How to build a grocery shopping app like Instacart?

The tendency for delivery applications to undoubtedly dominate the market. As the business landscape has changed due to the pandemic crisis, people need to value the services they use without leaving their homes, at least not the grocery delivery. The virtues of online grocery shopping applications have already made them a lifeline for stores and customers.

Modern technologies can better change the daily lives of millions of people around the world and the popularity of grocery shopping applications proves this point. We will look at the must-have and killer features in grocery applications and illustrate this by considering the many examples of successful grocery delivery businesses.

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Choose a business model to create a grocery delivery app

Our grocery app development solution supports different business models as mentioned below, which will help you in creating your own branded apps like InstaCart. Take a look.

Single Grocery Store: Create your own branded grocery delivery mobile app

This is one of the easiest ways to open a grocery store. Get the InstaCart application for your grocery business to go online and allow your customers to place orders and ship them instantly by pressing the button.

Grocery Marketplace: Get Your Own Marketplace Platform Like InstaCart

Another business model is to create a comprehensive platform by listing several stores in an on-demand app such as Instagram for grocery delivery or Uber for groceries.

Grocery Store Chains: Development of an on-demand grocery store delivery app

If you want to grow your current business, this model is for you. Get the on-demand grocery store delivery app and manage all retail and supermarket distribution shop purchases and processes from the centralized dashboard.

How Does InstaCart Grocery Delivery Work?

• Users must allow location access or enter their home address manually. The app automatically registers nearby local stores.

• Customers can choose from a wide variety of items, make payments and choose the date and time for delivery.

• After the customer places an order, the shopper (contractor) will receive a notification through the app. The shopkeeper begins collecting articles according to the order received and prepares the order for delivery.

• Payment is initiated by the buyer by swiping the prepaid debit card issued by Instacart.

• Customers can also select auto-pickups directly from the store. All you have to do is order the groceries you need and pick a pick-up time according to convenience.

Customer App: A list of must-have features

Register: The initial step is to make sure that customers are registered in the app. This includes submitting important information such as personal details, home address, billing address and more. This step is usually to get table information about the customer.

Choose a supermarket: It may have a preferred option or be the nearest supermarket. The choice may be based on location or product availability.

Search and Filter: This feature allows the customer to navigate smoothly while scrolling and moving forward with the process of adding items to the cart.

Shopping Cart: Now, the customer can view and view the items added to the cart before making the last call to make a purchase.

Payment: There are multiple payment channels available that the customer can take during billing.

Tracking Order: The app allows you to place a tab on products throughout the delivery cycle.

Return order: If needed, customers can also easily start returning orders.

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Grocery App- Admin Panel

Allows panel managers to control, manage and monitor the complete order fulfilment cycle. 

Inventory Management: This involves recording and updating the inventory after each purchase.

Order Management: This involves assigning orders and delivery to the nearest driver who fits best.

Analytical Insights: It contains timely reports to monitor the insights and performance of the business at each stage.

Vendor Panel: A Brief Overview

Item Management: Store owners can easily add or update product listings, prices, and order quantity according to availability and other parameters.

Order Management: This feature allows store owners to check the order status as well as the total amount collected after each order.

Track payments: It involves the process of tracking the status of payments and invoice reconciliations with digital intervention. It also eliminates the possibility of manual errors.

Customer Support: In the event of any conflict, customer support can be contacted and issues resolved. This will help you to make your journey seamless and smooth while dealing with on-demand requests and jumps.

Reject orders: Again, this is a smart feature that allows store owners to reject orders when the product is unavailable or any other unavoidable feature.

Delivery app

Dashboard: Contains an overview of all activities planned, executed or missing for the day. It also helps in tracking performance at each order level.

Check status: You can turn delivery status on or off as needed.

Order Request: This allows the customer to receive the grocery delivery request or view it along with the scheduled delivery time and to accept / reject the request on demand.

Simple geo: map integration helps to efficiently generate location data.

Route Optimization: - The app recommends and informs you of the shortest and fastest routes for delivery based on customer location.

Chat / Message: The driver can receive the message and choose to send the message to different shareholders.

Payment: Once the order is delivered, they can receive payment through any payment gateway.

Wallet: It allows you to view and find pay based on daily earnings and daily work.

What is the cost of developing an on-demand grocery app?

For mobile app development cost estimate, you need to keep in mind the following factors: such as how complex the grocery app is, the number of platforms you want to launch it on, the country and audience. Goals, etc.

• App developers in Eastern Europe range in price from $ 80 per hour to $ 150 per hour.

• Prices for grocery app developers in S.A. range from about $ 50 per hour to $ 250 per hour.

• Indian app developers range in price from $ 10 per hour to $ 80 per hour.

The cost of developing an on-demand grocery app with a limited number of features depends on the following coding:

• Technical documentation costs approximately $ 1000 to $ 2000

• QA and exam cost approximately $ 2000 to $ 4000

• UI / UX designing costs around $ 1500 to $ 3000

• Front-end, as well as back-end development costs around $ 10,000 to $ 20,000

Finally, considering the costs provided above to calculate the cost of creating an on-demand grocery delivery app like Instacart, on average, for a single platform like Android or iOS, its price can range from around $ 10,000 to $ 20,000. However, the cost increases as you increase the number of features or more and, therefore, make a list of everything you need to integrate into your grocery delivery app accordingly.

USM Business Systems is a well-known Cross Platform application development company in Newyork that provides services for numerous platforms and cross-platform mobile app development. We are at the top of the scale when it comes to offering cross-platform services with excellent rich apps that are appropriately focused. Our development team is involved in the creation of mobile applications from start to finish, including requirement gathering, design, development, testing, and deployment.