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We build food delivery mobile apps for Canadian restaurants, ghost kitchens, and community-focused marketplaces — including Indo-Canadian platforms serving desi food in Brampton, Surrey, and Mississauga. Native iOS, Android, plus a driver app and restaurant dashboard, ready for App Store and Google Play submission in 8–12 weeks at roughly half the cost of a Toronto agency.
Halifax is the largest city in Atlantic Canada and the regional capital of Nova Scotia, with a metro population of around 470,000 — the only Atlantic city growing fast enough to attract a meaningful Indo-Canadian inflow. The South Asian community has more than doubled in five years to around 13,000 residents (Statistics Canada 2021), driven by Nova Scotia Provincial Nominee Program (NSNP) settlement, post-graduation work permits from Dalhousie University, Saint Mary's, and Cape Breton University Halifax campus, and the federal Atlantic Immigration Program. The economy is anchored by healthcare (Nova Scotia Health, IWK Health Centre, the QEII Health Sciences Centre), Dalhousie and Saint Mary's universities, the Port of Halifax and CN Rail intermodal corridor, the Canadian Armed Forces (CFB Halifax), and a fast-growing tech and ocean-tech ecosystem anchored by COVE, Volta, and IBM's Halifax office. Many Indian PR-holders here are mid-career IT workers and healthcare professionals settling permanently via the Atlantic immigration pathway. The Indo-Canadian business community is concentrated in Bedford, Clayton Park, downtown Halifax, and Dartmouth, supporting grocers, restaurants, IT consultancies, and the small but loyal new-immigrant settlement-services market.
Canada’s food delivery market is dominated by Skip the Dishes (a Just Eat Takeaway company headquartered in Winnipeg), Uber Eats, and DoorDash, with combined revenue north of CAD 4 billion in 2024. Restaurant commissions of 25–30% have pushed thousands of independents to build their own branded apps — especially Indo-Canadian and ethnic restaurants in Brampton, Surrey, Mississauga, and Scarborough that already have loyal community customer bases and would rather pay a flat monthly fee than hand 30% to a US-headquartered aggregator. Apple App Store and Google Play both require a registered Canadian developer account (CAD 99/year for Apple, CAD 25 one-time for Google), a published privacy policy compliant with PIPEDA, and clear data-handling disclosures on the App Privacy nutrition label. Apple takes 15% of in-app digital purchases under USD 1M annual revenue, but physical food delivery is exempt — you bill customers directly via Stripe Connect, which means full 100% of payment processing economics stay on platform. Push notifications via FCM (Android) and APNs (iOS) are mandatory for order status, and Canadian consumers expect English-French language toggle if you operate in Quebec. Background location for drivers requires explicit App Store justification and a clear in-app permission screen. Bilingual menus, halal/kosher/vegetarian filters, and ethnic cuisine categorization are increasingly expected. Most independent delivery apps targeting one city launch in 8–12 weeks; multi-city marketplaces with sophisticated driver routing take 14–18.
Menu browsing with photos, modifiers, allergy notes, schedule-ahead ordering, address autocomplete via Google Places, real-time driver tracking on Mapbox or Google Maps, and push notifications via FCM and APNs for order accepted, picked up, and arriving. Tip prompts, contactless drop-off, and Apple Pay / Google Pay built in for one-tap reorders.
A dedicated tablet app for restaurants to accept or reject orders, adjust prep times during rush, mark items 86’d, print kitchen tickets via Star or Epson Bluetooth printers, and view daily sales. Optional Square, Clover, or Toast POS sync so the front-of-house never double-enters orders. Auto-pause new orders when the kitchen is overwhelmed.
Native driver app showing assigned orders, optimal pickup-then-drop routing, in-app navigation handoff to Google Maps or Waze, batch deliveries when two orders go the same way, in-app chat with customer, photo proof of delivery, and weekly earnings dashboard. Background location tracking compliant with Apple and Google’s latest privacy rules.
Stripe Connect Express handles restaurant and driver onboarding, KYC, and weekly automatic payouts in CAD direct to Canadian bank accounts. Split commissions between restaurant and platform on every order, charge customers a service fee, apply promo codes, and refund partial orders without manual bookkeeping. GST/HST line items captured for accountant export.
First-order discounts, BOGO, free-delivery thresholds, referral codes that credit both sides, and a points-per-dollar loyalty wallet redeemable on future orders. Push-notification campaigns segmented by city, cuisine preference, or lapsed-customer status. CSV exports for any campaign you want to run from Mailchimp or Klaviyo.
Web admin to onboard restaurants, set delivery zones by postal-code polygon, control commission percentages, view live orders on a map, intervene in disputes, issue refunds, and pull GST/HST reports. Cohort dashboards for repeat-order rate, average basket size, peak hours, and driver utilization so you actually know what to optimize next quarter.
Yes. We have built or scoped food delivery apps for restaurants serving Halifax customers — including delivery-zone polygons drawn for Halifax neighbourhoods, French language toggle if you cross into Quebec, and Canadian-bank Stripe Connect payouts. Customer + restaurant + driver apps live on the App Store and Google Play in 8–12 weeks. WhatsApp +91-9277-184-741 for a Halifax-specific scope.
Your customers order directly through your branded app, you charge them, and you pay only Stripe’s 2.9% + 30¢ — no aggregator commission. The trade-off is you handle marketing and driver supply yourself, which works well for restaurants with existing loyal customers, ethnic-community brands, or chains with 3+ locations.
Both work. You can hire your own drivers (best for chains and high-volume restaurants), partner with a third-party logistics provider like Trexity, Cyclesquad, or local couriers, or build a hybrid where you fall back to a courier API during peak. We wire whichever model your business needs.
Stripe captures the tax line item per order, and our admin exports a monthly GST/HST report by province. You remit yourself or hand the CSV to your accountant. Quebec QST is handled the same way if you operate in Montreal or Quebec City.
Yes — full English / French toggle, all menus and notifications localized. Quebec’s Bill 96 also requires customer-facing copy to be in French if you serve Quebec residents, so we configure the default locale by IP / device language and offer the toggle prominently.
A single-restaurant ordering app: 8–10 weeks from kickoff to App Store approval. A multi-vendor marketplace with driver app and admin: 12–14 weeks. Apple review averages 24–48 hours for first submission in Canada; we handle the review notes back-and-forth.