How Much Does An App Like Amazon / Flipkart Cost ?

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Flipkart is India’s biggest e-commerce platform which was started by 2 individuals in Bangalore . They took the risk and they worth it . Started with just selling of books online , today Flipkart sells a wide range of products online including mobile , home appliances , fashion products and more . Inspite of the fact that the very first company who has introduced e-commerce in India is Amazon , but to make e-commerce industry popular in all people mind and dream of hundreds of Indian e-commerce ventures totally goes to Flipkart .

Winklix is leading mobile app development company based in India and USA known for providing innovative solution in field of app development . Winklix can help you build next big app like Flipkart or Amazon with innovative feature and rock awesome design at affordable cost .

Key Feature Of Flipkart App :

  • Simple user interface with easy to search option .
  • Menu with categories and sub categories to search in wide range of products .
  • Login In / Sign Up using phone number together with adding the product to cart , applying some discount coupons and finally placing the order which will be either payable online or on cash on delivery .
  • Image search to buy the product by image .
  • Secure payment option and convenient order tracking .
  • Notification , refer and earn option along with help centre .

Factors That Decide The Cost Of Flipkart / Amazon Like App :

When we are talking about the app or website like Flipkart or Amazon , they are relatively the largest player in the market with most of the functionality already covered in their website and application . Their functionality have taken years to built and hundreds of developers to build the same who have worked 24×7 to develop the India’s largest platform .
So as per my personal suggestion , rather than focusing on an app like Flipkart , focus on the functionality that you will be requiring to sell your product online which can make your website and application a success . This step with save your thousand of bucks for development ,and will help you to promote your website and app the way you want .

App Design

Good app design is the backbone of any mobile apps . In order to ensure success in the market you must have awesome app design . Design should be made in a way that it can easily interact with the user and must be able to give them satisfying experience .
The cost of designing :
  • Wireframe will take around 40 hours .
  • PSD design will take another 100 hours .
  • User interface and User experience will take 140 hours .

Backend Development

This is the main part which act as a active mind behind website and app . The development of the backend included showing customer data , together with CMS management , category and sub category management , order management , shipping and billing management , staff management and so on . Backend development cost will depends on the functionalities required by you in your e-commerce application . For developing functionality as stated above to run a e-commerce app will take around 480 hours .

API’s Development And Integration

API’s are necessary to connect web based admin with the mobile application . Usually developer who had developed the backend admin creates the API’s to interact with the mobile application and after that mobile app developers ( whether android or iOS ) implement the same in the application . The api’s development and integration will take around 200 hours to implement the same.

Payment Gateway & Third Party SDK

Payment gateway and third party SDK implementation is tedious job and will take around 100 hours to integrate it on mobile application .
So the total time which will be required to develop an app like Flipkart will be somewhere around 4 months with cost for basis e-commerce site will be $ 20000 . Rest it may increase or decrease depending on your requirement .
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Artificial Intelligence – Benefit For Retailer

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Inspite of the fact that some of the largest advancement is taking place in AI , in all industry across , but retail industry is leading the way . Some of the biggest implementors of AI are Amazon Eco , Google Home , and Apple Siri . Every now an then , we see application coming online using AI, but there is a lot that can impact retail industry .

Snapchat is also using AI in neural networks way . Now let’s move on to how AI help retail store owners ?

Artificial Intelligence technologies are set of big datas , which combining with technology , creates a model that can provide answer like real human . The answer depends on what AI has learned through data set .The more the AI faces customer interaction , the more it will get chance to improve the question and answer ability .

Since AI runs on machine oriented algorithms , it can discover actionable information about business , customer and inventory which are even not known by business owners . It can benefit the retail in numerous of ways .For instance , AI can get to know about the taste and preference of customer together with what they want and what they need .

And AI knows even before you know it . AI produces a great result , it can give multiple benefits to business owner . Secondly , without the help of AI , if customer gets discount coupon , even before going to shops of business owners , both customer and owner will be benefited .Another benefit we can say is , if AI gets to know what is the exact need of the customer , and can offer them at best prices , you can start building personal selling relationship with your customer .

Let’s take another example of product images , the biggest problem faced by online retailers and marketplace where large number of catalogs are to be dealt in . It is a time consuming job of tagging each product one by one , and high chances of getting wrong tagging . Product tagging and thereafter searching for the right product is one of the crucial task that can seriously impact search result and sales . Currently manual process of tagging online retailer is time consuming and error prone job .Inaccurate tagging can frustrate the customer and result in loss of revenues .

This problem can be solved by AI . Instead of manual tagging , retailer can upload all the images to AI engine , and can tag them by colour , pattern , style , and other parameters all at once .

AI are also used by business owners to transform the way customers are looking for the product . Image searching , replacing the text search to find products online by shoppers , is an opportunity for retailer to help them tackle the problem of discovery while building new experience .

App Store VS Play Store

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Developing an app  ? One of the biggest decision before making it is , on which platform : Android and iOS ? Both these platform are contributing 99.6% of the total market share . These two platforms are competing into market like ” two-horses “.

Each of the respective market have their own pros and cons , we can compare both on the basis of monetary value based on user’s app purchases .Every business owner’s aim is to earn revenue from the app in which they have invested in . According to reports , iPhone apps makes 75% more money than Android marketplace , despite of the fact that google play share being four times larger than iOS.

So the next question arises why do iPhone users spend on apps than Android users ?

Device Engagement & Demographics

Let’s discuss about the engagement first .According to research , iPhone user spends 30 more minutes than an android user . They also find spending time on mobile commerce on their iPhones .

Android phones has variety of devices ranging from budgeted phones to high-end users . This makes them prices conscious . Price is the very first factor while choosing Android phones in the first place .

It is based on the fact that  , lower the price of the software , the lesser user will spend on apps and software . The logical assumption , we can say behind that is a budgeted android phone user will not spend money on app , as high value user of Android and iPhones will do , as if they can , they why will they buy a budget phone , rather than iPhone . More of the people who buy budgeted phones are living in developing nations , wherein use of credit card is still lower .

Brand Loyalty Means App Loyalty

Another reason why iPhones user spend more on apps are , when asked with any of the iPhone user , they would likely to return to apple for their next iPhone , while the same question being asked with android user , more than 77% are not likely to return to Android .

Change Is In the Air

In present scenario almost 78% of the 2.2 billion apps on the Apple App store are free to download . Meanwhile , in play store this trends of paid apps seem to raise to about 31 % .

It’s Gonna Be A Close One

Although iPhone has historical spent more of apps than Android customer , recent studies shows that gap is narrowing , When it comes to satisfaction , both the platforms are on equal level . We even don’t know what is going to happen with us in a near future , and same is the case with app stores, anyways lets hope for the best and see who will be on the win win situation . At the app marketplace matures , we are early waiting to see future buying habits of user on iOS and Android .

Key Difference Between Android & iOS App

  • 41% Apple user’s have income more than $ 100000 .
  • The percentage of free apps in app store is 78%.
  • 92% will return back as iPhone user , which buying a new phone .
  • 69 % of the only apps are free on play store .
  • Apple user download more apps
  • Android apps require lots of bug fixing check , as there are so many phone .
  • Satisfaction for both android and iOS are at 81 % each .

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