants, people are opting more for on-demand food delivery apps. According to CNBC, Grab’s food delivery business in Singapore has increased by 20% in the last few days as people do not prefer to go out during coronavirus outbreak.

However, not putting delivery workers and customers in direct physical contact has later emerged as the challenge. But delivery companies like Postmates have found the way to deal with that challenge by introducing a few more features in their delivery apps.

Postmates on 6th March 2020 has added a new feature in its app and initiated ‘non-contact’ delivery. The major ambition behind the introduction of ‘non-contact’ delivery was reducing the spread of the coronavirus when its contract workers are delivering ordered meals.

To actualize the ‘non-contact’ delivery, Postmates has added a new feature called Drop Off options which facilitates users to specify how they would like to receive the delivery.

Not only Postmates but Chinese food delivery platform Meituan Dianping has also introduced the same ‘non-contact’ delivery, according to Bloomberg.

So, if you also want to leverage this opportunity created by the coronavirus outbreak in the on-demand food delivery market by developing an on-demand food delivery app, you should consider extra features to deliver the food packages that are coronavirus-free.

In this blog, we will discuss the profitable and result-oriented ways to develop and run an on-demand food delivery business amid the coronavirus outbreak. We will also discuss the steps you can take to deal with any other healthcare and economic crisis in the future. But before all of these, let’s first discuss the basics of the on-demand food delivery app and business.

The on-demand food delivery business basics you should know to move advance

• The on-demand food delivery app is one of the three types of food delivery apps. These types of food delivery apps include an app for takeaways, an on-demand app for your own restaurant chain with your own delivery drivers, and an on-demand app for others’ restaurants with your delivery drivers. Among all of these, the on-demand app for others’ restaurants with your delivery drivers is the most profitable type of on-demand food delivery apps.
• You should opt for the gig economy model rather than hiring own delivery staff to reduce operating costs and resources by more than 30%.
• A single on-demand food delivery app consists of two different apps with different features for drivers and users. A dashboard for admin is also part of the on-demand food delivery app.
• On-demand food delivery apps are making a huge sum of profit by introducing premium services, taking a commission on every order from listed restaurants, enabling restaurants to give the ads by paying money, taking a rating-based commission, and giving its online space to other companies for ads.
• Top on-demand food delivery apps are offering remarkable discounts on every order to build a strong user base. But they add distance fees if the delivery distance is higher than 3-4 kilometers.
• Aligning supply (availability of drivers) with the demand (food orders placed by users) is the major challenge all on-demand food delivery businesses are facing. However, companies have started using AI technology to predict the demand and satisfy it more effectively.
• To encourage delivery drivers to serve in areas where demand is high, food delivery companies offer them a boost in their per delivery earning. They apply the same strategy even when it is raining as the number of food orders rises significantly during rainy weather.
• Big food delivery companies form many dedicated teams and build centers to process applications of delivery drivers, distribute food delivery bags, and solve any query of the delivery drivers.
• Food delivery apps track the speed of the delivery driver while he is delivering to make sure that the driver with the ‘bicycle delivery account’ is not using a car to deliver food.
• Almost all companies deposit weekly earnings of drivers and restaurants in their bank accounts on a fixed day of a week. Whereas, a few companies let drivers and restaurant owners claim their earned money any day, any time.
• All on-demand food delivery businesses are promoting transparency with an extensive rating system – delivery drivers, restaurant owners, and users can rate each other.

So, now when you know the basics of the food delivery app, let’s move ahead and discuss advance – how to build an on-demand food delivery app during the coronavirus outbreak to leverage the high demand.

The advance – how to build an on-demand food delivery app during the coronavirus outbreak?

Following is the step-by-step guide to plan, develop, and deploy an on-demand food delivery app during a pandemic.

Step 1:

Do not aim to just develop an on-demand food delivery app to earn money from it during a coronavirus outbreak. Instead, focus on long-term goals and use the surge created by the coronavirus outbreak in the on-demand industry to build a strong initial user base.

This means the first step should be all about defining your short-term and long-term requirements & goals and drafting the business plan. Your business plan must include everything from locations, business models, targeted users, app feature set, marketing campaigns, and legal concerns.

Here, you should also identify the ways to ensure the virus-free food package delivery.

Step 2:

Approach an on-demand food delivery app development company, carefully!

