Does your retail business have a grocery shopping app yet?

Nielsen report has reflected the fact that today, over one-quarter of people do online shopping of grocery and more are interested to do it in near future. To meet the soaring demand of mobile app use, the retail industry seems to become a great sector to invest.

Does your retail business have a grocery app yet? If not, then you are seriously missing out a huge market base! (Click to Tweet)

If you are interested to build a grocery app for your business but not sure where to start, what features should be offered in your app, you can get in touch with the leading app development firms like Visions & Solutions. The best team of Android and iOS app development in Australia will make your app vision into a successful reality with their best Australian app developers and experts.

The enhanced customer experiences your app offers, the better for your business! Now, let’s see what features can make your grocery app into an instant success.

Faceted search

With the help of this feature, customers can easily narrow down their product search process just by typing phrases or keywords. They neither have to guess through the catalogue descriptions nor have to navigate the entire app!

Cart sharing and shopping list

With the cart sharing feature, customers will be able to share their shopping cart with family and friends. This will help in increasing the cart value along with reducing the rates of cart abandonment.

Grocery shopping becomes easier when customers can make an entire list of the things they need to buy. Yes, this is why the shopping list feature is one of the must-haves in a grocery app. Also, for the next time shopping, customers can simply repeat the list, or add or delete items as per their requirements!

Order tracking and order status

To ensure better customer experience, let your customers know what is the status of their order. The real-time tracking feature is trending these days. You should definitely incorporate it into your application.

It will help the customers to know in advance the time of order delivery, which logistic company is delivering their order, contact details of the assigned logistic company etc.

Product comparisons

Before making any purchase, customers do their own research on comparing product qualities, prices etc.

What if you provide this feature of comparing products in your app only! Then consumers don’t have to leave your app at all! They will get everything under one roof making the customer experiences much easier and efficient.

Special deals and coupon codes

Who doesn’t love to get special attention! Yes, your customers will become super happy in doing businesses with you (i.e. buying products online from your app) if you treat them with special discount coupons or special deals.

When you incorporate such features in your grocery app, customers will become more interested to make the purchase from you.

Multiple secure payment options

The more payment options you offer in your app, the customers’ shopping experiences become smoother and more convenient. Whether they want to make payments through debit or credit card, by cash, by Net banking, PayPal, or digital wallets - your app should allow payments made through any platform.

Social media login

Long sign-up form filing can actually make a customer annoyed with your services! Hence, make it simpler by allowing signing up with their social media accounts! Otherwise, you can use signing up with simply the mobile number or one-click sign-up form with email.

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Other than the above-mentioned features, you can consider adding features like

Giving ratings and reviews to your services
Push notifications

While developing a grocery app, keep these features in your mind, talk to your app developers, share your idea, let them know what you want in the final product, and enjoy the benefits of making your retail business mobile!