How To Kickstart A Service Booking App: A Complete Guide

by Rob Stephen getaprogrammer

This article takes an attempt to provide a definitive guide to build a service booking mobile app brilliantly right from scratch.

While the internet has made people’s lives easier making every information available with a tap, what added fuel to the fire are incredible mobile apps. They have made innumerable human activities like buying things from a store, making payments, reading, learning, booking of travel tickets, etc. possible from smartphones and iPhones in a few taps. Need a cab to ride, a laundry or dry cleaning service or a doctor’s appointment? Expertise app developers in Australia have delivered powerful apps for all that! Users can get it simply at the time they want by clicking on the customised apps provided by the services providers, which are cab company, the laundry service provider and doctor’s clinic in these case.

There’s clearly one reason for the growing demand and use of booking apps. It saves them from all the hassle and time of going the service provider physically! The points below explain the things that apps owners should ask their hired app developers to include these advanced features in their booking apps.

#1 Integrated Calendar

There is a need for a calendar with a user-friendly interface that will allow the businesses or owners to keep track of their schedule after receiving the bookings and prepare themselves to deliver the services within time. A properly designed calendar will help them schedule every order/booking/appointment in an organised way so that none are missed out in haste.

#2 Specific search

It should be as easy and quick as possible for the users to find the specific service they need and tap to avail that. So, an advanced search feature in a well-presented catalogue in the app is required to give users the comfort to search. Besides, other additional features like suggestions based on earlier services, buys, or location-specific options can make things easier for them.

#3 Real-time booking

This is one must-have feature your mobile app developers should not forget considering. This relieves both the services providers as well as the customers from all hassles of phone calling, enquiries or manual registrations. It gives an instant option to users book a service at the time they need it with service providers immediately responding and confirming them to provide the same.

#4 Integrated payment gateway

Not just services booking, the users should have a way to pay the service provider through the app directly from their own bank accounts or any eWallet. That saves them from all troubles of carrying cash all the time and that too in exact amount. The services providers too can directly have the earnings flowing into the fund accounts.

#5 Notifications

Keeping the customers informed about any new services or new offers that the service providers have come up with will only help them to broaden their customer base. Retaining existing customers with luring offers is quite effective than getting new customers. So, the developers need to include push notifications feature, through which the app will nudge the customers informing them about a new service or offer.

While now there is literally no such thing that cannot be done via an app, the kind of apps that gained the most attention among the mobile users are the ones offering on-demand or booking services. However, businesses willing to come up with one such app need to stick to these features set to make it outright competitive and useful for the customers.

Johan Smith is one of the app developers in Sydney at GetAProgrammer, a top-notch company offering robust mobile app development services to businesses around Australia and has a spectacular hold on latest iPhone, Android and Hybrid technologies.