Four products, not one app: what diners order on, what restaurants cook from, what riders deliver with, and the console you run the whole thing from. Built to your brand, owned outright by you.
- 4.6
Rasa Kitchen
South Indian · Biryani
Indiranagar
₹400 for two28 min - 4.4
Tandoor House
North Indian · Kebabs
Koramangala
₹550 for two34 min - 4.7
Coastal Table
Mangalorean · Seafood
HSR Layout
₹700 for two41 min
Order #4417 · Indiranagar
27min away
- Order placed
- Kitchen cooking
- Rider on the way
- Delivered
Illustrative interface — our own design, not a Zomato screenshot.
It is not one app.
It is four products that have to agree.
Every quote you receive should say which of these four it includes. The gap between a cheap clone and one that survives a real Friday night is almost always the last one.
01 · The diner
Customer app & website
Browse, order, pay, track. Judged against the app they already have, so it has to be fast and honest about timing.
iOS · Android · Web
02 · The restaurant
Vendor panel
Accept orders, set prep time, run the menu and read their own earnings. If this is slow during a rush, supply walks.
Tablet · Web
03 · The rider
Delivery agent app
Assignment, routing, proof of delivery, earnings. Used one-handed, outdoors, on a bike in traffic.
iOS · Android
04 · You
Admin console
Onboarding, commissions, dispatch rules, refunds, analytics. The product most clone quotes quietly leave thin.
Web
The four only feel like one product when the handoffs are right.
A rider app that shows a stale address, or a vendor panel that accepts an order the kitchen already rejected, is not a UI bug — it is a lost customer and a restaurant that stops answering. The seams are where these builds succeed or fail.
Robust features to make your
marketplace stand out.
Twenty-four features across the four surfaces, each with the thing that actually ships underneath it. Compare this list against any other quote you are holding.
The diner
Customer app & website
Where the order starts. Everything here is judged against the app they already use, so it has to be quick, obvious and honest about timing.
Sign-in that gets out of the way
Phone-number OTP as the primary path, with Google and Apple alongside it. No password to forget.
OTP + social sign-in, session persistence across devices
Search that understands intent
One field covering dishes, restaurants and cuisines, with filters for diet, price band, rating and delivery time.
Typo-tolerant search, faceted filters, recent and trending
Schedule for later
Pick a delivery window instead of ordering now. Kitchens see it queued so prep starts at the right moment.
Slot picker with per-restaurant capacity limits
Status people actually trust
Push, SMS and email at the moments that matter: accepted, cooking, picked up, arriving.
Push, SMS and email on four order milestones
Live tracking on a map
The rider on a map with a moving ETA, so nobody is calling to ask where their food is.
Live rider location, revised ETA, contact rider
Pay how they want
UPI, cards, net banking, wallets and cash on delivery, with refunds handled inside the app.
UPI, cards, wallets, COD, in-app refunds
One order, tap to doorstep —
and who owns each step.
Twenty-six minutes, five handoffs, four products. Every handoff is a place the order can be lost, which is why they are built together rather than bought separately.
Order placed
+0:00Cart confirmed, payment authorised, address and instructions attached.
Customer app
Restaurant accepts
+0:12Ticket lands on the vendor board with an audible alert. Kitchen sets the prep time.
Vendor panel
Rider assigned
+0:40Dispatch picks a rider on distance, current load and direction of travel, not just proximity.
Admin dispatch
On the way
+8:00Live location and a revised ETA, so nobody phones the restaurant to ask.
Rider + customer app
Delivered and settled
+26:00OTP at the door closes the order. Commission split, rider payout and invoice all post automatically.
Admin console
Dispatch is the part that decides your unit economics.
Assigning the nearest rider is easy and wrong. Direction of travel, current load and whether a second order can be batched onto the same trip are what move cost per delivery — and that logic is ours to tune, not a black box you rent.
Built for the dinner rush,
not the demo.
Every layer here exists to solve a specific load problem. A marketplace that is comfortable at noon and falls over at eight is not finished.
Apps
React Native · Swift · Kotlin
One codebase for customer and rider apps, dropping to native where it matters — background location on the rider app is the usual reason.
Web & panels
React · TypeScript · Next.js
The vendor panel and admin console are dense, long-lived screens. Typed end to end, because a wrong commission field is money.
Services
Node.js · NestJS · Go
Orders, dispatch, payments and notifications as separate services, so a spike in one does not take the order path down with it.
Data
PostgreSQL · Redis · PostGIS
Postgres for the ledger, Redis for live state and queues, PostGIS for the geo queries dispatch runs constantly.
Realtime
WebSockets · MQTT · Firebase
Rider location at a few seconds of latency, order state pushed rather than polled. Polling is what drains rider batteries.
Payments
Razorpay · Stripe · UPI
Split settlements so restaurant payout, rider payout and your commission are reconciled by the system, not a spreadsheet.
Infrastructure
AWS · Kubernetes · CloudFront
Autoscaling around the lunch and dinner peaks, which is when a marketplace either holds or embarrasses you.
What it has to absorb
Peak concurrency
Dinner rush is 8–10× the daily mean
Dispatch latency
Rider assigned in under a second
Location writes
Every active rider, every few seconds
Settlement
Three-way split on every single order
Load figures are illustrative of the category, not a guarantee for your launch — real numbers depend on your city, catalogue and marketing.
Roughly sixteen weeks to a
marketplace you can launch.
