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How to Develop an E-Commerce Mobile App

Many reasons to say “why having an e-commerce app is beneficial to businesses.” And how advantageable it is to have an e-commerce mobile app for your business

How to Develop an E-Commerce Mobile App

Thursday March 07, 2019,

4 min Read

Have you ever imagine what Flipkart can earn in a year? Or have you ever thought over the turnover of Amazon? Of course, they won't deal with manufacturing and they won’t deal with require to worry about unsold goods or stock which can make a huge loss.


Coming years has a drastic change in the Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Retail units with the logistic companies. It's been agreed that now 40% of purchases are happening over the logistic companies such as e-commerce and woo-commerce businesses and expected to reach 75% in coming days. If you are stepping to enter in a Logistical business sector then you must reach this article.


Many reasons to say “why having an e-commerce app is beneficial to businesses.” And how advantageable it is to Develop e-commerce mobile app for your business:


●     It helps you target the audience globally.

●     Increases online visibility of your business.

●     Helps in building brand recognition.

●     Makes it easy for the customers to reach.

●     Allows you to communicate with the customers and interact with them.

●     Keeps the customers engaged with your products.

●   Quick updates to customers about your business regarding discounts or sale through push notifications.


Folks are now super busy with own schedules hence their is highly less preferred ones who spare some to buy at a local shop in limited choices unless they have a tight time to buy or unexpected plan.


And that’s where the e-commerce application provides comfort to the user with multi-window shopping to check and buy the products from the web or mobile itself with online and cash on delivering payments without requiring a visit to the store.


Top E-Commerce mobile apps:


Amazon is one of the renowned e-commerce application providing a variety of products available to its user through the web and mobile app allowing to have the best experience. It enables us to find every possible product with lots of filters. A facility to use without any registration is another highlighting point where the user needs to fill delivery details while making a payment at end of buying the product.


Ebay is another top e-commerce website which has awesome offerings like online bidding It has the search option to have the user experience buying products. It also sends the notifications regarding the bid status, time left for the auctions etc.


Different panels in an E-commerce app:


It mainly contains 3 panels:


1.   Customer panel

2.   Admin panel

3.   Vendor panel




Aspects of developing an e-commerce app:


Persona:


Considering the users, perspective plays an important role in the development of your business. You need to focus on your target audience in order to increase the buy knowing there likes and dislikes . with the increasing technology you can easily get to know about your audience behavior and interests and develop your products accordingly which will impact your business a lot and benefits.


Knowledge of your competitors:


It is very important to stay updated with the works of your competitors in the market in order to sustain in the market. You need not follow their business style blindly but you can implement the required tips from making proper homework on the competitors and try to stay on top.


Choosing technology:


Note down all the basic business plan which will help you in choosing the technology

Calculate the budget that will be required to develop an e-commerce app with the CMS framework, database, and the front-end languages required in the coding. You also need to decide the version of the app and then you can choose the technology to be used accordingly fulfilling all the requirements. Keeping all this in mind you need to plan your e-Commerce App Development cost


Product image Quality:


You should be able to provide high-quality resolution in the app so that the customers can know about the product more in details by zooming in and out without having to see the product and check the quality before ordering.