Currently, the food ordering trade is thriving due to the main reason that everyone loves food as well as they desire to save the good amount in every order they place. Apart from this, hassle-free doorstep delivery convenience has boomed the on-demand food delivery business.
At present, the market is filled with numerous food ordering apps and web portals like Swiggy, Food Panda and Big Bites etc. that gauge ahead of the food habits of every person around the globe. If you as an entrepreneur or a firm desire to invest in this thriving business, the preeminent means to acquire this is to go for an online food delivery portal development. Here’s all you should know:
Choosing Technology Stack:
The first step towards food delivery portal development is choosing the right technologies. As per the budget, serving area, website traffic and preference, your choice may differ. We have developed two portals recently, both using different technologies:
You can check out the La Favorita Delivered and Simpobox to check their innovative designs and extensive features. Coming back to the point, you can consult with our developments and business expert to understand, which technology stack will do the wonders for you.
How to Attract Buyers Business?
To start with, initially online food ordering portal has to collaborate with the local restaurants to prepare a database to offer an ample range of cuisines to users. After that, you can opt for developing an eye-catching and user-friendly online food ordering portal.
To attract more and more users, as well as for better publicity and marketing, it is necessary that the all the restaurants must be featured on home page of your portal. Try to add the most famous and people’s favorite restaurants.
Following to that, the user should be able to choose the preferred restaurant plus the dish. You can add location tracker to make the delivery easy.
Additionally, keeping the best methods for paying the bill online is another good way to engage customers. After the payment procedure, the order is delivered to the user and the profit is distributed between the restaurant owner and portal owner.
Steps Involved in Developing Online Food Ordering Portal
- It may start with selecting location, if you are serving multiple cities or states.
- For login, one can go to Facebook or Gmail account or by getting and confirming OTP pin on mobile.
- After that, the portal should provide all available restaurants as per the location of the user or as per the preferred location of the user.
- The homepage will show all food items provided by the selected restaurants, after that user can select the desired items that can be shown in cart section where the user can select, edit or change the restaurant or selected food items.
- After the order is selected the user will pay for the same by clicking payment page and selecting the mode of payment such as Debit Card, PayTM, PayPal etc. Cash payment should be enabled too.
- Various web portal developers include review section get reviews from users. Furthermore, past order section is also included to keep track of users to make further deliverance easier.
- To get more users, the portal or restaurant owner should also be able to include various discounts.
Adding Sellers – How should it be done?
It will be tough if your portal updates everything manually. To run the portal appropriately, restaurant owners should have to register themselves and go to login process also.
Apart from this, you can ask them to submit the documents to prove their authenticity. Furthermore, each restaurant might set general information like their name, pictures, food images, logo and hours of operation etc. in profile section to create an account. Allowing the discount granting privileges to them will also be beneficial.
Main Features that are added to Portal
- User Home Screen
The screen will show the name of all the restaurants. It is necessary that the web developer can make the website simple and user-friendly so that user can easily make their choice.
- Menu Screen
The most important feature of online food ordering as it provides the list of food items available in listed restaurants from here users can choose their preferred food items.
- Shopping Cart Section
This section is prepared for running the order requests previous to giving the payment, in this section user can add or remove the food count.
- Restaurant Dashboard Section
The section provides the great option to restaurant owners keep track of user’s preference to get help in future deliverance.
- Real-time location tracking Section
This is a useful feature that a website developer should not miss. Through this feature user might track their order deliverance in actual time on the map as well as can get the evaluation for the same. The feature is also helpful for restaurant owners since they can also verify the deliverance position and notify the client in case of any unexpected traffic mishap on the way. Your online food corner should be able to utilise the real-time users’ location to confirm his or her obtainable close by restaurants, according to the location range. You should permit the user to modify the location area and range through a distance slider.
- Push Notifications Section
This section is necessary and web developer must add it, as the feature will push notification to users and restaurant owner about the order deliverance. It ensures better quality of service and timely updates.
- Payment System section
The developer can add various payment options by incorporating various third-party components like PayPal, PayTM and Braintree to make payment procedure hassle-free.
Additional feature that an web developer to your Food Delivery Portal
The web developers might also incorporate numerous additional features in the portal to get more users such as:-
- Lock Screen Widgets
- Coupon and Vouchers for more discount
- Smartwatch expansion
- Planned delivery and pick up
- Booking tables in close by restaurants etc.
Cost of Developing Online Food Delivery Portal
Web developers mainly charge on the hour basis for the portal development. As per the features you are willing to add, the cost of such projects may vary. On an average, a fully-fledged online food delivery web portal costs around 11k to 16k.
We Xtreem Solution, we undergo through in-depth market and requirement research process to know what it will take to build the next food delivery portal for your target audience. Consult with our experts to discuss in detail.
