How to Develop a Food Ordering/Delivery App like Talabat?
With the advanced technologies introduced, the food business is growing as a profitable business in today’s industry.
Many food ordering and delivery apps are popular and used most by the people as it saves them time and the customers can enjoy their food from their home. Due to the convenience feature, food ordering apps are becoming popular.
If you are planning to develop an app for the food niche, then it is the best time to introduce your application to your customers. Let’s discuss the features and strategies to develop this successful application.
About Talabat:
Founded in 2004 by Khaled Alotaibi and Abdulaziz Al Loughani, Talabat becomes a strong brand in food ordering app services. The app is founded in Kuwait and later on spread its locations to Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, UAE, Oman, Jordan, Egypt, etc., and becomes one of the best food apps in the Middle East. Also, the app receives millions of users per month. As per stats, the food market in UAE is increasing year by year.
Due to the busy schedule of the people and the importance of food apps in stats, many business entrepreneurs are started to target the food industry to make profits.
You can use this time and take this on-demand food ordering app like Talabat for your reference to build your foodservice application.
Why Talabat Becomes the Best Food App in UAE?
What makes this Talabat app so popular? We will discuss the importance in detail:
(1) All Cuisine Availability:
When talking about food ordering services, understanding the customer’s needs is the major process. The app should provide the requirements of the customers. In a food ordering app, the customer need is to have more cuisines like Asian, Arabian, Desserts, traditional foods, etc., By knowing these necessities, you can provide many options to your customers.
Talabat is also doing this process and provides various cuisines to their app users.
(2) Platform for Your Product:
The main goal of creating a food app is to provide food to the customers in their place. When ordering the food, the users can have different platforms like websites and mobile apps on Android and iOS, so that people will use your application based on their comfort platform.
Even though mobile apps are becoming popular than the website, having a business website is the basic and important thing; at the same time, creating an app suitable for all device screens (PC, mobile, tablet) is also considered.
Landing your applications on all platforms is a wise decision to receive more traffic, but if you are a beginner, start with the website and later move on to the Android app followed by an iOS app.
(3) Talabat’s Drone Delivery:
This is one of the most exciting features in Talabat (i.e.,) Drone Delivery, the food is delivered by the drone so that the people on beaches can also get their food from their locations.
Isn’t it interesting? You can also innovate different ideas like Talabat to provide your services and excite your users.
(4) Healthy Food Service:
On one hand, delivering various tasty cuisines to its users, the app also focuses on customer’s health. That’s why the users can find healthy and quality food on this application. Remember this while you create the application.
(5) Many Offers and Discounts:
Interesting offers and reasonable discounts are always having a special place in any kind of business to attract audiences.
With constant offers, Talabat encourages its app users to order more. This is one kind of marketing strategy that you can implement in your app to grow your app traffic.
Benefits of Creating Food Ordering App like Talabat:
Confused about whether to develop the app or not? See the advantages of creating this food ordering app:
(1) No Need for Phone Calls:
Some people are hesitant to make phone calls to order food and this problem is solved with the food app as the people can simply select their food from the interface and do their payment.
(2) Affordable Price:
Since various foods available and discounts are announced, people will find it cost-effective to order food online rather than getting food from restaurants.
(3) Home Delivery:
When people working on their busy schedule, the food delivery task takes less than a minute and the customers will enjoy the food from their place by doing their work.
(4) Multiple Payment Options:
Both the Cash on Delivery (COD) and online payment are useful for app users. Providing multiple payment methods is an important feature to make the user pay conveniently.
These are some of the main benefits of creating a food ordering app as the applies to the right goal.
Features to Develop Food Ordering App like Talabat:
When talking about features of the app, three panels are to be designed which we discuss now:
(1) Admin or Restaurant Panel:
This is the interface carried by either the app admin or restaurant owner. The features for this panel are:
> Login Feature: The login feature is a must for the admin to keep their app backend secure and to manage other panels.
> Manage Restaurant Order and Account: Since multiple small brands are partnered with the app, the admin can manage these accounts and decide the order acceptance and rejections.
> Payment: The payment received from the customers are maintained on the restaurant panel by the owner.
(2) User Panel:
> Register and Login: When the user first landed on your app, they should register by filling the form with details like name, email address, contact number, etc.,
After registering and login into the account, the user will reach the home page. User Interface (UI) design should be designed friendly and attractive to give the best user experience to the user.
> Edit Profile and Location: The profile of the user should be editable so that they can enter their address (location) to deliver the food and can change the location detail in the future.
> Menu, Filter, and Search: When the user searches for the different cuisines, having a menu option in the app is very useful to get their food easily. Also, search and filter options are used to select the needed food easily.
> ‘Add to Cart: This cart option will be helpful when users select many dishes at a time.
> Payment Section: This is where the user pays the amount either online or will select the COD method.
> Track Map for Delivery: After ordering food, the customer can track the delivery persons through the map.
> Review: The review section is the place where the user can know about the feedback about the app and food.
> Past Orders: The past order section contains all the previous orders by the user.
> Notifications: This notification feature can be enabled in the user panel so that the app upgrade information or any other details about the app feature can be conveyed to the app users on time.
(3) Delivery Person Panel:
> Login: The same log-in feature is also available for delivery persons to create a personal account (employee account) on the app.
> Order Request and Delivery: When the delivery person gets the order, they can accept and complete the delivery successfully.
> Order History: This history section will contain all the previous orders completed by the delivery person.
> Chat and Call: When the user tracks the delivery person’s location or this person doesn’t know the exact delivery location, the user and the delivery person can communicate either by chat or call to finish the food delivery.
> COD: If the user makes the COD method, the delivery person can get the amount and makes a note on the app on the wallet section to track the payment easily.
> GPS/ Map Tracking: This GPS/Map feature is important in the delivery person panel to track the customer location to deliver food.
These are the important features to be implemented in the food ordering app like Talabat.
If you are having more budget, then think about advanced AI features on the app like voice recognition, etc., Also the drone delivery features are considered to become unique from various competitors.
How Much Does It Cost to Develop a Food Ordering App?
The cost of the app depends on the following factors:
> Hiring Developers: Creating an app like Talabat is not a big deal when you have expert app developers. You can hire a web and mobile app developers at a reasonable price to develop the app. The cost of hiring the developers will depend on the total time of the app development
project and the location of the developer. For example, the developer in India is affordable than the developer in the USA.
> App Technology: From the many front-end and back-end technologies available, you can select the tech stack that suits your application. Some of the popular technology to refer to are Nodejs, Java, React js, Kotlin, Python, etc.,
> App Platform: As said, you can develop the website (if you are a beginner) or can create a mobile app on Android and iOS platforms.
These factors will decide the accurate cost for the food ordering/delivery application.
Final Words:
This guide will help you develop a food ordering app like Talabat from scratch. The food business is a profitable niche to consider at this time and you can start developing your app now.
At MAB Techno, you can find dedicated app developers to develop the app. Contact us now!
