How much does a delivery app cost?

$2,500 fixed, agreed before work starts, covering design, build, payments, launch and 30 days of support. No hourly billing, no overage.

Can customers track their order live on a map?

Status tracking — accepted, preparing, on the way, delivered — is included and is what most customers actually want. Continuous live map tracking of a moving driver is possible but is its own piece of work; say so early if it is essential and I will quote it.

Is this cheaper than using a delivery aggregator?

Almost always, and quickly. Aggregator commissions typically run a quarter to a third of every order, so the build pays for itself in weeks at modest volume. The trade is that you have to bring your own demand, which the aggregator was really selling you.

Can I take cash on delivery?

Yes. Card through Stripe and cash on delivery can both be enabled, per zone if you want, which matters a great deal in some markets and not at all in others.

Do drivers need to install an app?

Not necessarily — a mobile web view they open from a link covers most small operations and removes the install friction entirely. A real driver app makes sense once you have enough drivers for it to be worth it.

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Quick answer

An on-demand delivery app can be designed, built and taking real orders in 30 days for a fixed $2,500, covering the customer ordering app, payments, a driver view and order status tracking. Live GPS fleet tracking with route optimisation across a large driver network is a separate, larger project.

The plan

Day one to day 30, written down.

You get this schedule before you commit, not after. If a phase slips, that is mine to absorb — the price and the date were agreed before anything started.

Days 1–3

Scope lock

The delivery model — your own drivers, third-party couriers, or collection only. Zones, fees and what happens when something goes wrong. This decides the whole build.

Days 4–12

Design

Customer ordering first, because that flow decides your conversion rate, then the driver and operator views. Real screens inside the first week.

Days 13–24

Build

Catalogue, cart, checkout, payments and the order pipeline that moves an order from placed to delivered. Notifications wired to every status change.

Days 25–28

Run real orders

End-to-end test orders through your actual kitchen or warehouse, with a real driver. Delivery apps break in the field, not in the browser.

Days 29–30

Launch

Payments live, staff and drivers trained, and your first real orders taken on your own platform instead of someone else's.

What $2,500 gets you

Everything needed to launch — nothing padding the invoice.

Customer ordering app — browse, cart, checkout, in under two minutes

Menu or catalogue management you control, with availability toggles

Payments through Stripe, plus cash-on-delivery if your market needs it

Order statuses customers can actually follow, from accepted to delivered

A driver view: assigned orders, addresses, contact, mark as delivered

An operator dashboard for incoming orders, assignment and refunds

Delivery zones, fees and minimum order rules you can change yourself

Source code, design files and 30 days of support at handover

Who books this

Built for

Restaurants and shops paying 30% to an aggregator on every order

Local delivery operators running the whole thing on WhatsApp

Founders launching delivery in a city the big platforms ignore

The honest part

When 30 days is the wrong answer.

A fixed deadline only works when the scope genuinely fits inside it. These are the cases where I will tell you so rather than take the booking.

Live GPS tracking across a large driver fleet with automated dispatch and route optimisation. That is a real engineering programme and I would rather scope it honestly than half-build it.

Three separate native apps for customers, drivers and merchants in one month. Pick the one that must be an app; the others start as web and earn their app later.

Marketplaces aggregating many independent restaurants with individual payouts — that is closer to the marketplace sprint, and I will point you there.

Questions

Before you book

Yes, for one operator in one area with one delivery model. The month covers ordering, payments, driver assignment and status tracking. What does not fit is automated dispatch across a large fleet, and I will say that at the scoping call rather than after you have paid.

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