Estimated Cost of Android Ecommerce Mobile App Development

Before we go into literal figures, how much does it cost to develop an android ecommerce mobile app, it is much more important to know why is it important to have ecommerce mobile app.

Even many businesses in today’s world rely on word of mouth publicity as it is the most genuine and crowd pulling way. However, developing an optimized website ensures business online presence. Now, mobile content consumption has increased manifold which is why mobile app is another way to capture and increase traffic on your products / website.

Ecommerce business owners are looking for more and more customer reach and for that cross platform app development will cover your business basic needs. Hire iOS app developer if you are only looking for single platform mobile app.

Following are the factors which are attracting more and more investors and ecommerce business owners to have a mobile app.

1-      Direct marketing channel – ecommerce retailers worry about the promotional or discount offer opening or an email promotion being sent to the list of customers to increase sales. But through mobile app push notifications, chances of not opening an email are low.

2-      Customer reach -  as we all carry mobile phones everywhere, so the content consumption could be done anywhere. Especially if the customer has your app installed, he or she might open the app every once in a while throughout the day, out of habit.

3-      Brand identity - brands with strong mobile presence have better user interfaces and improved end-user opinion. And, a satisfied user is a marketer in himself, he circulates the brand experience.

4-      Purchase patterns – sales could be raised with the help of customer data like purchase patterns, if he or she is coming on the website what’s the flow.

Costings

Design and development of android app cost $21000 - $100,000. Cost of an iOS mobile app design and development services is almost $8000-90,000.  

Hybrid app development costs vary from $25000-150,0000.

Before costing, an ecommerce business should know for which platform do they need the mobile application. Are they looking for native mobile app or for cross platform? Both of these platforms have their pros and cons. Native apps do have high performance and smoother UX whereas this might not be the case for cross platform apps.

After deciding the platform, next thing to lay down is the functionality specifications. However, functionality adds up the cost.