Amid the rising fear of coronavirus, different countries are locking down the cities and asking companies to shut down their offices or implement work-from-home policy. So, if you end up outsourcing your project to the app development company of the highly affected country, you will not get excellent output and on-time app delivery.

Moreover, you should also take app development and the delivery time into account as you only have a time window of 60 – 80 days to launch the food delivery app. If you miss this time window, you will miss the business opportunity created by a coronavirus.

Step 3:

After you approach an on-demand app development company, share your business plan or business requirements so that their team of business experts can validate your idea and identify the scope.

Since consultation from experts plays a crucial role, talk to their business experts proactively and discuss everything from the business model, app design, feature set, legality, and marketing campaigns.

Step 4:

Most of the app development companies give you an update on the ongoing app development process daily or weekly. So, whenever they give you the update or show you the basic design and working of the app, do not turn blind eye to it. Ask them straightaway to change the design or feature if you do not like it.

Moreover, keep an eagle eye on the coronavirus outbreak and with the evolving scenario, make necessary changes in your app features, business model, and marketing campaign. After all,  you have to utilize the business opportunity created by the coronavirus outbreak to give an initial boost to your food delivery business.

Step 5:

At last, when your hired app development company delivers you the developed app, make sure it does not have any bugs. Because if there are many bugs in your app and you deploy it without solving them, it affects the user experience. And if your IT partner solves those bugs, it delays the app deployment. Meaning, none of the options is helping you here, except a bug-free app straight from the app development company!

Step 6:

When it comes to running the marketing campaign, be very precise. Do not promote all of your app features. Instead, identify the 2-3 most unique features which can attract more users amid coronavirus outbreak and promote those features only.

Moreover, focus on short-term goals, try to build an initial user base, and do not pay much heed to long-term goals as of now. For instance, you should focus on ‘non-contact’ delivery as it is trending right now rather than focusing on any other common features of the mobile app.

The future – how to sustain the on-demand food delivery app?

The coronavirus isn’t going to stay here forever. But your app will! Thus, it is a vitally important step to adopt the new changes of the on-demand app market in the upcoming future. If you fail to put your app parallel to the market changes,  your app won’t simply survive long.

The following are the top two ways to sustain the on-demand food delivery app.

• First of all, you should understand the fact that on-demand app development isn’t the one time process. With every new trend and market change, you have to update your app by adding new features. Not only this, but you have to change the feature set of your on-demand app when you introduce a new business model. Thus, you should always hire an on-demand app development company that stands beside you as long as you continue running your food delivery business. Having an on-demand food delivery company always ready for you makes you act quickly to the market change. They make you seize the new business opportunity way before your competitors.
• Your goals should not be limited to build an initial user base. You should also work on the strategies to keep those initial users into your business sales life cycle even after the end of the coronavirus outbreak. For that, you have to promote transparency, solve their queries quickly, offer remarkable user experience, understand their requirements, and level up the feature set.

How much does it cost to build an on-demand food delivery app to deliver food amid the coronavirus outbreak?

Coruscate is the top on-demand app development company that has developed many on-demand apps for different industries. We accommodate 100+ app developers, app designers, legal experts, and business experts who all work together to make your business journey painless.

We are headquartered in one of the less affected countries from coronavirus and thus, our productivity is still at its peak.

To make you deploy the app in the market quickly, we have implemented a rapid agile app development technique. With this technique, we are now able to develop a bug-free app within 45 days.

We also become the business strategic partner of the startups and help them to solve any technical or non-technical business queries even after the app deployment.

So, to get a personalized quote and share your requirements, please feel free to contact us. Our one of the senior business experts will revert you within 24 -36 hours with free app demo and free consultation.

Note: We do not make clones of any exact application, clone means to us is how better we can execute your app idea with existing app features and experience.

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]]> https://www.coruscatesolution.com/on-demand-food-delivery-app-top-features-to-consider/ Tue, 25 Feb 2020 12:26:34 +0000 https://www.coruscatesolution.com/?p=22360 HungryPanda, a food delivery service specifically targeted towards Chinese communities located globally, received $20Mn in funding. The company has plans of using all the funds in hiring, product development and…

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]]> HungryPanda, a food delivery service specifically targeted towards Chinese communities located globally, received $20Mn in funding. The company has plans of using all the funds in hiring, product development and global expansion.

