The salient features of the grocery delivery mobile app include,

• Complete shopping cart management giving an Instacart experience to the promoters and sellers.
• Options to create special offers for both B2B and B2C customers.
• Facilitates product returns and refund options.
• Delivery charge calculation & recalculation according to the distance between the pickup and the drop locations.
• Cross-selling and up-selling facilities.
• Complete shopping cart management features for the sellers.
• Unlimited order histories for sellers.
• Notification facility for customer engagement.
• Seamless UI for one-tap shopping.
• Login using social media accounts.
• Ability to sell product samples.

This project came with its own unique set of challenges. Along with the fact that the promoters needed an Instacart like app development, they needed a grocery app development solution that would work across the platforms and eventually would become the best online grocery shopping app in India. Some of the challenges included,

• Special sections for B2B customers where they could manage their entire catalogue of items.
• A seamless online shopping app UI to facilitate buying and selling with minimum effort.
• Deliver a 100% e-commerce user experience needed for the online grocery app.
• Integration with the real-time mapping data to calculate and recalculate delivery charges according to the distance to be covered.
• The ability to showcase exclusive offers based on the buying history of the customers.
• Up-selling and cross-selling sections of items based on the buying history of the customers.

Being one of the premier commercial app development companies in the country, we wanted to present a grocery app development solution that would be rewarding for all the stakeholders. We understood that the client could have used a readymade grocery app but they wanted to create a unique experience as well as a niche for themselves. We were ready to take on the challenge because we have the wherewithals including technology, experience and an expansive understanding of the shopping cart app market worldwide.

We decided to use the following technology stack to build the app:

React Native, Node.js, MongoDB

User experience was one of the biggest challenges because ultimately, the success of every shopping cart app depends on how easy it is for both the customers and the sellers to use the interface. Technology in this case must be a facilitator rather than something to be learned separately. The interface needed to be such that both the major stakeholders – buyers and sellers – who come from non-technological backgrounds, should be able to install the app, go through the initial setup, and start selling and buying immediately. All the tools that they need, must already be there within the interface. We are happy to state that our UI design was able to achieve that.

Another challenge was calculating and recalculating delivery charges based on the distance to be covered. The mapping API was used to fetch distance data and then map it with the price per unit added by the seller based on his or her agreement with the delivery service.