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How Much Does it Cost to Build an App Like Postmates?

Postmates online food ordering app comprises of a courier app and customer app.

Cost to Build an App Like Postmates

Mobile applications have certainly become a vital and essential part of the lives of people. Right from booking a taxi to entertainment, shopping, fitness or making a doctor’s appointment, mobile applications are now utilized for almost everything.

The entire digital era has actually made time one of the most precious assets of the people which they can possess. For this particular reason, people and businesses continuously work toward searching for ways to easily optimize their own schedules as well as eliminate time wastage or any idle slots that may even arise. 

In this reality, there isn’t any surprise that on-demand services are becoming quite popular. Now, you can have any product delivered right at your doorstep within no time. There are a plethora of delivery service apps that make delivery logistics quite convenient and even expand greatly in potential. This has led to a certainly massive rise in on-demand app development due to the growing demand for such apps.

Food delivery app development, in particular, are gaining popularity. People usually don’t have any time for grocery shopping as well as cooking, or simply don’t even want to waste the limited time they have to do these things.

Instead, a large number of urban people prefer to order food through online food delivery apps and enjoy their favorite meals. It has driven food ordering app development, as people need the best food ordering app. Postmates is one such on-demand food delivery application which is quite popular in the United States.

There is a wide range of features and characteristics of Postmates, which make it one of the best food ordering apps. If you wish to develop your own food delivery app, you should try to make one like Postmates.

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Why Make a Food Delivery App Like Postmates?

There are a few vital and essential reasons why you should consider the Postmates app as your ideal case of food delivery app and make one like it. Some of them are:

1. The principle of Postmates app is a convenient delivery for all of the sides which are involved, such as: 

  • Vendor
  • Customer
  • Delivery person

The customers should always get real-time information about their order placement, processing, dispatch, time, route, and progress.

The entire operation scheme of this app is quite superior to the different standard alternative as it creates more opportunities for the most convenient and fastest delivery.

2. Being a convenient and useful service, this app can easily boast about its user-friendliness as well as modern application. The main features of this app are:

  • App registration through Facebook login
  • Live location services
  • Payment integration and transactions
  • Loyalty system 

 

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3. Along with this, there are various features that were added as the application was expanded. The core features were duly advanced, as well. There exists a Postmates app for the carriers, which is different from the one present in the app stores.

All these reasons make it a profitable venture for any mobile app development company to make a food delivery app like Postmates.

Cost to Build an App Like Postmates

So, to develop a delivery app like Postmates, you need to start researching the target market in your area where you actually plan to launch it to make sure that it is an app that users will use. You can even contact vendors who haven’t made an agreement with any delivery services or have their own delivery services and then collaborate with them.

With thorough market research, you can create a foundation for a good delivery app. Now, write down the functional specification of the app.

After you have completed this, choose a mobile application development company that you can trust and start developing your app. The best decision to start with your app is to develop Minimum Viable Product or MVP as it will allow you to enter the market within a short amount of time and at a considerably lower budget. 

Generally, an MVP of a food delivery app like Postmates needs to consist of a customer app and a courier app.

1. Courier App

The courier app needs to have the following functions:

  • Delivery Requests Reply – Accept or Decline
  • Order Status Updates- Pickup or Delivery
  • Delivery History

For courier food delivery app cost, development, and time for different section are:

  • UI/UX design: 5-6 weeks and $3,000-$4,000
  • iOS/Android/Web backend development: 10-12 weeks and $9,000-$12,000/ $7,000-$10,000/$7,000-$9,000.

If you take the development rate at $30 per hour, the entire cost of the courier MVP mobile app will be between 26,000 and 35,000, and it will take 15 to 18 weeks to create the project.

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2. Customer App

In the case of a customer app, it needs to have the following functions:

  • Registration
  • Cost calculator
  • Location Services 
  • Order Tracking
  • Reviews and Rating
  • Payment Processing
  • Push Notifications.
  • Order History

For customer app development, the time and cost to develop for different section are:

  • UI/UX design: 5-6 weeks and $5,000-$6,000
  • iOS/Android/Web backend development: 10-20 weeks and $12,000-$16,000/ $14,000-$18,000/$20,000-$22,000.

If you take the food delivery app development cost of $30 per hour, then the cost of development of the customer MVP app will be between $51,000 and $62,000, and it will take around 15 to 26 weeks.

The total cost to build a food delivery app like Postmates can range from $77,000 to $97,000. 

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Conclusion

With increasing requirements of on-demand food delivery apps, the restaurant app development has leap-frogged by multiple times. People now expect innovative online food delivery apps for ordering food right from their home and their own convenience.

Postmates is one such food delivery on-demand app which has become quite successful in the US. If you wish to develop an app like Postmates, you should know the features of the app that you need to have in your own app. 

You should also know the development cost of food delivery app features and sections of the app. Consider all the factors related to the development of the courier as well as the customer app. Mentioned above is the entire breakdown of the food delivery app cost.

For any more assistance on the app development process and the cost involved, you can comment below and our experts will answer your query.

Aparna <span>Growth Strategist</span>
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Aparna is a growth specialist with handsful knowledge in business development. She values marketing as key a driver for sales, keeping up with the latest in the Mobile App industry. Her getting things done attitude makes her a magnet for the trickiest of tasks. In free times, which are few and far between, you can catch up with her at a game of Fussball.

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