Five phases, each with what actually ships at the end of it. Nothing here is a placeholder — if a phase slips, you can see exactly which deliverable moved.
- 01
Scope and architecture
Weeks 1–2
Feature list signed off, data model, dispatch rules, commission structure, wireframes for all four surfaces.
- 02
Customer app and catalogue
Weeks 3–6
Browse, search, cart, checkout, payments, order placement. Restaurants and menus loadable.
- 03
Vendor panel and rider app
Weeks 7–10
Order acceptance, prep times, menu management, rider assignment, routing, proof of delivery.
- 04
Admin console and settlement
Weeks 11–14
Onboarding, commissions, dispatch rules, refunds, analytics, three-way payout reconciliation.
- 05
Hardening and launch
Weeks 15–16
Load testing against peak, store submissions, pilot in one zone, monitoring and on-call.
What pushes the number up
- More than one city or language at launch
- Subscription tier, loyalty or wallet
- Dine-in, table booking or pickup alongside delivery
- In-house dispatch tuning rather than off-the-shelf
- Custom rider incentive and surge models
What brings it down
- One city, one language for the pilot
- Off-the-shelf payment and mapping providers
- Launching customer + vendor first, rider app in phase two
- Using our existing component library and admin scaffolding
- A defined catalogue rather than open marketplace onboarding
We will not quote a figure before we have seen your scope.
Any agency posting a fixed price for "a Zomato clone" is either selling a template you will outgrow, or planning to re-quote once you have signed. Send us the scope and you get a real breakdown, phase by phase.
Marketplaces that took
real orders.
8+ years building delivery and marketplace software, with 50+ people in-house. No logo wall here — logos prove an invoice was paid, not that the thing held up on a Friday night.
Food & beverage delivery
Ordering, kitchen dispatch and rider tracking for restaurant groups and aggregators.
Grocery & quick commerce
Dark-store inventory, slot delivery and substitution flows under tight delivery promises.
On-demand services
Provider matching, scheduling and job lifecycle for at-home service marketplaces.
Marketplace operations
Commission engines, three-way settlement and the admin tooling that runs them.
The kitchen is the part software people forget.
A vendor panel is used with wet hands, under time pressure, on a screen across the room. That constraint shapes the whole product — and it is not something you learn from a spec.
Most clone vendors sell you a licence.
We hand you the asset.
You own the source, outright
Full repository handover, your infrastructure, your app store accounts. No licence to renew and no vendor who can switch you off.
The admin console is a real product
Not a database viewer with a login. It is where you set commissions, tune dispatch and settle payouts — so it gets designed, not generated.
Four surfaces, one team
The same people build the customer app, vendor panel, rider app and console. Handoffs between products are where clones break, so nobody hands off.
Load-tested against the peak
Signed off against dinner-rush concurrency before launch, not discovered on the first busy Friday.
Still here after go-live
Monitoring, on-call and an iteration budget. A marketplace is not finished at launch — it is barely started.
Ask any vendor for the repository terms in writing.
It is the single question that separates a marketplace you own from one you rent. If the answer involves an annual licence, a locked admin panel or a "white-label platform fee", you are not buying an asset.
Questions buyers ask before they commit
It is a food-delivery marketplace built to work the way Zomato works — customers browse restaurants and order, restaurants accept and cook, riders deliver, and you run the platform and take a commission. It is your brand, your data and your business rules. It is not Zomato's software, and we have no relationship with them.
Yes. Full repository handover, deployed to your own infrastructure and published under your own app store accounts. There is no licence to renew and no way for us to switch it off. If a vendor will not put that in writing, ask why.
Four products: the customer app and website, the vendor panel restaurants use, the delivery agent app, and the admin console you run the marketplace from. Any quote that mentions only "the app" is quoting one of four.
Around sixteen weeks for a single-city launch with all four surfaces, broken into five phases with a defined deliverable at the end of each. Launching customer and vendor first and adding the rider app in a second phase is a common way to go live sooner.
We do not publish a figure, because a fixed price for an unseen scope is either a template you will outgrow or a number that gets revised after you sign. What changes it most: how many cities and languages at launch, whether you need subscriptions or loyalty, and how much dispatch tuning you want. Send the scope and you get a phase-by-phase breakdown.
That is the load it is designed around — peak concurrency in this category runs many times the daily average. Services are separated so a spike in one does not take the order path down, and we load-test against peak before launch rather than discovering it live.
Yes, from the admin console without a developer. Commission per restaurant, delivery fee bands, surge rules, packaging and platform fees are all settings, not code. That is a large part of what the console is for.
Yes. Payments, maps, currency, tax rules and language are configurable. Multiple countries or languages at launch is one of the bigger cost drivers, so it is worth deciding early rather than retrofitting.
Yes — they are the same category with different emphasis. Tell us which product your model is closest to and where you want to differ from it, and we will scope against that.
No. Zomato is a trademark of its respective owner. We name it because it is the clearest way to describe the kind of marketplace we build. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to them, and we do not use their code, designs or brand assets.
Zomato is a trademark of its respective owner, used here only to describe the kind of application we build. CodeBuzzers is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to it.
Tell us the scope.
Get a real number back.
Which cities, which of the four surfaces you need first, and whether you are starting from a restaurant network or building one. That is enough for a phase-by-phase estimate rather than a guess.
- Full source code handover
- Fixed phases with named deliverables
- No licence fee, ever