Some Facts About the Company

 

• The company was created with a difference in food delivery service. While most food delivery services targeted anyone with the interest of availing them HungryPanda was targeting a specific community.
• The platform has customized the platform for the Chinese language users alone. They were targeting people and business communities interested in ordering Chinese food and groceries and who belonged to the community.
• Along with the first generation locals, they have also targeted the second generation migrants and other Chinese speaking people.
• With this niche, they have managed to target a good amount of people, and have widened their reach as desired.
• They have also implemented in-app payment methods such as Alipay and WeChat pay.
• They have profitable ventures in UK and New York City, and are all set to expand their reach and network.

In the era dominated by on-demand economy, it has become important for your business to carve the niche that HungryPanda has defined for itself.

The online food delivery market will be a $200Bn segment by 2025.

Revenue in the Online Food Delivery segment amounts to US$122,739m in 2020.

Since 2014, digital ordering has grown by 300%. In a span of seven years from 2011, the total percentage of online orders has tripled, from 22% to 68%.

These statistics and the food companies fighting in this niche prove that it is going to be difficult and will require hard work to carve a niche and differentiate yourself.

When you think of on-demand food delivery services, you need to think through the features that will spice them up and make them tasty enough for the customers to choose.

Unique Features to Spice Up your App

 

#1 Scheduling the Order

 

Creating your cart, filling it with the right dishes and then ordering those dishes should be convenient. You should not make your users go through a massive learning to place their order.

Intuitive designs can help create the carts with ease, and allow the users to order their food fast.

So, keep the menu easy to access, add a little drop-down that can take the users to the part of the menu they are interested in, and making adding the items easy. In some cases, you can even recommend food that accompany with the user’s order so that they can add the item fast, and need not think extensively on what to order.

You can even offer customizations to the order to improve their experience. If you want, add some “no charge cancellation” to the menu, making it an experiential conversion for them.

#2 Alerts and Notifications

 

Every single moment from the order to the acceptance to the payments made should be sent via alerts in real-time. this will increase the engagement of the user with your app, and increase their time spent.

You can even tell the user if the delivery executive has picked up the order or have they reached the place. This kind of real-time updates will help the user keep track of their order.

Apart from the order related messages, you can send alerts related to the latest happening in your app, which includes seasonal discounts, changes in the interface and other relevant updates. The more you inform the user, the more engagement you will experience.

#3 Real-time Tracking

 

Once the food is picked up from the restaurant, the user should be able to track the movement of the delivery executive. This will help them know when to expect the delivery executive at their gate. You can also include the movement of the delivery executive to the restaurant in the GPS tracking system. This option allows the user to track the process, and know every detail in real-time. in case the user is out, they will know exactly how soon they have to reach home to be able to receive the order. It saves a lot of their time.

#4 In-app Payments

 

The user should be able to pay for the food during the order placement via the app. This increases the convenience, and they don’t need to keep tab of the payment when they receive the order. Most of you wont have the required cash but, you might be able to pay via your cards or wallet. That’s why in-app payment is an important and necessary feature to add to your on demand food delivery app.

#5 Reviews and Ratings

 

Why is this part of the must-have feature list? For one, you may be able to help another person know whether the app is worth investing in, and whether the restaurant food is good or not. Apart from this, you will also know how good the delivery executive is in the job. The delivery executives are also paid incentives for the reviews and ratings they receive.

This is an important feature as it helps improve the app and its features.

Why Collaborate with Coruscate?

 

If you are planning on a food delivery app development, then it is time for you to collaborate with Coruscate to achieve the right approach and profitable app solution.

• We have a defined process, which sets us apart. We don’t just grab an app solution that matches your needs. we conduct a thorough research, identify your needs, understand the current situation of your business, analyse the market, define the budget and finally derive the app solution that matches your requirement.
• Our team is not just passionate about app development, but has the desired experience and expertise. We have people who have knowledge, and keep themselves abreast with latest trends, updates and other aspects. We continuously strive to bring to you the best solutions with our capabilities and utilizing the endless opportunities that come our way.
• With our experience, we can call ourselves the food delivery app industry experts. We understand the business, and how it functions like no-one else. We have identified the opportunities and also defined the ways in which you can improve your revenue in this segment. As a result, collaborating with us will help you get the desired ROI and results.
• We don’t just deliver an app solution based on our understanding of your needs. we set your business from the scratch and help you manage the market for food delivery app solutions. We even help you get access to investors and move your way up with funding. We identify the right growth hacks for you.

Get ready to move up the ladder with your on-demand food delivery app the Coruscate way.

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