Nowadays, use of Medical Cannabis, Marijuana, or weed as it is popularly known as has increased in recent years.  Marijuana has been used in many cultures for centuries for recreational, medicinal, or spiritual means. In recent years, the popularity of Marijuana has increased, as more and more medical benefits of the plants are becoming clear to people. This trend applies to the usage of Medical Cannabis, Marijuana, or weed legalized in 33 U.S. states and forward-thinking countries such as Canada, Germany, and Israel. Thus, being allowed for medical and recreational use, medical marijuana is entering the business mainstream. But despite increased demand for medical marijuana, only a few licensed dispensaries provide users with on-demand medical marijuana online delivery services.

If you are interested in developing a Medical Cannabis, Marijuana, or weed delivery app, like Uber for ordering food, you are in the right place. 

In this article, we share essential business and monetization strategies for a medical cannabis on-demand delivery app, essential features, and a development guide. 

Give your customers an ease to search, filter cannabis strains by effects, flavours, medical uses, or recreational purposes across a thousand of products all at the comfort of their home. The On-demand Cannabis delivery app gives your customers the ability to sort the marijuana products by availability, affordability, discounts and more and gives you the chance to uplift your on-demand business progressively.

Top players of Medical Cannabis, Marijuana, or weed Delivery Mobile App Development

However, Eaze has created a specific place in the market but there are more brands that are giving Eaze a cut-throat competition by offering the same services.

1. Weedmaps

2. Cashinbis

3. Budly

4. Canary

All these major players have an individual business model for their weed delivery app but in the end, it is up to you how you want to monetize your app.

There are three types of business models in the on-demand delivery apps. Below is the brief about the business models.

Aggregator model

An aggregator model is something where you create a common platform for stores and customers to come together. Just like Amazon, eBay, and Air BNB you handle the orders from the stores or service providers and deliver products or services to your customers.

Single Store

In this model, you can start your own store and keep the delivery under your department. A single store can earn you from both the side the delivery charges and the store.

Delivery specific

In the specific model, you can give all your strength to being a delivery partner for marijuana delivery apps. You only must manage the orders from the marijuana providers and deliver it to your customer’s doorstep.

You can choose from any model you wish for; it depends on how you want your app to be monetized, but there is something that is common in whatever model you choose that is the must-have feature list.

Here are the feature list of Medical Cannabis, Marijuana, or weed Delivery app development.

When you decide to develop an On-demand medical marijuana delivery app you should also know that you will have to develop 4 applications, a Customer app, a Delivery app, a driver app, and an Admin panel. Let us look at the customer app.

Customer app

Registration

The registration process is the first thing your customer will encounter hence you should keep it hassle-free. You can integrate social media login/signup.

Search bar

A sorted search bar is everything your customers are looking for if you get this right the customer will be able to buy your products more precisely.

Payment gateway

You can integrate multiple payment options like a Credit card, debit card, Wallet, online payment, and offline payment.

Order Tracking

You can integrate order tracking in your uber like app so that your customers can keep track of their order until it is delivered to their doorsteps.

Reviews and Ratings

Reviews and ratings play a huge role in the success of anything be it your business or your application. Keep your services and products user-friendly and up to their expectations, so you will get great reviews and ratings.

Delivery Boy

For your on-demand service to work, a dedicated delivery system is essential. That means several drivers who will take the orders, pick them up from the dispensary, and will deliver to the people at their location. 

Other than these segments, there is you, the Admin, and you will have the Admin app to monitor and manage all the proceedings happening on various levels of this model. 

There is a lot that you will be offering through this app. Here are the most noteworthy offerings that an ideal Cannabis delivery app should have. 

• The app should offer quick and easy access to nearby Cannabis Dispensaries and other stores that sell Cannabis products to interested users. 
• It should provide a reliable and efficient delivery system and optional Advertising Platform for weed dispensaries (and stores that sell weed and other related items). 
• The app should give a flexible working structure for able and willing drivers looking for a full- time or part-time job opportunity. 
• The app should not be too complicated and should be aesthetically pleasing. 
• The browsing, shopping, and paying should be as smooth an experience as possible. 
• There should be regular updates to provide users with the best experience possible. 

