How to create a successful Grocery Home Delivery App?

In recent time, we have an app for almost everything. Want a reminder to take medicine after every four hours, you have an app, want to make a customized video for a friend’s birthday bash, you have an app for that as well.

So, the mobile app development industry has made our lives comfortable and interesting as never before. 

When every task can be carried out via mobile apps, then why how would online grocery industry lag behind. As lives are becoming more occupied due to digital evolution, nobody has enough time to go for traditional grocery shopping. Rather, people are rapidly switching to online grocery delivery apps to get the stuff online.

Still not convinced? Let’s have a look at few stats that clearly show the growing preference of people towards online grocery shopping.

• As per Statista reports, online grocery sales reached 17.5 billion US dollars in the year 2018 and are projected to cross 30 billion US dollars by 2021.

• As of 2015, a share of only 8% of consumers went for online grocery shopping, and by 2017 the rate grew to 30%, and the hype is still on.

In major developed countries including US, UK, France, and Japan, almost one-fourth shoppers have already started going for online grocery shopping, and 55% are planning to go for it in the coming time. So, you have a clear idea of how online grocery market is expanding rapidly.

And seeing this rapid switch of users from traditional to online grocery shopping, industry owners are making a move towards mobile app development industry to get grocery delivering apps for their business.

It’s a worthy idea for now because customers no more need to visit stores and even your business has extra benefits- like you don’t need to hire a staff to entertain the customers and spend extra time, costs, efforts, and resources for the same. So, relying on an ideal mobile app development vendor can help you in taking your business to the next level.

Before you start looking for a mobile app development provider, you must be aware of the necessary features and functionalities that every grocery delivery app must have. So, without wasting any more time, let’s have a look what all features you need to include in your grocery delivery app.

Quick search and cart option: To offer a user-friendly experience to your customers, go for an app that offers easy to search functionality so that users can easily find the items and products they are looking for. Moreover, add the ‘Cart’ option that is easy to navigate so that the users don’t get lost while finding the cart.

Add ‘Favorites’ and ‘Popular' Category: To optimize your sales and offer user convenience, you must add ‘Favorite’ category that lists up all the items that the user has frequently been ordering. You can even add ‘Popular’ category to share about which all items are new, and other people have bought recently.

Repeat Orders: Majority of the users have a particular list of items which they generally order every week or month, so you can add “Repeat a past order” functionality so that users don’t have to search the items again and add it to the cart.

Deals and offers: You need to have a separate section in your grocery delivery app that can display deals and offers of the time, prefer adding this feature on your home page so that it is clearly visible to the users. Moreover, you can send timely notifications to the users informing them about the heavy discounts via email, text messages, or push notifications.

Secure & Easy Payments: First thing you need to ensure in your app is to have multiple payment gateways and methods. Secondly, make sure that all the payment gateways you are using are safe and secure because you simply can’t compromise with customer data and information at any cost.

Seamless Order Tracking: Make sure that your grocery delivery app has a properly working order tracking functionality so that users can easily track the items they have ordered and get an idea about the arrival date and time. 

That’s not all; you try adding a support system so that in case a customer has any queries he can reach your assistants to get the desired information. One thing is for sure, online grocery shopping has a long way to go because- as lives are becoming busier, more and more people will switch to online grocery shopping. So, waste no more time, lookup for a reliable mobile app development company and get your app done now.