Ten Essential Things which an ON Demand Food Delivery Mobile App Should Have ?

Dinning out in a restaurant has become a fashion these days as restaurant culture is getting popular by leaps and bounds. This has led to rise in food delivery apps usage among smart phone users, especially for millennial it is a must in their smart phone.

The other reason why the food delivery apps are so popular is not due to the fact that every body like to dine out or wants to eat in the comforts of their own home. These apps are very useful for the persons living away from their families and are alone and have no time to cook food for themselves due to their work priorities or elderly who carve for food varieties but are not in a position to go out  due to their health problems.  

For the above mentioned reasons more and more restaurants are opting for the Food delivery mobile app developed for their restaurant from Call +1(408)372-0967 Custom Mobile App Development Company. But often due to ignorance their food delivery apps are not perfect due to many essential things missing, and often cause embarrassment both to restaurant and the users of the app. Since I am in the field of app development I complied a list of ten most essential elements for the food delivery mobile app for restaurant, and I am sure that you as a restaurant owner or manager would see that these are present in your restaurant food delivery app for sure short success:

1.  Prime consideration should be Real time ordering and Monitoring: The main purpose of food delivery app is for delivering food any time and at any place.The app users should have the liberty to order food at any time and get it delivered to them. This is possible only if app has a mechanism of real time ordering and monitoring. The delivery tracking help customers, restaurant and delivery staff to track the order on real time basis with minute by minute via status updates and m.aps.

2. Should contain search bar for short listing of restaurants based on preferences: Your restaurant app needs a search bar powerful enough to list restaurant based on location to enable people to search cuisine area, rating and reviews, and preferences for finding vegan/non-vegan food. One should be able to find an ideal restaurant of his choice using sorting out methods and filters. These listings should be based on chosen criterion only.

3. App UI should be simple to enhance user experience: The app should have a aesthetic layout with simple UI, which should allow users to check out the restaurant, menus, food items, order status and delivery status also. The contact details in case of difficulty should be pre-set to help customers, restaurants, and delivery staff with one another at any time. Moreover customers should be able to post their ratings once the order is complete without any hassle.

4.  Secure and broader payment options: The payment integration platform should offer a range of payment options for customers through credit cards, net banking, UPI, wallets, cash on delivery (cod) and the other available practices in the area of app usage. Moreover the payment options should have to be secure through use of encrypted methods with very little problem on the part of user. Also restaurants should be able to send and receive payments in a secured and safe manner. You can take help of .to develop a secured and broader payment options included app for your restaurant.

5. Tracking of past orders history: Restaurant should be able to track past history so as to enable them to know what sells like hot cakes, and what are the preferences of a particular customers regarding their favourite food preferences. These app elements helps restaurants to focus upon their business, by make constant improves in the quality of food they serve, its taste etc. Customers should also track their previous orders so that they can order new items ever time as per their preferences.

6. Facility for Push notifications for orders: Push notifications helps the delivery people to remain updated regarding details, where to pick the order and where to deliver it. It also help restaurant to to know where the delivery people are and whether the order has been delivered or not. On the customer side they can inform restaurant that they have accepted the order or rejected due to some time lapse on the part of delivery personals.  

7. Registration process for restaurant and delivery staff should be strict: App registration of restaurant and delivery people should be strict and should not include too many in number otherwise the app will be heavy and more time is consumed for the delivery people to make registration of order. The delivery people should be able to log immediately anything about order takes place so as to avoid cancellation of orders due to late delivery.

8.  App should be able to handle multiple orders: App should be able to handle multiple orders and restaurants at a same time. This is made possible due to route optimization software use in app allowing the app users to get timely delivery of their orsders for small and large food giants like Uber eats and Zamato.

9.  Think of developing your app from SEO friendly perspectives also: Search engine optimization (SEO)  is a challenging job for companies offering route optimization solutions including the last mile food delivery application. Whether you are delivering within the local area in a city, hole city, state or the entire country? Is is possible for you to handle operation on a micro or on a macro level? Many problems are faced with food delivery software for creating last mile food delivery. So it is tough task to rank you app higher on Google amidst so many competitive apps and keeping your organic approach consistent through on-page and off page app content. Your app should also be able to gain on social media through the contents you post regularly on your social media business profiles if the same is SEO friendly.

10. Mobility within app should be consistent and Robust: The app users should go through with large number of screens to move on various fields of apps for ordering and tracking his order. He should be able to move with ease in the app back and forth with great ease. Otherwise it will leave the app user more frustrated. You should be able to cut down on UN-necessary screens and adding one which you should thing is of utmost importance. This will make the app more user friendly and chances of less app deletions.      

Besides the above essential elements that should be considered in food delivery app there are some other points that needs your attention and these are that app should have a wide bandwidth when scaling in terms of volume and there should be systematic training procedure for delivery staff about the app usage so that they can provide better service to users. This will reduce the loss of potential customers. You can also add other elements in the app through updates later on by experiencing and the feeling the difficulties you face with app use in your restaurant and customers feed backs. It is better to take services of Best Mobile App developers USA Call +1(408)372-0967 if you considering to develop an on-demand food delivery app for your food delivery concern. 

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