Admin

Dashboard

A full dashboard view to manage the product, deliveries, and user.

Category Wise Products

The application contains the data and relevant info category wise. Helpful for users to choose from the required category.

Promo Code

Provide free purchase when there are some offer for limited time.

Provide backup in case of order failure

Admin will be responsible to manage the data and security of app. Backup will be provided in case of error or crash being encountered.

Overall history

History needs to be maintained in case of an emergency, admin need to keep track of history regarding user and product being purchased.

Product Notification

When the user selects the product, application will have product notification from selected user option.

Manage Transactions

Transaction needs to be managed and secure server should be provided to customer. A secure gateway is must for customer's trust building and payment of shopping.

Manage Products

App admin will have rights to add or remove product as per performance and quality service.

Review and Rating

Admin can review and rate the item based on user experiences.

How Medical Cannabis, Marijuana, or weed delivery app works?

A Medical Cannabis, Marijuana, or weed delivery app enables licensed dispensaries to offer an (marketplace) ecommerce platform through the app. Using this app, the users can browse through the various varieties of Medical Cannabis, Marijuana, or weed, and much more. Once the customer has chosen the desired category, he can easily schedule the delivery time of his order. The delivery can either be handled from the retailer’s end or he could hire a 3rd party delivery service to execute all deliveries.

Building an online alcohol, wine, beer delivery app like Uber for Delivery, Eaze, Weedmaps, Cashinbis, Budly, Canary

Looking to start developing an online Medical Cannabis, Marijuana, or weed delivery business? If you have decided to build an Cannabis delivery app, it will require a team of people who will work collectively to develop this app. One of the first questions once you decide to create an app. Whether you are launching your start-up or would like to digitize your current company, you will need to hire an app developer to accomplish your business goals.

A list of required team members has been shared below:

Business Analyst

A business analyst is a person who analyses an organization or business domain (real or hypothetical) and documents its business, processes, or systems, assessing the business model or its integration with technology.

Project Manager

A project manager is accountable for the success or failure of a project. Typical responsibilities of a project manager include:

Planning, Executing, and Closing Projects — defining the project, building its comprehensive work plan, and managing to the budget.

Managing Teams — facilitating commitment and productivity, removing obstacles, and motivating team members

Managing Expectations — aligning projects to business goals, managing stakeholders, and communicating project status, milestones, and unexpected difficulties effectively

UI/UX designer

A UI/UX designer works on user experience and interface both very closely. They encompass all aspects of the end-user’s interaction with the company, its services, and its products.

Mobile App Developers

The front-end is the native mobile app an end-user will use. In most cases, mobile apps consist of interactive user experiences that use an API and a back-end for managing data. In some cases, when an app needs to allow users to work without internet access, the app may utilize local data storage.

Back-end developers

Back-end Developers create, code, and improve the server, server-side applications, and databases that, when combined with front-end codes, help create a functional, seamless experience for the end-user. They study industry trends, create, or improve back-end processes and codes, and work with others to design a better program.

QA engineer

Performing thorough quality assurance (QA) testing during the mobile app development process makes applications stable, usable, and secure. To ensure comprehensive QA testing of your app, you first need to prepare test cases that address all aspects of app testing.

For Medical Cannabis, Marijuana, or weed delivery app, a bunch of programming language is highly required.

Tech stack for an audio streaming app

Programming Language: ROR

Frameworks: Native

Server: Ngnix

Cloud Storage: Amazon S3

Cloud Environment: Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Database: MySQL

Navigation: Google Map

Approximate cost with the listed feature in this guide

The cost of developing the Medical Cannabis, Marijuana, or weed Delivery app may range between $12,000 and $20,000 depending on the features and business goals. It is obvious that the final price can vary depending on the location of the development team. Let us say for example if you hire a company situated in Australia or Western Europe, then the cost of development may rise to thrice of the above range.

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