The rise of technology is transmuting markets and lives.
Usage of apps is making our lives so easy and straightforward these days.
The mobile apps are using for everything these days, from starting with the reminders to ordering food, and what not. Now, let us have a deep insight into the various food delivery industry apps.
The food ordering apps made it possible to order their favorite foods by sitting in their home.
If any have a plan to do business and thinking where to invest your money? It is better to invest in a food delivery service app.
This article will give you in detail view of how to start a business like as UberEats app? How much does Ubereats cost to develop?
About UberEats application:
UberEats is an on-demand food delivery app. It is an online food delivering platform used to order and deliver based on the user request.
The process involved in Uber eats as simple as you book your taxi in Uber.
Uber eats founded by Travis Kalanick and Garrett Camp in 2014. Uber is a parent company of Uber eats, which founded in 2009.
Initially, Ubereats called as UberFresh – Food delivery app development company. It re-branded into Ubereats in the year 2015.
As of 2018, Ubereats – Best food delivery mobile app development company, is served in more than 200 cities, in 20 countries.
Some stats of UberEats:
With the Introduction of online food delivering apps increased the sales of restaurants up to 25%.
The online food delivery business is expected to grow $55 Billion in 2022 from $20 Billion in 2017.
The payments made for food through cashless transactions reached $210.45 Billion.
61% of consumers are ready to order food from small restaurants.
The online food delivery is expected to grow up to 79% in the coming next five years.
Types of on-demand food delivery apps:
- Aggregator
- App with logistic support
Aggregator:
In this model, there will be an app which acts as a platform between customers and restaurants. The food delivery apps using this model enable users to ask for a food delivery request, and it will be viewed by the restaurants to complete the order.
In this model, there is no involvement of the delivery partner.
App with logistic support:
In this business model, the restaurants will take help of delivering partners to deliver the food at the assigned time. It also helps in real-time tracking of the delivery drivers apart from booking and delivery of food.
Login: user can easily login into the app using Gmail, Facebook or using a OTP confirmation on the user’s mobile phone number.
Location: list of available restaurants which are in the vicinity of the user are shown on the app screen with minute details. For selecting the preferred location, user can also use maps.
Homepage: homepage will display the nearby restaurants to the user. Home screen need to allocate so as to create space for many things/objects and displaying it in a sophisticated manner. Hi-fi technology confuses the user which can be huge turn-off.
Menu: Using this features, user will be shown names, images, contact number, user reviews, and all such of a particular restaurant on the app. 
Set pickup on the map: The app is made in such a way it recognizes the location using GPS or the user can manually type the address for its identification. User can setup the pickup location.
Cart Section: This allows the user to add or delete the food item before they proceed for payment. The total cost of the items included in the cart are displayed including the taxes.
Payment: Once the order is confirmed by the user, then they will be taken to the payment page where they can pay for their order in any of the available payment modes.
Reviews: After availing the services, user is allowed to comment or review the services of the restaurant for which they received the food.
Past orders: even after the order is successfully completed, its record is been maintained. This helps in making the re-ordering easy.
Discounts and offers: The user is regularly updated with the various orders and discounts offered by various restaurants. 
Contact information: the user is informed about the delivery person and the particular restaurant from which the food is coming
Tracking the delivery person: As soon as the delivery person, start from the restaurant, he will be tracked and user is notified via push notifications, arrival time, one-tap calling button.
Search:this serves very useful for the user as it reduces the time of search for the desired item. This is placed in general on the top of the app on the home screen for easy search of the products.
Refined search: this features help in a deeper filtering of things like reviews, delivery time, offers, and user can sort the things as per their preferences.
Dashboard: Registered users are directed towards the home page of the app, i.e,. dashboard. Here, the user can keep the track of completed orders, pending orders, and such. 
Accept or Decline Orders: After placing the order, the user may cancel the order owing to various reasons like long distance, high delivery time and such. At the same time, acceptance or rejection of the order is available for restaurant side as well.
Manage Restaurant Account: Restaurant owners are free to optimize various parameters like logo, name pictures, food images, operation hours, minimum order quantity, menu, price, delivery time, etc. 
Payment: In this section, user is provided with various payment options for paying for the food and the service of the restaurant. User is allowed to pay through any of the many options available like bank transfer, PayPal, etc.
Login: Delivery boy has to fill in the application form and get the login credentials by the admin
Order request: the order place by the user will be with a order ID, delivery address and customer name. All the orders which are near his proximity are notified to him. He can accept or reject the request and his details will provided to the customer as well in case he accepts the request
Order delivery: After accepting the order, delivery boy will deliver the order to the address provided by the customer, and the entire process can be tracked like placing and packing, on the way, etc.
Order history: Delivery boys are also allowed to view the past orders delivery by them
Chat/call: upon acceptance of the order, customer can communicate with the delivery boy
COD: If the customer opted for COD option, then the delivery boy need to collect the payment for the order and submit them to the admin
Push notifications: This feature is used for notifying the delivery agents about orders.
Offline payment/Wallet: This feature helps delivery agents in getting through online or offline mode from admins as per their convenience. 
Payment withdrawal: if the payment is made via in-app wallet, the amount will be credited to their bank accounts and the delivery boy can withdraw anytime.
Location tracking: This feature helps delivery agents to track the customer’s location for faster delivery.
Transaction History: all the various orders delivered by the particular delivery boy is maintained, and he is paid accordingly.
Online support: In-app virtual assistants will assist delivery agents, if necessary 
In-app Maps: The delivery boy can use in-app map integrations to find the exact user location. 
Real-time location tracking: Using this feature, customer will not just track the order, but also get the approximate time in completion of the order delivery. This serves useful not only for the customers, but restaurant owners will also be aware of the current situation of the delivery boy.
Queue algorithm: this will help in identifying the delivery persons in a particular area and thus helps to allocate the orders respectively
Push Notifications: Starting from the order acceptance till the successful delivery of the order, each and every step is notified to the customer using the push notifications. 
Real Time analytics: it is powered by DB infrastructure and algorithms. It helps in carrying out the various analysis related to the business like revenue reports, driving business by the number, revenue projections, etc. it helps in controlling the operational data thus helping in making time-sensitive events.
Payment systems: this helps in making possible to include as many payment options as possible. Incorporation of third-party apps and services makes the payment process easier.
CMS for news and articles: The various write-ups regarding the app are maintained by the admin. They can manage their own as well as restaurant write-ups. 
Finding breakfast, lunch, snacks, and dinner: Customer is provided with the option of browsing the food as per their timing preferences like if they want for breakfast, specific items will be displayed and like such. 
