The Cost Estimation to Build Food Delivery App like UberEats

Teclogiq
4 min readFeb 19, 2020

Uber eats is an on-demand food delivery app. It is an online food delivery platform used to order and deliver based on the user request. Any enterprises that are interested in developing a food delivery app like Uber eats, need to coordinate with the restaurants and bakeries for providing sufficient options for the users to choose from. Then, the enterprise, as well as the restaurant together, are involved in the development of food delivery apps.

The food delivery app home screen should be shared by restaurants as well according to the user’s location. Once the user select the restaurant from which they want the food, then they can select the food items and place an order for it. Once the payment for the food is made, then the restaurant people will be notified about it. Upon completion of the order delivery, profit split occurs between a restaurant owner and app owner.

Although there are a number of factors that together add on to the estimation of mobile app development cost, we will try and give you an idea of how much would it cost to make a food delivery app like Ubereats.

Depending on the features you are looking to add in your on-demand food delivery mobile app and the resources that it would require to get your app transformed from its idea stage to the launch phase, the cost of developing a food-delivery app like UberEats or Zomato would come out to somewhere around $10,000 to $20,000*. But a sophisticated app development company may charge about $30,000 to $40,000*. This is the cost range that would most likely be charged by the professional mobile app development company, comprises of all Mobile app design, development of both Android and iOS versions of the app, app testing, and app launch in the market. Price may vary based on which countries company you are going to work with. Developing a food delivery app for android costs high as it requires more testing, whereas for iOS is a bit less.

Cost Estimation to Develop an App like Uber Eats

FYI

· India based developers charge $10 to $80 per hour

· Europe based developers charge $30 to $150 per hour

· U.S. based developers charge $50 to $250 per hour

Some Basic Calculation of App Development:

UI/UX design (60 Hours — $1500 to $3000)

Front-end and Back-end development (400 Hours — $7,000 to $ 15,000)

Technical documentation (40 hours — $1000 to $1500)

MVP testing (80 Hours — $2000 to $4000)

Polishing and bug fixing (40 hours — $1000 to $2000)

Required Panels:

1. Customer Panel

2. Delivery Panel

3. Merchant Panel

4. Admin Panel

1. Customer Panel

· Customer can log in using social media / simple registration process

· Able to view nearby restaurant and book food

· Add restaurant to favorite menu

· Re-Order option for fast order

· Pay via App wallet or online using the payment gateway or via credit and debit card

· Offers and Discount

· View History and Payouts

2. Delivery Panel

· Get approval from Admin

· Receive Order

· Accept / Reject order request

· Complete booking and earn more

· View total earning

3. Merchant/Vendor Panel

· Receive order and booking

· Manage delivery

· View daily, weekly, monthly, yearly graph

· Download report in CSV format

· Manage multiple locations

· Upload food menu

· Dynamic Offer / Discount setup

· Manage Payouts

· Single/Bulk Notification

4. Admin Panel

· Manage User, Delivery and Merchant

· Restaurant location management

· Promote offer and discount by advertisement

· Manage transaction

· Backup and Restore option

· Application Security

· History & Notification

· Areawise Map Location

· Manage Claim Restaurant

· Refund/Order cancellation

Technology Stack of Food Delivery App Development:

For Restaurant Listing: Grubhub API, FourSquare API

For Payment: Square API, Braintree, Stripe, PayPal

To Find user Location: Core Location Framework, Google Places API

To Find Directions: Google Maps, MapKit

For Cloud: AWS, Azure

For Registration: Facebook SDK Login

For Storage: Amazon Cloud Storage

For Analytics: Google Analytics

Wrapping Up:

You know that online food delivery apps like Uber eats, Zomato, etc. have already established their reputation and are going great guns these days. And if you want to sail on the same boat as they, then your topmost priority is getting the on-demand food delivery app.

However, going for extensive research is also equally vital at the same stage because you will get to know what kind of cuisines people are ordering more and which restaurants have hogged the spotlight.

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