Food delivery and on-demand app development, from first order to payout

We don’t publish prices, because cost depends on scope: how many of the four apps you need, single-store or multi-vendor, the integrations (POS, stock, payments, maps) and how many cities you launch in. Budget for running costs too: maps and routing, payment fees, SMS and hosting all grow with orders. After a free call you get a written scope and a fixed quote.

A full multi-city platform like those is built up over time; nobody launches one in a single release. The realistic route is an MVP for one city or one store with the core order flow and real payouts, a pilot with real orders, then scale. Your written scope sets a date for each phase, and you see progress in a demo every week.

Single-store if you are a restaurant group, grocer or service brand moving your own orders off aggregator apps. Multi-vendor if you are building a platform for many independent stores, which adds vendor onboarding, verification, split payouts and disputes. Many founders start in one city with a few stores; we design the data model so adding vendors later doesn’t mean a rewrite.

No. Apple’s App Review Guideline 3.1.3(e) says that when people buy physical goods or services consumed outside the app, you must use purchase methods other than in-app purchase, such as Apple Pay or card entry. Food, grocery and delivery orders fall under it. Digital extras, such as a paid subscription that unlocks content in the app, can be a different case.

Usually with a marketplace payments product such as Stripe Connect. The customer pays once; the platform keeps its fee and the rest is paid out to the store and the courier, each onboarded and verified as a connected account. Tips, refunds and missing-item credits adjust each share. In India, Razorpay and UPI-based flows do the same job.

It depends on your order volume and design. Since 1 March 2025, Google Maps Platform gives each core SKU a free monthly cap and bills usage above it per 1,000 events. On 23 October 2026, Google’s pricing page listed Dynamic Maps at $7.00 and Compute Routes Essentials at $5.00 per 1,000 above the cap, at the first tier. We model these costs per order in discovery.

Yes. We start with a code and infrastructure audit: what works, what is missing, and whether the payments, maps and security set-up will hold up under real orders. You get a written report and a fixed quote to finish, then we build the rest in sprints with weekly demos. You own the code throughout.

Yes, if the platform is designed for it. A delivery subscription (free delivery, member prices) needs billing and eligibility rules in the back end; AI recommendations need clean order and catalogue data. We plan the data model for both from the start, so they can be added after launch without reworking the apps.