Off to creating a food delivery website? Food ordering delivery is different from almost every other eCommerce out there. Your customers are hungry, they want their ordering process to be fast. Your ordering process should be even faster. Here’s the Full functionalities & requirements of a food delivery website – Plugins & codes
Content table:
- Differences between food delivery & other ecommerce
- Complete list of the functionalities required for food delivery + Plugins & codes
- Setups and installations
[Here’s all the codes required to build important functionalities of a restaurant/food-delivery website]
Differences between food delivery & other ecommerce
Your customers are hungry, not just shopping around. 7-8 times out of 10 when someone’s on your website, it’s most likely they’re planning their meal, deciding what to eat, or rather who what to eat.
2 or more friends gathered, deciding what to eat. That’s who you need to optimize your website for. Not that guy or girl who’s waiting for his/her paycheck to buy the shoes or the bag they’ve been checking for in their shopping card.
Here are the main specifications you need:
- Fast website
- Easy navigation
- Addons
- Ship in one city (unless you ship your burgers to the other side of the world)
- Distance based shipping
- Combo offers
- Reservations
- Quick add to cart ability without getting to the product
- Special offers
- Customer points & rewards
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Food delivery vs other ecommerce:
| Functionality | Food Delivery | Other ecommerce |
|---|---|---|
| Addons | Almost always required | Rarely required |
| Ships in one city | Always required | Usually ships to countries |
| Takeaway option | Almost always required | Usually no take away |
| Fast checkout | Definitely | Multi-step checkout |
| Single products | Often not required | Requires single products |
| Special offers | Combo menus & Special offers | Rarely required |
| Rewards & customer points | Very useful for returning orders | Usually required |
| Distance based shipping | Almost always required | Almost never required |
Complete list of the functionalities required for food delivery
Addons
Your customers want that extra sauce, double meet, cheese, jalapenos and all the extras they can have.
Your food delivery website MUST offer addons.
Plugins:
YITH WooCommerce Product Add-Ons
Combo menus
Whether lunch menus, special offers or any type of offers that you have. This is one of the most common things a food delivery business does. Buy two pizzas, get one free, buy a burger and a pepsi get the fries for free.
Your food delivery website MUST offer special offers and combo menus.
Plugins:
YITH WooCommerce Product Add-Ons
Distance based shipping
Probably one of the most important functionalities for a food ordering website. You’re not delivering to the entire world, and you can’t have a fixed price for delivery, not so good. So the only way is to actually set up a distance based shipping. So you can set up free shipping for up to 3 kilometers, then add a certain amount for each driven kilometer.
Plugins:
WooCommerce Distance Based Shipping
Ship in one city
You’re not shipping your burgers to the other side of the world right? Well then you MUST set up your website so that your visitors won’t have the ability to pick another city, and obviously can order delivery only in one city.
Plugins:
Download Code Snippets plugin -> Add New snippet -> Add the below code there and change ‘Rome’ with your city.
The Code for delivery only in once city in WordPress:
/* Ship in one city*/
// Only one city at checkout
add_filter( 'woocommerce_checkout_fields', 'custom_checkout_fields', 10, 1 );
function custom_checkout_fields( $fields ) {
$fields['billing']['billing_city']['type'] = 'select';
$fields['billing']['billing_city']['options'] = array('Rome' => 'Rome');
$fields['shipping']['shipping_city']['type'] = 'select';
$fields['shipping']['shipping_city']['options'] = array('Rome' => 'Rome');
return $fields;
}Reservations
If you also have a physical location then it is important to offer reservations for your website visitors. It’s very simple and effective at the same damn time. (URL to 2chainz song)
Plugins:
Quick add to cart
Since you’re selling food, 8 out of 10 times your visitors won’t go to your product’s single page zoom in on your image and check it from different angles. So, you’d rather have a faster add to cart ability than going through a single page. This is done through a quick view plugin.
Plugins:
Customer accounts
You have to provide discounts, rewards and other advantages for your loyal customers. So having your customers’ accounts saved and giving them points based on their activity on your website is a great way to keep them coming back to your restaurant and eating your delicious meals.
Plugins:
YITH WooCommerce Points and Rewards
Setups and installations
In a week I will take you through the process of creating a food delivery website step by step, it will cost less than 99$, and probably some 2-3 hours. Here you can find the initial design of the website that we will be building. Let me know what you think about it in the comments.
So, until then make sure you provide your customers with everything they need.
