Nearby Shops is an Open-Source food delivery, grocery and hyperlocal app platform. You can install your self-hosted instance on Digital Ocean or AWS and get your grocery or food delivery market up and running in just 5 $ per month in hosting fees.
Nearby Shops implements Alibaba's Grocery Online-to-Offline Concept. Customers can place and order from the app and pick it up in the store. Home Delivery is also available !
The installation guide and app customization guide is provided at http://developer.nearbyshops.org
Website : https://nearbyshops.org | Developers Guide: http://developer.nearbyshops.org
- Concept
- Tech Stack and App Architecture
- Features and highlights
- Libraries Used
- Third Party Integrations
- Connect with Us
- Contributions Required
- Development Instructions
- License
Nearby Shops is a Hyperlocal Shopping platform where a customer can buy directly from the shops available in his/her local area and get their orders delivered to their home or just pick the order up from the shop.
In the new emerging world, customers are getting tired of going outside the home to shop every day. They would much prefer to simply place an order and have the products delivered to their home the same day.
Conventional e-commerce has issues ... the delivery takes a long time and it's more difficult to trust unknown vendors whom you cannot see and meet. Hyperlocal e-commerce solves these issues because delivery is faster and customers can reach out to the vendors easily.
Nearby Shops can also be used as a food Delivery platform where restaurants can use it to deliver food.
Nearby Shops implements Alibaba's New Offline-to-Online Concept, where customers discover products online and then pick those products up from physical stores.
Uses Android Jetpack and Google’s Recommended Architecture Patterns - Migration to MVVM is planned
Written in both Java and Kotlin : Migration to kotlin is planned and will be coming in near future
Built using Butterknife, Retrofit, Ok-HTTP, Picasso, Dagger, and the Mapbox Android SDK
User-Interface is made using the modular View-Holder Pattern which makes the UI blocks modular, easy to reuse, modify and understand.
The app uses Single Activity Architecture, where most of the screens are implemented as fragments and there are only 2-3 activities in the entire project.
Support for Multiple Currencies : You can select your country and currency for your local market will be set accordingly.
Mobile First - Multi-Vendor Platform where customers can send orders to multiple Shops / Restaurants
Integrations for Sending SMS-OTP, E-mail and Push Notifications are available
Order Tracking, with live status updates for customers using E-mail, SMS and Push Notifications
Rating and Reviews for items and shops
Home delivery and pick-up from the shop (Online-to-Offline) Shopping Concept is Supported
Location based filtering is available, which means that customers will see only those shops which can deliver to their address -- other shops will be filtered out.
Vendors / Shop-Owners can track orders through orders inventory and update the order progress !
By adding delivery staff, shop-owners can deliver orders by themselves. Delivery by Market is also available.
Billing and payments are supported. Shop-owners are billed according to the number of orders they deliver successfully. And Service Providers (Market Owners) can collect payments from the shop-owners.
We support both "Delivery by Vendors" and "Delivery by Market" delivery options. Vendors can provide delivery using their own delivery staff. Delivery can also be provided by Delivery Staff Employed by the Market Administrator.
Android-Jetpack, Retrofit, Ok-Http, Event-Bus, Picasso, butterknife, dagger2, U-Crop, Gesture Views, Smiley Rating, Mapbox Android SDK
SMS-OTP using MSG91
E-mail using Simple-Java-Mail E-mail Library
Push Notifications using Firebase FCM
Maps using Mapbox Android SDK and Google Maps
Payment Gateway - Razorpay
For more information please see https://developer.nearbyshops.org/integrations/e-mail-integration.html
If you want any help regarding anything. Feel free to contact us -- send a message through our forum or you can simply post an issue. Your issues will not be ignored and you will surely receive help.
Discourse Forum - https://forum.nearbyshops.org
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Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/nearbyshops
Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/1144257952430940/
https://forum.nearbyshops.org/t/project-roadmap-and-contributions-required/34/4
Improved Search with Search Suggestions for android app
Develop a PWA and Web app for Nearby Shops
i18n Internationalization support
Payment Gateway Integrations
Performance Testing and Optimization
Suggestions and Improvements in App Architecture
Code Review and Architecture
Benefit from the flexible working hours and work from anywhere in the world. We are looking for Volunteers who can help us in the following areas
- Raise funds for the Project - Example : Create Kickstarter campaign and raise donations
- Content Creators
- Create Images and Video for publicity purposes
- Write articles to create publicity
- Growth Hackers - help us grow the platform
- Distribution Experts / Digital Marketing Experts / Social Media Experts
- Developers - Android, Web, PostgreSQL, Java
- Any other way you want to help – Suggestions and Ideas are Welcome !
If you're interested please get in touch with us on https://forum.nearbyshops.org
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